From: 76330.3412@CompuServe.COM ("John M. Sulak")
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Fax/(mod?) this letter for fair uncensored debates!!!
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:32:13 GMT





                                              October 9, 1992
    Janet Brown, Executive Director
    Commission on Presidential Debates
    601 13th Street NW, Suite 310 South
    Washington, DC 20005
    voice: 202-872-1020
    fax:   202-783-5923


    Dear Ms. Brown:                                                              

    Your commission should include all four (4) of the nationwide
    candidates for President in the debates.  I have heard that Perot                will be invited, but have not yet heard that an
equally qualified
    and articulate nationwide candidate, Andre Marrou (of the Libertarian
    Party) will be invited.  Nor have I heard that his running mate,
    Dr. Nancy Lord, has been invited to the Vice-Presidential debate.


    Under any set of criteria other than personal wealth, Marrou is
    just as qualified as Perot to participate in the debates.  Indeed, on
    many points he is more qualified!  For example:

        o   In every poll available to me which mentions both names, the
            numbers for Andre Marrou are GREATER then the numbers for Ross
            Perot.  Even in polls which don't mention Marrou, I am reliably
            informed that over HALF of the "other" responses are 
            VOLUNTEERING the name of Andre Marrou.

        o   The Marrou/Lord campaign got on the ballot in all 50 states
            (as well as DC) BEFORE the Perot campaign did.  No other 
            candidates this year are even close to being on all ballots.

        o   The Marrou/Lord campaign obtained this mationwide ballot
            status with very little reliance on paid petitioners; the
            Perot effort was mostly done with paid staff.

        o   Marrou has previously served in public office (Alaska state
            legislature); Perot has no such experience.

        o   The Marrou/Lord campaign is not merely a flash-in-the-pan 
            effort which will vanish in the next year; instead, it is 
            part of a serious organization which has been around over 
            20 years, has hundreds of people in elective and appointive
            offices throughout the country, and is running candidates 
            for something like 700 different offices this election.
            Perot has no comparable organization, no other candidates,
            and no plans for any.            

        o   The ideas of the Libertarian Party have been adopted or co-opted
            by the two older Parties on numerous occasions in the past; the
            most recent example is the Parental Choice in Education and
            Educational Vouchers ideas; both came out of libertarian think-
            tanks.  Ross Perot has had little, if any, comparable impact on                  this or any other election.


    I hope that you'll agree with me that these factors and many others
    make Andre Marrou an important addition to the debates.  I look forward
    to your organization's announcement of his inclusion in at least one of
    the debates you've scheduled.


    Sincerely,






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