Independent candidate for Congress sent the following email to contact.ipr@gmail.com: My name is Larry Bill from Jackson, Missouri.   I am running for Congress in 2010 from the 8th District which encompasses 28 counties in southeast Missouri.   Because I am an independent, the Missouri Secretary of State requires me to get 5,667 signatures of registered voters [...]

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The following are some recent news items concerning Green Parties from around the world: Australian Green Party helps to defeat climate bill in Australia that is seen by them as too weak.  It would have required a 25% cut of emissions below 2000 levels by 2020, although “carbon credits,” aka offsets, would have been counted [...]

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In an opinion piece for Connecticut’s Norwich Bulletin, columnist Ray Hackett discusses the prospects for third party candidates in general and Green Party candidates in particular in the 2010 elections: 

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The Harvard Law Record published an article by Theresa Amato about the need for ballot access reform. The article also refers to (and shows) a 1958 article co-written by Ralph Nader on the same topic. Theresa Amato is a public interest lawyer, former Nader national campaign manager, and the author of Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny published this year by The New Press.

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