Peg Luksik is a conservative activist in Pennsylvania who ran for Governor three times in the 90′s, and who is now running against Arlen Specter for the open US Senate seat in Pennsylvania. She ran for Governor in 1990 as a Republican and captured 44%. In 1994 she ran as independent with connections to the [...]

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2008 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Bob Barr has been writing editorials and guest column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the past couple of months, which we’ve covered here, here, and here (and there is much more where that came from). Now Barr is moving up in the world–the Atlanta Journal-Constitution just released information saying that Bob [...]

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Jake Porter was Bob Barr’s Iowa Campaign Coordinator and is a longtime Libertarian Party activist. He recently penned an interesting piece on the successes and failures of Bob Barr’s campaign for President as a Libertarian. Shortly after the Bob Barr 2008 Presidential campaign ended, I received many questions regarding both the successes and failures of [...]

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A press release was posted today on the Libertarian Party website. The Libertarian Party asked today why President Obama signed the $490 billion stimulus bill, which contained around 8,500 earmarks. Here is an excerpt: WASHINGTON – America’s third largest party asked Wednesday why President Obama enacted the $490 billion FY09 omnibus spending and its over [...]

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The Daily News of Richmond, Missouri covers the Modern Whig Party: If Abraham Lincoln were alive today he might find some familiar and welcome company in Missouri. The “Modern Whig” Party has made a revival, and on Lincoln’s 200th birthday party members are trying to make some noise politically much like Lincoln did in his [...]

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According to the Associated Press, Ralph Nader’s group Public Citizen has filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers over issues relating to the border fence along the US-Mexican border.  Public Citizen is suing over the failure of the agencies to provide documents in a [...]

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An Arkansas House committee has rejected two bills introduced by Representative Richard Carroll, the legislature’s only Green Party member, that would increase the exposure of third party and independent candidates in political campaigns. One of the bills would require anyone who has been certified to appear on the ballot to be allowed to participate in [...]

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An article posted on the website of the Party for Socialism and Liberation criticizes today’s Supreme Court decision on the case of Bartlett v. Strickland. The case arose from a lawsuit filed by North Carolina county officials, over a voting district that was drawn over two adjacent counties. An excerpt from the article: The stench [...]

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that the state of Arizona could not require independent candidates to register earlier than major party candidates was upheld yesterday, when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt to overturn that decision.  Here is an excerpt: LOS ANGELES, March 9 /PRNewswire/ — In a significant move for open-election [...]

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Alan Burns, a prominent Charlotte Area and North Carolina Green Party leader, has created a website, Think Global Green. Recently the website added the following information about protests of Duke’s plans to build a coal fired power plant on the North Carolina/South Carolina border. A Call to Conscience: Cliffside Climate Action – April 20. Charlotte [...]

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In a reply to an earlier post at Green Party Watch, contributor Mato Ska commented that the Eco Action committee was undertaking the task of writing a policy proposal on energy. The Green National Committee is currently discussing Proposal 380. This proposal from the EcoActionCommittee addresses an issue closely identified with Ska, protecting water. This [...]

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The Green Party National Committee (GNC) is voting on two proposals. If adopted, Proposal 378 will elect members to the Green House Campaign Committee (GHCC). This committee was created by the GNC by adopting Proposal 346. The committee rules, as adopted by the GNC, would seem to imply that a vacancy must be declared at [...]

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State representative Richard Carroll of North Little Rock, Arkansas – the Green Party’s only state legislator – has introduced legislation in an attempt to make debates for elected office more fair in Arkansas.  The bill, if passed, would require that any site that receives public funding hosting a debate between candidates for public office needs [...]

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By a vote of 62 to 19, with 19 abstentions, the Green National Committee has approved plans to hold this year’s Annual National Meeting at North Carolina Central University. The proposed meeting will take place either on July 23-26 or July 16-19, 2009. According to the proposal, only North Carolina expressed interest in hosting this [...]

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Former Barr-blogger, and Libertarian Party of Georgia member, Jason Pye is reporting that Eric von Haessler of the Regular Guys, a popular Georgia radio program, is considering running for US Senate in 2010 as a Libertarian. h/t to Jason Pye

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The Libertarian Blog is reporting that Mary Ruwart won a book of the year award, an honor bestowed upon Dr. Ruwart by the Freedom Book Club. Dr. Ruwart was one of the leading candidates for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination in 2008, but lost on the final ballot to former Congressman Bob Barr. “Ruwart’s book [...]

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Yesterday, IPR passed 40,000 comments on nearly 3,000 posts since May 2008. IPR still averages over a thousand unique visitors a day, and was up around three thousand back in November. The average visitor generates about three page views. We’ve had over 500,000 visitors and over 1.5 million page views. I (paulie) posted most of [...]

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Dr. Marshall DeRosa, Constitution Party Candidate for the US Senate, Florida, will be speaking on current events that face Floridians in today’s crumbling economy, March 15th from 3:00pm – 5:00pm. Gary Odom, the Constitution Party’s National Field Director said of him, “Currently an FAU Political Science Professor as well as a Constitutional scholar and author, [...]

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The San Francisco Chronicle’ Kenneth Baker recently conducted an interview with Matt Gonzalez, Ralph Nader’s Vice Presidential running mate in 2008. In 2003, former Supervisor Matt Gonzalez narrowly lost the San Francisco mayoral election to Gavin Newsom. He has moved on, but many of his supporters apparently have not, still referring to him affectionately – [...]

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Our friends over at GreenPartyWatch are reporting that Matt Reichel has won the Green Party primary in Illinois’ Congressional 5th District, by a mere 11 votes, with 99% reporting. However, Deb Gordils is still within striking distance with a couple dozen votes left to count. According to the Chicago Tribune, with 571 of 578 precincts [...]

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