September 17, 2018

Senate candidate seeks injunction against UMass over debate snub

Shiva Ayyadurai, an entrepreneur who launched a challenge for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s seat as a Republican before switching his party affiliation to independent, is seeking a preliminary injunction against the University of Massachusetts hoping to stop scheduled debates from which he says he is being blocked. Ayyadurai filed a lawsuit last week against UMass, which is co-hosting a debate …

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September 15, 2018

Why are organizers excluding Ayyadurai from U.S. Senate debates?

Why wasn’t independent candidate Shiva Ayyadurai invited to participate in a series of three Massachusetts U.S. Senate debates with Democrat incumbent Elizabeth Warren and Republican Geoff Diehl? We just went through a 3rd Congressional District primary race with 10 Democrat candidates — some of whom never had a chance to win from the very beginning — but they were all …

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September 12, 2018

Ayyadurai files suit against UMass

Independent U.S. Senate Candidate Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts for what his campaign called attempting to rig the debates for the Senate election by keeping him off the debate stage, according a press release from his campaign Wednesday night. The complaint alleges violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States …

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September 6, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai Prepares to Sue University of Massachusetts

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai Prepares to Sue University of Massachusetts

IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren Colludes to Keep Real Indian Off Debate Stage CAMBRIDGE, MA (September 6, 2018) – Attorneys for Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, have served the University of Massachusetts a legal notice asserting that the University has violated Dr. Ayyadurai’s First Amendment rights by excluding him from the debate stage. For months, Dr. Ayyadurai’s campaign attempted to contact …

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August 20, 2018

N.Y. man receives probation in assault case against Senate candidate in Mass.

A New York man arrested last month after he pushed a megaphone into the face of an independent U.S. Senate candidate was sentenced to probation and issued a fine, The Berkshire Eagle reports. Paul Solovay, 74, of Hillsdale, who faced assault and battery and disorderly conduct charges, was ordered on Aug. 16 to complete nine months of probation and a …

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