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 with the Israeli/Palestinian peace movements.
You [...]

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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 [...]

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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 pushing [...]

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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 federal [...]

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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 a role for [...]

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