Executive Editor Glen Ford writes at Black Agenda Report about the the McKinney / Clemente ticket. In a column titled “McKinney & Clemente: Black, Brown, Green and True”, Ford writes:
The Green Party’s brand new Cynthia McKinney-Rosa Clemente ticket is off and running, having captured an overwhelming proportion of delegates at the national convention, in [...]
Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report covers McKinney
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Green Party
Newsweek interviews McKinney
July 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In an online interview with the newly minted Green Party presidential nominee, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is called a “firebrand politician” who “may have found the perfect political home.”
From this writer’s perspective McKinney shows the endearing qualities that make her a match for the Green Party. Here are but two examples.
NW There are quite a [...]
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Sponheim seeks presidency as write-in candidate
July 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
David Jon Sponheim of Washington State is running as a write-in presidential candidate as the representative of America’s Third Party, formerly called the Cool Rock Party. He has posted several YouTube videos promoting his candidacy, which focuses mainly on energy and environmental issues. Sponheim points out that if all qualified non-voters chose to [...]
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Nader congratulates McKinney on winning Green nomination
July 16th, 2008 · 12 Comments
The Hartford Courant reports on its website that Ralph Nader “issued a congratulatory welcome to the new Green Party candidate who will surely be speaking to the same type of voters that would be drawn to the independent Nader. On the news that Cynthia McKinney was selected as the Green candidate, Nader wished her [...]
Tags: Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party
Barr to sue for Oklahoma ballot access
July 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Libertarian Bob Barr’s presidential campaign is preparing to sue for ballot access in Oklahoma, the Tulsa World reports. Speaking in Oklahoma city on Tuesday, Barr said his campaign “is ‘on track’ to appear on the ballot in 49 other states, plus the District of Columbia. ‘America deserves better than simply voting for the [...]
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PSL completes Iowa petitioning effort
July 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Party for Socialism and Liberation has completed its petitiong in Iowa, collecting over 1,900 signatures in a state that requires 1,500. According to the latest release on the matter, petitioners recieved generally positive response during their drive:
Members of the Chicago branch of the PSL made weekend trips to Iowa City, Des Moines, Waterloo [...]
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Joy Waymire planning 2012 presidential run
July 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Joy Waymire, a California Libertarian activist and chair of the recently created Boston Tea Party of California, is preparing a 2012 run for the presidency. She has created a
Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties
Charles Jay concurs with LP, disagrees with Barr: ‘Let Fannie/Freddie fail’
July 16th, 2008 · 14 Comments
Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Charles Jay offers a different take on the Fannie/Freddie mess than the LP’s Bob Barr — who says the government “has to do something” to bail out the two floundering GSEs that effectively socialize risk while privatizing profit. In general agreement with a press release put out earlier by the [...]
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Communist Party editorial addresses election 2008
July 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The Communist Party USA has published an editorial today outlining its perspective on this year’s presidential election. Much like 2004’s position paper (published in clarification of a forgery distributed by opponents of John Kerry), Eye on the Prize stresses removing the “ultra-right” from power, and lavishes praise on the nature of the Obama campaign [...]
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