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Jill Stein and Emily Rooney Debate Third Party Inclusion
Jill Stein of the Green-Rainbow Party crossed swords with talk show host Emily Rooney, who opposes third party inclusion in debates. This interview occurred on the Emily Rooney radio show on WGBH, February 8, 2008. Enjoy.
Interview with Jill begins at [...]

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Joe Kennedy’s Second Televised Debate, 1/11/2010,

Joe Kennedy on Neil Cavuto 01/12/2010:

IPR posts about Joe Kennedy
Joe Kennedy For Senate

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On a reader’s blog at Talking Point Memo, clearthinker has opened a discussion seeking input from supporters of third parties on the advantages of third party strategy and alternatives to the Democratic Party.  As of this posting, there are only sixteen comments on the thread, and only a few of these are from third party [...]

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Some of the latest news on Joe Kennedy, independent libertarian in the US Senate special election in Massachusetts:
Download a podcast of the latest debate here (H/T Kennedyseat.com). As the Boston Globe summarized it, “Kennedy, a libertarian, lumped his opponents together, accusing them of supporting bigger government and greater intrusion into people’s lives. He said that [...]

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By John J. Monahan
Worcester Telegram
BOSTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott P. Brown expanded his defense of waterboarding as an interrogation technique this morning in a live radio debate, while his Democratic opponent Martha Coakley criticized his ad comparing himself to JFK, saying, “He is really more like Bush-Cheney.”
While the two major party candidates [...]

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Posted at LP blog:
Libertarian Joe Kennedy, running in a special election for U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, appeared December 22 in this televised debate, carried by WBZ in Boston.
Visit Joe Kennedy’s website.

Note for regular IPR readers: yes, we’ve covered this debate for. The news here is the LP blog reporting on it.

Previous IPR coverage: [...]

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Independent Libertarian Joe Kennedy endorsed by RightMarch PAC in the Massachusetts US Senate Special election:

Joseph Kennedy for U.S. Senate – Massachusetts
Like Doug Hoffman in New York, Joe Kennedy is running as an Independent, rather than Republican or Democrat. The reason is simple: The Democrat nominee is far-left liberal, and the Republican nominee isn’t far behind. [...]

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As reported at SouthCoastToday.com:

STEVEN SENNE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Candidates for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., from the left, Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley, and Joseph L. Kennedy, a Libertarian candidate running as an independent and who is no relation to the late senator, make last-minute [...]

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NECN reports:

Joe Kennedy

Previous IPR coverage
Darryl Perry: ‘A Kennedy Even Libertarians can Support: Joe Kennedy for US Senate’ Posted by Paulie 12/21
First two debates set in Kennedy successor race Posted by Paulie 12/21
Why challenge the two-party system? Somebody has to do it Posted by d.eris, 12/20
Green Party issues press release to support Libertarian [...]

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Following the Boston Globe’s explicit statement of support for duopolized Democratic-Republican debates leading up to the special election for US Senate in Massachusetts, the Boston Herald appears to be coming out in support of an inclusive debate format with a set of three articles published today.

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by Matt Viser
Boston Globe
LYNN — US Senate candidate Martha Coakley suggested today that she would not agree to debates unless long-shot candidate Joseph L. Kennedy is included, a strategy that appears to be an effort to make the contest a three-person affair.
“I think it’s very important at this stage in the game that everybody on [...]

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Posted by Alex Peak at LPAnarchists.com:
It’s often asked, do we wish for the Libertarian Party to be a political party, or a philosophical debate club? The person asking is almost always implying that the party must be a party and thus not a philosophical debate club, although conceivably, one could ask the question with [...]

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By way of the Nader-Gonzalez campaign:

Add The Real Vice Presidential Debate to your page

Also, see Video: Alternative Presidential debates.

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The video’s description:
Having refused to be a guest on KQED´s public affairs program Forum because she was not allowed equal time, America´s leading peace activist Cindy Sheehan audaciously called in to the program this morning to get a chance to address House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Upon stating that Nancy Pelosi has ducked her responsibility of [...]

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For a long time now, independent congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan has been asking the Democratic incumbent she is challenging, Nancy Pelosi, to a debate. Last Wednesday, Sheehan got to debate Pelosi, even though it only lasted forty seconds.
The San Francisco radio station KQED was having an hour devoted to the congressional race. They [...]

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