Introduced
by
To require primary and general election gubernatorial candidates receiving money from the state campaign fund to participate in public debates in Michigan's eight major media markets, which are Marquette, Alpena, Traverse City, Grand Rapids, Flint, Detroit, Lansing and southwest Michigan. If the candidates could not reach agreement on dates, formats, moderators, etc., the Secretary of State would organize the debates. In the debates, each candidate would have to be given an equal opportunity to ask any other candidate a question. The responding candidate would have two minutes to respond and the candidate who asked the question would have one minute to reply to the response. Each candidate would have to be positioned behind a podium.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce
