Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff, New Jersey Chair, Johnson-Weld 2016
To the editor:
As we look forward to perhaps the most consequential presidential election in decades, the upcoming presidential debates represent a critically important opportunity for voters to compare and contrast the presidential candidates’ credentials and views on the important issues.
Unfortunately, the Congressional Debate Commission’s insistence that candidates most poll over an arbitrary 15 percent level to participate threatens to exclude Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for president. Gov. Johnson and his running mate, Gov. Bill Weld, are on the ballot in all 50 states and have already garnered broad support in excess of 10 percent in more than 40 states.
Clearly, they are serious candidates and their exclusion from the debates would diminish the process and limit our democratic choice as voters. America deserves better.
Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff
New Jersey Chair, Johnson-Weld 2016
