June 16, 2014 Emily Peyton on VPR Vermont Public Radio is famous for its political caste system, the worst discrimination in Vermont, denying political candidates equal participation in debates, and putting them in “castes” such as the major party “caste” and the minor party “caste” and the independent candidates with little money “caste”, and then the indpendent candidate with millions of dollars “caste” which includes only U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders who receives his money from Democrats and then suddenly switches, as if false labelling a product, to “independent” after the Democratic Primary.
Today, on June 16, 2014, Ms. Emily Peyton is a Republican candidate for Governor of Vermont. If she loses the Republican primary, she states that she will go on the Nov. 4, 2014 General Election Ballot as an independent.
At what point does Vermont Public Radio move Ms. Emily Peyton from the “upper caste” to the “lowest caste”?
Vermont Public Radio receives federal funding, and should not be allowed to create a “caste” system. Every candidate should be treated equally, regardless of their “label” on the election ballot. Every candidate for Governor should be included in every political debate, and every candidate for U.S. Congress House of Representatives should be included in every political debate, etc. Otherwise, Vermont Public Radio is mocking democracy.
VPR hates democracy. Every time a political candidate for a specific race is excluded from a debate, that is prima facie evidence that Vermont Public Radio hates democracy. Vermont Public Radio has NO community spirit. Vermont Public Radio brings you government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.
Ms. Emily Peyton is campaigning in favor of a State Bank. Why on earth does she think that a State Bank would help the common person, when the Vermont state general tax fund, which pays Vermont Public Radio to discriminate against political candidates, proves that a State Bank would be run with as much extreme prejudice as the state
general tax fund?
Ms. Emily Peyton states that the reason she is running as a political candidate in the Republican primary is because in her 2010 and 2012 campaigns as an independent candidate, she wasn’t allowed to debate in debates. “I wasn’t allowed to debate in the debates” she says today on VPR. “let all the candidates debate” she beseeches today on Vermont Public Radio.
So, how can candidates show their true colors if they think that the only way to get on Vermont Public Radio is to pretend, however, briefly, to be a member of a major political party they are not otherwise a member of?
Ms. Emily Peyton states that even if she wins the Republican primary, she will go on the Nov. 4, 2014 general election ballot as an independent. She’s trying to pull a Bernie Sanders.
Is this what we, the people, want? Is debate exclusion and the political caste system, as enforced against real democracy, by Vermont Public Radio, a training ground to teach candidates that they can never show the public their real face and real intentions if they want to get elected?
Journalistic Excellence
In a remarkable demonstration of nonpartisan radio journalism, local station WKVT’s news described Ms Peyton as a “Fringe Candidate” as opposed to the “real” republican candidate for Governor.
Garden-variety bias
It is par for the course, but still inexcusable to present commentary in the guise of news reporting.
It would be informative to hear from WKVT their definition of “fringe candidate,” and how they decide to apply that description to a particular candidate.
If it is "par for the course,"
…then the news commentary is quite defensible and justifiable.
She is a fringe candidate...
…and, she’s not a “real” republican candidate for governor. She is an opportunistic interloper only.
The theme of non-two-party candidates being excluded from public discourse goes way back in our political system. Cris is right to point that out.
It does not, however, detract from the truth of Peyton’s exploiting the difficult circumstances of the republican’s advancing one of their own “real” candidates.