Posted at On The Wilder Side. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Kimberly Wilder has been a frequent source of Green Party news for IPR. It is with some regret, and many mixed feelings that I am announcing my resignation from the Green Party. Some of the background reasons are a shift in personal focus. Though, [...]

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Email from the campaign. Posted to IPR by Paulie. * The campaign has a manager, Mike Hope. See www.JeffDaiell.com for details on this exciting development. * The campaign named Albert Andis as Strategy Coordinator. * Stephanie Zachry is the Schedule Keeper. * Jeff has campaigned in several counties already. www.JeffDaiell.comhas all the facts. * News [...]

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Kent Williams was a Republican legislator in Tennessee who temporarily allied with the 49 Democratic representatives in the House in order to become speaker and make the Democrats the majority party in the House, despite the fact that there were 50 Republicans elected. In response to this, the Tennessee Republican Party has now expelled Kent [...]

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Former Republican Congressman Rick Lazio and currently Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo probably rarely have the opportunity to share a stage–so it must have been quite a strange site indeed to see the notoriously liberal Cuomo walk on stage immediately after conservative congressman Rick Lazio at the Conservative Party of New York’s annual conference in [...]

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Article posted at California Greening. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. The fact that Sandy Stiassni has joined a long list of people seeking to be appointed to the Irvine Ranch Water District Board of Directors. It seems that a recently (November, 2008) elected member has even more recently resigned and so there is a vacancy [...]

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Thanks to Joey Dauben for sending the news to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Griffin has a youtube channel and supports 9/11 truth. Here are a couple of samples. An article at PoliTex says, What we know so far: he likes Ron Paul and Hugo Chavez and is “extremely angry” about a lot of things including high gas prices, [...]

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Ballot Access News: It is somewhat plausible that the U.S. Supreme Court will put the Arizona ballot access case on its conference of February 27. The case is Brewer v Nader, 08-648. The issues are the early June petition deadline for independent candidates, and the state’s ban on out-of-state circulators. The Court has heard from [...]

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Libertarian Party daily poll: Which Libertarian idea most helps your family? Creating jobs by opening markets and lowering taxes on employers Local control of schools and more choices for parents Income tax relief for payers, and simplifying the tax code Reducing taxes on your children by eliminating wasteful and unconstitutional spending Lowering health care costs [...]

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Posted at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. The US Green Party’s National Committee voted to suspend print publication of its national newspaper “Green Pages”, with the exception of a single issue. Green Pages will continue to be published online, including downloadable versions for local chapters and state parties to [...]

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In an oped in the Sacramento Bee, Steven Hill judges whether or not top two primaries would solve California’s political problems, based on how they’ve done in Washington state. Steven Hill is an analyst for the Center for Voting and Democracy, the director of the Political Reform Program for the New America Foundation, and an [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Marc Montoni. Posted by Paulie. The Libertarian Party of Virginia this week cried “Foul!” over a bill that is now on its way to a vote by the House of Delegates that would make it much more difficult for third party and independent candidates to get on the ballot [...]

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Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party’s 2008 presidential candidate and 2004 vice-presidential candidate, has just published a column concerning whether or not Americans “cherish freedom anymore”. I am often guilty of using the term “freedom-loving Americans.” But I think the question now needs to be asked, Do Americans really cherish freedom anymore? I believe an argument [...]

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On the Prog Blog, the Vermont Progressive Party’s official blog, Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss presents his thoughts on the federal ‘stimulus’ and how it will effect Vermont and Burlington. The federal stimulus – or economic recovery act as it is now termed – has dominated news over the last several weeks. When I was in [...]

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