Posted on 09/01/2006 4:40:34 AM PDT by George - the Other
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Baltimore County police said U.S. Senate candidate Allan Lichtman was arrested Thursday night as he protested not being invited to a debate on Maryland Public Television.
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Amongst Lichtman's outbursts is his race-baiting comment to the black security man that blocks his entrance into the Maryland Public Television studio, and his denouncing Maryland Public Television as being "fascist" because it won't give in to his demands to be admitted into the debate.
no surprise here
Liberal answer for every problem: Protest. I predict that when he loses the primary, he will run as an independent in the general election, siphoning off a few democrat votes.
I've never even heard of the loser.
Allan Lichtman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allan Jay Lichtman (born April 4, 1947) is an American political historian who teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.. He is currently running for the open U.S. Senate seat vacated by Paul Sarbanes in Maryland. If elected, he would be the only lifetime teacher in the Senate, since the death of Paul Wellstone.
Early life, education, and family
Lichtman was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He received his B.A. degree from Brandeis University in History in 1967, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa while also running track and wrestling for the school. Allan received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973, also in history. Lichtman has been married to Karyn Strickler for 25 years. Strickler was formally head of the Maryland chapter of National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and has been a tireless advocate for women’s rights in the state of Maryland. She grew up on a farm in Carroll County, Maryland and attended McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. Karyn and Allan live in Bethesda, Maryland and have two children, Sam and Kara. Educational career
He began teaching at American University in 1973, rising to chair of the History Department and was named Scholar/Professor of the Year in 1993. Outside of the classroom, Lichtman has testified as an expert witness on civil rights in more than 70 cases for the U.S. Department of Justice and for civil rights groups such as the NAACP, the Mexican-American and Puerto Rican American Legal Defense and Education Funds, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He also consulted for Vice President Al Gore and Senator Edward Kennedy.
Author and commentator
Lichtman is the author or co-author of six books and more than 100 articles. He is best known for the "Keys" system, presented in his books The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency and The Keys to the White House. The system uses thirteen historical factors to predict whether or not the popular vote in the election for President of the United States will be won by the candidate of the party holding the presidency (regardless of whether the President is the candidate). The keys were selected based on their correlations with the presidential election results from 1860 through 1980; the system then correctly predicted the popular vote winner in each of the elections of 1984 through 2004. Lichtman has provided commentary for all networks and cable channels. He was the regular political analyst for CNN Headline News. He is also a fifteen-year columnist for Maryland’s Journal and Gazette newspapers. He has lectured across the world and been cited hundreds of times by leading newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun.
The 15% polling criteria for televised primary debate seems pretty stanky to me. I enjoyed the GOP presidential primary debates that included Bob Dornan in the 90s and Alan Keyes in 2000, even though they were polling pretty low at the time. Their performance in the debates was part of why I voted for them in the primaries. The locking out of candidates from statewide public TV broadcast is a serious matter, and I for one support candidates who try to bring attention to the quite undemocratic practice.
BTW, the candidate in this case, Allan Lichtman, has been an active member of the community for a long time. I remember him judging our high school district debates in northern Virginia about 35 years ago. In recent years, he's been a frequent contributor of political op eds to the local Gazette newspapers in Maryland. I've also seen him as a talking head on local and national TV political discussion shows over the years. I heard his campaign refer to him as a McGovern Democrat (I liked McGovern best after hearing him voice regrets, as a business owner, that he had voted for such intrusive government during his elective years).
When Alan Keyes was locked out of a presidential primary debate in Atlanta in 1996, he chained himself to the TV station doors. I think Prof. Lichtman would have done better by bringing shackles instead of having his wife and a campaign worker arrested.
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