Re: Re: Re: Re: debate

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Do you think they had a tail on Nader through the day, so as to be able to
intercept him?

Gene Coyle

Louis Proyect wrote:

> >according to SLATE: >The [Washington Post] early edition reports that Ralph
> >Nader had a ticket to the debate but doesn't say what happened. The NY
> >[Times] and LA [Times] do: He showed up at the door and was refused
> >admittance.<
> >
> >Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
> (votenader.com)
>
> October 3, 2000
>
> NADER BARRED FROM VIEWING DEBATE BY DEBATE COMMISSION AND POLICE
>
> BOSTON, MASS.-In a move Ralph Nader called "the beginning of the end of the
> Commission on Presidential Debates," the debate commission, along with
> three uniformed police, refused to admit Nader to the presidential debate
> viewing auditorium Tuesday night, even though Nader had a ticket to the event.
>
> Nader was given the ticket to the Lipke Auditorium by a Northeastern
> student. As soon as Nader got off the bus en route to the auditorium, he
> was met by a representative of the debate commission and three police
> officers.
>
> The debate commission representative told Nader he had been instructed by
> the Commission on Presidential Debates to tell Nader he was not invited
> onto the premises even with a ticket.
>
> "Imagine that, a private company-controlled by the two major parties and
> funded by beer, tobacco, auto and other corporations-misused police power
> to exclude me from the premises, even though I had a ticket to enter issued
> by the debate commission themselves," Nader said.
>
> The CPD representative refused to provide his name or a reason for
> excluding Nader from the debate auditorium.
>
> "On top of many other serious blunders, mistakes and demonstrations of
> arrogance generated by this corrupt debate commission, which is controlled
> by Al Gore and George W. Bush, this unlawful exclusion will be the
> beginning of the end of the debate commission monopoly that is obstructing
> millions of Americans from access to the presidential candidates in a
> multi-candidate debate forum," Nader said. "I was excluded on political
> grounds and no other considerations were communicated."
>
> "In future elections, this country will be rid of the Commission on
> Presidential Debates once and for all," Nader said.
>
> Nader received the ticket from Northeastern student Tod Tavares, 21, who
> got the ticket from his roommate. Tavares told the Associated Press that
> giving the ticket to Nader was "a small sacrifice for the good of the
> nation."
>
> Louis Proyect
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