Richard Winger reports that four Greens have been removed from the November ballot by the State of Illinois. Ballot Access News They are Iain Abernathy in the 8th district, David Kalbfleisch in the 10th district, Robert Hill in the 14th district, and Troy Dennis in the 17th district. The state party’s next step is [...]

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The following is posted at McKinney’s campaign website.
Statement by Cynthia McKinney,
Power to the People Candidate for U.S. President, on the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate in 2008
(statement issued June 9, 2008)
On Saturday, June 7, 2008, Hillary Clinton announced that her 2008 presidential bid is over, making Barack Obama the first-ever [...]

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Media release from Augustson for Congress:
Green Party Congressional Candidate Alan Augustson (IL, CD-05) would consider an offer to run as the party’s Vice Presidential nominee, according to a media release distributed by the Augustson campaign.
In an online reply to the article “The Green Vice President: Indulgent Speculation” published by Green Party Watch, [...]

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Press release from Bob Barr:
Time to Remove Troops from South Korea, Says Bob Barr
Atlanta, GA — Defense Secretary Robert Gates just returned from a trip to South Korea, where he reaffirmed America’s defense commitment, including the presence of nearly 29,000 troops. This is precisely the wrong strategy, according to Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party [...]

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Tomorrow, Independent Political Report turns three weeks old. Since debuting on May 21, we have served over 92,000 pages and had nearly 25,000 unique visits.
Today, our dedicated server locked up for 30 minutes due to excessive traffic. Our hosting service as since increased our number of simultaneous connections to hopefully avoid this problem in the [...]

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Editor’s Note: Although the letter is co-signed by Mr. Austin Wilkes and Ms. Shana Kluck, Ms.Kluck has expressed her intent to stay in the Libertarian Party. Many of the statements in the letter use the singular “I” pronoun, despite it being signed by two individuals.
In an e-mail message addressed to “Dear Alabama Ron Paul Supporters,” [...]

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Socialist Party Vice-Presidential nominee and Peace and Freedom VP hopeful Stewart Alexander published a short article on Bay Area Indymedia today criticizing Congress’s ethanol production targets for 2022 as “direct competition with the food supply.”
After briefly discussing the severity of the food situation in several poor countries and arguing that the Congressional targets “will only [...]

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The Libertarian Party’s Web site has been redesigned and relaunched. We heard promises from Bill Redpath that a new design was in the works during the Chairman’s debate in Denver. Click here to have a look at the freshly redesigned layout.
What’s new?
The site was clearly done or heavily influenced by the folks who [...]

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