January 7, 2008
In seeming violation of FCC and FEC rules, the Democrats and ABC
engaged in a Saturday night, pre-election promotional for John Edwards,
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson. Excluding all
anti-war candidates, and even candidates receiving matching federal
funds if they were anti-war, from something that was falsely billed as
a debate, ABC used millions of dollars of airtime to promote the
Edwards, Clinton, Obama and Richardson campaigns. This appears to
have ben an illegal contribution to these Presidential campaigns from
ABC and a knowing receipt of that contribution by the
participants. This was the last chance for the New Hampshire
voters to see the candidates before the New Hampshire election and the
apparent goal of ABC was to falsely imply that anti-war Democrats were
no longer running.
From coast to coast, Democrats signed up on potiential plaintiffs'
lists and went to ABC affiliate offices to protest the debate. Children
as young as pre-school age participated in these protests, clearly
knowing more about democracy than older counter parts who sat and
watched the undemocratic show on their television sets. While
Democrats were angered about the apparent elections code violations and
the attempt to fix the New Hampshire election, the Democratic Party did
nothing to stand up for Democracy.
Across the aisle, the Republican Party of New Hampshire was very
vocal. They pulled out of a Fox debate that similarly tried to
promote pro-war Republicans and to exclude anti-war Republican
candidate Ron Paul.
The most pro-America and pro-democratic comment came from GOP New
Hampshire state chair Fergus Cullen. "We believe that it
is
inconsistent with the first in the nation primary tradition to be
excluding candidates in a pre-primary setting." Democrats
from
coast to coast are asking how the Democratic Party can now
acquire a chairman as courageous and democratic as Fergus Cullen.
In the interests of democracy and fair elections, the members of the
Creative Youth News Team applaud the New Hampshire Republican Party and
their chairman Fergus Cullen and express their disappointment at the
failure of the Democratic Party and of Democratic Party National
Chairman Howard Dean to take a similar stand in support of democracy
and fair elections.
The Creative Youth News Team encourages the voters of New Hampshire to
boycott the campaigns of anyone who participated in a debate excluding
anti-war candidates Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel.. By saying
"no" to candidates of rigged debates and reipients of milions of
dollars in free ABC airtime, the voters of New Hampshire can say "yes"
to fair elections and to democracy.
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