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U.S. Senate Nominee for IP-MN faces exclusion from broadcast Senate race debate

Steve Carlson, winner of the statewide primary for the Minnesota Independence Party for 2014, faces an effort to exclude his campaign (but to promote instead DFL'er and television personality Al Franken and rich businessman Mike McFadden) from a debate covered by the 1st Amendment requirements not to stifle political expression during the heat of an election, and by requirements for equal time under federal licensing provisions of broadcasters benefiting from public broadcasting facilities