Gregg Jocoy, who writes for both IPR and Green Party Watch, has been “banned for life” after four posts at Sean Hannity’s blog. The Hannity blog linked to Green Party Watch, along with some inaccurate information about the Green Party. Shortly after Mr. Jocoy corrected the misinformation, he was “banned for life.” And not in [...]

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A very strange article on independent presidential candidate Daniel Imperato appears in the Sunday Monitor of Kampala, Uganda, of all places. Writer Andrew Agaba says he met “the unknown candidate running for President of the United States of America” about two weeks ago at Union Station in Washington, D.C., when he asked to borrow Imperato’s [...]

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The AP reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader “made a campaign stop at the Virginia Holocaust Museum” in Richmond om Saturday, where he “encouraged supporters to raise money and gather signatures to gain him a place on Virginia’s ballot in November.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch says “about 80 people” attended the rally.

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Wyoming’s Rapid City Journal reports that all six candidates in the race for Wyoming’s open at-large U.S. House seat took part in a debate on energy policy Thursday. There are four Republicans and one Democrat in the race, as well as Libertarian W. David Herbert, who “said rising energy prices are linked to the weak [...]

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Says Lew: The Minessota Senate race this year was a Weekly Standard dream: Republican neocon incumbent Norm Coleman vs. Democratic neocon challenger Al Franken. The war party couldn’t lose. But now ex-governor and ex-wrester Jesse Ventura may run as an independent. We’ll find out Monday night on the Larry King Show. Coleman is the colorless [...]

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Former Green Party presidential candidate now running for Congress, Alan Augustson, says he couldn’t afford to attend the Green Party’s national convention. Augustson, an economist, lives in Illinois, and the convention is taking place in Chicago. Nevertheless, he says he “put every ounce of energy” he had into this speech, which he says should not [...]

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A representative of the Boston Tea Party filed paperwork with the Flordia Secretary of State yesterday, formally declaring the BTP to be an officially organized party in the Sunshine State. Now the nascent libertarian-alternative party just has to provide a list of 27 presidential electors by August 29 for its presidential candidate Charles Jay to [...]

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If you visit CNN you can push their story about McKinney winning the nomination to an even more prominent position on their website, and maybe even on TV.

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As the Green Party convention moves forward, news from the corporate media is beginning to come in. To find the links just click the title above.

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Let me begin by explaining that I am not in Chicago, so I can’t report news personally. What I can do is provide links to others who are blogging from Chicago. Look under the fold for details.

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Full details at Green Party Watch. Final vote: McKinney 313 of 541 Nader 78.5 Swift 38.5 Mesplay 35 Johnson 32.5 Brown 9 Hawkins 8 Ball 8

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I have just left the Revolution March site at the far end of Constitution Avenue in Washington, near the Capitol builidng where the rally is now taking place. A dozen photos can be found here. Due to other engagements I was unable to stay for the rally itself. As for the march, early estimates are [...]

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The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports this morning that Jesse Ventura “met with advisers on Friday to map out what a quick leap into Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race might look like, although advisers say he still has not made a final decision. That will be revealed on national television Monday night.” Former senator Dean Barkley, a [...]

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With Green Party delegates poised to select a presidential nominee this morning, NewsBlaze runs down the contenders and their standings, saying that “with 419 votes needed to win the nomination, former George Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney leads the delegate race with 304.5 delegates.” Ralph Nader “sits in second place with 139 total delegates” even though he [...]

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The news media summary magazine The Week devotes a page in its current issue to “The Rise of the Libertarians,” saying members of the Libertarian Party “prize individual freedom above all, and believe that government should play the smallest possible role in the economy and in people’s lives.” Libertarians are “all over the map and [...]

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The AP reports Indiana GOP state senator John Waterman will not qualify for the ballot as gubernatorial candidate of “a newly formed Taxpayers Party,” which “would have required him to get more than 32,000 signatures from registered voters by June 30.” The Indianapolis Star reports that Waterman’s camp says it “collected only about 2,250 or [...]

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The Hill reports Louisiana Democratic state representative Michael Jackson, who challenged Democratic Rep. Don Cazayoux for renomination in Louisiana’s Sixth U.S. House District, has qualified to run for the seat as an independent. Jackson, who is black, “took 43 percent of the vote against Cazayoux in the one-third black district.”

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In a lengthy op-ed for Catholic Online, Roman Catholic deacon Keith Fournier, while praising Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama on several points, says he is considering alternative candidates. Fournier writes in part, “I have looked to the third party candidates. So far, I have not found the consistent ethic of life (properly understood), concern [...]

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The Baton Rouge Advocate reports Libertarian Richard Fontanesi has entered the Louisiana U.S. Senate race, saying he “will keep with his party’s principle that ‘government should be protecting our rights, not trying to solve all our problems.’” Fontanesi ran for Senate in 2004 and for the U.S. House in 2006.

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Maryland’s Calvert Recorder profiles U.S. House candidate Darlene Nicholas, who “faces long odds as a virtually unknown Libertarian Party nominee, let alone the fact that she’s running against Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the godfather of Maryland politics.” Nicholas, a program analyst for General Dynamics Information Technology, said, “I’m kind of like David against Goliath, but [...]

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