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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Is the League co-sponsoring? If not, it sounds as if what we need is clarification on what constitutes "something of value." Would the FEC really consider our forum to be an impermissible campaign contribution?</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Green <green-bounces@fuusm.org> on behalf of Dawn Hewitt via Green <green@fuusm.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 4, 2018 9:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Green Sanctuary List for Environment Issues<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Dawn Hewitt<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Green] "Empty Chair Debate" rule?!?</font>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space" dir="auto">Dear Green friends,</div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space" dir="auto">Uh-oh. Katy Lustofin, president of Friends of Lower Muskingum River, sent me a screenshot of a message she received on Facebook:</div>
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<td>Tue, 4 Sep 2018 10:05:05 -0400</td>
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<td>Matt Halfhill <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk656493" href="mailto:halfhill757@gmail.com" previewremoved="true">
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<td>Katy Lustofin <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk204915" href="mailto:ksl002@marietta.edu" previewremoved="true">
<ksl002@marietta.edu></a>, Elin W Jones <a class="x_moz-txt-link-rfc2396E OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk293426" href="mailto:elinwjones@suddenlink.net" previewremoved="true">
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<div dir="auto">Hello all,
<div dir="auto">I wanted to pass on a message we received on Facebook. It looks like something we need to look into. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Matt</div>
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<div>Our event has long been billed as a forum, not a debate, but it looks like the League of Women Voters have addressed that, too:</div>
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<div>Here are links to two of their websites addressing that issue.</div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space" dir="auto"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk238591" href="http://www.lwvil.org/uploads/1/5/9/8/15985276/3.__empty_chair_debate_policy_2013.pdf" previewremoved="true">http://www.lwvil.org/uploads/1/5/9/8/15985276/3.__empty_chair_debate_policy_2013.pdf</a></div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space" dir="auto"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk436258" href="http://www.lwvsc.org/files/debatefaqsrev2008.pdf" previewremoved="true">http://www.lwvsc.org/files/debatefaqsrev2008.pdf</a><br>
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What to do? How to proceed? Did MOVCA in WV allow one federal candidate to participate when the other was a no show?</div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space" dir="auto">How to proceed? What to do? Please advise! Thank you!</div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space" dir="auto">—dawn</div>
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