In the northeast, independent candidates for governor in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine have emphasized the importance of the independent vote in the outcome of the special election for the US Senate in Massachusetts: •Independent candidate for governor of Massachusetts, Tim Cahill: State Treasurer Timothy Cahill, who is challenging [MA governor Deval] Patrick as an [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster: The Boston Globe reports that Democrat Martha Coakley has called her Republican opponent, Scott Brown, and congratulated him on his victory. If the reported returns so far are accurate, it looks like Brown about 52%, Coakley about 47%. If that’s true, then it’s a pretty sad commentary on Massachusetts. [...]

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By Arkady Kamenetsky at RightCondition: There has been a wave of videos modeled after the now notorious America Rising theme and their popularity is growing.  It must be the music in combination with rapid image rotation, because you could literally make any video popular. If you use this formula and stick pictures of zebras, unicorns [...]

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http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/joe-kennedy-talks-about-massachusetts-election: In this Dedham Transcript article, Joe Kennedy discusses the election, his opponents, and those who demanded that he drop out. Detailed election results are available here. The Libertarian Party congratulates Joe on his run. Visit his campaign website. IPR posts about Joe Kennedy Joe Kennedy For Senate

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“Harry Reid is sick to his stomach right about now…Trust me Harry, it isn’t swine flu.” – Wayne Allyn Root

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Ballot Access News posts link to Joe Kennedy interview and reports that at the point at which 94% of the vote had been counted in the special U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, the percentages were: Republican 52.2%; Democratic 46.8%; Libertarian independent 1.0%. [Republican Scott Brown won over Democrat Martha Coakley for seat formerly held by Democrat Ted Kennedy.]

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Green Party leaders expressed sympathy and solidarity with the people of Haiti in the wake of Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquake, and urged President Obama to make peace, political self-determination, and economic self-sufficiency part of US relief efforts for Haiti. Party leaders also demanded that US forces not obstruct relief efforts, after a Doctors Without Borders cargo plane carrying medicine and other badly needed supplies was blocked from landing. (Update: There have been more incidents of Doctors Without Borders planes blocked from landing in Haiti.)

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster: Liberty for Massachusetts? Unlikely, but worth pursuing anyway I’m taking a break — just finished another 100 name/phone number matches for the Massachusetts Libertarian “Get Out The Vote” phone banks — and I’d like to take a minute to formally endorse Joe Kennedy. He’s not one of “those” Kennedys, [...]

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Though Massachusetts is considered a Democratic stronghold, the majority of its voters are not registered with either of the major parties.  Thus, it is not surprising that the special election for the state’s open Senate seat has defied the expectations of the political class and mainstream media.  Ironically, however, given that the majority of Bay [...]

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“The Citizen Revolution Has Begun…just like the American Revolution…in Massachusetts.” – Wayne Allyn Root

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http://www.rightmarch.com/pr/JoeKennedy-011810.htm: WASHINGTON, DC (January 18, 2010) – William Greene, Chairman of the conservative online political action committee RightMarch.com PAC, announced today that Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy is taking enough votes from Martha Coakley to insure her loss in the upcoming special election for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. “Our proprietary internal polling of likely voters in [...]

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Reverend Edward Pinkney is Honorary Co-Chair of the Green Party of Michigan. Reverend Pinkney will speak in Detroit on January 18th at noon in honor of Martin Luther King Day.

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Warning: some cursing. As far as we know the opinions are offered are only those of the people talking and have not been cleared with any campaign. In this youtube clip, supporters of Joe Kennedy offer their take on Big Government Republican Scott Brown and Big Government Democrat Martha Coakley at the Obama / Coakley [...]

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H/T Ben in IPR comments Embedding disabled – please see at youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ4QdAU-FTg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVPWQ1Euww&feature=related IPR posts about Joe Kennedy Joe Kennedy For Senate

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y Mike Youtube By MikeCann http://www.youtube.com/user/MikeCANN IPR posts about Joe Kennedy Joe Kennedy For Senate

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Joe Kennedy’s Second Televised Debate, 1/11/2010, Joe Kennedy on Neil Cavuto 01/12/2010: IPR posts about Joe Kennedy Joe Kennedy For Senate

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On a reader’s blog at Talking Point Memo, clearthinker has opened a discussion seeking input from supporters of third parties on the advantages of third party strategy and alternatives to the Democratic Party.  As of this posting, there are only sixteen comments on the thread, and only a few of these are from third party [...]

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At the blog for the Peace and Freedom Party — a third party based in California, which has been starting to reach out nationally — there is a link to an article about Haiti from the World Socialist Web Site. The article gives the socialist perspective on the history of Haiti, and some of the background reasons that the United States government wants to be in Haiti during the earthquake relief crisis.

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A post by Ian Wilder at onthewilderside.com, based on a GPNYS press release: The Green Party of New York State (GPNYS) stated today that it opposed the ethics reform deal announced earlier this week as being too late, too late, an attempt at damage control rather than the real reform New York taxpayers deserve. The [...]

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Laura Wells, who ran for California state controller in 2002 and 2006, has announced that she is running for governor of California.  This makes the Green Party primary a contested one, since Deacon Alexander is also running.  On her blog, she wrote, During the announcement event I had many opportunities to communicate the message to [...]

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