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for Immediate Release:

Third Party Candidates to Debate 'Real Priorities' at Vanderbilt University

9.23.08 Nashville, TN: The Coalition for October Debate Alternatives
(CODA) announced today the Presidential Candidate's Alternative Debate
to take place October 6th, in Nashville, Tennessee. The debate is open
to all third party candidates for President in the United States as
well as the major party nominees. The debate, which is scheduled to
take place on the campus of Vanderbilt University on Monday, October
6th will feature several Presidential Candidates who have confirmed
attendance including Brad Lyttle of the US Pacifist Party, Charles Jay
of the Boston Tea Party, Frank McEnulty of the New American
Independence Party and Brian Moore of the Socialist Party. Other
candidates who have expressed interest in attending the debate include
Gloria LaRiva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Chuck
Baldwin of the Constitution Party.

The debate, which is being organized by CODA has been in the making
for several months and is scheduled to take place on Monday, October
6th at 7:00pm, one day prior to the Presidential Debates which are
happening at Belmont University in Nashville on October 7th. CODA
says that many of the Presidential candidates have been excluded from
attending the Belmont debate.

In a recent release to the press CODA indicated that is was organizing
the alternative debate because it believed that voters deserve to hear
from all the candidates if they are going to make an informed choice
at the ballot box, " While we want to hear what the major party
candidates have to say on issues related to the war, health care, the
economy, gas prices, the future direction of the military, civil
liberties and the environment, we do not believe that most issues of
concern to American voters will be touched by the Democrat-Republican
debate. That is why we are organizing an alternative debate so that
voters in Nashville, Tennessee and beyond may be informed of all their
choices as they participate in America's electoral process."

The general public and the media is invited to attend this event,
which will begin at 7pm on the campus of Vanderbilt University in
Nashville. The moderator for the event will be Bruce Barry, a
professor at the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt.

Chris Lugo, of the Coalition for October Debate Alternatives, said
that the Democratic and Republican candidates have also been invited
to the event, but have not indicated an interest in attending, "We
believe that voters should make a fully informed choice about who they
vote for and we do not believe this is possible if they are only
hearing from two candidates. We have invited the Barack Obama and
John McCain in the interest of fairness, but we are intending to
highlight this alternative debate as the most egalitarian possible
event by including all the candidates and promoting this as an event
to which everyone is invited."

Presidential Candidate's Alternative Debate

Vanderbilt University
Monday October 6th

Candidate's Debate 7:00pm - 9:00pm

http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu/calendar/2008/10/06/us-presidential-debat...

for more information contact:

Chris Lugo 615-593-0304 chris4senate@gmail.com

Elizabeth Barger 931-964-2119 loveliz77@yahoo.com

Eric Schecter 615-414-4572 leftymathprof@yahoo.com

Candidate and Moderator:

Bruce Barry (Moderator)

Excerpt: Bruce Barry is Professor of Management and Sociology at
Vanderbilt University, where he teaches courses in business ethics,
organizational behavior, negotiation, media and politics, and the
sociology of media and technology. He writes about business ethics,
workplace rights, and public policy issues at the intersection of
business and society. His recent book is Speechless: The Erosion of
Free Expression in the American Workplace. He has also taught at Duke
University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Boston Tea Party

Charles Jay for America
1862 S. Scarlet Maple Lane
Elkhart, IN 46514
Email: charlesjay@totalaction.com

Excerpt: Charles Jay (born 1960) is the Presidential nominee of the
United States Boston Tea Party in the 2008 election. He was the
presidential nominee of the Personal Choice Party in the 2004
election. A former member of the U.S. Libertarian Party, he stepped
down from the race for the Vice Presidential nomination to the 2004
ballot to run for President under the Personal Choice Party banner.
Jay has a B.A. in business from the University of Miami.

Socialist Party USA

Brian Moore for President Committee --
P.O. Box 5742 Spring Hill, Florida 34611
352-686-9936 -- campaign@votebrianmoore.com

Excerpt: The Socialist Party strives to establish a radical democracy
that places people's lives under their own control -- a non-racist,
classless, feminist socialist society where working people own and
control the means of production and distribution through
democratically-controlled public agencies; where full employment is
realized for everyone who wants to work; where workers have the right
to form unions freely, and to strike and engage in other forms of job
actions; and where the production of society is used for the benefit
of all humanity, not for the private profit of a few.

US Pacifist Party

Brad Lyttle
UNITED STATES PACIFIST PARTY
Tel: 773-324-0654
Fax: 773-324-6426
e-mail: blyttle@igc.org

Excerpt: The United States Pacifist Party (USPP) rejects military
force as a means of resolving international disputes. USPP members
believe that military force violates the moral principles of the
world's great humanitarian religions and philosophies, and is a
"Faustian bargain," that may achieve short range political objectives,
but only at the cost of long-term catastrophe for the human species.
They believe that nonviolent resistance, as developed by Mohandas
Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, and massive economic aid
programs to eliminate poverty worldwide, are appropriate and effective
ways to resist aggression and tyranny.

New American Independent Party

Frank McEnulty for President
National Committee
PO Box 691
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-0691
Email: frank@frankforpresident.org

Excerpt: The current tax code is way too complicated and getting more
complicated all the time. My opinion is that the country needs to move
towards a simpler, taxation structure to not only make it easier for
people to pay their taxes, but also to make it easier to determine
when people aren't paying their fair share. At this time, I also do
not believe it is necessary to lower or increase taxes. The current
level of tax revenues is fair and necessary given the present needs of
the country. I do not believe in increasing taxes for two reasons:
First, in the long run, increased taxes are often counterproductive to
overall revenue. Second, increased taxes only lead to increased
government spending and I believe the Federal Government already has
plenty of our money to spend.