A privately funded event????? Public campaign contributions pay to get the candidates there. Air Force 1 is funded by taxpayers. When candidates raise a certain amount of money public matching funds kick in.
Since when did an election contest become privately funded?
Your premise is that if candidates want to go to private events to traipse around in front of the cameras and spin unaccountable rhetoric, then no one from the public domain can challenge their exclusion. And if private funding of political campaigns is used, the public is locked out of the process except for the sound bites we get on the biased news.
A nationally televised debate event is about as public as it can get, regardless of who sponsors the event. If our election process is to remain open, then ALL candidates must participate equally. Just because one may disagree with a candidate or his party does not give one the right to suppress their freedom of speech as a participant.
That is not the LP point. They care naught that all candidates participate. There remedy says to include them or refund share of the public money.
you really need to do a little research before you post.
The CPD is a private organization. Not a government one
The debates themselves are funded by donations.
yes, correctly,no one can challenge their exclusion, anymore than you can challenge that augusta country club didn't offer you a membership. It's a private meeting. Check your constitution for futher details.
Air force one is funded by taxpayers,but the campaign repays it for use of the plane. It's been that way forever. It's afact of life - the president doesn't fly coach.
Yes, public funding kicks in for the candidates after their debate - it's called matching funds. But stretching to say this means they can't exclude anyone from the (PRIVATE) debate is like saying john kerry has to let george bush speak at every one of his rallies because kerry received public funds.
Sorry, you failed the logic test. Also the constituional law test. Goodbye.