An article in the Town Times – of Watertown and Oakville, Connecticut – revealed the plans of former Watertown city council member Dick Wick to form a third party. Dissatisfied with the vetting process for city council candidates of both Democrats and Republicans, Mr. Wick decided that he needed to form his own party. And [...]

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Earlier, we reported about the California Green Party’s efforts to fight Prop 8, which they and many others have called prop H 8 (hate). The California Libertarian Party has many members who are also working to overturn this proposition, and the party officially opposed its passage (see the front page of the October issue of [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News On November 13, Alan Keyes and his vice-presidential running mate in California, Reverend Wiley Drake, and other members of the American Independent Party, filed a new lawsuit over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president. Keyes v Bowen, Superior Court, Sacramento, 34-2008-80000096-cu-wm-gds. Unlike other lawsuits about the eligibility of either John [...]

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Posted at VoteMalik.com Contact: Pat LaMarche Malik for U.S. Congress 504.905.5676 Miles Dinnen Thomas Merton Center 412.361.3022 Louisiana Congressional Candidate Honored for Commitment to Humanity Malik Rahim: 2008 Thomas Merton Award Recipient [Pittsburg, Pennsylvania] Thomas Merton, philosopher and noteworthy catholic author and theologian once said, ““We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill [...]

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Posted at Green Party Watch In a post at their website, the Colorado Green Party is promoting the Transpartisan Alliance, which claims to be a way to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians, greens, independents and everyone else together. Transpartisanship acknowledges the validity of truths across a range of political perspectives and seeks to synthesize them into [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon (R-Owasso) recently said that he will again introduce a bill to make it easier for new/minor parties to get on the ballot. It will probably be similar to his 2007 bill, SB 28, which lowered the petition from 5% of the last vote cast to [...]

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Posted at GeorgeDonnelly.com. Read the responses at the link. After the September Libertarian National Committee (LNC) meeting and the resulting hubbub about executive session, I decided to approach LNC members – current and former – to see what their thoughts were on their own use of executive session. I contacted all current LNC members via [...]

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Ballot Access News reports on efforts underway in Texas and Pennsylvania not to make ballot access more reasonable. In Pennsylvania, State House member Eddie Pashinski (D-Wilkes-Barre) has agreed to introduce the Pennsylvania ballot access reform bill in next year’s legislative session. The bill already has a Senate sponsor, Mike Folmer, a Republican. The bill is [...]

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Ralph Nader 697,251 Bob Barr 510,570 Chuck Baldwin 181,796 Cynthia McKinney 152,292 Alan Keyes 41,241 Ron Paul 19,852 Gloria La Riva 7,478 Roger Calero 7,209 Brian Moore 6,566 Richard Duncan 3,703 James Harris 2,618 Charles Jay 2,346 John Joseph Polachek 1,236 Frank McEnulty 781 Jeffrey Wamboldt 770 Thomas Stevens 720 Gene Amondson 639 Jeffrey Boss [...]

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In California’s Newport Beach Daily Pilot, Libertarian Judge Jim Gray praises the idea of a government-funded reward for “anyone who would develop a process or method that would be commercially viable to separate the hydrogen and oxygen elements from water” in order to “furnish cheap and viable energy that would come from an inexhaustible source.” [...]

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A posting at YouDecide2008.com credits Michigan Ninth District U.S. House candidate Jack Kervorkian with a “symbolic win”. Kervorkian’s independent candidacy won 9,047 votes. The posting says in part, “Kevorkian, a former felon with the notorious nickname ‘Doctor of Death,’ was without any Party affiliation or backing, severely limited funds, and without previous political accolades to [...]

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