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At its recent meeting, the Directors of Friends of Ludlow Auditorium (FOLA) decided to conduct two major political debates in the auditorium at Ludlow's Town Hall. FOLA has invited all five Democratic Candidates for Governor to participate in a debate on Thursday, July 29. Following the recently-rescheduled primary elections in August, FOLA will sponsor a General Election gubernatorial debate of all candidates appearing on the November ballot. This debate will take place on Thursday, October 14.
Ralph Pace, FOLA Chair, indicated that details for both debates would be released within a month.
"Our first priority is to get all the candidates to participate in these important debates," Pace said. He noted that invitations had already been sent to the five Democratic Party candidates: Deb Markowitz, Doug Racine, Susan Bartlett, Peter Shumlin, and Matt Dunne. Additionally, Brian Dubie, the unchallenged Republican candidate for Governor, had been notified of the Oct. 14 debate.
"While details for these debates are still to be worked out," Pace continued, "I think they should be of great interest to everyone in the area. The next Governor of Vermont will have some difficult and painful decisions to propose. These debates will give the electorate some idea of what those decisions may be."
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Why change the rules to exclude a candidate?
ReplyDeleteDennis Steele is an Independent, grassroots candidate, who is on the ballot by virtue of having followed the rules and delivered his petition signatures on time to the Secretary of State's office.
This is reminiscent of good-old-boy-network corruption. Or are you afraid of something?
If FOLA are a nonprofit organisation, playing politics is forbidden. Back off, and invite _all_ the actual candidates, or cancel the event.
In essence this debate will offer voters more of the same. All of the major party candidates have contributed to our current perilous economic situation in some way or another.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have the opportunity to hear what kind of ideas Dennis Steele has for fixing the state of Vermont. Excluding him from this debate does not afford the voters this opportunity.