Candidate in California governor's race arrested

[Tx4obama]

Source: CNN

(CNN) - A Green Party candidate in the California's governor's race was arrested Tuesday after trying to get into a debate she was not allowed to participate in.

Laura Wells, 62, from Oakland tried to enter a debate between leading candidates in the race: Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman and Democratic opponent Jerry Brown, police said.

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Wells was not allowed to be part of the debate because of her lack of support in the polls, CNN-affiliate KTVU reported.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/13/california.candidate.arrested/index.html

[bemildred]

1. Catch-22.

You have no support, so you get no free publicity.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Catch 22

Down in the polls
so we will not let you get your views
out to the people

[bemildred]

3. Great minds think alike.

:hi:

[Angry Dragon]

7. You must be talking about yourself

I am just an average man
trying to transverse the
land mine of life


:hi:

[LibDemAlways]

4. What a load of crap. There are 6 candidates listed on

the ballot. They should all be welcome at a debate. Who cares what their poll numbers are. We teach kids in school they live in a democracy where everyone has a chance to be heard and then we arrest candidates who want nothing more than a seat at the table. It's all bullshit.

[AnOhioan]

5. +1

[ixion]

6. the System just doing it's job... keep the narrative framed

in the tight confines of what the One Party says it should be, and keep all others out.

[herbm]

8. Heaven forbid we hear something other than the same old shit..

[littlewolf]

12. +1

[fascisthunter]

9. what a pathetic example of how undemocratic we are as a whole

in this country. What purpose is calling our system democratic if people outside of the two parties can't get exposure. It took her getting arrested for us to see this ugly truth.

[mikelgb]

10. Booooo!

[and-justice-for-all]

11. That is ridiculous....

If they are on the ticket, then they should be in the debate..PERIOD.

[OutNow]

13. But if all the candidates were included

we might hear a call for quickly ending both of Bush's wars, or enforcing existing environmental regulations, or even a demand to properly fund education. And all those other crazy ideas. Wait a minute. I support those proposals and might vote for a candidate like that.

Oh, now I get it.