Posted to IPR by Paulie Ron Paul’s potential 2012 run is in the Republican Party, however, both Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan have run as alternative party presidential candidates in the past (Ron Paul as a Libertarian in 1988, Pat Buchanan as Reform Party in 2000) and Ron Paul is still heavily involved in alternative [...]
Entries from January 2009
Ron Paul 2012 On MSNBC
January 9th, 2009 · 24 Comments
Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties · Right-wing minor parties
Jake Towne: ‘Cynthia McKinney and the Israeli attacks on the Dignity and USS Liberty’
January 9th, 2009 · 17 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie Posted at LibertyMaven by Jake Towne The recent episode of Cynthia McKinney’s defenseless ship getting rammed by the Israeli Navy reminds me of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty some forty years ago. The story of the men on board the USS Liberty is one that every American should [...]
Tags: Green Party
Ballot Access News roundup
January 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie. Originals posted to Ballot Access News by Richard Winger. U.S. Supreme Court Wants Nader to Respond to Arizona On January 6, the U.S. Supreme Court asked Ralph Nader to respond to Arizona’s request that the Court take the Nader Arizona case. The response is due February 6. The case is [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
Libertarians ‘blog 4 liberty’
January 9th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blog4liberty/ Liberty-lovers: what can we do – right now – to get our point of view in front of the public? Let’s create our own media presence to lead by example and get our message out there. Bloggers, Videographers, LTE-writers, Podcasters, Twitterers and other (social) media people: May I suggest [...]
Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party surveys its poll respondents on their political affiliation
January 9th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie The LP.org daily poll: http://www.lp.org/poll/what-is-your-background-0 What is your background? Libertarian Party member Former Libertarian Party member Non-member libertarian Non-libertarian
Tags: Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party asks supporters to submit videos: ‘Why I’m a Libertarian’
January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Posted to IPR by Paulie Original posted at LP.org by Andrew Davis The Libertarian Party is asking you to submit your video telling us… “Why I’m a Libertarian” This will be a promotional video for the LP and will be shown at CPAC and other major events. The main idea is to show that Libertarians [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party: We’re not going to spend our way to economic recovery
January 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie Press release from the Libertarian Party American’s largest third party is calling plans by the incoming Obama administration a “multibillion-dollar boondoggle.” “We’re not going to spend our way to economic recovery,” says Andrew Davis, a spokesperson for the Libertarian Party. “You can’t even call Obama’s economic plans a gamble because [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Cynthia McKinney update
January 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie From On The Wilder Side I’ll be in DC at the Gaza protest on Saturday, January 10th and in NYC at the Ethical Culture Center on the 13th. I’ll be in Northampton, Massachusetts on [January] 19th, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, with journalist Keith Harmon Snow, the Green – Rainbow Party [...]
Tags: Green Party
Neimackle to blame for Franken win?
January 8th, 2009 · 15 Comments
Over at the ItsOnlyWords blog, they’ve chimed in on the old Franken vs. Coleman discussion and whether third-party candidates spoiled it for one candidate or another. This time, though, Dean Barkley is not the topic of dicussion. Instead, they’ve focused their analysis on James Neimackle, the Constitution Party candidate. Today, however, I chanced upon an [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Green Alan Augustson announces candidacy in Illinois’s 5th congressional district
January 7th, 2009 · 54 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Green Party
Greens blast EPA lack of preparedness in handling TVA plant’s coal ash spill
January 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie 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 — [...]
Tags: Green Party
‘The Grinning Skull: The homicides you didn’t hear about in hurricane Katrina’ featuring an interview with former Green Party Congressional candidate Malik Rahim
January 7th, 2009 · 12 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie Video found on the front page of the Green Party national webpage (Gp.org) and at Green Party Watch.
Tags: Green Party
Cynthia McKinney: back home from the Middle East
January 7th, 2009 · 8 Comments
Posted at GP.org/Cynthia Posted to IPR by Paulie 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 [...]
Tags: Green Party
Ralph Nader updates from Ballot Access News
January 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie 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 [...]
Tags: Independents
Constitution Party: ‘The mortgage thieves return’
January 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie 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 [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Constitution Party: Both major political parties brought police state to America
January 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie 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 [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Ballot Access News: Deadlines for introducing bills are rapidly approaching
January 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Posted to IPR by Paulie 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 [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
Todd Price profiled in Kenosha News
January 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Green Party
Green National Committee considers budget
January 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 frame [...]
Tags: Green Party
Webpage for Green Parties of the World
January 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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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