via http://polidoc.blogspot.com/ Kat Swift, Texan Green, reminds us that “We are the change we seek” in her introductory remarks at the 2008 Green Party National Convention Presidential Candidate Forum in Chicago, IL on Friday, September 11. With Cynthia McKinney taking the nomination, Swift sets her mind on her next race, and it is a race [...]

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Posted by Starchild on LP Radicals Yahoo group. Starchild is an activist with the San Francisco LP. Most prominently, as many of you know, Carol Leigh (aka Scarlet Harlot) was on the Bill O’Reilly show. Unfortunately he did not give her much time to address the issue, as she had to spend most of the [...]

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Green Party press release. WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders said today that antiwar voters will not get an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by voting for presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama on Election Day. Green leaders urged Americans who oppose the wars started by the Bush Administration with bipartisan support in [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News Alabama is almost certain to be the only state with no independent or minor party candidates on the ballot this year, for any federal or state office other than president. On July 18, an independent candidate for Governor of North Dakota began circulating his petition. North Dakota had been the [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News At least ten presidential nominating conventions will be held in August and September: 1. The Peace and Freedom Party meets in Sacramento, California, on August 2-3. 2. The Natural Law Party of Michigan meets on August 9. 3. The Independent Party of Delaware meets on August 16. 4. The Independent/Ecology [...]

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On tonight’s Weekly Filibuster, Libertarian Party political director Sean Haugh revealed that the Libertarian Party of Kentucky is dissociating itself from Sonny Landham. He explained that the LPKY needed to wait until today to find out the ramifications for dissociating itself from Landham for the purpose of getting Barr/Root and LPKY on the ballot, since [...]

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Presumptive Vermont Progressive Party gubernatorial nominee Anthony Pollina announced last week that he would seek election not as the candidate of his party, but rather as an independent. As the Burlington Free Press put it, Pollina is hoping the change in labels will help him reach out to voters who simply can’t stomach what’s often [...]

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The Liberal Party of New York, which lost its 58-year ballot access streak in 2002 when Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo dropped out of the race and endorsed the Democratic Nominee, has a new State Chairman. According to a press release posted on the party’s homepage today, Vice-Chairman and long-time party activist Jack Olchin has acceeded [...]

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From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel comes an article on this past weekend’s Socialist Party USA annual picnic: The picnic, now in its 111th year, drew about 50 people to Kern Park, where the food, of course, was potluck and the entertainment was the two-person band Eric Blowtorch and the Welders. The crowd, many with graying [...]

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Michigan State University’s State News has a story about Green candidate Cynthia McKinney’s bid for the White House, under the pessimistic headline “Green Party Experiences Less Popularity With Recent Elections.” The story says the “nation’s most prominent third party” has nominated the ex-congresswoman, “but it remains to be seen if she will receive enough support [...]

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The Austin American-Statesman interviews Libertarian Party of Texas Chairman Pat Dixon in a generally favorable piece today. The story says the LPT “is not ready to be king, but it expects to be kingmaker — or spoiler, depending upon your point of view — in the state’s most competitive legislative races this fall.” Dixon said, [...]

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North Dakota’s Grand Forks Herald reports independent gubernatorial candidate DuWayne Hendrickson says “his campaign is ‘falling into place.’” Hendrickson and running mate Dana Brandenburg have gathered 150 petition signatures; they need to submit 1,000 by September 5. Brandenburg “was Reform Party candidate for U.S. House in the 2000 primary and got 71 votes in the [...]

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Ingrid Betancourt was the 2002 Green Party candidate for President of Colombia, and a former member of the Colombian House and Senate. She was captured by members of the FARC revolutionaries and held captive for six years, and was recently released. via Polidoc Productions

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Wayne Root on the radio in North Dakota Bismarck — Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root, joined Jim Kusler and Jeff Baranick on Fox Friday Night Live to discuss his pursuit to the White House with running mate Bob Barr. Mr. Root knows he has his work cut out for him running on a [...]

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via Polidoc Productions Polidoc will be releasing more videos this week. Until then, enjoy the soulful song candidate Jesse Johnson put out at the 2008 Green Party National Convention on July 12, 2008 at Chicago’s Symphony Hall. Johnson moved into electoral activism after years of absence from his home state. He was appalled at the [...]

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Posted at LanceBrown.org (click on the link if you want to sign). We the undersigned believe that Sonny Landham should not be endorsed, approved, or supported by the Libertarian Party of Kentucky as a candidate for Senate or any other office. Mr. Landham has proven from his comments that he is not a libertarian, and [...]

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Posted at Last Free Voice by Susan Hogarth The LP’s candidate for governor in NC, Mike Munger, has been formally invited to participate in at least one debate: WSOC-TV the ABC Affiliate and WTVI the Public Broadcast Station in Charlotte, in partnership with the North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg League of Women Voters extend an invitation [...]

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Posted at LFV by ENM Cheryl Miller, the woman around whom the LP’s award-winning medical marijuana television ad was situated, has since passed away. Ron Crickenberger, then the LP’s Political Director, has also died of cancer. Neither of them lived to see medical marijuana legalized across the country, but hopefully some of us will live [...]

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Posted at Cottage Home Grown As the McKinney/Clemente 08 campaign develops we need more and more help. Here are several things the campaign needs assistance on. If you would pass these around to your state lists, and have people interested contact me directly that would be appreciated. Policy writers: people willing to work in teams [...]

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New Baltimore, MI — Boston Tea Party Vice-Chair candidate Todd Andrew Barnett, who’s currently serving as the Boston Tea Party’s Vice-Chairman, condemns the racist, anti-Arab remarks made by Kentuckian Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Sonny Landham. In the days following the racial epiphets first given by Landham to Courier-Journal columnist Joseph Gerth who broke the [...]

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