June 10, 2026
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(excerpt from) PolitickerNJ
Daggett proposes luxury tax on self-funded campaigns
By Matt Friedman
TRENTON — Independent gubernatorial candidate Christopher Daggett wants to institute a “luxury tax” on wealthy self-funding political candidates, a jab at Democratic Gov.
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This was posted at our blog, www.onthewilderside.com. I realized that while the article is specific to Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, some of the themes and strategies might be interesting as a snapshot of independent and third party action in local elections.…
Chuck Baldwin, the 2008 Constitution Party presidential nominee, appeared in Del City, Oklahoma, last week in support of Randy Brogdon, a Republican state senator running for governor in 2010.…
Reason.tv has a seven-minute interview with Libertarian presidential hopeful Wayne Allyn Root. Reason magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch sat down with Root at Freedomfest in July.…
On its website, the Libertarian Party is conducting a poll on possible slogans for the 2010 Libertarian National Convention, to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, May 28-31.…
From Ballot Access News
Former New Mexico Secretary of State Indicted
August 20th, 2009
On August 19, an indictment was made public, charging former New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron with fraud, money laundering, tax fraud, attempts to evade or defeat tax, making/permitting false public vouchers, soliciting/receiving an illegal kickback, offering/paying an illegal kickback, and tampering with evidence.
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Elizabeth Benjamin of Daily Politics reports on all the independent petitions filed on time, in person, for Mayor of New York City. Candidates may file by mail, so there is some chance that more petitions may arrive in the next few days.…
In New York State, the Working Families Party[WFP] is a third party with automatic ballot status. The WFP is among some third parties which have been criticized for using the “fusion” approach a lot, ie: cross-endorsing major party candidates instead of running their own candidates.…
Stewart Alexander, the 2008 Socialist Party USA vice presidential nominee and an activist in California’s Peace and Freedom Party, writes at Bay Area Indymedia that the “leadership within the Peace and Freedom Party wants a measure to support same-sex marriage on the ballot in 2010.”…