SWING VOTE

The Hip-Hop flavored Political Debate Game Show and Cocktail Party

Including a filming by Seattle Channel to be debuted as a TV series

WHERE: Re-Bar, 1114 Howell St, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 233-9873

WHEN: Thursday, May 25th

Doors at 7pm: first episode at 8pm; second episode at 9pm

Featuring

ERICA C. BARNETT, political writer for The Stranger

VS.

JIM MELTON, principal policy analyst, En Passant Institute think tank

& Trial Lawyer TAMMY WILLIAMS as The Referee

Debates suck!  We watch debates and we want blood.  Where’s the blood?  We want a couple of well-spoken pundits, who look like us, live like us, think and talk like us, to throw their opinionated pie holes on stage and say exactly what’s on OUR minds.  And when they inevitably fail, we want to yell at them, or yell FOR them.  Why can’t we yell at debates?  Why can’t we drink at debates? Why can’t we dance at debates? Why is everything so snooty and fakey civil?  The issues that can only be discussed in sober, serious environments aren’t issues at all.  The world is noise.  Nobody watches a debate to have their mind changed.  We want blood - of the pundits, of our neighbors.  And we wanna party.  And we wanna rawk.

Voila!  SWING VOTE!  Two pundits chat up politics in front of a live audience.  It’s a game show that revolutionizes the political debate talk show by infusing it with the competitive game play of sports (including points, logic fouls and referees staffed by real-life trial lawyers to make those calls).  But not only that, the audience gets to yell.  Mix a town hall, a presidential debate, and a boxing match, and you’ll be close to a SWING VOTE show. 

Oh and it’s being taped for broadcast on the Seattle Channel too, as an ongoing series.  So come down, act the fool, and be on TV.

Moderated by Spike Spin (Seattle School’s Mike Min)

Hosted by Guy Whitmore and Ben Houge (Seattle School’s Korby Sears)