Open the Debates!

Eli Beckerman, founder of an organization known as “Open the
Debates,” drops by to describe this organization and its attempts
to establish fair and open presidential debates. Eli describes
how the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is NOT a
government-run fair organization. Quite the contrary, it is a
privately run group that operates with extreme bias against
anyone who is not a part of the political duopoly. Open the
Debates is a grassroots, cross-partisan group that advocates for
wrestling the debate stage away from the CPD and opening it up to
all candidates running presidential campaigns across the nation.
Only by having these debates conducted in an open fashion can
ordinary citizens effectively participate in our democracy and
understand the issues and, more importantly, understand what our
presidential candidates really think about the important issues
of the day.


Eli Beckerman is a strategic thinker, organizer, and
communications professional working to open up the U.S. political
system to new ideas, fresh voices, and better choices. After
years of organizing to build the Green Party as a viable
political alternative, he started working with Libertarians,
political independents, and others to create Open the Debates as
a cross-partisan vehicle to transform the political discourse and
political realities of the United States.