Exclusionary "non-partisan" politics

The mayor’s position in Los Angeles is “non-partisan.” Essentially, that means if you ain’t a part of the status quo, you ain’t a participatin’! Did anybody check out the party affiliations of the debate sponsors? The debates thus far have been exclusionary for a reason claims Walter Moore.

Robert Gelfand, American Reporter Correspondent from Hahn’s strong hold in San Pedro, California reports more of the exclusionary tactics in his expose, “THE NEXT MAYORAL DEBATE SCAM.” The article can be found at http://www.american-reporter.com/2,561W/1.html.

“The L.A. mayoral debates continue and once again, reform loses. This time it is the misleadingly named Citywide Alliance of Neighborhood Councils that intends to restrict participation in its debates. Only the big fundraisers get to play. “However you want to put it, it is clear that the Alliance does not speak for neighborhood councils. Nevertheless, the upcoming mayoral candidate debates are being peddled to the public as being sponsored by the Citywide Alliance of Neighborhood Councils, under the carefully unstated implication that the Alliance is somehow representative. This is thoroughly misleading. It's like the old joke about the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy, nor Roman nor an empire. Or the old Cold War line that any country calling itself a Peoples' Democratic Republic is neither the peoples' nor democratic nor a republic. The Citywide Alliance of Neighborhood Councils is neither citywide nor an alliance nor made up of neighborhood councils.”

Spinnin’ wheel got to go ‘round. Is it going to happen again? This is getting to look a lot like prohibition. If you exclude it, everybody will want it. People eventually will get to the truth. The high cost of television argument does not hold water. If your already set up to do the filming, what is the cost to capture a few more candidates in the picture?

Exclusion does not work in trade and it doesn’t work in media. It look like bloggers and web media with its low cost of entry, free speech, convenience, and rapid transmission rate may very well put the big wealthy exclusionary players out of business.