Illinois bill HB 723 would restrict the ability of parties to fill vacancies after primaries. Richard Winger, a ballot access expert, believes the bill would be especially hurtful to the Green Party in that state.

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Poll is here. Options: The market plunging every time Obama announces higher taxes Keeping 50,000 troops in Iraq and expanding the war in Afghanistan Breaking his promise to end earmarks Working with Republicans to expand government Economic research showing Obama’s spending plan prolongs the recession and eliminates jobs Results at the time of this posting: [...]

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Green Party vice-presidential candidate and candidate for governor in Maine Pat LaMarche has a weekly column in the Bangor Daily News.  This was recently brought to my attention and here are a few of her columns: Imagine Darwin on Talk Radio, from February 10, discusses how Darwin and his contemporaries put our present-day discourse to [...]

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Green Party Watch is reporting that candidate recruitment for the, you guessed it, Green Party in 2009 has doubled. In past off-years, the number of candidates running for office has been significantly less. Here’s an excerpt: As of March 11, 2009 the Green Party has 98 candidates so far for office in 2009. Most of [...]

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Posted by Wes Benedict at his blog and emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. This is not just another one of my Mr. Way Too Proud of Texas articles gloating about how well the Libertarian Party of Texas did under my service as Executive Director from 2004 to 2008. When you feel like [...]

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In the 20th District race for Congress in New York, Libertarian Eric Sundwall has filed his petitions, is on the ballot, and is polling at 1%.

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