9.23.08
Nashville, TN:  The Coalition for October Debate Alternatives (CODA)
announced today the Presidential Candidate's Alternative Debate to take
place October 6th, in Nashville, Tennessee. The debate is open to all
third party candidates for President in the United States as well as
the major party nominees.  The debate, which is scheduled to take place
on the campus of Vanderbilt University on Monday, October 6th will
feature several Presidential Candidates who have confirmed attendance
including Brad Lyttle of the US Pacifist Party, Charles Jay of the
Boston Tea Party, Frank McEnulty of the New American Independence
Party and Brian Moore of the Socialist Party.  Other candidates who
have expressed interest in attending the debate include Gloria LaRiva
of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Chuck Baldwin of the
Constitution Party.

The
debate, which is being organized by CODA has been in the making for
several months and is scheduled to take place on Monday, October 6th at
7:00pm, one day prior to the Presidential Debates which are happening
at Belmont University in Nashville on October 7^th.  CODA says that many of the Presidential candidates have been excluded from attending the Belmont debate.   

In
a recent release to the press CODA indicated that is was organizing
the alternative debate because it believed that voters deserve to hear
from all the candidates if they are going to make an informed choice at
the ballot box, " While we want to hear what the major party candidates
have to say on issues related to the war, health care, the economy, gas
prices, the future direction of the military, civil liberties and the
environment, we do not believe that most issues of concern to American
voters will be touched by the Democrat-Republican debate.  That is why
we are organizing an alternative debate so that voters in Nashville,
Tennessee and beyond may be informed of all their choices as they
participate in America's electoral process."

The
general public and the media is invited to attend this event, which
will begin at 7pm on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. 
The moderator for the event will be Bruce Barry, a professor at the
Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt.

Chris
Lugo, of the Coalition for October Debate Alternatives, said that the
Democratic and Republican candidates have also been invited to the
event, but have not indicated an interest in attending, "We believe
that voters should make a fully informed choice about who they vote for
and we do not believe this is possible if they are only hearing from
two candidates.  We have invited the Barack Obama and John McCain in
the interest of fairness, but we are intending to highlight this
alternative debate as the most egalitarian possible event by including
all the candidates and promoting this as an event to which everyone is
invited."

Presidential Candidate's Alternative Debate

Vanderbilt University
Monday October 6th

Candidate's Debate 7:00pm - 9:00pm

https://calendar. vanderbilt. edu/calendar/ 2008/10/06/ us-presidential- debate-the- alternatives

for more information contact:

Chris Lugo  615-593-0304  chris4senate@ gmail.com

Elizabeth Barger 931-964-2119 loveliz77@yahoo. com

Eric Schecter 615-414-4572 leftymathprof@ yahoo.com

Candidate and Moderator:

Bruce Barry  (Moderator)

Excerpt:  Bruce
Barry is Professor of Management and Sociology at Vanderbilt
University, where he teaches courses in business ethics, organizational
behavior, negotiation, media and politics, and the sociology of media
and technology.  He writes about business ethics, workplace rights, and
public policy issues at the intersection of business and society. His
recent book is Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace. He has also taught at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Boston Tea Party

Charles Jay for America
1862 S. Scarlet Maple Lane
Elkhart, IN 46514
Email: charlesjay@totalact ion.com

Excerpt: Charles
Jay (born 1960) is the Presidential nominee of the United States Boston
Tea Party in the 2008 election. He was the presidential nominee of the
Personal Choice Party in the 2004 election. A former member of the U.S.
Libertarian Party, he stepped down from the race for the Vice
Presidential nomination to the 2004 ballot to run for President under
the Personal Choice Party banner. Jay has a B.A. in business from the
University of Miami.

US Pacifist Party

Brad Lyttle
UNITED STATES PACIFIST PARTY
Tel: 773-324-0654
Fax: 773-324-6426
e-mail: blyttle@igc. org


Excerpt: 
The United States Pacifist Party (USPP) rejects military force as a
means of resolving international disputes. USPP members believe that
military force violates the moral principles of the world's great
humanitarian religions and philosophies, and is a "Faustian bargain,"
that may achieve short range political objectives, but only at the cost
of long-term catastrophe for the human species. They believe that
nonviolent resistance, as developed by Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther
King, Jr., and others, and massive economic aid programs to eliminate
poverty worldwide, are appropriate and effective ways to resist
aggression and tyranny.

New American Independent Party

      
Frank McEnulty for President
National Committee
PO Box 691
Los Alamitos, CA  90720-0691
Email: frank@frankforpresi dent.org

Excerpt: 
The current tax code is way too complicated and getting more
complicated all the time. My opinion is that the country needs to move
towards a simpler, taxation structure to not only make it easier for
people to pay their taxes, but also to make it easier to determine when
people aren't paying their fair share. At this time, I also do not
believe it is necessary to lower or increase taxes. The current level
of tax revenues is fair and necessary given the present needs of the
country. I do not believe in increasing taxes for two reasons: First,
in the long run, increased taxes are often counterproductive to overall
revenue. Second, increased taxes only lead to increased government
spending and I believe the Federal Government already has plenty of our
money to spend.