ACTION PAGE: DON'T LET NY1 SHUT JONATHAN TASINI OUT OF THE NY1 DEBATES Many of you are calling for information on how to contact NY1 to protest their censorship of political debate. NY1 has declared Jonathan Tasini ineligible to participate in their debate series at Pace University because they say he does not meet their "threshold" of $500,000 in campaign funds either raised or spent. He does meet their other criteria, polling at 5% or better. Tasini was at 13% in the most recent Marist poll. Most importantly, he was the only other Democrat to qualify directly for the ballot, gathering 40,000 nominating petitions signatures, far more than the 15,000 required. Tonight NY1, the main all-news cable station in New York City, which is owned by media giant Time Warner, is sponsoring a debate between the Republican Senate primary candidates. It appears NY1 set an arbitrary dollar cutoff, that would allow the Republican candidates to both debate, but would shut out Mr. Tasini. No Democratic Senate primary debate is scheduled. August 22nd is their U.S. Senate Candidates Town Hall Meeting. Jonathan is not invited. Please call NY1 today and demand that the media power-brokers stop censoring political debate. Any candidate who has qualified for the ballot should be allowed into the debates. You might let them know that if they do not correct this injustice you will proceed with a further complaint to the New York State Public Service Commission. NY1 is NOT acting in the public interest by disregarding a duly qualified candidate, Jonathan Tasini. Please submit this form and follow up by calling Robert Hardt, Director of Politics, NY1, 212-379-3330. You should ALSO call Howard Szarfarc, president of Time-Warner Cable of NY and NJ. His phone number is 212-598-7396 and his fax number is 212-420-4803. The one click form below will send your personal message to all the recipients selected below, with the subject "Hold A Debate Between Jonathan Tasini and Hillary Clinton on NY1." At the same time you can send your personal comments only as a letter to the editor of your nearest local daily newspaper if you like. Constituent info:    Email: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr. First: Last: This information is required by all members of Congress and by most local newspapers for consideration for publication, but is not transmitted in messages sent to any additional "friends" emails. Address: Apt/Ste: City: State: AL AK AS AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA GU HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA VI WA WV WI WY Zip: Phone: Select your recipients:  robert.hardt@ny1news.com  My nearest daily newspaper    I'd like to choose   No paper Next add your own personal message on the subject: All comments should be appropriately respectful and in acceptable taste. If one of your recipients is also a newspaper there is a minimum of 10 and a maximum of about 250 words. Your signature will be added automatically. Submission of this form constitutes authorization to publish your letter in your local newspaper if that option is selected above. View last 25 messages sent Submit the email addresses of friends to invite to write as well: The way to have maximum impact is by sending speak out invitations to as many of your fellow constituents as possible and encourage them to make their voices heard also. [this textbox will extract the email addresses from any text you paste or type in here] I would like to hear more about this and other issues. Now send your message(s)   Just click once If you need help with the form or for a simplified version of this action page click here.