So far, neither the Democratic nor Republican nominee for Colorado Governor has been willing to debate any of the other candidates on the ballot. However, on the evening of October 8, Free & Equal sponsored a debate which was attended by independent candidate Mike Dunafon, Green Party nominee Harry Hempy, and Libertarian nominee Matthew Hess. See this story. C-SPAN carried the debate.
On October 8, Adrian Wyllie, Libertarian nominee for Governor of Florida, filed a federal lawsuit to gain admittance into the October 15 debate, which is being sponsored by many news organization. Wyllie for Governor Campaign v Leadership Florida Statewide Community Foundation, sou. dist., 14cv-62322.
The Complaint charges that some of the organizations sponsoring the debate set a requirement that candidates must be at 12% in the polls. When that percentage was set, Wyllie was below 12%. But since then, several neutral polls have showed him above 12%, and some have shown him at 14%. The Complaint argues that after Wyllie met the 12% standard, the standard was raised to 15%.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge James I. Cohn, an appointee of George W. Bush. He sits in Fourt Lauderdale. Here is the 25-page Complaint.
On October 8, a debate was held between the four candidates on the South Dakota ballot for Secretary of State. They candidates are Republican Shantel Krebs, Democrat Angelia Schultz, Libertarian Emmett Reistroffer, and Constitution Party nominee Lori Stacey. The debate was broadcast on KSOO radio. Thanks to Ken Santema for this news.
On October 9, U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove held a hearing in Libertarian National Committee v Holliday, eastern district, 3:14cv-63. This is the case over whether Kentucky Educational TV excluded David Patterson, Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate, because of his views, not because of his poll standing. The debate is set for October 13 so a decision will come fairly soon. See this story, which was written while the hearing was going on and thus does not say very much about what was said. The hearing is in Lexington and started at 9 a.m.
John D. Arnold is a Texas resident who was a hedge fund manager for Enron. During 2001, he is credited with having earned approximately $750,000,000 in profits for Enron. When Enron collapsed in 2002, Arnold founded a new company. He is a billionaire. See this wikipedia page about him.
On September 17, Arnold donated $500,000 to a new committee formed to support the Oregon top-two system, Measure 90. The new committee is “Open Primaries Committee”. The president is John Opdycke, director of development at CUIP (the Committee for a Unified Independent Party), which was formerly known as the New Alliance Party.
On October 1, Arnold gave another $1,000,000 to the Open Primaries Committee. Part of the money ($50,000) was then donated to CUIP for “outreach” on behalf of Measure 90. Here is a link to the Oregon state government campaign finance web page for this committee.
