The Green Party presidential candidates will debate each other in San Francisco on Saturday, May 12. The debate will include Roseanne Barr, Kent Mesplay, and Jill Stein. The location is the Victoria Theater at 2961 16th Street, at the corner of Mission. The event runs from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The cost is between $10 and $20 on a sliding scale. The debate host will be Rose Aguilar, host of “Your Call” on KALW-FM and author of “Red Highways, a Liberal’s journey Through the Heartland.”
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Edited By Richard Winger
I think its awesome the debate is in San Francisco and can’t wait to meet Rosanne.I have always loved her.
Great. Would like to see more Green Party debates.
I understand Atlantic Television News in Washington DC has invited the Green Party candidates for the nomination to be in weekly TV debates from now until the convention.
These Green Party debates are more examples of the single-winner plurality psychology in the dysfunctional settings of “bottle-neck democracy”.
Alternatives to these single-winner debates would be a get together to find consensus on items for cooperation and for building a 1000 member team.
Single winner elections create the psychological momentum for plurality “debates”, similar to the “top two” style elections.
Want to find a solution to the single winner/plurality psychology being perpetuated by the Green and Libertarian Parties?
Try the USA Parliament, a 1000-member national committee which is currently being elected via email and paper ballots cast as proof and kept for your validation and verification;
http://www.usparliament.org/votehere.php
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I watched the Barr/Stein debate. The sound and video was vastly improved. The chat room on the side of the live streaming window was very active, and many friends and political candidates were conversing from all over the US. I was plugging the parliament team, ranked choice voting, the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, etc. and of course a Green/Libertarian ticket.
My biggest complaint is that more wasn’t spoken about all parties and independents working together with campaigning and Congress, and that advanced election systems and petitioning wasn’t promoted more.
So many chat friends were there, many from Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota, Maine, Delaware, Iowa, Virginia … etc., etc. The tech crew said viewer count peaked at 180, but that more watched. That was fun.
More should have been said about how the president is more of a facilitator, to help make decisions in Congress through ranked choice voting for names and decisions. Too much emphasis is expected for the candidates to have all the answers, when the reality is that the peoples’ voices can be empowered by using advanced voting systems.