Green Party Watch is an unofficial web-site following local, national and international green news. They recently covered updates from the National Committee of the Green Party of The United States (called the GNC). There are currently proposals to: move some states to inactive status (to address quorum issues); appoint a NY rep to the GP-US Finance Committee; and to create a fast-track system for certain Eco-Action Committee actions.

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In his first run for office since losing reelection to the US Senate in 2006, former Republican Lincoln Chafee has announced that he will run for governor of Rhode Island.  He was also mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island in the 1990s.  In his announcement, he stressed partially ending Rhode Island’s large list of exemptions to [...]

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Ballot Access News: Nader Resurrects Lawsuit Against Democratic Party for 2004 Attempts to Keep Him Off Ballots On November 30, 2009, Ralph Nader re-filed his lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee, concerning its actions in the 2004 presidential election, when the party coordinated challenges to Nader’s ballot position in 18 states. Nader charges that the [...]

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by Bob Barr as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution For America’s families and small businesses, 2009 was a year to forget – if only they could — and 2010 looms gray and foreboding. But for the federal government, happy days are here again. Actually, they never left – Washington is printing and spending greenbacks, [...]

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Posted at liammacuaid.wordpress.com. H/T Polizeros. The faction fight in the SWP, which pits the majority led by Alex Callinicos and Martin Smith against the Left Platform led by John Rees and Lindsey German, is utterly depressing, for several reasons. First it is a reflection of the generally depressed and demoralised state of the whole of [...]

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Ballot Access News: Texas has a uniquely restrictive law for independent candidates (for office other than president). It requires them to file a notice in early January, if they intend to petition for a place on the ballot. Petitioning itself can’t start in Texas until after the primary, but anyone who didn’t file the January [...]

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By John J. Monahan Worcester Telegram BOSTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott P. Brown expanded his defense of waterboarding as an interrogation technique this morning in a live radio debate, while his Democratic opponent Martha Coakley criticized his ad comparing himself to JFK, saying, “He is really more like Bush-Cheney.” While the two major [...]

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The following was sent as an email to Cindy Sheehan supporters: Three events over the holidays have caused me great consternation and they proved to me that I am not so cynical and jaded that my government can’t still shock me, if anything Of course, the first event has to be the “Crotch Bomber.” The [...]

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Email to me and several other people from LP Exceutive Director Wes Benedict: I would love to see an updated chart like this: http://freedomdemocrats.org/files/2006%20Nolan%20Chart.GIF (P: for explanation, see http://freedomdemocrats.org/node/812) We used something similar in Texas: http://www.lptexas.org/retired/docs/LegislativeScoreboard2007.pdf I don’t have time to do it. Thanks, – Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 2600 Virginia [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: AUSTIN, TEXAS – December 15, 2009 – The Libertarian Party of Texas has accepted over 193 applications for their party’s nomination in this year’s conventions, including 5 candidates for Governor. The deadline for filing was yesterday, January 4th. “We are pleased to have so many candidates for office,” said Libertarian [...]

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Ben Bernanke is “Disaster of the Century”… NOT “Person of the Year” Ron Paul Should be Time’s “Person of the Year” By Wayne Allyn Root and Rick Williams You can usually count on Time magazine to get things backwards, and they missed in a big way with their selection of Ben Bernanke as “Person of [...]

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Posted yesterday at LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, I resolve to persevere in the struggle for freedom that many Americans have undertaken tirelessly, and in some cases have given their lives for. I resolve to vote for Libertarian candidates whenever I can. I resolve to keep reminding people that every vote for a Libertarian [...]

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A new Rasmussen survey of public opinion in Massachusetts ahead of the January 19th special election for US Senate fails to include any mention of independent libertarian candidate Joe Kennedy, who qualified for ballot access late last year.  Instead the organization prompts likely voters to choose between Democrat Martha Coakley, Republican Scott Brown and “some [...]

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