The Green Party of Connecticut sent out an 11/17/2009 press release to state: “Green Party of Connecticut officials announced today that they would welcome Ralph Nader into the 2010 race for U. S. Senate and think he would have a good chance to win against current Senator Dodd.”

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H/T to d.eris on this one.  The Burlington Free Press reports that there might be yet another progressive third party in Vermont.  Read the full story here. Brush said he didn’t expect the party to run candidates, at least not many in the next election. Rather the party would look over candidates from Vermont’s other [...]

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d.eris writes on Poli-Tea: Arguably, one of the most important strategic questions for independent and third party activists is how to motivate non-voters in future elections. Voter turn-out was quite low, for instance, in the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, where 39% and roughly 45% (according to my calculations) of registered voters cast [...]

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From a blog posting today by the Secretary of the 2008 Libertarian Party Platform Committee (i.e. this reporter): GP+LP fusion won’t send the right electoral signal unless there is a clear national-level statement of our common ground.  There are two good possible starting points for such a statement: 1) the Free Earth Manifesto, and 2) [...]

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Excerpts from a posting today on the Libertarian Party blog: Joe Kennedy, a member of the Libertarian Party, is running to fill the unexpired Senate term of the deceased Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. The special election will be held on January 19, 2010. David Blau, chair of the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts, says, “While [Mr. [...]

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Richard Winger of Ballot Access News corrects a story published in Southern Political Report analyzing party politics in Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election for President.

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Green Party leaders today called the Stupak Amendment in the recently passed US House bill on health care reform a disaster for women’s reproductive rights and a betrayal of the Democrats’ stated support for women’s rights and well-being. Many Greens foresee possible defections from the Democratic Party over the amendment.

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Congressional Quarterly has just released America Votes 28, a book which covers all federal elections, plus gubernatorial elections, occurring in 2008 and 2007. For the first time, this volume has a summary table of the leading minor party and independent presidential candidates that not only shows the vote for each in each state, but the percentage in each state

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The full press release (H/T to Joey Dauben): AUSTIN, TEXAS – November 13, 2009  -   Libertarian Party of Texas (LPT) officials are visiting Dallas, Ft. Worth, Denton, and Frisco this weekend (Nov 14th and 15th) as part of a three-month, 24-city tour through Texas to recruit local candidates and support their county parties in the 2010 elections.  The public and [...]

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On November 17, 2009, there is an election for CA Assembly which has a 50% voting threshold criteria. So, it is virtually certain that there will be a second election on January 12, 2010, with the top vote-getter from each party — Democrat, Republican and Green. The Green Party candidate is Jane Rands, a systems engineer.

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On Friday, November 13, an Assistant Attorney General for Tennessee conducted depositions for seven hours of the former or current state chairs of the Tennessee Libertarian, Constitution, and Green Parties. The depositions were in regards to a ballot access lawsuit. Ballot Access News notes that to a certain extent, the state was trying to gather some sort of evidence that would show that the plaintiff political parties are not substantial, or that they haven’t really tried to use the existing procedures.

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On November 3rd in various towns in Connecticut, several Green Party members were elected to the largely symbolic and partisan office of constable.  One of them, a college student named Cole Stangler, reflects on his victory: Last week, I  became a constable in my Connecticut hometown, representing the Green Party. I ran for constable, a [...]

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In Illinois, in two different races, it appears that the Democratic Party and/or folks associated with the Democratic Party are using maneuvers to knock out Green Party candidates.

Tom Tressler is a Green running for the Cook County Board. He has received a primary challenge from someone associated with a Young Democrats website.

Bill Scheurer is a Green running for Congress. The Democrats have challenged his petitions.

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GPUS Release: WASHINGTON, DC — In the wake of a US House vote passing a Democratic health care bill (HR 3962), Green Party leaders and health care activists are calling for a defeat of the bill, calling it little more than a program to subsidize the insurance industry. Greens are urging supporters of real universal [...]

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Niagara is a town of about 2,000 in northern Wisconsin.  From the Florence Mining News: Former Niagara Mayor Joe Stern said Monday that he is running for the Eighth Congressional District’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Stern said he intends to run as a conservative independent and will challenge the Republican and Democrat [...]

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At Ballot Access News, there are several cases and developments being watched in regards to ballot access and the courts in Pennsylvania. Here are three articles with situations worth watching: 1. Discussion of a new judge on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and a list of past concerns with the court. 2. Nader’s request for a re-hearing concerning the court ordering him to pay money to the people who challenged his petition. 3. An update on a ballot access case, The Constitution Party of Pennsylvania, et al v Cortes. The plaintiffs for the case include the Constitution Party, the Green Party and the Libertarian Party. Richard Winger of Ballot Access News believes that this is an important ballot access case to watch.

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Dear Friend of Liberty, I want you to run for office. You may have already responded to my call to run for office and asked me how to go about it. Don’t take it personally if I’ve failed to respond to any of your questions. I’m getting more and more emails, so the percentage of [...]

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Today Mike Gravel posted a video to Youtube promoting a November 10th money bomb to fund a documentary about The National Initiative for Democracy, a plan for national ballot initiatives.  A few days ago, a kind of teaser trailer was also posted on Mike Gravel’s Youtube channel.  Both are below, along with a transcript from [...]

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On November 6, the Tea Party qualified as a party for the Florida ballot. Florida now has 32 qualified parties.

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From the LP blog. The following Libertarians won their elections on November 3: Karen Richardson was re-elected to the City Council in John’s Creek, Georgia. Roger Fritz was elected Mayor of Roland, Iowa. Bill Lynn was elected as an Alderman in Davenport, Iowa. Nick Taiber got 46% running for City Council in Cedar Falls, Iowa, [...]

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