{"id":197737,"date":"2008-01-15T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/judge-says-to-include-kucinich-in-debate\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T22:31:00","slug":"judge-says-to-include-kucinich-in-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/judge-says-to-include-kucinich-in-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Says to Include Kucinich In Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure of the legalities, but he <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">was<\/span> offered a spot, and then it was withdrawn, and he had made arrangements to be in Las Vegas for the debates, so I think having him in the debate is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that the judge <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/14\/kucinich-should-be-allowed-to-debate-judge-rules\/\">made his ruling based on some sort of implied contract<\/a>, and the public service requirement for broadcasters, but I&#8217;m completely unequipped to evaluate the law here, I&#8217;m an engineer, not a lawyer, dammit<sup>*<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;\" >love it<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> when I get to go all Doctor McCoy!!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure of the legalities, but he was offered a spot, and then it was withdrawn, and he had made arrangements to be in Las Vegas for the debates, so I think having him in the debate is the right thing to do. It would appear that the judge made his ruling based on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}