[GPCA Updates] GPCA RELEASE: DEBATABLE SENATE DEBATE: Candidate left out calls it a 'sham'

[Green Party of California Updates]

      News Advisory
THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
       http://www.cagreens.org

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010



Debatable Debate: Tonight's Boxer, Fiorina Senate debate a 'sham'
between multi-millionaires claims Green Party Senate candidate;
he's banned from Wednesday event; protest scheduled

MORAGA – The U.S. Senate debate Wednesday night between incumbent
Barbara Boxer, democrat, and Carly Fiorina, republican, is nothing but a
"sham" said Duane Roberts, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate today.

Roberts, who has proposed a debate among all qualified candidates, said
he and other independent, smaller-party candidates were not invited to
the debate at St. Mary's college Wednesday.

**Laura Wells, Green Party gubernatorial candidate who's been banned
from the Governor Debates, will join other pro-Democracy demonstrators
protesting the closed debate.

"This is a sham debate between two multi-millionaires backed by big
business interests. I doubt they are going to say much of anything about
matters that affect a majority of working people here in California,"
said Roberts (www.voteforduane.wordpress.com)

"What are Boxer and Fiorina going to talk about? They agree with each
other on many issues. They represent what voters are rejecting. To elect
either one will just mean more of the bad government people don't want,"
he added.

Roberts, a community activist from Anaheim, said his views are populist
and independent of the special interests that dominate today's politics
and politicians. And that's why he is being excluded from the debates –
to ensure voters don't know there is a candidate who represents their
views, not corporations.

Roberts is critical of both parties on everything ranging from the wars
in the Middle East to healthcare, noting: "The healthcare reform bill
profits Wall Street billionaires who control health insurance companies.
Driving private insurers out of business would save billions of dollars
and guarantee everyone has access to high quality healthcare."

  He also said he would put education as his priority, something
politicians also say, but can't afford because they are voting billions
of dollars to multiple wars.

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