CHARLES JAY TO DEBATE BUSH AND KERRY
. . . . . . WELL, SORT OF
PCP candidate will show contrasts in policy, injecting responses into transcript.

On Thursday, September 30, President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry will square off in the first of their presidential debates, at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL.

CHARLES JAY, Presidential candidate of the Personal Choice Party, will engage in a unique exercise designed to offer some perspective on real issues of the 2004 campaign and real solutions to the problems that face the United States.

He will "debate" Bush and Kerry in text form shortly after Thursday's event, making his own responses to the questions posed during the debate, and inserting them into the transcript, as soon as it becomes available.

"The debate format lends itself to such a thing, because it's not as if the candidates are involved in a dialogue with one another, or challenge each other with questions," Jay said. "They will respond to questions asked by others. And those answers come more or less pre-packaged anyway."

Jay asserts that the purpose of this "paper debate" is to demonstrate the contrast between "big politics" and his brand of "anti-politics" that has won him followers in the short time he has been a presidential candidate.

"Over the course of these debates, you'll likely hear Bush and Kerry give you slightly different versions of the same theme - that of big government, restriction of individual rights, and their approval of an unnecessary war in Iraq," he says. "Yes, one's a little more socialist than the other, and one's more self-righteous than the other. But either way, generally it's all about how they're going to exercise more control over the lives of Americans. And what I will offer is the logical, freedom-oriented approach that positions their old, tired policies as something rather foolish, and impractical for 21st-century America."

Jay still hasn't disqualified being present for the debate, which will be held at his alma mater. He is planning to be in Miami on a private business matter on Thursday. Although he'll likely never encounter Bush or Kerry face-to-face, he will get an opportunity to participate in the largest third-party presidential debate of all time on October 15 at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN, when he shares the stage with candidates from the Green, Libertarian, Prohibition, and Socialist Workers parties, among others.

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Charles Jay is the Personal Choice Party's 2004 candidate for President of the United States, on the official ballot in the state of Utah and running a nationwide write-in campaign. For more information about the debate, or the Charles Jay--Marilyn Chambers campaign, please visit the official campaign website.