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Kimberly Wilder: Proposal to restructure the national Green Party (GP-US)

December 24th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Posted at On The Wilder Side by Kimberly Wilder As some (but not all) readers may know, the national Green Party (GP-US) is experiencing some money problems. Some of it is simply debt from the national convention. But, still, there are discussions about if we have to cut back on spending or rethink how operations [...]

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Green Party’s holiday gift to the Obama Administration: a plan for environmental action

December 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 “First 100 Days: Energy and Environmental Policy” (http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/documents/First_100_Days.pdf) from the Green Party’s Eco Action Committee Green Party leaders today said that Obama has the chance, when he becomes President, to take the lead on curbing global warming. In May, 2008, the [...]

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Angela Wittman, Laurence Vance challenge Chuck Baldwin’s statements about Ron Paul’s sanctity of life Congressional bill

December 24th, 2008 · 140 Comments

From Christian Liberty Party. Excerpt: An Interview with Dr. Laurence Vance, author of “Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State” Angela Wittman: [I]n the article “Lesser of Two Goods,” in reference to Chuck Baldwin’s platform and his plank on abortion you wrote: Like Ron Paul, and unlike John McCain, Chuck Baldwin is [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Right-wing minor parties

Techpresident.com compares 2008 Presidential candidates web presence

December 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Techpresident.com has the following comparisons, some of which include alternative and independent presidential candidates (others not included here do not). The original pages have charts showing how these numbers fluctuated throughout the campaign; go to the link and see “charts”. Not all the same candidates were included on each comparison. Meetup.com members using the site [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party

Libertarian Party: ‘Bailout mania’

December 24th, 2008 · 39 Comments

Posted at http://www.lp.org/bailout-mania. This is the full article, except for the financial appeal at the end of the original piece. Everybody is looking for a handout.  Except, instead of poor workers looking for bread as it was during the Great Depression, we have billion-dollar beggars from Wall Street looking for a way out of bad [...]

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Green Party 2008 VP candidate Rosa Clemente wants to battle Obama for the Hip Hop vote

December 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

From The Green Institute, by way of Green Party Watch: by Rosa A. Clemente “Each generation out of relative obscurity, must discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” Frantz Fanon It has been 45 days since the Hip Hop generation helped usher in the first Black male President of the United States of America. [...]

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New Mexico likely to recognize Green Party

December 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Reported at Ballot Access News: The New Mexico law defining which groups are qualified political parties is one of the muddiest such laws in the nation. However, the New Mexico Secretary of State seems very likely to agree that the Green Party is a qualified party, entitled to its own primary, based on the party’s [...]

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Ruling in battle for control of American Independent Party: new lawsuit needed

December 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Ballot Access Newsreports Here is the decision of the California Superior Court in King v Bowen, handed down tentatively on December 19. The case concerns the identity of the true officers of the American Independent Party of California. Judge Michael Kenny still finds procedural problems in the case, and says the issue of which party [...]

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Tags: Right-wing minor parties

More on the Amicus of 13 States in Brewer v Nader

December 24th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Ballot Access News reports: As noted in yesterday’s blog post, 13 states recently submitted an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that Court to hear Arizona’s appeal in Brewer v Nader. The issues are whether out-of-staters can collect signatures in Arizona, and whether Arizona’s June 4 independent presidential petition deadline is unconstitutional. [...]

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party