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   YET ANOTHER FREE SPEECH INFRINGEMENT DIRECTED AT JIM SCHNELLER CAMPAIGN   -   Schneller Campaign Riled at Detriment Inflicted By A Publicly Owned Television Station

Thursday,  October 25, 2010   10:00 AM (EST)
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   Jim Schneller, independent candidate for Congress for the 7th District of Pennsylvania, issued a statement this morning on the Pennsylvania Cable Network's failure to include him in the debate scheduled for the evening of October 25, 2010.

    " . .   PCN has scheduled a live broadcast of a 7th District Congressional Debate (LIVE) this evening at Neumann University, with knowledge that I am being politically excluded from this debate.

PCN has also scheduled a Call-In for debate reaction following the aforementioned debate, and did not invite me to participate there, nor otherwise participate in equal time. 

Participation, and also equal time, are only right under our system of open polls and freedom of the election process.  I know that no one can be directed to cover every candidate every time nor can a station be told how to cover a particular race.  Equal time, however, is a legally sound principle and is mandated by the First and Fourteenth Amendmentrs as well as our State Constitution. Pragmatically it is hugely beneficial to third party candidates, who are greatly debilitated by our current "system." 

Equal time and equal participation are especially important because PCN is a publicly owned entity, and is in fact also a publicly financed entity.  And not only is Jim Schneller a viable and popular candidate in this race, but the polls have consistently been misleading, and are regardless, unreliable.  Polls therefore are a factor that a public entity ought to not consider in their decision making.

PCN never responded to our request for equal time pertaining to the debate held Tuesday September 20, 2010 at the Suburban Jewish Community Center.  This repeat harm now, in the last week of the campaign, requires immediate action by PCN, in the interests of the American way and voter confidence in their political infrastructure.

Exclusionary practices by publicly owned media are especially distasteful because we pay for their operations with tax money, and at the same time politicians can, and should not, gain access to the programming decision processes."

The Jim Schneller campaign has urgently requested PCN executives to allow him to participate this evening and for equal time overall.


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