Trump Says the Debates Are Rigged. Turns Out He's Right
Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 7 months ago to Politics
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"the rigging of the presidential debates is done jointly by the Democratic and Republican Parties.
The Presidential Debate Commission (PDC) is a cartel controlled by those two big businesses, and they don’t like small enterprises such as the Libertarian Party and the Green Party horning in on the action.
If you don’t believe that the commission is an arm of the political Establishment, just look at who sits on the board that decides what the criteria are for inclusion in the debates.
The co-chairmen are Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a former lobbyist for the gaming industry, and Mike McCurry, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton and counsel to the lobbying firm Public Strategies Washington. Among PSW’s clients are Bain Capital (onetime home of defeated GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney), Bristol Myers, Lockheed Martin, NASDAQ, United Technologies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The current board includes a who’s who of the Establishment names and one percenters: Richard Parsons, former chairman of Time Warner; Jane Harman, former Democratic representative from California and wife of the late multimillionaire Sydney Harman; Olympic Snowe, former U.S. senator from Maine; businessman Howard Buffett, a son of billionaire Warren Buffett; former Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri; Purdue President Mitch Daniels, a onetime GOP presidential hopeful and former governor of Indiana; former Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow, plus a smattering of academics and journalists."
"the rigging of the presidential debates is done jointly by the Democratic and Republican Parties.
The Presidential Debate Commission (PDC) is a cartel controlled by those two big businesses, and they don’t like small enterprises such as the Libertarian Party and the Green Party horning in on the action.
If you don’t believe that the commission is an arm of the political Establishment, just look at who sits on the board that decides what the criteria are for inclusion in the debates.
The co-chairmen are Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a former lobbyist for the gaming industry, and Mike McCurry, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton and counsel to the lobbying firm Public Strategies Washington. Among PSW’s clients are Bain Capital (onetime home of defeated GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney), Bristol Myers, Lockheed Martin, NASDAQ, United Technologies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The current board includes a who’s who of the Establishment names and one percenters: Richard Parsons, former chairman of Time Warner; Jane Harman, former Democratic representative from California and wife of the late multimillionaire Sydney Harman; Olympic Snowe, former U.S. senator from Maine; businessman Howard Buffett, a son of billionaire Warren Buffett; former Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri; Purdue President Mitch Daniels, a onetime GOP presidential hopeful and former governor of Indiana; former Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow, plus a smattering of academics and journalists."
The major parties who control entry into the debates do not want another Ross Perot on the stage exposing the con masquerading as voting choice.