2008 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Bob Barr penned another editorial for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in which he questions the methodology and logic behind the recent bailouts. American International Group has just received its fourth helping of dessert —- another $30 billion of taxpayer money —- in its lengthy visit to the federal bailout trough. AIG’s [...]

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Peter Schiff has become an Internet and Youtube sensation recently because of recent economic conditions supposedly (according to his fans) vindicating his opinions on the state of the economy. This video, called Peter Schiff was Right, has racked up 1.2 million views. There is currently an effort under way by libertarians from California to draft [...]

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Two candidates from nationally organized socialist parties we cover at IPR competed yesterday in Los Angeles’ mayoral election. Carlos Alvarez (IPR coverage here) of the Party for Socialism and Liberation garnered 2,483 votes for 1.08% of the vote. Former Socialist Workers Party presidential nominee and some-time presidential stand-in James Harris (IPR coverage here) took 2,057 [...]

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In the Burlington, Vermont elections a couple of days ago–the Progressive Party made out quite well. Incumbent Progressive Party mayor Bob Kiss was re-elected in the third round of Instant-Runoff Voting. In Ward 2 and Ward 3 respectively, Emma Mulvaney-Stanak and Marrisa Caldwell, both Progressive Party members, won election to the City Council. Marrisa Caldwell was [...]

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Chris Dagget has held top environmental posts under former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, as well as under Presidential Ronald Reagan. He was New Jersey’s Commissioner of Environmental Protection, and has gone on to do significant work in environmental fields. He claims he has become disillusioned with the two major parties and wants to run [...]

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Email from Rocky Eades, posted to IPR by Paulie: The LNC meeting video … It is in three parts. Part 1 covers the Saturday afternoon session and Parts 2 and 3 cover the Sunday morning session. The video is incomplete because of the technical problems we were having with the hotel’s wireless network and may [...]

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It’s like November here at Independent Political Report, with the results from Burlington and Illinois rolling in.  The results from Illinois’ special congressional primary are available at: http://www.chicagoelections.com/dm/general/SummaryReport.pdf At the time of posting this, 404 out of 486 precincts have been counted.  The Green primary results are (so far): Alan Augustson (NOTE:  Augustson dropped out [...]

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Here is a live stream of video from Burlington, Vermont: http://www.7dvt.com/ They are reporting today’s election results from Town Meeting Day.  The mayor and various city council seats were up.  Supposedly, Progressive Bob Kiss has won re-election, but that hasn’t been confirmed by any official results yet.

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Ed Coleman is a City-Councilor for the city of Indianapolis. We recently reported here, that Coleman had left the Republican Party for the Libertarian Party. It seems the Republican, and Democratic, Parties see a threat in Mr. Coleman and have now stripped him of his seniority and committee seats. The following is a press release [...]

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Today is the day for the Green Party in Chicago – the special primary taking place to fill the fifth district congressional seat vacated by current White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel includes four Green candidates. Turnout is expected to be very low, probably not topping ten percent, with only about 4,400 voters taking [...]

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Amongst the third parties or third-party personalities making appearances at CPAC were the Libertarian Party and the New York Conservative Party–both of whom had booths at the event. The Libertarian Party’s booth recieved heavy traffic and always had at least three people sitting behind it. The New York Conservative Party’s booth, on the otherhand, never [...]

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A nationally known political and cultural dissident has decided to run for the mayor of New York City as a Green Party candidate.  He is “Reverend Billy,” whose real name is William C. Talen, and he will need 7,500 signatures to get on the ballot against New York’s incumbent mayor, independent Michael Bloomberg.  Bloomberg himself [...]

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