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Expanding the VP Debate: Third-Party Candidates Challenge Biden & Ryan on War, Economy, Healthcare Our "Expanding the Debate" special series continues as we open the discussion to include two third-party vice-presidential candidates who were excluded last night from the "official" debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan: Cheri Honkala of the Green Party and Luis Rodriguez of the Justice Party. With the general election just weeks away, Biden and Ryan squared off in their only debate Thursday night, aggressively challenging each other on foreign and domestic policy issues asked by moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News. Raddatz pressed them with questions on the deaths of Americans at the U.S. embassy in Libya, taxes, Medicare, Social Security, the budget deficit, terrorism and Afghanistan. Raddatz also asked each of the candidates, both of whom are Catholic, about how their personal beliefs affect their views on abortion. Romneys personal wealth came up, but many issues were missing, including poverty, global warming, immigration, gun control and the countrys staggering incarceration rates. Democracy Now! poses many of these same questions today to Honkala and Rodriquez in order to bring new voices into the discussion. Democracy Now! first broke the sound barrier during the presidential debate on Oct. 3 by pausing after answers offered by President Obama and Mitt Romney to get real-time responses from Jill Stein of the Green Party and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party. [includes rush transcriptpartial] Filed under Election 2012<http://www.democracynow.org/topics/election_2012>, Green Party <http://www.democracynow.org/topics/green_party>, Republican Party <http://www.democracynow.org/topics/republican_party>, Democratic Party <http://www.democracynow.org/topics/democratic_party>, Paul Ryan<http://www.democracynow.org/topics/paul_ryan>, Cheri Honkala <http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/cheri_honkala>, Luis Rodriguez <http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/luis_rodriguez> Guests: *Cheri Honkala <http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/cheri_honkala>*, vice-presidential nominee for the Green Party. Shes also national coordinator of the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign. *Luis Rodriguez <http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/luis_rodriguez>*, vice-presidential nominee for the Justice Party. He is a noted Chicano writer and a gang expert and interventionist. His 15 published books include the bestselling 1993 memoir, *Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A*, and its 2011 sequel, *It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing*. He is a co-founder of the Network for Revolutionary [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
