[Sosfbay-discuss] NEWS ADVISORY: Gubernatorial debate Saturday to bepicketed by Green Party candidate Peter Camejo

[Tian Harter]

URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
Saturday, October 7, 2006


Gubernatorial debate Saturday to be picketed
by Green Party candidate Peter Camejo, who
says debate is an ‘insult' to California voters

SACRAMENTO – Green Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo will join a
picket line here Saturday to criticize the only televised governor's debate
as an "insult" to voters and part of a plan by Democrats and Republicans to
limit the choices Californians have at the polls.

The Green Party picket begins Saturday, at 5 p.m. just outside the debate
room at CSUS. Camejo will hold a news conference at the start of the picket.

Camejo cited a nonpartisan opinion poll last month shows that as many as 63
percent of likely voters with an opinion favor the inclusion of him in any
debate.

"The poll shows that the two corporate-funded candidates who fill the
airwaves with tens of millions of dollars in advertising, and receive the
bulk of news coverage are not the only candidates Californians want to
hear. To deny voters their wishes by excluding me from debates in
undemocratic, and an insult to voters," said Camejo.

"To exclude me from the debates benefits only the Democrats and
Republicans. It limits the choices and information that voters deserve,"
said Camejo, who was considered, in surveys of news media and public, the
winner of the 2003 recall election debates

"This race is over. Phil Angelides cannot overcome the huge lead of the
incumbent governor. People will waste their vote if they vote for Phil now.
Instead, voters should send a clear message, by voting Green, that they
want the rich to pay their fair share of taxes, that they want a clean
environment and they want us out of Iraq now," he added.


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