From Mark S. Allen, Founder/President of The Black Leadership Development Institute, BLDI and Chairman of The Voter Restoration Project

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Today, I placed a call to the Chicago offices of The League Of Women Voters in regards to calls I have received and a public comment I read on one of The ChicagNow News blogs, that indicated that The League did not have plans to currently include Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate LeAlan Jones in their scheduling of debate/s for United States Senate Candidates for Illinois. The voters of Illinois went to the polls and provide the votes that formally established The Green Party with the same ballot status as the two major parties. And with regard to their 10% guideline for inclusion being 10% of statewide polling -- a recent NBC poll had Jones at 14%.

I am anxious to get a formal response from what I am now told will come from The State Office of The League Of Women Voters. It will be tremendous insult and disenfrachisement to a Black candidate who played by the rules to gain official ballot status as the two major parties, and got more than 10% in s major media statewide poll, and more than that, the thousands of Illinois voters who voted at the polls to give LeAlan Jones as The Green Party nominee4 for U.S. Senate the same respect as the Democrat and Republican nominees, and should indeed be included in any and all Illinois U.S. Senate debates amongst the major party candidates for the November elections.