{news} Re: [FairfieldCountyGreens] Fairfield U student paper reports Duffee-Carrano debate

Fri Oct 24 20:57:17 EDT 2008

Kim, I guess a perfect journalism student, managed not to report one word I
said.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM, David Bedell <dbedellgreen at hotmail.com>wrote:

>   http://www.fairfieldmirror.com/news/1.843605
>
> The Fairfield Mirror
>
> Third Party Congressional Debate is held at BCC
>
> Kim Grzybala
>
> Published: Thursday, October 23, 2008
> Updated: Thursday, October 23, 2008
>
> About the only item that maintained the usual, official atmosphere of a
> congressional debate Oct. 21 was the presence of the Fairfield University
> logo in a repeating pattern stretched across a small stage.
>
> Cameras, backed by student operators, surrounded the area as the crew
> prepared to begin recording the 3rd party congressional debate hosted by
> Finding Our Way, a new politics show on the Ham Channel. Sitting in the
> five chairs squished onto the platform sat two congressional candidates
> from
> third parties, two panel members, and a moderator.
>
> Darryl Brackeen Jr. '10, the host of the show, moderated the debate between
> Richard Duffee, the Green Party candidate and M. A. Corrano, the
> Libertarian
> Party candidate. Brackeen was accompanied by Queenie Paniagua '09 and
> Spencer Thibodeau '10 whom he referred to as his "distinguish panel."
>
> When asked how he would vote on the future of the war in Iraq, candidate M.
> A. Corrano didn't mince words.
>
> "The war on terror is a fraud. Period," he stated.
>
> Corrano gave a direct answer but still did not shed any more light on the
> proposed policies that he would bring to congress.
>
> "I would vote to end the war on terror. Simple as that," he said.
>
> Both candidates were present for "Finding Our Way" as a result of their
> exclusion from the congressional debates that were held on campus less than
> a week ago with Democratic candidate, Jim Himes and Republican candidate,
> Christopher Shays.
>
> Fiorela Canaj '11, who works on "Finding Our Way," took note of this and
> made it a point to expose students to the parties that were left out.
>
> "We thought it wasn't really fair, so that's why we got them here now," she
> said.
>
> Other students also commented on the exclusion of the third parties from
> the
> congressional debates.
>
> "I didn't think it was fair but I understood why they didn't let these
> candidates debate," said Rob Lavin '09.
>
> He explained that it would be difficult to have four candidates debating
> especially when their points of view contrast each other's so sharply.
>
> However, that aside Lavin doesn't think that simply excluding the
> candidates
> from the debate was the best way to go.
>
> "They should have given more attention to [the candidates] rather than just
> dismissing them," he said.
>
> Though the mission of having the debate was to inform students, Canaj
> wasn't
> discouraged by the low turnout to the live recording.
>
> "It's what I expected," she said. "We're more hoping to get people to watch
> online or TV than live."
>
> Other students observing the debate took notice of the differences in
> conduct of the candidates during the debate. At one point during the debate
> candidate Richard Duffee burst out into laughter at his opponent's response
> to the panel's question.
>
> "I've never really seen a candidate laugh like that," said Kristina Ravanis
> '11.
>
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