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Cash Rules - Here's Why Moore Can't Debate Thursday
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 In the end, Walter Moore's exclusion from this Thursday's mayoral debate seems to have boiled down to his lack of money.
According to a recent letter from the League of Women Voters, it was NBC, not the League, that barred Moore (a Republican) from joining the debate with Democrats Richard Alarcon, Bob Hertzberg, Bernard Parks, Antonio Villaraigosa, and latecomer Mayor Jim Hahn.
The letter to Moore from League President Jane C.L. Goichman says that NBC debate coordinator Scott Regberg chose the debaters using the League's "Criteria Establishing Qualification for Mayoral Candidate Participation in Debates in the March, 2005 Mayoral Election." Here's how they exclude Moore ...
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With a beggarly $3,750 in his war chest at last report, Moore seems wilfully uninterested in joining the fundraising race.
Unfortunately for him, one of the League's criteria says that candidates must qualify for city matching campaign funds, which means raising at least $200,000.
Forget for a minute the League criteria requiring at least a 5% poll showing by candidates (no one's published an established poll yet) and Moore's apparent qualificationdesire to be on the ballot.
The rest of the guidelines don't look too favorably on a little guy whose mantra has been "outsmart, not outspend:"The candidate must be a significant candidate for the office of Mayor. A significant candidate is one who has a reasonable chance of being elected. In assessing significance, the following factors will be considered: - The candidate demonstrates the ability to qualify for matching funds under the city's ethics law.
- The candidate shows evidence that a formal campaign is being waged by a number of the following factors:
- presence of campaign headquarters, telephone number, stationery
- staff such as campaign manager, treasurer, PR person
- scheduled campaign appearances such as a calendar of events the candidate will attend
- signs of a fundraising effort, including filing funds raised to date on the City Ethic’s website
In short, if you don't know the rules of the game, you can't play.
So, while everybody else is lining up to take shots at the "underrated" Jim Hahn (talk about damning with faint praise), Walter Moore can warm a barstool or a Barcalounger on Thursday night. He'll be in good company: Candidates Addie Mae Miller, Jeff "Mitchell Jackson" Mitchell, James L. Thompson and Ted Crisell haven't hired big guns or raked in the cash, either.
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| Posted by: mack_reed on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 08:53 AM
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