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Entries from December 2009

PA DA indicts four more state employees for using public resources on campaigns

December 19th, 2009 · 9 Comments

The Pennsylvania Attorney General indicted four more Pennsylvania public employees or officials for using public resources to help on election campaigns. These indictments are in addition to others announced earlier this year and are connected to the work done on petition challenges to the Green Party statewide petition in 2006, and the Ralph Nader petition in 2004.

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Tags: Green Party

Chicago Tribune gives Green gubernatorial candidate equal voice

December 19th, 2009 · 13 Comments

In two recent articles about Illinois gubernatorial candidates’ opinions on major issues, the Chicago Tribune gave Green Party candidate Rich Whitney an equal opportunity to voice his opinion as all of the major party candidates.  Rather than a single feature article or no mention at all, the Tribune has decided, in a praiseworthy and rare [...]

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Green Party issues press release to support Libertarian Joe Kennedy’s right to debate

December 19th, 2009 · 60 Comments

The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts issued a press release saying that Libertarian candidate Joe Kennedy should be allowed into the Senate debates. In addition, the press release reviews the exclusion from debates of 2002 Green Party Governor candidate Jill Stein, and commentary on the Boston Globe’s attitude towards third parties.

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Tags: Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party · Third parties, general

More Joe Kennedy news coverage: Needham Times, Sun Chronicle

December 18th, 2009 · 21 Comments

Joe Kennedy’s website: http://joekennedyforsenate.com/ Previous IPR coverage: Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Joseph Kennedy agree to series of debates in race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat Rich Rubino at Politics DMZ: ‘Yes, Joe Kennedy can win the Massachusetts U.S. Senate Race’ Boston Globe: ‘This Kennedy wants to cut government’ Earlier Coverage John Hilliard in The Needham [...]

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party

Libertarian State Leadership Alliance Conference in Austin, Texas, February 2010

December 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Posted by state chair Mark Bodenhausen to the Libertarian Party of Alabama Executive Committee Yahoo group (closed list). Hello all, The LSLA website is ready to take your reservations. http://statechairsconference.org/ Note that we have 2 workshop tracks this year: a Leadership Track, and an IT Track. Who should attend the LSLA Conference? – all curent [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Wayne Root guest-hosting Liddy radio show, guests to include Gary Johnson

December 18th, 2009 · 230 Comments

Email from Wayne Root: Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee and best-selling author, as well as a regular guest on FOX News and FOX Business, is guest hosting the G. Gordon Liddy Show nationwide next Wednesday 12/23/09 and Thursday 12/24/09 from 10 AM EST to 1 PM EST. The show is nationally syndicated [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Boston Globe: ‘This Kennedy wants to cut government’

December 18th, 2009 · 22 Comments

h/t http://www.kennedyseat.com/ Joe Kennedy’s website: http://joekennedyforsenate.com/ Previous IPR coverage: Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Joseph Kennedy agree to series of debates in race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat Rich Rubino at Politics DMZ: ‘Yes, Joe Kennedy can win the Massachusetts U.S. Senate Race’ Earlier Coverage Matt Viser has a two page article about Joe Kennedy in [...]

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party

Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Joseph Kennedy agree to series of debates in race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat

December 18th, 2009 · 22 Comments

Posted by Dan Ring at MassLive.com: BOSTON – The two major party candidates for U.S. Senate will share the stage with the independent hopeful in a series of debates, including one in Springfield early next month. Attorney General Martha M. Coakley, 56, the Democrat, insisted that independent candidate Joseph L. Kennedy, of Dedham, be included [...]

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party

Rich Rubino at Politics DMZ: ‘Yes, Joe Kennedy can win the Massachusetts U.S. Senate Race’

December 18th, 2009 · 14 Comments

By way of Ballot Access News Archive of previous IPR coverage of Joe Kennedy JoeKennedyForSenate.com Rich Rubino writes at Politics DMZ: In the special U.S. Senate race to succeed the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, there are three viable candidates with a chance to win. While much of the focus is on Republican Scott Brown [...]

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party

Alan Keyes: ‘Why the elite wants Christianity out of politics’

December 18th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Posted by Alan Keyes at loyaltoliberty.blogspot.com: As I wrote my most recent article for WND.com (the subject of my previous posting) I found myself thinking about Christianity’s unique effect on our understanding of the justice (and injustice) of human action. The last point made in the article is about the connection between arrogant elitism and [...]

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Tags: Right-wing minor parties

Conservative Party of New York: ‘Petition to Free the SEALs’

December 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Posted at CPNYS.org (linked from front and center on the site’s front page): The Conservative Party urges you to sign a Petition to Free the Seals. These three men are charged with abusing a terrorist they captured in a daring nighttime raid on or about 1 September 2009. On that night, they — as part [...]

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Modern Whig Party Charter and Bylaws posted…

December 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

…here (.pdf). Also posted on the Modern Whig website: WHO ARE MODERN WHIGS? Established in 1833, the Whigs are one of America’s oldest mainstream political parties. We were the original party of Abraham Lincoln and four other U.S. Presidents. Revived by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the grassroots movement has quickly attracted tens of thousands of [...]

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Tags: Non-left/right parties

Reform Party Calls Teleconference National Committee Meeting

December 18th, 2009 · 15 Comments

Ballot Access News reports: The Reform Party has set a teleconference national committee meeting for December 19, Saturday. Now that the Texas-based officers have won the federal lawsuit in New York establishing their ownership of the party’s trademark, the party hopes to rebuild. It is still ballot-qualified in Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. That is [...]

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Communist Party USA: ‘No easy road to future—but we’ll get there’

December 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Report to the National Committee Sam Webb, National chair Communist Party USA • Nov 13, 2009 Found at CPUSA.org Slightly over a year ago, the American people elected a young African American to the presidency and increased the Democratic majority in the Congress. President Obama’s victory represented a repudiation of right-wing ideology, politics and economics [...]

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Tags: Socialist/left parties

Working Familes Party “Taking Heat”

December 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

At The Hankster, Nancy Hanks has been following news on the federal probe of the New York Working Families Party very closely, stating “the Working Families Party is taking the heat for becoming relevant in NYC’s recent election.”  Over the last week, she has highlighted fourteen articles on the party and the probe . . [...]

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Tags: Socialist/left parties

NC Constitution Party Chairman: Two-Party System is a Sham

December 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Posted at Poli-Tea: In North Carolina’s Statesville Record and Landmark, Jim McNally reports on a meeting of the Constitution Party of North Carolina: The CPNC leaders who spoke at the Golden Corral . . . [pointed out] the folly in supporting either of the two major political parties that have had a stranglehold on the [...]

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Chuck Baldwin: ‘Anger With Federal Government Not Enough’

December 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Chuck Baldwin http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/ According to Rasmussen Reports, “Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry. “The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government’s policies, including [...]

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Ralph Nader: Dubya and Obama are “a Seamless Transition” on the War

December 18th, 2009 · 12 Comments

Posted with other videos at EndUSWars.org: Description on the youtube page: On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Ralph Nader, a political gadfly par excellence, a distinguished and best selling author and a persistent Third Party presidential candidate, was one of the featured speakers at the emergency End-the-U.S.-Wars rally. See, for background: http://www.enduswars.org/ The spirited event was [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party

NYC Green Party holds marathon reading of healthcare bill with single-payer amendment

December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments

On Friday, December 18th, members of the New York City Green Party will read the entire 767-page healthcare bill in Union Square. Their reading, which will last an estimated 10 hours, will include Sen. Sanders’ recently withdrawn amendment to establish a single-payer system. The NYC Greens are asking for pledges of between $0.01 and $1 [...]

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IPR compendium: Joe Kennedy posts to date

December 18th, 2009 · 14 Comments

Since IPR has been covering Joe Kennedy‘s participation in the Massachusetts US Senate special election to replace Ted Kennedy a lot lately, I’ve decided to make a compilation post as an easy reference to all the articles. It will also be appended with new additions and attached to future articles. Most recent first, with the [...]

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party