Nevada holds a special election on September 13 to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 2nd district. All four ballot-listed candidates have been invited to debate each other on August 25. The debate is sponsored by a radio station, a television station, and Reno’s daily newspaper, the Gazette-Journal. The four candidates are: Republican Mark Amodei, Independent American Party nominee Tim Fasano, independent candidate Helmuth Lehman, and Democrat Kate Marshall.
The inclusiveness of this debate is an improvement for Nevada. In 2010, no televised debates for the Nevada major party nominees for Governor or U.S. Senator included any minor party or independent candidates.
Well, this is a major improvement: third party candidates are allowed to participate in a Congressional election debate. I still think that the tossing of the Libertarian nominee was doubtful at best, but I’ll take this news as some solace for that.
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The NVLP’s bylaws didn’t allow for candidates to be nominated by simply the Executive Committee at any time, so they’ll just have to learn from this and change their bylaws next time.
In the meantime, support Tim Fasano- this debate will be a GREAT opportunity for him and the IAP to get our message out!
Hmmm. How many U.S.A. Rep vacancies at the moment — affecting the debt limit crisis machinations ???