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 America needs Medicare For All/Single-Payer, not a life-support system for insurance companies and HMOs Whether Obamacare passes or the GOP blocks health care reform, insurance companies will win and American people will lose Attention paid to Obamacare vs. town hall [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com When George W. Bush was President, he greatly advanced the prospect of integrating the United States with a North American Union (NAU). With no thanks to most Christian conservatives or the mainstream news media, hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans rallied against this proposal and–at least temporarily–seriously stymied Bush’s draconian dream. [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Michael McCue, Los Angeles Green and elected member of the Studio City Neighborhood Council, is running for the District 2 seat of the Los Angeles City Council in an upcoming special election. 10 candidates are vying for the seat, which will go to a runoff if no [...]

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see previous comments on this in the comment section on Wayne Root on “FOX & Friends” on FOX News Channel on 9/9/09 Obama Makes Tragic Decision to Start Trade War with China To Appease Unions. Whatever Unions Want, Unions Get from Obama- Even if it Destroys the U.S. Economy. Obama Thinks Lincoln Saved the Union- [...]

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Political Wire reports that a Public Policy Polling survey on the New Jersey gubernatorial race, to be released today, shows independent Chris Daggett “polling in double digits”. Most of Daggett’s supporters “say they voted for Barack Obama last year” and for Democrat Jon Corzine for governor in 2005. UPDATE: The poll shows Daggett at 13 [...]

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The Libertarian Party of Atlanta is calling for Mayor Shirley Franklin to apologize and for police chief Richard Pennington to resign over the controversial raid on popular gay bar “The Eagle.” The LP chapter says the police “acted in a manner that would have been common in a different age.” Read the full article here. [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
Michael Engel, resident of Southampton, former Easthampton elected official, Professor Emeritus of Political Science (Westfield State College), and current business owner, is running as an independent candidate for election to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Massachusetts first district in 2010.

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Cindy Sheehan, third party supporter and former independent congressional candidate, updates her supporters about upcoming events and the “International People’s Declaration of Peace.”

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Draft Van Jones for governor of California is on Facebook. As of the time of this writing it had 228 fans. H/T a comment by Dave Schwab on a previous post.

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From the Times of India: KOLKATA: Environment activist Subhas Dutta’s ambition to set up India’s first ‘Green’ party received a shot in the arm, with high-profile European Green Party (EGP) inviting him to the party headquarters in Brussels to check out the party constitution and get a first-hand knowledge on how it functions. Dutta had [...]

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Posted at Center for a Stateless Society: With apologies to James Goldman: Of course he lies. He always lies. They all lie. It’s 2009 and they’re politicians. The controversy over US Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) and his outburst during President Barack Obama’s speech on health “reform” to a joint session of Congress is two tempests [...]

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AMERICAN MEDICAL MARIJUANA ASSOCIATION 1017 Portola Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 http://www.americanmarijuana.org/ September 12, 2009 Bonnie M. Dumanis San Diego District Attorney 330 W. Broadway, San Diego CA 92101 619-531-4040 FAX: 619-237-1351 Dear District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis, Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about medical marijuana. However they are not entitled to their [...]

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In his column in Pennsylvania’s Norristown Times-Herald, editor Stan Huskey suggests a “Pragmatic Party”. After saying some nice things about the Republicans, Huskey writes, “I still believe we’re all our own keepers and we make the bed we lie in. I still believe government is too intrusive in our lives and should be contracted, not [...]

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A Rasmussen poll reports that the political labels “liberal”, “progressive”, “moderate” and “conservative” all continue dropping in approval with American voters, while the descriptor “like Ronald Reagan” is holding steady in popularity. favorable unfavorable conservative 32% 29% like Ronald Reagan 41% 25% liberal 15% 41% progressive 32% 27% moderate 35% 12% GMU economist and Marginal [...]

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In the Wall Street Journal, CBS News senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield reviews the new book “Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy” by Sidney Milkis. Greenfield writews that of all the presidential campaigns in U.S. history, he would have most liked to cover “the Roosevelt-Wilson-Taft-Debs fight” of 1912. That year, [...]

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Posted at LP Colorado blog by Jaime Brown: We Are Change Colorado attended a CDC meeting held in Denver, Colorado to advise on a vaccination program. They educated everyone at the event on vaccinations and the reality of what we are faced with right now, the Military representative from the pentagon who was there was [...]

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Posted at PeaceAndFreedom.org: The Peace and Freedom Party protests the continuing attacks on public workers, and on the vital services they provide to Californians. We oppose all wage cuts, furloughs, and costly privatization schemes. We urge all public workers to unite against the attacks, and all private-sector workers to unite with them in defense of [...]

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Posted at http://www.moderate-ri.org/, Sept. 3: A lot has been going on in the 2 weeks since we attained party status! We have filed for and received our non-profit status, set up bank accounts, got all set up with the Board of Elections campaign finance division, set up our PayPal account and filed all of our [...]

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Nassau County Democratic Party leader Jay Jacobs will soon be moving to the position of Democratic Party Chair for all of the New York State. Jay Jacobs has hinted that he wants to end the policy of fusion (cross-endorsement) in New York. Richard Winger of Ballot Access News and Ian Wilder of onthewilderside both commented on the situation.

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