[Green] "Empty Chair Debate" rule?!?

[gbanz42 at suddenlink.net]

Dawn:

    In addition to the various media I mentioned in my e-mail message of last week, I more recently requested an appearance on WTAP-TV's Daybreak program to discuss the candidates' forum. Have you got a call yet from them? I sent them the press release. 


---- Dawn Hewitt via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote: 
> Dear Green friends,
> 
> Uh-oh. Katy Lustofin, president of Friends of Lower Muskingum River, sent me a screenshot of a message she received on Facebook:
> 
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject:	Candidates Forum
> > Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2018 10:05:05 -0400
> > From:	Matt Halfhill <halfhill757 at gmail.com> <mailto:halfhill757 at gmail.com>
> > To:	Katy Lustofin <ksl002 at marietta.edu> <mailto:ksl002 at marietta.edu>, Elin W Jones <elinwjones at suddenlink.net> <mailto:elinwjones at suddenlink.net>,tiffanyharvey95 at gmail.com <mailto:tiffanyharvey95 at gmail.com>, Doug Albaugh <dougalbaugh9 at gmail.com> <mailto:dougalbaugh9 at gmail.com>, muskingumty<muskingumty at gmail.com> <mailto:muskingumty at gmail.com>, Sam Powell <gsmp3 at yahoo.com> <mailto:gsmp3 at yahoo.com>
> > 
> > Hello all, 
> > I wanted to pass on a message we received on Facebook.  It looks like something we need to look into. 
> > 
> > Matt
> 
> 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:
> 
> Here are links to two of their websites addressing that issue.
> 
> http://www.lwvil.org/uploads/1/5/9/8/15985276/3.__empty_chair_debate_policy_2013.pdf <http://www.lwvil.org/uploads/1/5/9/8/15985276/3.__empty_chair_debate_policy_2013.pdf>
> 
> http://www.lwvsc.org/files/debatefaqsrev2008.pdf
> 
> What to do?  How to proceed?  Did MOVCA in WV allow one federal candidate to participate when the other was a no show?
> 
> How to proceed? What to do?  Please advise! Thank you!
> 
> —dawn
> 

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