Other Candidates: Jorgensen, Hawkins,
Blankenship, La Riva
_________
Presidential nominee’s
outdoor interview thwarted by Cleveland
city officials
GREENVILLE, S.C.; September
30, 2020— Last night, Dr. Jo
Jorgensen, the Libertarian presidential
candidate whose name will appear on the
ballot in all 50 states plus D.C. and
yet was excluded from the Democrat- and
Republican-controlled presidential debate,
was interviewed by Reason Magazine Senior
Editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown in a
live-streamed event.
Thousands of positive comments streamed in
from remote audiences throughout the
interview, which was viewed by hundreds of
thousands of people, despite a lack
of national media publicity.
The interview was originally to be held
outdoors at the Cleveland Public Square,
which was pre-approved for use by the City
of Cleveland. However, as the Jorgensen
campaign was working cooperatively with city
officials to set up the stage, the office of
Mayor Frank Jackson sent a police captain
who suddenly declared the campaign’s
contract to be invalid.
The campaign attempted to negotiate a way to
make the event work in compliance with the
city’s demands while the captain was on the
phone with superiors. The city appeared to
be issuing new demands on the spot,
including disallowing the backdrop for the
stage, scaling down the sound, disallowing
any amplification of sound, moving the whole
event to the sidewalk, and disallowing the
presence of the crowd that had
gathered.
“Each time the campaign reached a solution
with the captain and began to implement it,
he would present a new issue that prevented
that solution from working,” reported Kenna
Porter, events director for the
campaign.
When the city added yet another
demand—removal from the stage of the chairs
that had been set up for the 90-minute
interview—the campaign made the decision to
move the interview to a nearby studio.
After Dr. Jorgensen briefly addressed the
crowd on the sidewalk, she bid them
farewell and headed for the studio with
Ms Brown.
Because of the delay in moving to a new
location, the interview did not begin until
80 minutes after the scheduled start
time of 7 o’clock eastern, causing it
to overlap with the live debate between
Trump and Biden.
“Not a problem for me,” said Chelsea Kendall
of Kyle, Texas. “The debate between Trump
and Biden, when they weren’t attacking each
other on relatively trivial issues, failed
to reveal any meaningful plans for how
either would right this country’s ship. In
contrast, Dr. Jorgensen shined. She laid out
how she would bring the troops home, end the
failed drug prohibition, cut government
spending, remove government restrictions to
job creation, and much more.”
The interview of Dr. Jo Jorgensen by
Elizabeth Nolan Brown can be seen
at
Jo20.com/media or
at
Facebook.
Jo Jorgensen for President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 29, 2020
CONTACT: Elizabeth
C. Brierly
Libertarian presidential event in Cleveland
ahead of CPD’s televised ‘#FakeDebate’
Dr.
Jo Jorgensen to answer policy
questions, share real solutions for
real Americans
CLEVELAND, Ohio— Tonight as the
dominant parties prepare their nominees for the
first installment of the televised debates
sponsored by the bipartisan Commission on
Presidential Debates (CPD), which has excluded
Libertarian nominee Dr.
Jo Jorgensen from participation, she
will be appearing in a live interview at
Cleveland Public Square beginning at 7 o’clock
eastern, to promote the benefits of greater
individual freedom with those Americans who seek
a better choice for president than Democrat Joe
Biden or Republican Donald Trump.
Moderating the in-person event and posing policy
questions to Dr. Jorgensen will be
Reason magazine senior editor Elizabeth Nolan
Brown. There will also be video questions
submitted by viewers as well as a live audience.
The event will be live-streamed through the
campaign’s
Facebook and
YouTube pages.
Jorgensen’s campaign manager, former Libertarian
National Committee (LNC) Chair Steve Dasbach,
said that with this year’s “politics of
personality” stronger than ever between the two
dominant parties’ nominees, he can virtually
guarantee that Brown
and Jorgensen will be discussing
“issues we won't hear in the CPD’s fake debate
later this evening—issues that matter to voters
directly.”
Jorgensen’s platform includes dramatic cuts to
federal spending, thus taxation, bringing home
our troops from foreign entanglements to defend
our own soil and shores, creating a truly free
market in health care—spurring the innovation
and the cost reductions associated with
competition—and ending drug prohibition and
pardoning all nonviolent, victimless drug
offenders in federal prison, so they may return
home to their families.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown has won multiple
writing awards and has been published not only
in Reason magazine but in the New
York Times, Los Angeles Times,
the Daily Beast, Playboy, and The
Week. She is a regular guest commentator on such
programs as the Ingraham Angle, Fox
News @ Night, NPR’s 1A, and BBC Business
Matters. She is cofounder and president of
Feminists for Liberty, and holds a master’s
degree in strategic communication from American
University.
“Dr. Jorgensen is certainly delivering
on her primary-campaign promise to be both
principled and practical in proposing solutions
to the problems ordinary Americans face,” said
Mark Hinkle, a former LNC chair and current
president of Silicon Valley Taxpayers
Association. He added that he’s thrilled with
the campaign and confident in telling his fellow
dissatisfied voters who choose to watch
tonight’s interview that they’ll
realize that “Dr. Jorgensen is
the presidential candidate you’ve been
waiting for.”
This November, voters in all 50 states plus D.C.
will have the option to cast their vote for
Dr. Jorgensen and her running mate,
Jeremy “Spike” Cohen. In more than 20 years, no
other alternative party has achieved universal
ballot access in a presidential
election. The 2020 election marks the fifth
time the Libertarian Party (LP) has succeeded in
placing its presidential ticket on the ballot in
all 50 states—a notable feat considering the
severe constraints placed on petitioners during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
The event will be held at Cleveland Public
Square (50 Public Square, Cleveland); doors open
at 6:30 P.M. EDT, and the program is scheduled
to run 7–8:30 P.M. EDT.
Following the interview in Cleveland,
Dr. Jorgensen’s campaign bus will head to
the nation’s capital for a policy discussion on
Wednesday evening with Rep. Justin Amash
(L–Mich.). The in-person, live event will
be moderated by Matt Kibbe of Free the People.
For a full list of upcoming Jorgensen–Cohen
2020 campaign events, visit
Jo20.com/events.
Media advisory: Rain or shine! The
candidate will have media availability at
most tour stops. A mult box will be available,
although no risers. Personal distancing
protocols will be followed; hand sanitizer and
masks will be provided.
For questions or to schedule interviews with the
candidates on site during their visit,
contact:
- Tues., Sept.
29; Cleveland: Jess
Mears, Jorgensen–Cohen 2020 deputy
campaign manager, via e-mail at JessMears@Jo20.com or
by phone at (727) 262-8061
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About Jorgensen–Cohen 2020: Dr.
Jo Jorgensen is the 2020 Libertarian
Party presidential nominee, and was the party’s
1996 vice-presidential nominee. She is a
businesswoman, entrepreneur, and senior lecturer
at Clemson University. She holds an MBA and a
Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
Dr. Jorgensen and vice-presidential
candidate Jeremy “Spike” Cohen were
nominated at the party’s national convention,
the first ever on-line national political
convention, held in May. Learn more
about Jorgensen–Cohen 2020 at
Jo20.com.
About the Libertarian Party: The
Libertarian Party was founded in 1972 and today
is the third largest political party in the
United States. Millions of Americans have voted
for Libertarian Party candidates in elections
throughout the country. The Libertarian,
Democratic, and Republican parties are the only
political parties that will appear on the ballot
in all fifty states (plus D.C.) this November.
Learn more about the Libertarian
Party
LP.org.
Hawkins/Walker 2020
September 29, 2020
For more information:
Howie Hawkins
Robert Smith
"This debate is a fraud”
(Columbus, OH) As the League of Women Voters
noted in past
presidential debates, when the two corporate
parties demand control of the process and have a
contract with each other rather than allowing for
free and open debate, the debates become a
“hoodwinking of the American public.”
Of tonight’s debate between Republican Donald Trump
and Democrat Joe Biden, Green Party presidential
candidate Howie Hawkins said, “I consider this
debate a fraud. This debate isn’t sponsored by an
independent organization, the Democrats and
Republicans have a
contract with
each other. They have veto power over moderators.
This isn’t a debate, it’s a farce.”
Hawkins is in Cleveland outside the debate site at
Case Western University. He will be participating in
demonstrations for black lives and climate justice
from 5 pm to 8 pm. He will be available for media
interviews during these demonstrations.
After the debate at 11 pm, Hawkins will livestream
his commentary on the debate on his campaign
Facebook page.
The Green presidential ticket is on the ballot in 30
states representing 73% of voters and 381 electoral
votes. Including the other states where they are
qualified write-in candidates, 96% of Americans
representing 514 of the total of 538 electoral votes
will be able to vote for the Hawkins/Walker Green
Party ticket.
Howie Hawkins, 67, is a retired Teamster
construction and warehouse worker who has been
active in movements for civil rights, peace, unions,
and the environment since the 1960s. He was the
first U.S. politician to campaign for a Green New
Deal in 2010, in the first of three consecutive runs
for New York governor. New York enacted several
policies that only Hawkins had campaigned for after
he received 5% of the vote in 2014, including a ban
on fracking, a $15 minimum wage, and paid family
leave.
Hawkins’ vice-presidential running mate is Angela
Walker, 46, a truck driver in Florence, South
Carolina who is a veteran union and racial justice
activist.
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Hawkins/Walker 2020
September 29, 2020
For more information:
Howie Hawkins
Virginia Rodino
Howie Hawkins to
campaign in Ohio on Tuesday, September 29
Columbus News Conference
11 am, Capitol Square outside the Ohio State House,
1 Capitol Square, Columbus
Cleveland Protests of Presidential Debates
Protest for Black Lives and Climate Justice
5 pm to 8 pm, Wade Oval, 10820 East Blvd., Cleveland
Protest of Debate Exclusion
5 pm to 8 pm, outside Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland
Livestream Response to the Trump/Biden
Presidential Debate
11 pm, Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/runhowierun2020/
Media Availability
Hawkins will
be available for phone interviews throughout the day
at
[ed: phone numbers
omitted] and for in person interviews at
the news conference in Columbus and at the debate
exclusion protest in Cleveland.
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At the 11 am news conference in Columbus,
Hawkins will
present his Green New Deal to create a manufacturing
revival and full employment in Ohio and across the
nation.
Hawkins will
explain why the trickle-down economic incentives of
both Donald Trump and Joe Biden fail to create full
employment, a manufacturing revival, and climate
protection.
Hawkins will
also address the bribery scandal and bad policies
embedded in Ohio’s HB 6 that subsidizes nuclear and
coal power plants while gutting renewable energy and
energy efficiency standards.
Hawkins’ Green New Deal is
an emergency economic and climate recovery program
to put unemployed people to work caring for the
people and the planet.
The Green New Deal will rebuild the all sectors of
the economy for zero greenhouse gas emissions and
100% clean energy by 2030.
It will also enact an Economic Bill of Rights with
federal guarantees of living-wage jobs, incomes
above poverty, affordable housing, universal health
care, lifelong tuition-free public education, and
secure retirements.
Hawkins will
travel to Cleveland for demonstrations from 5 pm to
8 pm outside the debate site at Case Western
University for black lives and climate justice and
to protest his exclusion from the debates. He will
be available for media interviews during these
demonstrations.
After the debate at 11 pm,
Hawkins will
livestream his commentary on the debate on his
campaign Facebook page.
Howie
Hawkins,
67, from Syracuse, New York, is a retired Teamster
who has been active in movements for civil rights,
peace, unions, and the environment since the
1960s.
He was the first US politician to campaign for a
Green New Deal in 2010, in the first of three
consecutive runs for New York governor. New York
enacted several policies that only
Hawkins had
campaigned for after he received 5% of the vote in
2014, including a ban on fracking, a $15 minimum
wage, and paid family leave.
Hawkins’ vice-presidential
running mate is Angela Walker, 46, a truck driver in
Florence, South Carolina who is a veteran union and
racial justice activist.
The Green presidential ticket is on the ballot in 30
states representing 73% of American voters and 381
electoral votes. Including the other states where
the Green presidential ticket is qualified for
write-in votes, 96% of Americans representing 514
electoral votes of the total 538 electoral votes
will be able to vote for the
Hawkins/Walker Green Party
ticket.
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Don
Blankenship for President
September 30, 2020
For more information contact Howie Morgan at info@DonBlankenship2020.com
Americans Were the Presidential Debate Losers
Read how
Don Blankenship would have answered
the questions
Williamson, WV – Former Massey Energy CEO Don
Blankenship stated,
“The first President
Trump-Joe Biden debate provided Americans with
clear evidence that our country is in trouble no
matter which of these two men are elected.
Chris Wallace also showed that he wanted to
be part of the debate versus an unbiased
moderator.”
Blankenship continued,
“The debate covered
six topics. Wallace made a short speech
before each question, oftentimes misstating the
facts. Below are the topics and the
paraphrased corresponding question, along with my
answer to each question”:
1). OPEN SUPREME COURT SEAT
Should Senate Republicans confirm Justice Barrett,
or should the next President nominate, and the new
Senate confirm, their choice to fill the open
Supreme Court seat?
The correct answer is evident. The
Constitution says that the President shall nominate,
and the Senate shall confirm, Supreme Court
Justices. The Constitution does not say that the
“subsequent” President and Senate shall nominate and
confirm Justices for open Supreme Court seats.
2) COVID-19
Based on what you have said and done so far why
should Americans trust you more to deal with the
virus than your opponent?
My answer would have been that Americans should
trust me more because both President Trump and
former Vice-President Biden could have prevented the
spread of Covid-19 throughout America and neither
did.
President Trump should have insisted on strict
quarantining of those infected as was done one
hundred years ago to stop the spread of
tuberculosis. Over the past 47 years, Biden played a
major role in causing Americans to be vulnerable to
foreign viruses via policies that resulted in close
ties and dependence on China.
Viruses that originate in other countries should not
be allowed to spread to America. In other
words, the old saying that an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure comes to mind. The trade
policy and close relations with China made Americans
both dependent on China produced medicines and
vulnerable to China sanitation standards and
research lab procedures. A country that allows
the marketing and human consumption of monkeys and
wildcats that are known to transfer viruses from
animals to humans should not be allowed to import
unregulated food products into America.
3). TAX POLICY
Will Biden’s planned tax increase hurt the economy?
The simple answer is yes. Higher taxes hurt economic
activity. But Republicans and Democrats have
talked about taxes during every election for the
past 100 years. How high or low taxes should
be can be debated forever. The real debate
should be about what is taxed rather than the tax
rate. We need to tax things that we want less
of. Imported products among the first items
that should be taxed. Pollution should also be
taxed, as well as anything else Americans want less
of rather than more of.
4) CLIMATE CHANGE
Should America have pulled out of the Paris Climate
Accord?
Yes. Americans have been asked for 30 years to
sacrifice their jobs and their quality of life to
control the earth’s temperature. Combined with
poor trade policy, America and many Americans have
been bankrupted. Five percent of the world’s
population (Americans) cannot meaningfully reduce
the world’s temperature. The world emission of
carbon and other pollutants only increases when we
shut down our eco-friendly industries and import the
same products from factories abroad that have little
or no environmental regulations. During the
past forty years we decreased our coal use by 300
million tons while the Chinese were increasing their
use of coal by 3 billion tons. Millions of
American jobs went to China while worldwide
pollution skyrocketed.
As for the wildfires in California, Americans are
being asked to believe that climate change is
causing a huge increase in forest fires in
California but not in West Virginia or Europe or
anyplace else. This is nonsensical.
5). RACISM
Why should voters trust you rather than your
opponent to deal with racism in America?
Biden responded that we have not yet created
equality in America. This answer is clear
evidence that Biden does not understand why we have
a race inequality problem. Politicians like Biden
think it is the government’s job to make people
equal. But the Constitution says all men
are “created equal” with equal rights to pursue
their own happiness.
It is not the job of government to make people or
races equal. Instead, it is the job of government to
let them remain equal. Laws which require job
hiring quotas cause inequality. So do
variances in the required test scores for college
entrance. Rules which lessen the requirements
of some races versus others violate the
Constitution.
All laws which favor persons from one race over
those of another race create inequality, which in
turn creates hard feelings, animosity, and
divisiveness. Any law giving a privilege to one
American takes away the right of another American.
The government should stop trying to make people
equal because they already are equal.
The laws and opportunities should not favor or
disfavor Americans on the basis of race or anything
else.
6). WILL MAIL-IN BALLOTS LEAD TO ELECTION
CORRUPTION
Yes. Obviously, the integrity of
elections is increased when people have to show up
in person, provide an ID, and vote in view of
others. If this were not the case, then we could
just mail in our drug tests, mail in our picture for
our driver’s license ID, mail in our fingerprints,
mail in a DNA swab, and students could just mail in
their SAT test scores. Anyone who argues that
an election based on mail-in ballots is not more
subject to corruption is either naive or intending
to benefit from the inevitable corruption.
For more information on Don Blankenship and the
Constitution Party visit
www.DonBlankenship.com
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Don Blankenship for President is a
citizen organization dedicated to getting the
American public back in charge of the office of
President of the United States.
La Riva / Freeman Campaign weighs in on the
Trump-Biden Debate - Vote Socialist!
Tonight’s debate between
Donald Trump and Joe Biden was testament to how
little choice voters truly have in this so-called
democracy. Gloria La Riva and Sunil Freeman are
running in the presidential election to give voters
a real alternative -- one that stands for the rights
of the working class and in opposition to war,
racism and the destruction of the environment. On
these existential issues of our time and so many
others, Trump and Biden have more in common than
they pretend. Neither have a program to meet the
scale of these crises — and under either one, they
will only deepen.
One major theme of the debate was taxes, with Joe
Biden posturing as the champion of “the middle
class” by favorably comparing his own personal tax
payments with Trump’s. Of course it is an outrage
that someone as fabulously wealthy as Donald Trump
paid virtually nothing in taxes for years. But it is
also a common practice among the elite that rules
this country.
Notably, one of the key ways that the ultra-rich and
their corporations evade taxes is by setting up a
shell headquarters in Delaware, a state with no
corporate income tax. Joe Biden served as the
Senator from Delaware for 36 years, becoming by far
the most powerful man in the state’s politics.
During these decades, Biden was silent on the issue.
Couple that with his record of voting to gut social
programs, embracing anti-worker free trade
agreements and shielding the big banks from
accountability for the 2008 financial crash --
Biden’s sudden change of heart about tax evasion by
the wealthy is a display of utter hypocrisy and
cannot be taken seriously.
We condemn Donald Trump’s racist attacks on the
Black Lives Matter movement and his attempts to
portray the righteous uprising as mindless violence
and rioting. Gloria La Riva, Sunil Freeman and the
entire PSL have been in the streets all summer as
proud participants in the movement. But we cannot
forget Joe Biden’s record either. Biden was a
principal architect of mass incarceration through
his authorship of the draconian 1994 crime bill,
which he justified with rhetoric demonizing Black
youth. Biden launched his political career as an
avowed opponent of school desegregation and has
repeatedly, publicly praised Senators who were among
the most notorious defenders of Jim Crow apartheid
-- Strom Thurmond, James Eastland and Herman
Talmadge.
Neither candidate is willing to even consider the
type of dramatic action that needs to be taken to
tackle the Coronavirus pandemic and associated
economic crisis. The PSL’s La Riva/Freeman campaign
demands the immediate cancellation of rent and
mortgage payments with no accumulation of debt, full
replacement of all unemployed workers’ incomes, free
healthcare for all and international cooperation to
develop a vaccine.
The Gloria La Riva/Sunil Freeman ticket stands for a
new system — socialism — where the working class and
oppressed hold economic and political power, and the
needs of the people and the planet are planned for
and guaranteed.
