Posted on Aug 26, 2016
Gary Johnson won't be invited to Trump-Clinton forum. Wil | MilitaryTimes
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TITLE: Gary Johnson won't be invited to Trump-Clinton forum. Will he accept a lesser offer?
Gary Johnson won't be invited to Trump-Clinton forum. Will he accept a lesser offer?
Kornblau did not immediately address additional questions about the network's plans for inviting Johnson to appear on MSNBC.
The event with Trump and Clinton, scheduled for Sept. 7 in New York City, was organized by NBC in partnership with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, one of the nation's largest advocacy groups for those who've served in the military since 9/11. IAVA has nearly 190,000 members, according to its website, and says it is nonpartisan.
Johnson's campaign has not responded to numerous inquiries from Military Times.
Dylan Milroy, a Marine Corps veteran spearheading the cause to have the Libertarian appear at the NBC-IAVA event in September, said he is unimpressed with the network's gesture.
"This is not about MSNBC," Milroy said. "This is about the IAVA claiming to represent ... veterans while actively ignoring them by the masses."
A spokesman for IAVA said Thursday that organizers were looking into the prospect of having Johnson join Trump and Clinton in New York City. It appears now that those efforts were unsuccessful.
Milroy, who served in the Marines from 2010 to 2014, estimates that so far he has rallied more than 100 fellow veterans via the social networking site Reddit, but the cause appears to have spread across other social media platforms since news of their efforts first arose Thursday.
If Johnson does accept the invitation to appear on MSNBC, it's unlikely to draw the same number of viewers were he to appear with Trump and Clinton. That's disappointing, Milroy said.
"All I know," he added, "is I am not stopping until he is on that forum."
Air Force veteran Louis Honeycutt, who also petitioned IAVA for Johnson to be included in the Trump-Clinton forum, said NBC's invitation to Johnson is a big step in the right direction.
"I'm still hoping the IAVA does the right thing and invites [Johnson] too, though," he said. "It will send a strong message that they actually do care about their veterans."
Gary Johnson won't be invited to Trump-Clinton forum. Will he accept a lesser offer?
Kornblau did not immediately address additional questions about the network's plans for inviting Johnson to appear on MSNBC.
The event with Trump and Clinton, scheduled for Sept. 7 in New York City, was organized by NBC in partnership with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, one of the nation's largest advocacy groups for those who've served in the military since 9/11. IAVA has nearly 190,000 members, according to its website, and says it is nonpartisan.
Johnson's campaign has not responded to numerous inquiries from Military Times.
Dylan Milroy, a Marine Corps veteran spearheading the cause to have the Libertarian appear at the NBC-IAVA event in September, said he is unimpressed with the network's gesture.
"This is not about MSNBC," Milroy said. "This is about the IAVA claiming to represent ... veterans while actively ignoring them by the masses."
A spokesman for IAVA said Thursday that organizers were looking into the prospect of having Johnson join Trump and Clinton in New York City. It appears now that those efforts were unsuccessful.
Milroy, who served in the Marines from 2010 to 2014, estimates that so far he has rallied more than 100 fellow veterans via the social networking site Reddit, but the cause appears to have spread across other social media platforms since news of their efforts first arose Thursday.
If Johnson does accept the invitation to appear on MSNBC, it's unlikely to draw the same number of viewers were he to appear with Trump and Clinton. That's disappointing, Milroy said.
"All I know," he added, "is I am not stopping until he is on that forum."
Air Force veteran Louis Honeycutt, who also petitioned IAVA for Johnson to be included in the Trump-Clinton forum, said NBC's invitation to Johnson is a big step in the right direction.
"I'm still hoping the IAVA does the right thing and invites [Johnson] too, though," he said. "It will send a strong message that they actually do care about their veterans."
Gary Johnson won't be invited to Trump-Clinton forum. Wil | MilitaryTimes
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Isn't there a quantitative test to participate in the debates? 15‰ support in the polls? Either he has it or he doesn't
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15% in 7 national polls as decided by the Bi-Partisan Counsel.
The issue is that the RNC/DNC is the ones making the rules. On top of that, the media was not including him in the polls for much of the election cycle. Can't poll well if you aren't included....
The issue is that the RNC/DNC is the ones making the rules. On top of that, the media was not including him in the polls for much of the election cycle. Can't poll well if you aren't included....
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At what point would the appropriate cut off be? If you can't get at least 15%, you are noise. I'm not a fan of the two party system for the reasons George Washington stated, but it beats chaos.
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Politics is Business and Business is Politics these days. It's up to the "Owners" which in this case is the IAVA and NBC. Kind of Sad. A Third Perspective might have improved the Dialogue.
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