Posted by Walter at Green Party Watch: Green Party IL gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will be having a “money bomb” this Wednesday December 9th. Whitney hopes to raise $50,000 from the the day’s donations. There will also be a funraising event that same night at Callihan’s Irish Pub 760 E. Grand Ave. Carbondale, IL at [...]

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Asa Gordon is Chair of the DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force and Executive Director of Douglass Institute for Government. Gordon’s civil suit concerning reform of the Electoral College will have oral arguments in the United States Court of Appeals on January 14, 2010. The lawsuit, Gordon v. Biden, pleas for a Declaratory Judgment by the U.S. court for a proportional allocation of presidential electors in states where there is no “Winner-take-all” rule in the laws of that state. (Ie: some states use a “Winner-take-all rule in giving out their electoral votes, when there is no law or reason for them to do so.) Gordon believes that the federal government should make the Declaratory Judgment in order to comply with the mal-apportionment penalty of the Constitution.

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Surya Yalamanchili, who is only 28 years old, has officially announced an independent bid for Congress in Ohio’s second district, currently held by Republican Jean Schmidt.  He has previously been a contestant on Donald Trump’s show ‘The Apprentice,’ the director of marketing for the website LinkedIn, and a brand manager at Procter & Gamble, among [...]

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The Billings Gazette reports that volunteers have collected roughly half the signatures necessary to put the Constitution Party on the ballot in Wyoming next year . . .

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Via email to contact.ipr@gmail.com: http://www.ridenbaugh.com/ Starrett’s return by Randy Stapilus . “One of the more naturally skillful minor party candidates the Northwest has seen in the last few cycles is Mary Starrett, who ran for governor in 2006 as nominee of the Constitution Party, which takes a conservative view. She was crisp, articulate and highly [...]

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via email: From the desk of Barbara Howe Important lawsuit update! On Monday, November 23, our attorneys filed documents asking the NC Supreme Court to hear our lawsuit against NC’s onerous ballot access laws. Happily, several friendly organizations are planning to file amicus briefs in support of our actions. These fine groups have told our [...]

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Burlington City Councilor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, a Progressive from Ward 2, will be leaving her city council seat on December 15.  She is moving from the ward, so she can no longer represent it.  There will be two Progressives on the Burlington City Council after she leaves.  The mayor of Burlington, Bob Kiss, is also a [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and previously published at On The Wilder Side: At a recent strategic planning retreat in Dublin Georgia, members of the Georgia Green Party’s state committee agreed in principal to make challenging public policies which have created Black Mass Incarceration, a focus of its 2010 candidate recruitment efforts. Bruce Dixon, an incoming member [...]

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via email from LPHQ: Dear Friend of Liberty, Last week we sent a poll asking for your opinions on global warming. If you haven’t already taken it, you can still take the poll here. The poll has proven to be popular. Below is the poll question, responses, and results after one week. Which of the [...]

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A new Rasmussen poll provided respondents with a three way generic ballot test, offering a choice between Democrats, Republicans and a Tea Party candidate.  The generic Tea Party candidate polled second behind the Democrats and ahead of the Republicans.  The poll also found significant support for a third party alternative to the Democrats and Republicans:

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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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Posted at JoeKennedyForSenate.com: WE EXCEEDED OUR GOAL !!! Our original goal was 13,500 signatures / 10,200 validated signatures. Not only did we exceed both goals but we BLEW THEM AWAY! Everyone said it couldn’t be done without companies in our back pocket, significant funds or as part of one of the 2 main parties (which [...]

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via email from George Phillies: The new LNC draft budget, copies of which have been floating across my transom for some time now, proposes that in the coming year the LNC will raise 1.14 million dollars spend $293,000 to raise that 1.14 million dollars have $845,000 left to spend on programs. And what is in [...]

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Meeting about to start. I have a computer and a videocamera, as well as a livestream channel set up to go, but don’t know how to make them work together. Hope to have that figured out later. Taping for now.

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The Michigan Policy Network interviews Stephen Tash, chair of the Detroit Socialist Party, editor of the Michigan Socialist and a member of the SPUSA’s National Committee:

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Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May speaks out against the recent detention of American journalist Amy Goodman at the Canadian border.

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