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Let the people of Alaska decide

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By THE ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has told the legislative Permanent Fund dividend working group that any changes to the annual payout should involve a vote of Alaskans.

“Ninety-nine percent of the work we do in Juneau, the people of Alaska have basically said, ‘You guys do it,’ ‘” Dunleavy told the eight-member panel. “We’re too busy with our lives, we’re too busy with our jobs and that’s your role. But when it comes to something of this magnitude, that’s been around for decades, that impacts virtually every Alaskan, I think it behooves us to really think about engaging the people in a positive manner.”

He is absolutely right. There should be a vote on any changes.

The working group, composed of four members from each of the Legislature’s chambers, is tasked with finding a way forward in the raucous fracas over how the dividend will be calculated and its size this year.

There are two camps: one, adamantly backed by Dunleavy, wants the $65 billion fund’s dividend to be calculated under at 1982 law that would give each Alaskan about $3,000.

The other wants to ignore that law, as has been done for the past three years, and reduce the dividend’s amount to about $1,600, or even $900, to address the state’s budget gap. They would reduce the dividend to political whim.

Read more at:

http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/159989/alaskans-should-decide/

 

Mat-Su Delegation says moving special session illegal

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Mat-Su Delegation says moving special session illegal

With the presiding officers of the House and Senate determined to not bring the second special session of the Legislature to Wasilla, the Mat-Su delegation has called foul, saying that their leadership is now violating the law.

“I find it fascinating that legislative leaders would rather visit a courtroom than visit the Mat-Su,” said Sen. Shelley Hughes, co-chair of the delegation.

The Republican-led Senate, which was considered a fragile majority to begin with, appears to be fracturing over the issue.

Because five months of legislating in Juneau has failed, the Mat-Su delegation wrote in a statement, the governor’s choice of a Wasilla-based special session should be given a chance.

Attempts to deny affordable access to more than a half million Alaskans comes with great risk of litigation, the group wrote.

“Wasilla is a friendly community that’s been busy in recent weeks preparing to welcome the legislature. An unlawful attempt to subvert the legally determined location is beyond troubling,” said Rep. ColleenSullivan-Leonard, delegation co-chair.

“The Constitution requires a 2/3 agreement (40 votes) in a poll of the joint House and Senate for the legislature to call itself back into a special session, and statutes require that same poll to determine the location. The presiding officers had only 39 votes to call the legislature into its own special session in Juneau. The statutes clearly state that when the governor issues the call for a special session, the governor determines the location,” the delegation wrote in a statement.

Gov. Michael Dunleavy called the second special session to Wasilla for July 8. He suggested the Legislature use Wasilla Middle School.

The Legislature convened, as required by law, on Jan. 15, but had not completed its work in the 90 days mandated by statute, or the 121 days mandated by the Constitution.

The Legislature also blew through the 30-day special session, passing an operating budget for the state in the 11th hour, and then awarded itself back-pay per diem for the time spent in Juneau, which was also violating a law it passed in 2018.

[Read: Legislative leadership says ‘no thanks’ to Wasilla special session]

The governor may have called the Legislature into special session in Wasilla, but by law he cannot sue the Legislature. Yet, as the statement from the Mat-Su delegation indicates, someone else may.

Education department will disburse school funds monthly pending lawsuit outcome

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Education department will disburse school funds monthly pending lawsuit outcome
Superintendents in Alaska’s school districts were advised today by the State Department of Education and Early Development that, although the funding for their next school year is hung up in a court challenge, they’ll start receiving monthly payments.
A letter from Commissioner Michael Johnson outlined the plan. He said that with the constitutional question of “forward appropriating” going for judicial review, he will disburse FY 2020 monthly payments on or before the 15th of each month, except the initial July 2019 disbursement.
Holding back the July funds will likely trigger the lawsuit from the Legislature’s leadership, which disagrees with the governor on the constitutional question.
The Department will work to transfer funds as quickly as possible after the Legislature files its lawsuit against the governor, which is expected before July 15, Johnson wrote.
The reason for the expected lawsuit is that the Dunleavy Administration believes it is unconstitutional for the Legislature to appropriate funds a year in advance, when there are no funds to actually dedicate.
The “forward funding” that the Legislature has been doing with the Education budget is unconstitutional because, for the first time, there have been no funds actually set aside for the specific future purpose; it was more of a promise, and that action binds the hands of future legislators and the Executive Branch.
Dunleavy and Attorney General Kevin Clarkson say that the Legislature has not actually funded the coming fiscal year for Education, but the letter from the Education commissioner indicates the Administration is looking for a way to ensure schools have some certainty.
The letter is here:
06.24.19 Superintendents – Letter regarding funding

Legislative leadership declines Wasilla special session

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Legislative leadership declines Wasilla special session

LEGISLATURE TO MEET IN JUNEAU, ANCHORAGE, BUT NOT VALLEY

The Alaska Legislature announced today it will convene in Juneau on July 8 for the second special session, with the majority of meetings to be held in Anchorage.

“For Legislative leaders to try and pull an end run without the proper votes is a personal attack against Mat-Su, and, that is unacceptable,” said Rep. Colleen Sullivan-Leonard, of Wasilla, House District 7.

House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-U-Dillingham, and Senate President Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, released the following statement:

“Funding the 2019 Permanent Fund dividend is critical to Alaskans. However, the long-term issues about the sustainability and future of the Permanent Fund must also be addressed. Unfortunately, the Governor’s special session proclamation restricts discussion solely to the amount of this year’s PFD.

“Importantly, the Governor’s proclamation also fails to include the Fiscal Year 2020 capital budget. If the capital budget is not finalized in July, Alaska’s private sector industries could be devastated by forfeiting nearly $1 billion in federal highway and aviation projects because required state matching dollars were not provided.

“For the reasons outlined, we believe the Legislature should call itself into session. We intend to hold floor sessions in Juneau, the seat of government established in the Alaska Constitution, and hold most committee hearings in the Anchorage Legislative Information Office.

“This approach would save hundreds of thousands of dollars and provide in-person access to Alaskans on the road system, while also utilizing facilities designed for legislative proceedings and providing Alaskans who are unable to attend in person the ability to participate and follow along as lawmakers consider these crucial issues.

“Although we are one vote short of the forty vote threshold to call ourselves into our own special session agenda, the majority of legislators in both bodies considers it our right to determine the location and venue best equipped to conduct business on the Governor’s special session call, while providing the most access to as many Alaskans possible.

“We respectfully urge the Governor to add to his call the capital budget and long-term issues relating to the future of the Permanent Fund.”

Gov. Michael Dunleavy issued this statement:

“Our focus has been on bringing the people and legislature together on the PFD. But instead of convening in Wasilla, legislative leadership is attempting to retreat back to Juneau. This move to negate the special session in Wasilla has no legal basis. A governor is clearly empowered to call a special session in a location of their choosing (AS 24.05.100). The Senate President and Speaker of the House admit they lack the votes to change the venue or call a special session of their own, yet they are committed to thwarting the law and the voice of the Alaskan people. This is all part of why Alaskans have lost trust in their lawmakers. How can we with a straight face expect people to follow the law when the legislative leadership ignores, breaks, and skirts the law at every turn?”

Earlier today, legislators from Wasilla penned a warm welcome to the Legislature to Wasilla. Read that story here:

Wasilla special session is going to cost a bit more

Wasilla special session is going to cost a bit more

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Wasilla special session is going to cost a bit more

BUT SPECIAL SESSION COULD DONE BE CHEAP, IF WORK IS DONE IN FOUR DAYS

Editor’s note: This has been a fast-moving story. The update is at this link, describing the legislative leadership’s decision to decline a special session in Wasilla.

$1.3 million for 60 legislators spending 30 days in Wasilla.

That’s what the Legislative Affairs Agency estimates a 30-day special session will cost, and it compares well enough with previous special sessions, which cost as much as $1.1 million for 30 days. Gov. Michael Dunleavy has called for the special session to convene on July 8 somewhere in Wasilla.

Although the cost does pencil out to $6,666 more per day to have the special session meet at Wasilla Middle School than, say, Juneau, the tab could be a lot smaller if legislators finish the one thing the governor has asked them to do: Fund the Permanent Fund dividend. And that could be done in less than a week.

Many legislators would be able to drive home every night. Anchorage is only 40 minutes away. And for most of special session, only Finance Committee members and leadership would be needed on most days.

The House Republican Minority — 15 of them — are sticking together to keep the special session in Wasilla. They like the chances of the Permanent Fund dividend being fully funded if meetings are held near where people really care about this issue.

Even while the House and Senate Majority are searching for one last vote that would move the session away from the fastest growing area of the state, the Wasilla delegation has thrown out the welcome mat. In a letter to fellow legislators, they wrote today:

“On behalf of the residents of the City of Wasilla and the over 100,000 residents of the entire Mat-Su Borough, it is our pleasure to host the upcoming Special Session in Wasilla. Celebrated as the Valley’s major business center, Wasilla’s diverse businesses will no doubt be able to offer the legislature numerous choices in hotels and lodging, restaurants, transportation, audio/visual assistance, medical services and centralized LEO/EMS services.

“In touring Wasilla Middle School, we saw firsthand that it is ready to accommodate all meetings necessary to conduct state business. In reference to recent discussions about the additional $200,000 cost compared to meeting in Juneau, a Wasilla businessman said it best: “This whole question is ridiculous.The cost overage is a bogeyman, in a state where $200,000 is 3 ten-thousandths of one percent of the state budget.That’s like objecting to spending one dollar and eighty cents out of a household income of sixty grand.”

“Because of Wasilla’s centralized location, many Alaska residents from numerous communities statewide will be able to attend much more affordably than if the special session were held in Juneau. Messages received from across the state clearly indicate that many, many Alaskans are excited to be involved and for their voices to be heard.

“Although a number of Alaskans are frustrated with the challenges our state faces and discussions regarding the PFD, it’s important to point out that the Valley has a proud history of civil and respectful public gatherings, including large legislative town halls.

“Should there be a chance to take a break during the special session, the Mat-Su is the crown jewel of recreational offerings: kayaking at Wasilla Lake, hiking at Hatcher Pass, bike rides along our miles of bike paths or at Government Peak Recreational Area, all within ten miles of Wasilla Middle School. Additional and nearby fishing, boating, and other summertime opportunities are vastly available whether north on the Parks Highway or to the east in the Palmer or Sutton area.”

Not to mention the great restaurant options all over the Mat-Su Valley. Even Rep. Laddie Shaw could find a mountain to climb and para-sail off of.

The Legislative Affairs Agency again expressed concerns about security at Wasilla Middle School, but a group of veterans gathered at a coffee shop in Wasilla this morning suggested that the Palmer Correctional Center is also available for the security-minded legislator.

“They’d be safe there,” one of them offered in jest. “It would be a great location, and the camera system needs to be set up anyway for the influx of criminals that are going to be sent there — as soon as [legislators] get their work done.”

But when it comes to safety, the City of Wasilla has a lot of police per capita — more than Anchorage or Juneau.

Gov. Michael Dunleavy has placed just one item on the special session agenda: Funding for the annual Permanent Fund dividend. That item was separated from the operating budget by the Legislature this year and, with checks expected to go out in September, is still unfunded.

But a special session on this topic could take as little as four days — two days of work in the House, and two in the Senate.

“A bunch of us out here in Wasilla think it’s worth getting legislators together in a place where people are unequivocal on the Permanent Fund dividend,” one old-timer said. Wasilla would definitely be that place.

MRAK Almanac: Bird watchers gather in Anchorage; assemblies tackle taxes

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MRAK Almanac: Bird watchers gather in Anchorage; assemblies tackle taxes

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The MRAK Almanac is your place for political, cultural, and civic events, events where you’ll meet political leaders or, if you are interested in getting to know your state, these are great places to meet conservative- and moderate-leaning Alaskans.

Alaska Fact Book

Question: Which state has the lowest population density?

Answer: Alaska, of course. If the New York City borough of Manhattan had a population density equal to Alaska’s (about 1.3 people per square mile), a grand total of seventeen people would be living on the entire island. Conversely, if Alaska had the same population density of Manhattan over its entire land area of 663,000 square miles, there would be over 44 billion people living in the Last Frontier—around six times the population of earth.

6/24 – 6/28: American Ornithology Society meetings in Anchorage. It’s the 137th annual meeting of American Ornithology. Details here.

6/24: Regular meeting of the Fairbanks City Council at 6:30 pm. There will likely be a crowd turning out to testify on the proposal to remove the mill rate levy from city code, opening the doors for higher property taxes. If passed, this new ordinance will be placed on the local ballot in October. Read the full agenda here.

6/24: The Seward City Council will hold a regular meeting at 7 pm. On tap for this evening is discussion of Seward’s sexual harassment policy as well as a proposal to repeal a city ordinance requiring voter approval to increase the sales tax cap. Read the agenda here.

6/24: Regular meeting of the Seldovia City Council. The council will hear public testimony on proposed changes to the local election ordinances as well as discuss Seldovia’s new paperless initiative. Detailed agenda here.

6/24: Homer City Council regular meeting at 6 pm. The council will be considering citizen comment on their proposed public utilities regulation and rates overhaul. Read the agenda at this link.

6/24: Regular meeting of the Wasilla City Council, starting at 6 pm. The council will hear an update from the Wasilla Airshow committee and discuss further funding for the Veterans Wall of Honor project. Agenda at this link.

6/24: The Alaska Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) will hold a teleconference to discuss marijuana in Alaska. Begins at 3 pm. Call-in details here.

6/24: Regular meeting of the Juneau Borough Assembly starting at 7 pm. Read about ordinances up for public comment here.

6/24: Power of Porn presentation at the BP Center in Anchorage. This workshop will offer personal stories from both men and women whose lives and relationships have been harmed in some way by the pornography industry. Registration required, visit the Facebook link here.

6/25: The City of Ketchikan will host a public forum to solicit comments regarding proposed improvements to the Port of Ketchikan and the city’s tourism industry. 6 pm at the Ted Ferry Civic Center.

6/25: The Wrangell Borough Assembly will hold a regular meeting beginning at 7 pm. Read the full agenda here.

6/25: Regular meeting of the Palmer City Council at 7 pm. Should be an interesting evening, as the council will hear public testimony on proposed term limits for the mayor and council members. What do you think? Find the agenda here.

6/25: Regular meeting of the Sitka Borough Assembly at 6 pm. The assembly will be adopting a final resolution to remove city administrator Keith Brady and will follow by discussing options for hiring an interim. They will also be considering the renewal of the marijuana cultivation license for Northern Lights Indoor Gardens. Find the full agenda at this link.

6/25: Lunch on the Lawn weekly event at the Anchorage Museum. Admission is free and there will be food trucks, live music, and fun activities for all ages. A great chance to get out and enjoy summer in downtown Anchorage. Read more at the Facebook link here.

6/25: The Federal Subsistence Board will hold a public hearing regarding proposed changes to wolf hunting and trapping policies in Unit 2. Among the changes is an increase of the allowed sealing period from 14 days to 30 days. The meeting will take place in Klawock but testimony may also be given via phone. Read more here.

6/25: Fly Tying Clinic at the Wasilla Veterans Center at 7 pm. Put on by Alaska Fly Fishers and Project Healing Waters Alaska. Read more here.

6/25: Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce weekly luncheon at the Carlson Center starting at noon. The guest this week is noted American Cancer Society physician Dr. Mary-Claire King who will be speaking about the genetics and prevention of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Read about it here.

6/25: Alaska Public Media will hold a live broadcast on Pebble Mine at 10 am. This (hopefully) balanced discussion will feature both Pebble CEO Tom Collier and former Alaska state senator and Pebble opponent Rick Halford. The current comment period for the proposed mine ends on July 1. Read more here.

6/25-6/26: Public hearings scheduled for the EPA’s Serious State Implementation Plan (SIP) to address air quality in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. The first hearing is at 6 pm at the Fairbanks Westmark Hotel downtown. Read more about the plan and see the full schedule of hearings here.

6/26: The Alaska Resource Development Council will host their 44th Annual Membership Luncheon at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage at noon. Guests include U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Lands and Minerals Joe Balash and Governor Mike Dunleavy. Details here.

Alaska History Archive:

June 24, 1965: 54 years ago—Benjamin Franklin Heintzleman, the 8th Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1953 to 1957 died in Juneau at the age of 76. Governor Heintzleman was a Yale graduate and moved to southeast Alaska in 1918 where he served as a regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service. First opposed to statehood, the Republican governor had a change of heart and signed the bill establishing the Alaska Constitutional Convention in 1956. After leaving office later that year, Heintzleman remained in Alaska where he served on the University of Alaska Board of Regents and as an advisor to the Alaska Rail and Highway Commission.

June 25, 1897: 122 years ago—the paddlewheel river steamship Alice arrived in the quiet old Russian town of St. Michael in Southwest Alaska carrying 25 miners with over $500,000 dollars in gold. In many ways, this represented the start of what would become the Klondike Gold Rush. After hearing of the money that could be made deep in the Klondike near Dawson, thousands of miners from across America made the journey to Seattle in hopes of hopping on the next vessel headed “North to Alaska”.

Video: Dunleavy testifies about Permanent Fund to legislative committee

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Video: Dunleavy testifies about Permanent Fund to legislative committee

Gov. Michael Dunleavy made an unusual appearance at the Bicameral Working Group, an appointed body of the Legislature  deliberating the past, present, and future of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend.

Dunleavy emphasized that whatever happens to the structure of the Permanent Fund dividend, the people of Alaska deserve to have a say. His administration has advocating allowing Alaskans to vote on whether the dividend should be enshrined in the Alaska Constitution.

The group meets again on Friday, June 28, at 10 a.m.

Check out this video from Red Flag last week

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Check out this video from Red Flag last week

The buzz is about the paint job on this F-16 flying during the Red Flag exercises in Alaska, as the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the Air Force’s 18th Aggressor Squadron goes through its paces at the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, out of Eielson Air Force Base on June 19. JPARC has about 67,000 square miles of air space. The F-16 shows up about a third of the way through this 7-minute video.

Red Flag Alaska will return Aug. 1-16, 2019. Learn more about it here.

Alaska Democrats gear up to run their presidential primary

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Alaska Democrats gear up to run their presidential primary

Alaska Democrats are abandoning the sometimes-unpleasant caucusing system, where people go to a local district gymnasium on a specified day to haggle for their favorite presidential candidate and rotate around the room raising their hands for their presidential picks.

For the first time, the Alaska Democratic Party is moving to the system pioneered by Alaska Republicans, the presidential preference primary, but with upgrades: Democrats will use electronic voting, rather than paper.

And they are not calling it a “Presidential Preference Poll” like the Alaska Republicans call theirs, but instead it will be a “Presidential Preference Party-Run Primary.”

Wordy but accurate.

[Read: Democrats may make dramatic change to their primary process]

A simple way to think of a PPP is that it is caucusing by ballot box in every House district, and it’s run by volunteers, which makes it a bit cumbersome, compared to elections run by the State of Alaska.

In Alaska, such a system of picking presidential candidates is hard enough in towns, but harder still in vast rural areas. It’s Jedi-level volunteer management, not without its hazards. Whether by caucus or PPP, a lot of rural Alaskans don’t have the opportunity to participate in these exercises.

After the voting period closes, the ballots are counted by volunteers at the district level and the results are called into Party Headquarters, which then uses them during the state convention to divvy up delegates going to the national convention.

Ensuring accuracy and instilling confidence in voters that the votes will be counted fairly is a challenge the Democrats will have to figure out. During their last primary process, they lost the confidence of many of their members, after Bernie Sanders voters felt disenfranchised by a system that appeared to pre-pick Hillary Clinton.

[Read: Wikileaks emails show Alaska Democrats fretting about Bernie rebels]

Here’s how the Democrats’ presidential preference primary will operate:

The Democrats are calling it a true primary, complete with electronic voting centers open for four hours on April 4, 2020. This date coincides with Hawaii’s Democrat primary.

Democrats will then gather by House district and elect delegates to the State Convention, which will take place May 15-18 in Fairbanks. That’s where delegates and alternates to the Democratic National Convention will be selected. Those delegates and alternates will be assigned who they must vote for at the Democratic National Convention.

In other words, if Bernie Sanders gets 50 percent of the vote and Joe Biden gets 50 percent, half of the delegates heading to the national convention would be required to vote for either Sanders or Biden.

[Read: the Democrats’ new plan for choosing delegates for the 2020 Democratic National Convention]

The Democratic National Convention is where the actual presidential candidate will be selected by the delegates from around the country. It will be held in Milwaukee Wisconsin from July 13-16, 2020.

Alaska Democrats say that any registered Democrat can participate in the Democrat PPP, and Alaskans can register as Democrats anytime up until April 4, 2020, to be eligible to participate. This had been the same for Republicans when they held their PPPs, but the rules are now that voters must be registered as Republicans 90 days prior to the PPP. It’s a way to grow your party numbers.

April 4, 2020 is a Saturday, a full month after Super Tuesday (March 3). Most of the Democrat candidates will be gone by then, but with electronic voting, the Alaska Democrats will be able to adjust their offerings to the few that remain.The locations that will be announced after Oct. 19, 2019, and voting will take place from 10 am to 2 pm on April 4.

The Democrats’ PPP will occur three days before the Anchorage Municipal Election ballots are due back in for the Assembly seats that will be on the ballot. It is likely the Democrats in Anchorage will use their PPP to assist in the get-out-the-vote effort to elect left-leaning Assembly members in Alaska’s largest city, and may even engage in ballot harvesting practices in conjunction with their PPP.

Why not wait until the Aug. 18 state-run primary? Neither Democrats or Republicans can do that, because the national conventions are July 13 for Democrats and Aug. 24 for Republicans. This is the main reason the parties have run their own preference-primaries and caucuses — they need to get through their district and state conventions and pick their delegates to send to the national convention.

WILL REPUBLICANS HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE POLL?

The Alaska Republican Party will meet in September and decide on whether it will do a PPP for 2020. It has conducted a PPP for the last three contested presidential cycles, and this year, there’s no real contest, so turnout for such an exercise would naturally be low.

Odds are good that Republicans will skip the PPP process this time around and keep their volunteer focus on House, Senate, and the two statewide seats they want to protect: Sen. Dan Sullivan and Congressman Don Young.

DEMOCRATS START THEIR DEBATE SEASON

June 26 and 27: First Democrat Primary debate in Miami, (NBC News, MSNBC, Telemundo), moderated by Savannah Guthrie, Lester Hold, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow, and José Diaz-Balart.

Candidate qualifications: To qualify, Democratic candidates needed to get one percent in three national polls, or raise $65,000 or more from at least 200 donors in at least 20 states. If more than 20 candidates qualified, those with the lowest polling numbers are eliminated.

Qualified: Colorado Senator Michael Bennet; former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; New Jersey Senator Cory Booker; South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former housing secretary Julián Castro of Texas; New York, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio; former Maryland Congressman John Delaney; Hawaii Congressman Tulsi Gabbard; New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand; California Senator Kamala Harris; former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper; Washington Governor Jay Inslee; Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar; former Congressman Texas Beto O’Rourke; Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan; Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders; California Congressman Eric Swalwell; Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren; Marianne Williamson of California; and Andrew Yang of New York.

  • First night: Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan, and Elizabeth Warren.
  • Second night: Michael Bennet, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, Bernie Sanders, Eric Swalwell, Marianne Williamson, and Andrew Yang.

IMPORTANT FUTURE DATES

July 13, 2020, the 48th Democratic National Convention, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Aug. 24, 2020, the 42nd Republican National Convention, Charlotte, North Carolina

July 30-13 : Second round of Democrat debates in Detroit, CNN

Sept. 12-13: Third announced Democrat debates, location TBD, and it will have a higher qualifying threshold. ABC and Univision

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