Libertarians were overlooked when DCTV invited all candidates to record PSAs last month. The Green Party candidate for Delegate to Congress, Lino Stracuzzi, pointed this out to me this morning (he was invited and recorded a spot, but says he never saw it run when the Democrats' spots ran).
I called DCTV today and had to convince them we are on the ballot, and that it is the same primary in the same day as everyone else. They were nice enough and offered to fix it within an hour of my initial call, though at first they thought I was a crazy person I believe, asked me how to pronounce "libertarian" and what day our primary was on (maybe they thought it was an April Fools prank?). The result is we have been invited to record PSAs three days after everyone else's have been running already. And we only have two days to schedule it. On a weekday afternoon.
Most of our candidates have full time jobs and two have small children. I suspect I may be the only candidate able to do this (and even for me I had planned to meet a plumber that day).
And our two candidates for "shadow" seats, the Statehood Senator and Statehood Representative to Congress, the "offices" the DC government creates to lobby for statehood, may not get to record a PSA. DCTV doesn't seem to do PSAs for these races for ANY party. Which is weird since DCTV is part of the DC government I believe.
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I called DCTV today and had to convince them we are on the ballot, and that it is the same primary in the same day as everyone else. They were nice enough and offered to fix it within an hour of my initial call, though at first they thought I was a crazy person I believe, asked me how to pronounce "libertarian" and what day our primary was on (maybe they thought it was an April Fools prank?). The result is we have been invited to record PSAs three days after everyone else's have been running already. And we only have two days to schedule it. On a weekday afternoon.
Most of our candidates have full time jobs and two have small children. I suspect I may be the only candidate able to do this (and even for me I had planned to meet a plumber that day).
And our two candidates for "shadow" seats, the Statehood Senator and Statehood Representative to Congress, the "offices" the DC government creates to lobby for statehood, may not get to record a PSA. DCTV doesn't seem to do PSAs for these races for ANY party. Which is weird since DCTV is part of the DC government I believe.
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