For those of you seeking an alternative to the predictable Bush/Kerry
snooze-fest tomorrow night, you might want to log on to the Net to watch the
only wide-open, no-holds-barred, unscripted debate happening anywhere in America
(actually, right down the street from the "joint press conference" being held by
the Democrats and Republicans).

On-line coverage will begin at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow on www.freemarketnews.com

Michael Badnarik (L) and David Cobb (G) are confirmed participants in the
"People's Debate".  Michael Peroutka (C) and Ralph Nader (I) have been invited
but have not indicated whether they will be present.  Whether there are two,
three, or four candidates on the stage, there are sure to be substantive
disagreements on policy and probably some face to face exchanges (unlike the
other "debate" where Kerry and Bush are forbidden to address each other
directly).  And the third-party candidates will have to be on their toes ...
unscripted, uncensored questions from the audience will not only be allowed, but
encouraged.

An opening statement will be made by John Anderson, the 1980 Independent
candidate who received six million votes for President.

Please pass this message along to your students, who probably already get most
of their news and political information from the Internet.

Details follow:

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BADNARIK & COBB TO DEBATE IN MIAMI

The Open Format Debate featuring the Libertarian & Green Party candidates will
be a stark contrast to the other Miami "debate"

MIAMI - Michael Badnarik and David Cobb, the presidential candidates from the
Libertarian and Green parties, will take questions from media, students and the
public in an open forum the night of - and just feet from - the first televised
"debate" between the two-party candidates.

The debate will take place on Thursday, September 30, at 5 p.m., at the Holiday
Inn Ballroom, 1350 S. Dixie Highway, in Coral Gables. Pacifica Radio will
interview audience members and debate participants following the two hour
debate. From 9 p.m. until 10:30, the candidates and audience will watch a live
broadcast of the restricted, two-party debate after which Badnarik and Cobb will
offer their rebuttals.

Independent candidate Ralph Nader, who has been invited to participate in the
open format debate, has not yet accepted the invitation.

Unlike the scripted and staged exchange between the two-party candidates which
will take place directly across Dixie Highway from the Holiday Inn Ballroom, the
open format debate will allow for uncensored questions from the public and
students and will represent a wide range of viewpoints on the critical issues
facing our country.

Two non-partisan student organizations, the University of Miami's Council for
Democracy and the Miami-Dade College Student Senate, are sponsoring the
unrestricted, open format debate along with the Center for Voting and Democracy,
a nonprofit, non-partisan Maryland-based organization. John Anderson, the former
Republican congressman and independent presidential candidate who is the chair
of the Center for Voting and Democracy, will present an opening statement prior
to the debate.

Admission to the debate is $5 for students and $10 for the general public.

"This open debate will provide students in South Florida and throughout the
nation an unparalleled opportunity to realize the richness, substance and
diversity of American discourse outside the two-party monopoly," said Edward
Martos, President of the Council for Democracy, a non-partisan student
organization dedicated to raising political awareness.