The Green Party primary in Illinois’ ninth congressional district got some coverage from the suburban Chicago Journal & Topics newspaper group.  There is little difference on the issues between Simon Ribeiro and Moe Shanfield, says the article, but Shanfield hopes to push the Democratic Party in a progressive direction, while Ribeiro plans to run a [...]

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In a new Research 2000 poll, independent libertarian Joseph L. Kennedy, who is running for US Senate in Massachusetts against a Democrat and Republican, (and of no relation to the famous Kennedy family) is at five percent: Libertarian Joseph Lewis Kennedy, an information technology specialist who is no relation to the Kennedy clan, gets 5 [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster: Q: What’s the difference between Scott Brown and Dede Scozzafava? A: Just having an “R” next to his name is enough for the Tea Party “leaders” who told us Scozzafava was the AntiChrist (here, for example, is a typical St. Louis Tea Party GOP sellout whine for Brown). Somewhere [...]

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Op-Ed by Massachusetts US Senate Special Election Independent Libertarian candidate Joe Kennedy in the Boston Globe: A CANDIDATE’S worthiness for office must be measured against the person being replaced. Whether you liked him or not, Ted Kennedy was a powerful force in the Senate, because of his passion, devotion and drive. He had little government [...]

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Promising “new energy on the Libertarian National Committee,” party activist Scott Williamson has announced his candidacy for LNC Regional Representative from Region 4, which currently includes the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Williamson, who holds a degree in Political Science, is currently serving as secretary of the [...]

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Green Party candidate for Governor of Illinois Rich Whitney issued a response to the State of the State speech given by current Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. Whitney notes: “What the current State of the State should tell us is that there is an overwhelming need for new political leadership, leadership that comes from the people and the progressive movements that already have most of the policy answers to the problems facing us today. We need leadership that comes from the movements for peace, social justice, civil rights, the environment, labor, women’s rights, real health care reform, education reform, and grassroots democracy, including economic democracy. We need leadership that comes from a real people’s political party, a party based on these movements and their core principles; a party that does not accept corporate money and its corrupting influence…”

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Joe Mathews reports: Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), the leading proponent of a national initiative process, wrote recently to supporters about his new enterprise: a TV show called “I Like Mike” in which Gravel is president. From Gravel’s missive: “Earlier this fall Eliot Fisher, a creative young writer from New Mexico, asked if I [...]

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With the recent announcements that Brighton businessman Donn Janes of Tennessee, a successful software developer, and conservative activist Bradley Rees of Virginia have dropped out of their respective Republican primaries and will run as independent “Tea Party” candidates for seats targeted for takeover this autumn by the national GOP, the list of independent congressional candidates [...]

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From the LP blog: The Advocates for Self-Government recently made this very generous offer: FREE OPH KITS FOR LIBERTARIAN STUDENT GROUPS: We’re giving our acclaimed OPH (Operation Politically Homeless) outreach kits to libertarian student groups FREE — if they simply promise to use them a minimum of three times a year and send us photos [...]

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Both the Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Bay Guardian have pieces today concerning the declining stature of San Francisco’s Green Party since early last decade.  They are very interesting – even if they are somewhat discouraging – and well worth a read. From the Wall Street Journal: Even in famously liberal San Francisco, [...]

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On Wednesday, January 13th at 3:30pm, in Carbondale Illinois, Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will hold a press conference to respond to Governor Pat Quinn’s State of the State Address.

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Last week, Rasmussen Reports conducted a poll that showed Martha Coakley ahead with fifty percent. But the poll failed to make any mention of independent candidate Joseph Kennedy. Now, Rasmussen has a new poll that includes the independent libertarian. The new poll shows forty-nine percent in favor of Coakley, forty-seven percent in favor of Brown, [...]

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Coming off a particularly strong performance in last night’s final debate between the three candidates in next Tuesday’s special election — an appearance described by the Boston Globe as both “crisp” and “straightforward,” and in sharp contrast to his major-party rivals — Joe Kennedy will be a guest on Neil Cavuto’s show on the FOX [...]

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In Maine, there are no less than eight declared third party and independent candidates for governor this year: Sam Bailey (I), Alex Hammer (I), Lynne Williams (G), Eliot Cutler (I), Christopher Cambron (I), Beverly Cooper-Pete (I), Augustus Edgerton (I) and John Whitcomb (I). At the Augusta Insider, Derek Viger is following this race very closely, [...]

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While the Green Party of the United Kingdom has elected a member of the European Parliament, they have not yet elected a member of Parliament in their own country.  However, this could change soon.  The Independent reports: A poll of voting intentions carried out by ICM Research shows that the Greens, who had their best-ever [...]

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Today early voting started in Illinois’ various primary elections.  Aside from the Democrats and Republicans, the Green Party is ballot qualified and will be having primaries for various seats.  This includes congressional candidate Matt Reichel, who got about seven percent of the vote as the party’s nominee in a special congressional election in 2009, and [...]

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The Local reports on an action by German Pirate Party activists, who took to a number of German airports over the weekend in their underwear to protest the potential implementation of airport scanners that “see” under ones clothes: Scantily clad Pirate Party supporters demonstrated over the weekend at several German airports to show their opposition [...]

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I just updated Poli-Tea’s list of third party and independent candidates for office in 2010. The list focuses on declared third party or independent candidates for governor, US House and Senate with active websites, and now links to almost 250 aspirants in 42 states! Noteworthy this time around were the high number of Green Party [...]

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At the blog for the Peace & Freedom Party, the California State Chair announced the passing, on January 9th, of Peace & Freedom Party activist and previous candidate Tom Condit. There will be a memorial event in June 2010.

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The Libertarian Party is running a survey at www.lp.org/platformsurvey, asking members whether they support or oppose the 24 Platform Committee recommendations adopted at the PlatCom’s December meeting.  Here is the text of the survey: The Libertarian Party Platform Committee’s job is to recommend changes to the platform, to be voted on by the delegates to [...]

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