Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson got a lot of airtime over the weekend – but it wasn't where he wanted to be.
Johnson was a guest on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday morning, a new talk-show that airs early Saturday and Sunday mornings on the left leaning cable network.
But all things considered, Johnson would rather have been in South Carolina, where CBS aired a debate on foreign policy with the usual gang of candidates -meaning without Johnson.
The Libertarian-oriented Republican is weary of being shut out of the debates (he has participated in two, including the one in late September in Orlando), and citing prohibitions against corporate contributions, Johnson is filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that, by arbitrarily choosing who benefited from valuable air time during the broadcast debate and excluding others, CBS was “directly and significantly supporting those candidates it favors, and advocating the nomination of one of their favorites and opposing the nomination of Complainant, whom CBS evidently disfavors.”
This article appears in Nov 10-16, 2011.