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Five-way Green primary to take place in Illinois; twenty six candidates in total

January 19th, 2009 · 33 Comments

In Illinois’ fifth congressional district, over two dozen candidates have filed for the March 3rd primary.  The special primary and special election are being held to replace Rahm Emanuel, who will be moving from the House to the White House.  He will become Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff. The five candidates are Deb Leticia Gordils, [...]

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Ballot Access News: Best showings for state legislatures for the nationally-organized alternative parties

January 19th, 2009 · 20 Comments

Ballot Access News: The only nationally-organized minor parties that had state legislative candidates on the ballot in more than a single state (with their party label on the ballot) are the Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties. At the November 2008 election, the Green Party elected one state legislator in Arkansas, Richard Carroll. Other impressive showings [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party · Libertarian Party

Ramos and Compean’s sentences commuted

January 19th, 2009 · 116 Comments

For several months the Constitution Party has been passing resolutions, sending out email alerts, and publishing editorials concerning imprisoned border patrol agents Ramos and Compean. The Constitution Party’s 2008 Presidential candidate, Chuck Baldwin, also called for a pardon. Today, George Bush commuted Ramos and Compean’s sentences. In his final acts of clemency, President George W. [...]

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Constitution Party of Illinois news

January 19th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Rob DePublic. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Constitution Party of Illinois News Dear Friends, Family & Fellow Constitutionalists, Wow! Wow! Wow! And just in cast you missed it the first three times, WOW!! We have had an awesome week and it’s been a fantastic way to start the new year. Southern [...]

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Green Party of California response to Governor Schwarzenegger’s State of the State Address

January 19th, 2009 · 7 Comments

http://www.cagreens.org/press/pr090115.shtml: Gov. Schwarzenegger should look more at his failed “one-man rule” than even the dysfunctional Legislature – and someone should remind him that people are losing their homes and can’t put food on the table while he refuses to tax the super wealthy, said the Green Party of California today in response to the State-of-the-State [...]

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Libertarian Party daily poll: Do you plan to watch the Obama inauguration?

January 19th, 2009 · 19 Comments

Vote and/or see results at http://www.lp.org/poll/do-you-plan-to-watch-the-inauguration Posted to IPR by Paulie

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Libertarian Party: ‘Say yes to sweatshops’

January 19th, 2009 · 125 Comments

Posted by Andrew Davis at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. "But, sweatshops are evil!" you say. Tell that to the kids collecting plastic out of smoking piles of refuse in the landfills of Cambodia for $.05 a pound. At least in the sweatshops you don’t get run over by garbage trucks. In a nation [...]

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Texas Libertarian Barry Cooper on Alex Jones Wednesday

January 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Emailed by Joey Dauben to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Barry Cooper of NeverGetBusted.com fame will be announcing details of a new media project he’s launching (could be a TV show, could be a radio show) Wednesday on the Alex Jones radio show (Infowars.com), as well as announcing his “probable” intention to run for [...]

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Green Party: Israel-Palestine truce must include end of Israeli occupation and observance of international law or violence is likely to resume

January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Monday, January 19, 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 Mounting Israeli atrocities require immediate US pressure on Israel, say Greens in a challenge to President-elect Obama The key to peace: ensuring democracy, equality, and human [...]

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Richard Winger joins board of Free and Equal Elections Foundation

January 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Posted to IPR by Paulie. The Free and Equal Elections Foundation 407 S. Dearborn, Ste. 1170 Chicago, Illinois 60605 www.freeandequal.org media@freeandequal.org BALLOT ACCESS EXPERT RICHARD WINGER JOINS FREE AND EQUAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Free and Equal Elections Foundation announced today that renowned ballot access crusader Richard Winger has accepted an invitation [...]

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Tags: Independents · Third parties, general

Constitution Party: ‘Military bows to ACLU demand against preaching’

January 19th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Associated Press article reposted at ConstitutionParty.com: Americans entering the military often receive Bibles, courtesy of the Gideons International. But the Gideons have been told that while they can leave complimentary Bibles at most military induction stations, they cannot stay there to proselytize or preach to the recruits. Daniel Trew, public information officer for the Military [...]

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New York Governor donated $25,000 to Working Families Party last year

January 19th, 2009 · 23 Comments

Ballot Access News: According to New York State campaign spending reports, last year Governor David A. Paterson donated $25,000 to the New York State Working Families Party. Posted to IPR by Paulie.

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Tags: Socialist/left parties

Out of state circulator for Ralph Nader sues Idaho

January 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Ballot Access News: On January 16, Donald N. Daien filed a federal lawsuit against the Idaho law that makes it a crime for him to circulate a petition in that state. Daien lives in Arizona. Daien had wanted to volunteer to help Ralph Nader get on the Idaho ballot in 2008, and says he wants [...]

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Tags: Independents

California Libertarian showing for legislature is best in party’s history

January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Ballot Access News: The California Libertarian Party has been on the ballot in all elections starting with 1980. In the November 2008 election, it polled a higher share of the vote for its Assembly candidates (in the districts in which it had Assembly candidates) than ever before in its history. Even though all of the [...]

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First 100 Days: What a Green Party administration would look like

January 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Posted at http://www.gp.org/first100/. Posted to IPR by Paulie. The Green Party has asked Green leaders from all over the US to tell America what a Green President of the United States would do during the ‘First 100 Day’s of his or her administration. Green candidates and members of the Green Party’s Speakers Bureau submitted video [...]

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Billionaires team up to “revamp” the New York Independence Party

January 19th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Tom Golisano is a billionaire businessman from upstate New York who helped found the Independence Party of New York. Michael Bloomberg is a registered independent in the State of New York, a billionaire businessman, and the mayor of New York City. What do these two titans of industry have in common? An apparent desire to [...]

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Tags: Independents · Non-left/right parties