Sun Publications provides unfair election coverage

The Overland Park Sun Newspaper has repeatedly ignored 3rd party political candidates. We 3rd party candidates are somewhat used to being ignored by mass media, but this is a local paper covering local races. For reasons unkown to me, all Libertarian candidates have been left out of the Sun's coverage. This is despite the fact that we all are serious candidates who are actively campaigning, and will be on the ballot in the general election.

Some recent examples: Page 23A of the 10/19/2006 OP Sun features a FULL PAGE of political candidates. The races featured are for Insurance Commissioner, and State house districts 19, 29, and 48. We have candidates in ALL of these races, yet there is not a single mention of them. Our opponents all had their responses to questions published. Want another? Page 5A of the same paper. All state house races in this area are listed, along with links to a recent candidate forum video. of the 18 races featured, we had candidates in 8. The title of the races list the democrat v the republican, but again, no mention of the Libertarians.

Does the Sun feel that it's not necessary to cover 3rd party candidates? Do they just feel it's not worth the ink, or that worse yet we might "take votes away" from their favorite political candidate? (and believe me, they have them). Well I have news for the Sun. The Democrats and Republicans do NOT OWN the elections. The votes aren't THEIRS to be taken. We are on the ballot, and we should have access to all debates and featured stories regardless of what they think of us.

This is an outrage, and an insult to democracy. Please write the Sun (www.sunpublications.com) and let them know how you feel as I have.