Malik Rahim has been widely report on by IPR, but his congressional district is not the only one whose election has been delayed to December 6th. Louisiana’s fourth congressional district is in the same position, and two independents are running in that race.
Gerald J. Bowen, Jr is the first one. He is running [...]

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Two Socialist Workers Party members are launching mayoral campaigns in major cities in preparation for looming 2009 municipal elections:
NEW YORK—The Socialist Workers Party here has nominated Dan Fein, a sewing machine operator, as its candidate in the 2009 mayoral race. James Harris, a union meat packer, is the SWP candidate for mayor in Los Angeles. [...]

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Posted at Talk To Tony
If the voters bring me back, I would be honored to serve another term on the Oshkosh Common Council. If there are enough candidates, a primary will be held on February 17, 2009. The general election will be held on April 7th (which also happens to by my older brother Frank’s [...]

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Published at On The Wilder Side:
ELECTION WEEK What you can do to help
The campaign is shifting to high gear. We have placed 800 lawn signs, 260 t-shirts, expanded our radio ads, and the campaign is featured on three digital billboards. Teams have canvassed uptown and downtown neighborhoods in the district. We have print ads in [...]

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The Party for Socialism and Liberation will be holding a “Fight Back” conference at the University of California Los Angeles this weekend, apparently as both a primer for newcomers and an organizational session for stalwarts eager to move forward past the campaign season:
Food and gas prices are skyrocketing worldwide, the environment is being destroyed, and [...]

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Video by Todd Andrew Barnett. Part one is here.

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The Wilders quote an article in the Huffington Post:
Shahid Buttar: Defending Liberty: How to Shift the Center
Elect Malik Rahim to Congress on December 6 (or Donate to His Campaign)
The greatest near-term opportunity for progressives around the country is the December 6 congressional election in New Orleans.
The incumbent, William Jefferson (D-LA), won a run-off against [...]

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David Nalle reports at Blog Critics Magazine:
Chambliss ended up in a runoff largely because of Libertarian candidate Allen Buckley who drew 3.41 percent of the vote, more than enough to push Chambliss from 49.75 percent to well over 50 percent and victory. Chambliss sought support from the Libertarian Party of Georgia in the runoff, [...]

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Posted in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal
By RALPH NADER and TOBY HEAPS
If President Barack Obama wants to stop the descent toward dangerous global climate change, and avoid the trade anarchy that current approaches to this problem will invite, he should take Al Gore’s proposal for a carbon tax and make it global. A tax [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:

The December issue of Ballot Access News reports on 2008 October Registration Totals by political party for those states that have party registration, 21 states do not.
According to this, the Green Party’s registration numbers are at 255,019 (0.25%). This is below the October 2004 numbers (298,701, 0.34%) but [...]

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Posted at LP.org:
Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath calls a plan by the federal government to deploy 20,000 uniformed soldiers inside the United States "further evidence of a disturbing trend of militarism in today’s society."
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Email alert from the Outright Libertarians:
Outright Libertarians:
We need your help. We’re not asking for money, but only for a few minutes of your time.
Please contact your Regional Representative and At-Large Representatives to the Libertarian National Committee, and tell them to cease the LNC’s attacks on Angela Keaton. There is a sample letter
at the end of [...]

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Libertarian Party of Tennessee Resolution (emailed to us by the Treasurer). Georgia also passed a similar resolution, according to Mike Seebeck. Both states are in the LNC region represented by Stewart Flood, who is presenting the charges against Keaton.The other states in the region are Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas.

Adopted December [...]

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