CODA press release 9.23.08 Nashville, TN: The Coalition for October Debate Alternatives (CODA) announced today the Presidential Candidate’s Alternative Debate to take place October 6th, in Nashville, Tennessee. The debate is open to all third party candidates for President in the United States as well as the major party nominees. The debate, which is scheduled [...]

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The Communist Party USA has issued a statement condemning the proposed $700 billion-$1 trillion financial industry bailout as “a plan that gives a blank check to Wall Street with no oversight” devised by the rightwing and the banks. After providing background on the situation, the statement goes on to call on Congress “to slow down [...]

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According to a new Ohio News Organization poll, Ralph Nader is polling very well in Ohio. Among those making less than $20,000 a year, he is at 11%. Whether this means that his message is resonating with the impovershed, young voters making very little money, or both remains unclear. Among independents, Nader is at 10%. [...]

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After being arrested on September 9, and accused of hitting his son, a judge found Kevin Barrett innocent. Barrett is running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 3rd district. The judge told Barrett to continue staying away from his wife, although the restraining orders for his 11- and 13-year-old sons were dropped. Another hearing will be held [...]

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Originally posted at
ChuckBaldwinLive.com
Yesterday, September 22, Congressman Ron Paul publicly gave me his endorsement for the office of President of the United States. In his blog at the Campaign for Liberty web site, he said, “I’m supporting Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate.” (See the complete statement at:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=582)
Obviously, I could not be more delighted and [...]

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Ballot Access News carries the news that
On September 23, U.S. District Court Judge James Brady ruled that Bob Barr should be on the Louisiana ballot, but that co-plaintiff Brian Moore (Socialist Party nominee) should not be on. The case is Libertarian Party et al v Dardenne, 08-cv-582.
Judge Brady differentiated between Barr and Moore by noting [...]

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Jesse Johnson, who ran for the Green Party presidential nomination this year, is running for Governor of West Virginia in November. Johnson was endorsed in his presidential run by former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel. The Mountain Party affiliated with the national Green Party earlier this year. Johnson will be the guest on Green Party Watch [...]

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The 2010 Libertarian Party National Convention will be held in St. Louis, MO, at the Renaissance St. Louis Grand and Suites Hotel, from Friday May 28 to Monday May 31. Monday is a holiday. According to LNC member Michael Colley: The considerations leading to this selection included: 1) a location in the center of the [...]

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The Constitution Party’s presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin and the Vice Presidential nominee Darrell Castle will be on RevolutionBroadcasting.com tonight (9/23/08) at 9PM ET. Once again if IPR readers have any questions for them I will do my best to have them included in the interview.

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Posted at Bob Barr blog The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against us: The Texas Supreme Court, without comment, just denied Libertarian presidential candidate’s Bob Barr attempt to keep the names John McCain and Barack Obama off the state’s November ballot. Mr. Barr, a former GOP congressman from Georgia, had argued in legal briefs that [...]

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The Wall Street Journal has a lengthy story on the impact of Independence Party nominee Dean Barkley in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. The Journal notes Barkley has polled as high as 14% against incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, who “have been waging one of the country’s most aggressive and expensive Senate [...]

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A Suffolk University poll of 600 likely Nevada voters conducted September 17 (+/- 4%) shows independent Ralph Nader drawing two percent in the presidential race, and Libertarian Bob Barr one percent. John McCain led Barack Obama by one-half of a percentage point.

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California’s Ventura County Star reports Libertarian vice presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root drew a “smaller turnout” than he expected at a Sunday rally in Ventura, “with only about 30 people showing up.” Root “brought the same message that he had preached around the country: that the ticket with him and Bob Barr, a former U.S. [...]

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Alaska’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the Alaskan Independence Party has “made little headway in gaining a seat” for U.S. Senate nominee Bob Bird at an upcoming Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce candidate forum. Party chair Lynette Clark asked the Chamber to waive a policy requiring a party to have received “more than 3 percent [...]

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A Washington Times editorial this morning asks, “Who are the independent and Libertarian voters going to vote for in November?” The piece focuses mainly on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s potential to appeal to Libertarians. The Times says that while Libertarian Bob Barr “poses no serious threat” to John McCain or Barack Obama, he [...]

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A Public Policy Polling survey of 1,060 likely North Carolina voters conducted September 17-19 (+/- 3%) shows Libertarian Michael Munger at six percent in the gubernatorial race. Democrat Beverly Perdue is at 44% to Republican Pat McCrory’s 43%.

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Montana’s Billings Gazette profiles Libertarian U.S. House nominee Mike Fellows, who “has run for the state’s at-large U.S. House seat in four of the past five elections. His best showing is the nearly 12,500 votes he garnered in 2004, or about 2.8 percent of those cast.” Fellows said it is “still worth the effort, if [...]

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For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 The financial meltdown requires far-reaching Green solutions, say Green Party leaders • Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney speaks out on the crisis, offers a ten-point plan: http://votetruth08.com/index.php/learn/mckinney-messages • The collapse and bailout of financial institutions expose the lies behind deregulation and the free-market ideology; Greens insist that the [...]

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Presumably in response to Ron Paul’s endorsement of Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin — a reaction to the “Snubgate” fiasco that the LP claims wasn’t a big deal — Libertarian Party spokesman Andrew Davis has posted a blog at LP.org saying that the Constitution Party’s “raison d’etre is to essentially establish a ‘Christian’ nation.” [...]

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A money bomb fundraiser for Chuck Baldwin is scheduled for September 26th. The website is www.buckforchuck.com

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