Dear League of Women Voters: I WITHDRAW MY SUPPORT FOR THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS. I had respected this organization, because in the past they refused to exclude qualified candidates from debates. And, their history arises from advancing the right to vote to a previously disenfranchised half of the population. However, here in Florida, in 2014, the League published a “Nonpartisan” Voter Guide to educate the voters on the three constitutional amendments that will be on the ballot and on the gubernatorial and cabinet candidates that will be on the ballot – well, some of them. THEY EXCLUDED THE TWO LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATES! I filled out your questionnaire with complete comprehensive responses. Did you not like what I wrote? When my team asked why they omitted me, Attorney General Candidate Bill Wohlsifer, from their Voter Guide, we received two responses: The first quoted response: “We understand that there are many third-party candidates running for Governor as well as for Cabinet-level positions, however, have very limited space.” Dear League: Do you think we are stupid? I am the only third-party candidate running for a cabinet position. The other two cabinet races, i.e., the Chief Financial Officer and the Commissioner of Agriculture, each have one Democrat and one Republican candidate in each race. There are not “many” third-party cabinet candidates, there is only me. And I am quite disappointed to have been left out. I paid the same filing fee as the other cabinet candidates. I am a member of the same Florida Bar as the other Attorney General candidates. I am running a statewide campaign and will be in the major debates. I do not believe that there was not enough space to include one more candidate. And if there was, why not leave out George Sheldon? The other quoted response: “We have not seen any scientific polls in which Bill Wohlsifer was polling above 10% before August 29, the day the Voter Guide went to print.” Well, the League did not look hard enough. I polled 75% in the Miami Times’ poll with 293 respondents and it is not any less scientific than the polls the League purports to rely upon. As to my polling below 10%, that is not an accurate reflection of the popular opinion. First of all, most polls do not include me. That sets a pattern for top-of-mind consciousness of only the Democrat and Republican candidates. Second, I do not poll well in establishment circles because I am excluded from the propaganda establishment circles rely upon. I am unlawfully excluded from straw polls by some County Supervisors of Elections who take their orders from private hosts who pay for the county’s cooperation. I am prejudicially excluded from the League’s Voter Guide because I did not poll to an arbitrary percentage by an arbitrary date set by the League of Women Voters. Third-party candidates do not poll well because they are excluded from voter guides and they are excluded from voter guides because they do not poll well. Repeat. It is true that my $4M opponents, who also received over $.5 Million in taxpayer forced-paid campaign funds, while this third-party candidate does not qualify for any taxpayer forced-paid public campaign funds, do poll better than me. Money has a way of making that happen. But one day soon this game will end and we will have a fair press, a fair electoral process, and citizen candidates will have a fair chance in participating in the democratic process that once set our great nation apart from all others.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 02:59:52 +0000
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