The Militant reports on the Socialist Workers Party’s three candidates in New York City this year: “For mayor: Dan Fein, 64, a veteran trade unionist who works at a garment plant in Brooklyn. For public advocate: Maura DeLuca, 30, a unionist and sewing-machine operator. For Manhattan borough president: Tom Baumann, 23, formerly a meatpacking worker, [...]

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Michigan news website MLive.com reports 2008 Green Party U.S. House candidate Erik Shelley has “posted a series of YouTube videos documenting his repeated and failed attempts to set up a town hall or personal meeting” with Rep. Thaddeus McCotter to discuss health care legislation. Shelley received 5,072 in his 2008 run in Michigan’s 11th District, [...]

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Press release from LPHQ posted at LP.org: President seeks to assure voters by promising health care will be run like the mail WASHINGTON — America’s third largest party Wednesday took aim at comments made by President Barack Obama in a New Hampshire press event Tuesday, in which he took questions from a pre-selected audience. Obama [...]

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On The Wilder Side: Kevin Finnegan Admits No Clear Line Between WFP And DFS In WNYC interview, lawyer who set up secretive company admits “there’s no firewalls” between party and for-profit Kevin Finnegan, the lawyer who set up the secretive company called Data and Field Services which is owned by the Working Families Party, appeared [...]

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Posted by request from Neil Stephenson Resource-Based Economy Caucus formed in the Boston Tea Party. On Wednesday, August 12th 2009 Neil Kiernan Stephenson, a member of the Boston Tea Party’s national committee announced the formation of a new caucus on his blog at Bostontea.us. An excerpt of this post follows: “Due to the recent changes [...]

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Posted by Damon Eris at Poli-Tea: Is there such a thing as the third party and independent blogosphere? A web search for “third party blogosphere” returns less than ten results. Certainly there are innumerable blogs devoted to third party and independent politics across the political spectrum, but taken together they lack the cohesion characteristic of [...]

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David Boaz of Cato, quoted by Steve Newton at Delaware Libertarian. While the article discusses small-l libertarians choosing among the perceived lesser evil among the two largest parties, the clear tendency of both of those parties against freedom on all sets of issues has clear implications for considering other alternatives: Libertarian—or fiscally conservative, socially liberal—voters [...]

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Posted by Richard Winger at Ballot Access News: On August 6, the 9th circuit issued an order setting a briefing schedule for Nader v Cronin, 08-16444. The issue in the case is whether a state may require six times as many signatures for a single independent presidential candidate as it requires for an entire ballot-qualified [...]

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Posted at LP blog By: Austin Petersen A little over two years ago I stood in a crowded nightclub surrounded by screaming New Yorkers watching millions of dollars pour into the campaign coffers of Congressman Ron Paul. It was December 16th, the night of the first real Tea Party. As the deafening crowd roared their [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Wednesday, August 12, 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 Greens: Democrats’ town meetings on health care reform deserve debate and civil protest, not disruption and mob violence • Serving the health insurance lobby, both Republicans [...]

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Previously posted on Green Party Watch and On The Wilder Side:

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In addition to writing for IPR, Brian Holtz is a former state committee member and repeat candidate for public office in California, holds a seat on a town board, and was the prime author/compiler of the current Libertarian Party platform. This first appeared at Libertarian Intelligence. Additional ideas for a St. Louis accord are discussed [...]

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