Alan Augustson has officially announced his candidacy for Democrat and White House Chief of Staff-to-be Rahm Emanuel’s vacant seat in Congress.  A special election will be held on April 7 to determine who will represent Illinois’s fifth congressional district.  Since the Green Party is a ballot qualified party in Illinois, Augustson will only need to [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org
For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org
The hazardous waste disaster is evidence that the US should stop using coal to generate electricity, say Greens
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders strongly criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s [...]

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Video found on the front page of the Green Party national webpage (Gp.org) and at Green Party Watch.

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Posted at GP.org/Cynthia
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January 5, 2009 – Home With My Parents
Last night I got to spend time with my parents and tell them all about what happened. I’ll make a full report to you on next steps when I’ve recovered. Thank you for all the kind messages. I read everything.
It’s clear that [...]

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US Supreme Court Puts Brewer v Nader on January 16 Conference :
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Brewer v Nader at its January 16, 2009 conference. This is the case in which the Arizona Secretary of State hopes to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her appeal, [...]

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Reposted at http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=827
by Froma Harrop
Rasmussen Reports
First come the shady operators, then comes the collapse, then comes the bailout, then come the shady operators. That, too often, is the sad history of financial meltdowns and their cleanups.
The closing days of the Bush administration offer the familiar spectacle of bad actors descending on [...]

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By Mary Starrett
Constitution Party Communications Director
The word “fascism” has been used for decades to deride political ideologies of both the right and left. Fact is, fascism has come to America and we have allowed it to happen.
Back in 1944 economist and author John Flynn pointed out that we have been laying [...]

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ballot-access.org/2009/01/07/deadlines-for-introducing-bills-are-rapidly-approaching/:

Many state legislatures have rigid deadlines for introducing bills. Those deadlines were in December 2008 in Indiana, Iowa, and Oklahoma. A previous post had said that the Indiana deadline was in mid-January, but actually it was on December 15. Therefore, it is already too late to introduce a ballot access improvement [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch
Local candidate for state education post pushes new ideas, better pay for teachers
Price is a professor at National-Louis University where he teaches a variety of education and contemporary policy classes for future teachers and those going back to school for graduate classes.
“For me, it’s public service,” he said. [...]

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Posted by Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch
The Green National Committee is considering a new budget for the national party. This proposed budget calls for a basic budget just over $400,000. The GNC will have to begin voting on this proposed budget on the 9th of this month, with a one week time [...]

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http://www.cittadino.jor.br/green.htm
H/T Ballot Access News
“It appears to be a personal project from an industrious Brazilian Green.”
-Green Ferret in Green Party Watch comments

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch

Madison’s so called “progressive” Mayor Dave Cieslewicz has had his issues with popular Common Councilor Brenda Konkel, and this year he sought to recruit a candidate to run against her. Brenda Konkel is involved with both the Green Party and the local party Progressive Dane. Konkel, who has [...]

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by Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath
http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/is-obama-a-centrist-lp-says-no
In today’s political arena, it’s sometimes hard to tell left from right, and right from left. This makes finding the political “center” that much more difficult. So, is president-elect Barack Obama actually a centrist?
While Obama currently appears to be not as extreme as his campaign rhetoric might have suggested, [...]

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Are Cutting Taxes Really Raising Taxes?
posted by Andrew Davis on Jan 06, 2009 at LP.org
Are cutting taxes really raising taxes? It’s an interesting proposition, and one that economists are discussing in relation to President-Elect Barack Obama’s proposed stimulus plan.  In Obama’s projected $775 billion dollar stimulus plan, up to 40 percent of the (borrowed) money [...]

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