{"id":2412,"date":"2010-10-12T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T05:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T00:12:28","slug":"green-party-gubernatorial-candidate-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2412\/green-party-gubernatorial-candidate-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2413\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2413\" title=\"laura_wells_arrested\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/10\/laura_wells_arrested.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/10\/laura_wells_arrested.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/10\/laura_wells_arrested-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Party candidate for governor Laura Wells was arrested this evening while attempting to attend a debate between gubernatorial hopefuls Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown. The debate was held at Dominican University in San Rafael. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>October 12, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Green Party candidate for California governor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurawells.org\/\">Laura Wells<\/a>, was arrested this evening and prevented from attending the final debate between gubernatorial hopefuls Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Wells, who possessed a valid ticket for the debate held at Dominican University in San Rafael, was protesting her exclusion from the debate.  She was told she could not attend or participate in the debate because she is a Green Party candidate, according to Wells spokesperson Marnie Glickman.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cRepublicans and Democrats will go to any lengths, even arresting candidates, to keep the truth from California voters,&#8221; Wells said following her release. &#8220;There are solutions, but voters aren\u2019t being allowed to hear from independent candidates.  Meg and Jerry will spend tens of millions of dollars in advertising but still won\u2019t address the problems plaguing us. The debate is a fraud. Limiting it to Whitman and Brown is not just anti-green, it is anti-democratic and anti-republican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wells isn&#8217;t the first third-party candidate to be excluded from election debates.  Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader and his running mate, Matt Gonzalez, were excluded from the 2008 presidential debates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wells has updated her <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120604213955\/http:\/\/www.laurawells.org:80\/blog.html\">blog<\/a>.\u00a0 She says she was arrested &#8220;for allegedly trespassing on private property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real crime is what&#8217;s happening to California,&#8221; Wells added. &#8220;The perpetrators of this crime include the Democratic and Republican parties who keep trading off the governorship, and the Dominican University, for closing the doors to real dialogue and debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M6QxZPkN3MA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M6QxZPkN3MA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><br \/>Amidst the cacophony of insulting chants from both Democratic and Republican protesters, the party that wants to be heard most at the so-called &#8220;green&#8221; debate was the California Green Party, whose candidate, Laura Wells, had been invited but then barred from the debate.<\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Party candidate for California governor, Laura Wells, was arrested this evening and prevented from attending the final debate between gubernatorial hopefuls Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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