[Lnc-business] Ackerman back on the radio today

[Joshua Katz]

Ackerman will again appear on Smerconish this morning (actually, he's
probably already started, since he was supposed to be appearing in the
first hour).  His topic is Michael Bloomberg and getting a third candidate
onto the debate stage.

It seems he'll be repeating his flawed premise that the American people are
dying for a "moderate" (are salt bans moderate?  are his views on guns
somehow "in the middle"?) and that the solution to the duopoly is a
moderate he can take credit for inserting into the debates.

Smerconish, for his part, will nod along and agree, and claim that the high
percentage of voters not registered as R or D "proves" this claim, ignoring
the states that don't have partisan registration, the fact that many of
those candidates are registered in parties in with their own beliefs (such
as us, of course), not "moderates," that third parties and independents are
not the same thing, and that there is no principled reason to read all
opposition to Rs and Ds as support for a corrupt billionaire who banned
salt and large soda, and who used his position as Mayor of a small city to
attempt to bully several states into changing their gun laws.

Why do I suspect Bloomberg would win Ackerman's "primary debate" proposal -
which involves a series of candidates being voted "off the island,"
Survivor style (and run by the guy who ran Survivor), until only one makes
it to the real stage?

Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)
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