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Grover Norquist joins Open Debate Coalition

By Lawrence Lessig

As reported in Politico, Grover Norquist has joined the Open Debate Coalition.

"I'm happy to join the Open Debate Coalition in calling for dismantling the Commission or fundamentally reforming it so it is accountable to one constituency only: the public."

This now is the unavoidable goal: "dismantling the Commission." The most astonishing thing about this process has been the totally non-responsive "Commission on Presidential Debates." I could get top people from both campaigns to respond almost immediately to the requests we made. But the Executive Director of the Commission, Janet Brown, didn't have time for even the courtesy of a response to an email.

Enough of that, and enough of them. Join us now in a call that the Commission formally release the debates to the public. Either ping the Executive Director or sign-up at OpenDebateCoalition.org. Join us later to help remake this Commission.

Full post as published by Lessig Blog on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).