Buchanan, Nader officially excluded from Oct* 3 debate
WASHINGTON — Ralph Nader
and Pat Buchanan will not partici
pate in the first presidential debate
next week because they failed to
meet the criteria
for inclusion set
by the bipartisan
Commission on
Presidential De
bates, the panel
announced
Tuesday.
Only Repub
lican George W.
Bush and De
mocrat Al Gore will take part. The
first of three 90-minute presidential
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ELECTIONS
debates next month is scheduled
for Oct. 3 in Boston.
Candidates seeking to participate
must appear on enough state bal
lots to have a chance of winning a
majority of Electoral College votes.
They also must have an average of
15 percent support in five major na
tional polls, according to the com
mission’s criteria.
Buchanan, the Reform Party can
didate, and Nader, running under
the Green Party banner, both have
been mired in low single digits in
these surveys.
Bush and Gore, meanwhile,
drew more than 40 percent support
in the most recent polls.
Nader said “the polls are rigged”
because they don’t consider non
voters — who are his target audi
ence and a growing majority.
“Fifty-one percent of eligible vot
ers do not vote," Nader said. His
campaign is using 800 coordinators
nationwide to reach out to college
students who have not voted before.
The commission’s decision also
means Buchanan’s and Nader’s
running mates will be excluded
from the 90-minute vice presiden
tial debate scheduled for Oct. 5 in
Danville, Ky.
Campaign officials said they
were disappointed, though not sur
prised by the announcement.
“The real loss here is for the
American people,” said Nader
spokeswoman Laura Jones.
Buchanan spokesman Tim Halev
said: “We clearly believe, as the
only (third) party that is receiving
taxpayer funds, that we ought to be
in those debates.”
The debate commission said it
will reapply the criteria to the candi
dates before the presidential debates
scheduled for Oct. 11 in Winston
Salem, N.C., and Oct. 17 in St. Louis.
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Senators ask Bush, Gore to follow
New York lead on soft money issue
WASHINGTON — The Senate’s
leading supporters of campaign fi
nance legislation appealed to A1
Gore and George W. Bush on Tues
day to follow the lead set in New
York’s Senate race and ban soft
money ads in their battle for the
White House.
“In the same spirit that motivat
ed the Lazio-Clinton agreement, we
respectfully encourage you to at
tempt to make a similar agreement
in your race,” wrote Sens. John Mc
Cain, R-Ariz., and Russell Fein
gold, D-Wis.
“Specifically, we urge you ... to
reject any efforts by political parties
to use soft money to run independ
ent radio or television advertise
ments in an attempt to influence
your race, and to appeal to inde
pendent organizations to refrain
from doing the same.”
Similar letters were sent to all can
didates for the House and Senate.
Bush spokeswoman Mindy
Tucker said of the proposal: “We
will take it under review.”
Gore’s campaign noted such a
challenge was pending. “A1 Gore
challenged George Bush months
ago to forgo soft money in this cam
paign and to drop soft-money ads,”
spokesman Doug Hattaway said.
Rep. Rick Lazio and first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton, battling
for a Senate seat in New York,
reached an agreement over the
weekend that would prohibit any
political parties endorsing them
from airing TV and radio ads boost
ing them or attacking their oppo
nents. That applies to the Republi
can and Conservative parties on
Lazio’s side and the Democratic,
Liberal and Working Families par
ties on Mrs. Clinton’s.
Violations will be punished re
ciprocally: If one side buys
$100,000 worth of air time, the oth
er side can do the same.
In the presidential race, Bush
and Gore are both benefiting from
advertisements paid for with soft
money — donations made in un
limited amounts. In addition, the
parties are spending millions more
to help congressional candidates.
“This week, Congressman Rick
Lazio and first lady Hillary Clinton
voluntarily agreed in their New
York Senate race to what we have
been advocating for all federal elec
tions: a ban on party soft money
broadcast advertising,” McCain
and Feingold wrote in the letters,
this one to Gore. “A ban on soft
money — the unregulated, unlim
ited contributions that flow in in
creasing amounts into federal elec
tions — represents a major reform
in American politics, and we com
mend Congressman Lazio and Mrs.
Clinton for their willingness to lim
it its use in their race.
“If you are able to reach such an
agreement with Governor Bush, we
believe that voters will take note of
your leadership and react favorably
to your support for better, fairer
elections. By seizing this opportu
nity, you will make a positive dif
ference in the way that campaigns
are run in this country, and in the
way that citizens view their elected
representatives.”
Associated Press
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