Former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, and listed on the GOP Straw Poll, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Monday alleging that he is being unfairly excluded from the first debate.
Everson is arguing that election law requires debate organizers to set "pre-established and objective standards" for inclusion, and that Fox News has not met that requirement for Thursday's debate in Cleveland.
Last week the FOX News scrapped the 1% requirement for the early event, with Executive Vice President for News, Michael Clemente, saying it will instead include "all declared candidates whose names are consistently being offered to respondents in major national polls, as recognized by Fox News."
Everson wrote to Fox on Thursday arguing that "By discarding the 1% threshold for participation in the Fox debate you have recognized that polls are not reliable indicators of future electoral success at this early stage of the Republican race. It is inconsistent and arbitrary to then insist that to be included a candidate must be 'consistently being offered to respondents in major national polls, as recognized by Fox News.' I urge you to reconsider this standard."
Everson notes that he is included in an online straw poll that the Republican National Committee has on its website.
CLICK HERE to read the 7 page (PDF) formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission.
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