THE DC STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org For immediate release: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Contact: Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org DC Statehood Greens urge DC Council to reject Mayor Fenty’s nominee for People’s Counsel, calling her unqualified to challenge Pepco’s rate hike WASHINGTON, DC — DC Statehood Green Party [...]
Entries from December 2009
Statehood Greens to DC Council: Reject Mayor Fenty’s nominee for People’s Counsel, oppose Pepco rate hike
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Green Party
Liberty Point: ‘How serious is the Libertarian Party about being taken seriously?’
December 2nd, 2009 · 8 Comments
Posted by Brian at Liberty Point: That’s a good question, I’m glad you asked. Rhys M. Blavier asks this question in an article on Liberty for All. He concludes with a positive rephrase of the oft cited Ronald Reagan quote. “Government is not the solution. It is the problem — which we must learn to [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Chuck Baldwin: ‘Homeland Security or Homeland Enslavement?’
December 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
by Chuck Baldwin http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com By now, most readers are familiar with the story of how a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, crashed the White House State Dinner last Tuesday evening. President and Mrs. Obama were entertaining Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the first official State Dinner of the new administration. The Salahis were [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Carolyn Marbry Declares for Libertarian National Committee Vice Chair
December 1st, 2009 · 66 Comments
Ontario, California – Libertarian activist Carolyn Marbry today announced that she is a candidate for Libertarian National Committee Vice Chair. “This is such an exciting time to be a Libertarian,” Ms. Marbry said. “The coming decades will bring tremendous opportunities to the party as Americans grow more and more disillusioned with bank bailouts, the flagrant [...]
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Congressional candidate Matt Reichel responds to President Obama’s plans for Afghanistan
December 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments
In an email to supports, Green candidate for Congress in Illinois Matt Reichel writes: President Obama just blew the smoke of war propaganda in America’s face: a public that wanted change has to stomach an increase in the violence of our immoral occupation of Afghanistan. 30,000 more troops are headed that way, bringing our total [...]
Tags: Green Party
Nader in NY and NJ: Dec. 3rd-5th
December 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments
Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States on the Green Party line, and more recently as an independent candidate. Ralph Nader will be speaking in the Bronx, this Thursday, December 3rd and in Princeton and Lincroft, New Jersey on Saturday, December 5th.
Tags: Green Party · Independents
GP 2008 Prez candidate Cynthia McKinney: Shame on press already calling President Obama’s plan an “Exit Strategy”
December 1st, 2009 · 9 Comments
Cynthia McKinney says, “Many in the special interest press are cynically reporting the President’s speech tonight as an ‘Afghanistan exit plan.’…Well, we know the truth, and we will not rest until every drone is stopped and no more bombs are dropped. We will not rest until peace is won.”
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Green Party Calls for Reversal of Obama’s Afghanistan Policy
December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
In a press release, the Green Party calls “on President Obama to reverse his Afghanistan policy” and announces their participation in upcoming anti-war protests.
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Libertarian Curtis Harris gets attention for running ‘against Congress’
December 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments
Libertarian candidate for Congress in Colorado’s second district Curtis Harris got some attention yesterday from the liberal blogosphere for his slogan “Curtis against Congress.” At Daily Kos and ColoradoPols.com, they said it was a contradiction, but it seems to be more of an anti-incumbent and smaller government stance. H/T to Skyler Mckinley, via contact.ipr@gmail.com
Tags: Libertarian Party
Money Into The Working Families Organization Buys Influence Over Ballot Lines For The Working Families Party
December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
About the Working Families Party and the Working Families Organization in NY, City Hall writes: “The Organization’s confidential New York City Coordinating Council Constitution & Rules and a not-for-distribution voting memo obtained by City Hall…lay out a system which directly ties Working Families Party’s endorsements and nominations to the size of unions’ contributions to the Working Families Organization…”
