Skip to main content

Funny how that happened: Mike Munger NOW in a gubernatorial debate

Was it the press coverage--virtually unprecedented for a Libertarian candidate?

Was it the polls--that show Michael Munger persistently hanging in the North Carolina governor's race?

Was it the blogs--which have been stridently calling it to public attention that excluding one of three ballot-qualified candidates is an exercise in restricting political free speech?

Was it the Money Grenade--which went off on 3-4 July?

Was it the run of radio spots in major North Carolina cities?

Whichever it was--or all of them combined, hell has apparently frozen over; from the League of Women Voters to Michael Munger today [courtesy of Mike Munger]:

Dear Dr. Munger:

Congratulations to you on winning the nomination as the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of North Carolina. WSOC-TV the ABC Affiliate and WTVI the Public Broadcast Station in Charlotte, in partnership with the North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg League of Women Voters extend an invitation for your participation in a LIVE televised debate originating from the studios of WTVI in Charlotte.

The debate will be held on October 15, 2008. The debate moderators would be provided by WSOC-TV. Representatives of WSOC-TV, WTVI Charlotte and the North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg League of Women Voters would meet with you to discuss debate format. The debate will be televised live 7:00-8:00 pm EDT and we have offered the debate to television stations statewide.

The partnership of WSOC-TV, WTVI Charlotte and North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg League of Women Voters welcomes the opportunity to provide a debate forum for you to discuss your positions on important issues to voters. The collaborating parties feel it necessary to get planning underway immediately. May we expect a reply from you by Friday, August 1, 2008? Please make initial contact with Kay Hall, Program Director for WSOC-TV... Ms. Hall will coordinate meetings with you and/or your campaign representatives along with WTVI and the North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg League of Women Voters.


We look forward to your positive response. We trust you will welcome the opportunity to share your vision for North Carolina's future with voters.


I can't wait.
Labels:

Comments

Jim Fryar said…
The disappointing thing is that as an Aussie i don't get to see this happening, they are not covered here.
July 26, 2008 at 3:46 AM
Anonymous said…
i live in charlotte. it wasn't in the paper today. i'm hoping it will be tomorrow. this is a great day for the state of north carolina. we have a right to know ALL of our choices.
July 29, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Libertarian Martin Luther King Jr. Day post

In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here:  chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society  [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.”   The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...
44 comments
Read more

Libertarian National Committee Deathwatch Part 1

As the LNC continues to lurch towards collapse, with the latest news of mass layoffs at HQ, I've decided to begin tracking those things leading the national party to irrelevance, even as state and local parties gain power. As news, rumors and rhetoric break out, I shall chronicle them in this ongoing series at Delaware Libertarian. Organizations approaching failure have a number of characteristics. One of the most striking is renunciation of their purpose and effort to reinvent themselves as a "me-too" provider of services in the marketplace. In this, the LNC has been on a collision course with destiny for a while now. Recently, for example, it hired Republican Party web site developer TerraEclipse to redesign the LNC web site . Terra created a web site very similar to those of the clients it brags most about -- far-right Republican conservatives like Tom McClintock and BJ Lawson. A quick look at the web site they built for the LNC is instructive. The tagline on the ...
22 comments
Read more

The disturbing decline of the Delaware blogosphere: a very unfortunate Around the Horn (even if it's not Friday)

I've noticed a change in my own blog-checking habits over the past several weeks, and I don't know if it's just me or the reality of the last month of a divisive political campaign. I automatically used to check out Delawareliberal first and several times a day, because it was where I could find edgy, thought-provoking, and (dare I say it) funny banter going on. These days visit several other spots first, and my visits to DL are both shorter and less engaged. Why? Because the combination of invading neo-con commenters with the stridency of some of the major contributors has led to such pleasant exchanges as a post dedicated to labeling another blogger racist by donviti, whose own sense of provocative humor is generally so far out there that he makes John Belushi doing Samurai bartender on the SNL look positively pro-Asian. Or I can find Delawaredem and jason periodically spewing the idea that anybody who is not a liberal or progressive Democrat is somehow a non-American,...
26 comments
Read more