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Wednesday, October 5, 1988 / University Daily Kansar
Difficulties plague third-party candidates
Restrictions narrow access to campaign debates and ballots
By Barbara Joseph
Kansan staff writer
It's not easy to become a third party candidate for president.
party candidates for president on the Kansas ticket.
At least that's the conclusion of National Alliance Party candidate Lenora Fonau and Libertarian party candidate Ron Paul, the only third
"The system is skewed to favor the rich party candidates and incumbents," said Karl Peter.
john, regional Fulani
coordinator of the Ron Paul for President Committee in Wichita. Peterjohn cited three major areas of difficulty.
"Number one is ballot access," he said. "If we don't get over that hurdle, we're dead in the water."
Ballot access means getting one's name on the ballot. Peterjon said that to get on the Kansas presidential ballot, third party candidates must get the signatures of 2,500 registered voters on a petition in a 90-day period. Even so, that only allows the voters to be listed as independents.
"To get the Libertarian party on
the ballots, we need to collect the signatures of 2 percent of
the votes cast for governor in the last
election. Peterjohn said. We didn't
The secretary of the office said that it would take another petition with 16,813 signatures for the two third parties to get on the ballot.
Assistant Secretary of State John Wine said third parties must petition for ballot access on a state-by-state
basis. The Democrats and Republicans, because they are recognized parties, need not do so.
Richard Winger, publisher of the San Francisco-based newsletter Ballet Access News, said Kansas is one only state where a party party listed on the ballet. The other two are Ohio and Tennessee. Winger said the label of Paul and Pulam as independents was inaccessible, but the term implied they have no party.
Winger also said that Kansas was one of two states that allows only one abortion. That means that the National Alliance Party could not go on the ballot.
Paul is on the bailer in every state except North Carolina, Indiana, West Virginia and Missouri. Paul is not listed because he missed the filing deadline. Winger said. Palmiu is on the bailer.
Peterpain said the Libertarian party had filed suit with the federal district court alleging that Kansas law violated state statutes. The suit is still pending.
Peterjohn said another hurdle was limited resources to conduct a camp at his family's federal matching funds because the party members think using taxpayer credits would be better.
The Federal Elections Commission puts special restrictions on campaign-matching funds for third party candidates. If they have adequate voter support,
Fulani received $263,000 in federal matching campaign funds, said Marian Grossman, assistant to the governor, who represented for Fulani's campaign.
Voters have third-party option
Kansas voters who can't work up enthusiasm for either the Bush Qayley or the Dukakis-Bentzen tickets have other options.
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
Two third-party candidates and their running mates are also on the Kansas ballot for Nov. 8.
All are on the ballot as Independents.
Lenora B. Fulani, of the New Alliance Party, is running for president with running mate Michael Pellettiere. Ron Paul, of the Libertarian Party, is a candidate for president with André Marrou.
Fulani calls her platform "The Black Agenda." Among other issues, that agenda supports:
- Federally-subsidized housing
- National health care plan
- Fine college education
- Minority rights
- National research education
- Free college education
Open immigration policy
Affordable abortion on demand Enforcement of treaties with Native Americans
**Super communication policy**
Fulani said she was not interested in winning; rather, she wants to build a third party.
By winning at least a million votes, she hopes to "dump the Duke" (meaning Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis). That, she believes, will teach the Democrats a lesson for choosing Sen. Lloyd Bentzen of Texas for vice president candidate instead of Jesse Jackson, according to her campaign literature.
Fulani is a developmental psychologist and director of the Community Clinics of the Institute for Culture Therapy and Research in Harlem.
Fulani is the first woman and the first African-American woman in the country to get on the ballot in 50 states and the District of Columbia. It is the first woman to receive federal matching campaign funds.
Pellettiere is an elementary
The platform for Paul, presidential candidate for the Libertarian party, includes:
school teacher in New York
Legalizing drugs to decrease crime
- Returning to the gold standard
- Ending farm subsidies
- Balancing the federal budget
  - Abolishing agencies such as the Budget Committee and the Environmental Protection Agency. He would also abolish the Environment Act.
- Withdrawing the U.S. military from Western Europe and the Far East
Paul's vice-president running
broker who lives in Las Vegas,
Nev. Marrow, 49, served in
the Alaska House of Representatives
Paul is a pediatrician in Lake Jackson, Texas. He served four terms in the U.S. House of Representation before the Republican party in 1987.
In comparison the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees each received about $46 million in federal matching funds.
Both Paul and Fulani were denied access to the presidential debate on Sept. 25 by the debate's sponsor, the Mission on Presidential Debates.
Paul eventually filmed his answers to all the questions posed to the presidential candidates on Sept. 25, after a hearing at the Capitol. C.S.P.A. broadcast them.
Fulani has taken a more aggressive approach to being denied access to the debates. She file an unrestricted letter to the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. to
Diana Prentice, a member of the Commission's advisory board and a
Grossman said the court agreed the Commission's non-profit status was questionable and agreed to let the matter go to trial. However, the court refused to grant an injunction against the debate because it said it would disrupt the political process. An appeals court agreed on both counts.
block the Sept. 25 debate unless she was included. Grossman said the suit also challenged the Commission's status as a non-profit entity.
"Dr. Fulani fulfilled all the criteria to be a viable part of the debate," Grossman said. It's undemocratic and unfair."
KU communications instructor, said Fulani met some of the Commission's criteria, such as having a national campaign and qualifying for federal funding, but that it would be better to have a realistic chance of winning.
Prentice also said it was impossible to ask everyone who is running for president to debate.
There are 18 people running for president this year, Winger said.
Care to be unaffected by appeal
By Jay A. Cohen Kansan staff writer
Disabled or elderly people who require specialized care and Healthcare Services will not have their services cut off while they formally apply an agency decision.
Fred Markham, a Lawrence resident who receives SRS care, said that on Sept. 24 his SRS case manager told him he had to sign an SRS document outlining his responsibilities under the agreement to cut off the next day. Markham said he was not of any appeal procedures that would delay the cut off.
Markham and supporters protested at the Lawrence SRS office Monday.
Faith Spencer, director for the Topeka and Lawrence area, said that three stages of appeal were available to care recipients.
If the SIBS decision was upheld in the initial hearing, the recipient would be notified and given information about how to appeal further. If the request for an earlier recipients would have to go to district court to continue their appeal.
Markham said he had signed the document but had attached a written protest. He had appealed the requirement that he sign the document, and had received a copy of the SIBs. However, he had not received information about a decision or further appeals.
Spencer said she could not comment on Markham's situation with his permission because of confidentiality rules.
She said the clients' rights and SR'S duties were addressed in the care agreement drawn up when a person entered the program.
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