Jeff Biggers
Posted: October 13, 2010 07:40 AM
HUFFINGTON POST
On the heels of an informative Chicago Tribune editorial board gubernational debate among all five candidates, in an otherwise uninspiring race, the League of Women Voters and the Illinois Broadcasters Associations are pressing ahead with a strangely partisan decision to limit the discussion of an ABC-TV televised debate to only two candidates--Gov. Pat Quinn and State Sen. Bill Brady.
Sure enough, Republican Sen. Brady, received 155,527 votes in his party's primary.
And yet, Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney won twice that number -- over 361,000 votes in 2006 -- establishing the Greens as the state's official third party.
The Illinois League's partisanship is a stark reversal from its national organization's much ballyhooed departure from the presidential debates 20-odd years ago, when the League accused the Democrats and Republicans of "perpetrating a fraud" by limiting such debates. Back in 1988, the League pulled no punches:
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