Posted in the Seattle Times by Mike Carter: The Washington state Republican and Libertarian parties have been ordered by a federal judge to repay more than $70,000 in fees they were awarded years ago during the litigation over the state’s two-party primary. The Libertarians, the GOP and the Democrats had joined to sue the state [...]

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Ballot Access News: On January 5, Georgia held a special election to fill the vacant State Senate seat, 22nd district. Georgia special elections put party labels on the ballot, but parties don’t have nominees. Individuals file by paying a filing fee, but no petition is needed. Three Democrats and one Libertarian appeared on the ballot. [...]

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Posted at LP blog: Libertarian Party candidate Joe Kennedy was recently on a radio debate on 96.9 "Boston Talks" radio show.  He is contending for the late Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat in a special election that will be held on January 19th, 2010. You can view the video of the debate below.  Joe’s closing remarks [...]

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By NATHAN BROWN, Adirondack Daily Enterprise A Guilderland town board member and two-time Congress candidate with an Albany law practice is considering seeking the Libertarian and Republican nominations for governor. Warren Redlich said Tuesday that he had originally considered running for attorney general as a Libertarian, given his legal background and experience. However, he said, [...]

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Access North GA reports that independent conservative Eugene Moon will begin his ballot access petition drive in Georgia’s 9th Congressional District.  From Moon’s campaign website: The Georgia ballot access law for U.S. House is the most unique in the nation. The state requires 21,685 signatures or 5% of the total number of registered voters in [...]

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h/t Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch – Hartford, CT-Green Party of Connecticut officials announced today that they are still pushing for Ralph Nader to enter the U.S. Senate race, despite the announcement of Senator Dodd’s retirement. Tim McKee, a Green Party spokesperson said “Thousands of people are asking Nader to run and are willing [...]

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2004 Green Party vice presidential candidate and 2006 Green Party Maine gubernatorial candidate Pat LaMarche has a column in the Bangor Daily News of Bangor, Maine.  In today’s column, she wrote about breaking free from duopoly politics.  Read the full thing here. I’ve been advocating for other options in the ballot box since before this [...]

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Some of the latest news on Joe Kennedy, independent libertarian in the US Senate special election in Massachusetts: Download a podcast of the latest debate here (H/T Kennedyseat.com). As the Boston Globe summarized it, “Kennedy, a libertarian, lumped his opponents together, accusing them of supporting bigger government and greater intrusion into people’s lives. He said [...]

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Deacon Alexander, former Black Panthers member, announces candidacy for governor of California posted by Gregg Jocoy Jan 5: In a press release issued via PR Newswire, Los Angles Green Party member Deacon Alexander announced his intent to seek the Green Party nomination for Governor of California. Much of the press release concerns an Academy Award [...]

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Chuck Baldwin’s latest column at ChuckBaldwinLive.com today praises Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The bulk of the article appears to be word for word reprinting of his column from last year, republished at IPR here. He added a new section at the end of the article: Furthermore, it is no hyperbole to say that [...]

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Posted by Allan Wikman in the comments here: Michael was cardioverted again today (with the electric paddles) to try to get his heart to beat more regularly. This evening they did the tracheostomy and looked down his throat. He had ripped the breathing tube out of his throat and they were afraid he damaged his [...]

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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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