The North Carolina Green Party learned today that they face a shorter deadline than they had expected to file paperwork to secure a spot for Cynthia McKinney as a write-in candidate. North Carolina will not count write-in votes for candidates who do not submit a petition signed by 500 registered voters. Until today party leaders [...]

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A new message at votenader.org Why is it important to have Ralph Nader on the ballot in November? Without him, the plight of the Palestinian people will not be an issue in this year’s election. How do we know? Because Obama/McCain stand with the militaristic right wing AIPAC lobby in the United States. Nader/Gonzalez stand [...]

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No, not the sort where spirits are served, except maybe the Spirit of Justice. The bar I am speaking of is the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where former Green US Senate candidate Carl Romanelli is headed. Romanelli says that the people who challenged his petitions to appear on the ballot in 2006 are criminals, recently arrested [...]

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The following is from a (mass) email I just received from Barr deputy campaign manager Shane Cory. I’m in Charleston, West Virginia attempting to get Bob Barr on the ballot. When I arrived early Wednesday morning, I didn’t think it would be possible, but I had to give it a shot. We’re headed toward 48 [...]

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Via Ballot Access News. Condolences to Donna Spring’s family and friends. On July 13, Donna Spring died at the age of 55. She had been one of the Green Party’s longest-serving public officials. She was in her fourth four-year term on the Berkeley, California city council. She had been working for Instant-Runoff Voting in Berkeley [...]

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Anthony Gregory of LRC points out: On the Glenn Beck show, in early June, Barr said, “Global warming is a myth. And yet it`s being used by the environmental folks, by the internationalists. A lot of the pressure is coming from the United Nations and other countries. Some of which, like China, of course, are [...]

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Ballot Access News reports about the ongoing travails of the once-mighty Reform Party. A Reform Party national meeting in Dallas is scheduled to be held, commencing on Friday afternoon (July 18). The meeting was called to resolve the difficult issue of the identity of the national officers of the Reform Party. In early 2007, a [...]

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It would come as little surprise that the candidate of an openly socialist party would find the economic plans of the leading candidates to be lacking. Here it is in his own words: Today, Vice Presidential Candidate Stewart A. Alexander attacked the economic programs of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama and Republican Presidential Candidate John [...]

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Some prominent people endorsing the Green Party ticket:
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Apparently, the love-fest between Al Gore and Bob Barr is not one-sided, as previously assumed. According to The Hill: Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr praised Al Gore on Thursday for his commitment to addressing climate change and said he has met with the former vice president several times to discuss possible solutions. “There obviously is [...]

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Along with Black Eye Pea’s frontman will.i.am, Bob Barr was among the noted celebrities to attend Al Gore’s New Energy Challenge speech. Gore thanked will.i.am for making the trip from California, and praised Barr for his serious attention to the issue of global climate change. After the crowd settled down, it wasn’t long before Gore [...]

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Via Barr Blog. If the Ohio decision stands, it may also help other candidates in the future. Oklahoma is a particularly onerous case of blatant duopolistic ballot exclusion, as many here already know. The Libertarian Party of Ohio won an injunction is US District Court that will allow the Barr/Root ticket on the ballot in [...]

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If that’s what you want, you are in sync with the group Democratize the Debates, another recently started FaceBook site. Their “Basic info” says: Join this group if you want to see all ballot-qualified candidates included in the 2008 presidential debates. We demand that all candidates who are on enough ballot lines to be able [...]

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Founded by DC Statehood Green Party member Pete Perry, a new group has started to organize people ready to take action to stop any attacks on Iraq. Perry is also a member of Greens for Democracy and Independence. Taking the idea of non-violent direct action to it’s logical conclusion, a small (so far) group of [...]

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Chris Cole, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, issued the following statement in response to the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac meltdown and calls from Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians (Bob Barr and the Cato Institute) to bail out the GSEs: “I am a collector of antique American currency. Included in my collection – and my [...]

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In an earlier post I pasted the text of McKinney’s acceptance speech but was told by a reader here that the text I posted was but a portion of the speech. I asked and apparently the more complete text he was referring to is not available in text format at this point. I suppose one [...]

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“The Libertarian Party’s presidential and U.S. Senate candidates won’t be speaking to the screaming crowds at this year’s Fancy Farm political picnic in western Kentucky,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Organizers of the August 2 picnic, “which attracts a typically raucous crowd of several thousand, have denied requests to speak made by Libertarians Bob Barr of [...]

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The Dallas Morning News reports on its website that the Libertarian Party of Texas “raised $81,765.81 in contributions for the first six months of 2008. While that’s an ice cream social for a lot of the big boys, it represents a 50 percent increase for Texas Libertarians over previous years.” LPT Executive Director Wes Benedict [...]

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The Abilene Reporter says minister Floyd Crider, a write-in candidate for the 11th District U.S. House seat in Texas, “will suspend his congressional campaign until 2010 if he hasn’t raised at least $100,000 by July 25, he said. And it ‘ain’t gonna happen,’ Crider said Thursday.” Crider “said he would need $400,000 more before the [...]

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An attorney for West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Director Frank Jezioro argued in U.S. District Court that the state’s Constitution Party cannot sue Jezioro over a ban on politics in state parks, the West Virginia Record reports. State CP leaders Jeff Becker and Denzil Sloan sued Jezioro and several others, “asserting a constitutional right [...]

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