Bob Barr Atlanta Journal-Constitution For decades, it has been a federal crime to employ the mails, the phones, or other forms of interstate communication (pretty much any manner of communicating these days) to engage in or perpetrate a fraud on another person or other persons. It is not the mere act of deceiving someone that [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Green Party of New Mexico has started circulating its petition to get itself back on the ballot, and it has 500 signatures already. The party needs 4,151 signatures by April 1. If New Mexico had a rational election law to determine which parties are on the ballot automatically, that law would [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com For immediate release: Saturday February 20, 2010 Contact: Vaughn Stull vstull@kent.edu 330-340-1509 Vaughn Stull to run as Green Party Candidate for Ohio House District 61 Vaughn Stull, a 23-year-old Kent State University student, has entered the race for State Representative of Ohio House District 61. He is one of three candidates running [...]

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According to a source on the Libertarian National Committee, LP Chair Bill Redpath yesterday received an opinion by the authors of Robert’s Rules asserting that the LP’s rules allow a registration fee at conventions.  The six-page opinion begins: This letter constitutes our professional opinion as parliamentarians concerning the following questions with regard to the Libertarian [...]

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Ballot Access News: The February 18 issue of The Hill has this short interview with Indiana Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, who is leaving the Senate after his term expires at the end of this year. Bayh seems to think there could be a strong independent presidential candidate in 2012.

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In recent days, both former Republican Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and the former Democratic Governor of Kentucky, Julian Carroll, have issued demands that independents join the Democratic or Republican Parties.  In a recent speech, Palin instructed independent tea party activists: “Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of [...]

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PSLweb.org: As the war effort in Afghanistan intensifies, momentum for the March 20 National March on Washington is growing. Iraq Veterans Against the War is now the latest to join hundreds of organizations and individuals who have endorsed the March 20 mobilization. “A permanent presence in Iraq, escalation in Afghanistan, and incursions into Pakistan while [...]

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Socialist Webzine by Nicholas Paul Nix My name is Nicholas Paul Nix and I am running as an Independent Candidate for Congress in Texas’ 4th District of the United States House of Representatives. Texas’ 4th District is located in the northeast corner of Texas. My district, and Texas as a whole, is known as one [...]

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Ballot Access News: On February 17, a U.S. District Magistrate issued a 30-page opinion, upholding New Hampshire’s policy of not allowing stand-ins on presidential petitions, and also upholding New Hampshire’s policy of not having any procedure by which an unqualified party may protect its name from use by independent candidates who choose the party label [...]

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LP blog: Alex Snitker, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, recently got second place in a large straw poll at a local tea party event.  Snitker was able to give a speech, as well as make a TV appearance on the local news channel (http://www.wftv.com/news/22559424/detail.html). In the straw poll, Snitker defeated Charlie [...]

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NEWS ADVISORY Tobin For CA 3201 Baker St. San Francisco, CA 94123 PHONE (415) 922-9779 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (415) 922-9779      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (415) 922-9779      end_of_the_skype_highlighting FAX (866) 240-1138 Email: media@tobinforca.org Web: www.tobinforca.org Christina Tobin to Formally Announce Candidacy for California Secretary of State San Francisco (Feb. 19, 2010) – Christina Tobin, Founder and CEO of The Free and Equal Elections Foundation, [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Daniel Surman: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/19/cpac-boos-panelist-torture/ From the article: This afternoon, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held a debate titled “Does Security Trump Freedom?” that featured former GOP congressman and Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), and former Bush Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh. During one point in the debate, [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Ken Block http://wrni.org/blog/ian-donnis/former-patrick-aide-manage-blocks-campaign State House News Service reports that Byrd, after working for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, has contributed to Patrick’s current Republican rival, Charlie Baker. And liberal labor activist Patrick Crowley see Byrd’s affiliation with some conservative campaigns as a sign that the Moderate Party is less than moderate. —————— [...]

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posted at Nader.org: President Obama’s support of loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power plants is a monumental mistake. It is a decision that is bad for consumers and taxpayers, and it is wrong-headed from an environmental and national security perspective. Providing $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to help the Southern Company build [...]

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From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Green Party of Pennsylvania will hold its convention in Monroeville this weekend to nominate candidates for local, state and federal offices. The convention keynote speaker at a dinner Saturday evening is Mel Packer, a well-known peace activist and union organizer who participated in organizing resistance to the G20 Summit held [...]

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Matthew Wootton, a member of the Green Party of England and Whales, recently addressed the State Committee of the Green Party of NYS. At the Daily Planet, Wootton reflected on his experience and the state of the party in the US and worldwide.  Some excerpts: Recently I was lucky enough to attend and speak at [...]

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Green Party candidate for Illinois governor Rich Whitney, Green Party candidate for US Senate in Illinois LeAlan Jones, and Green Party candidate for Cook County Board President Tom Tresser all appeared on the PBS program Chicago Tonight on Wednesday.  You can watch their appearance below. H/T to Green Party Watch.

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Posted at Alternet: This piece was written as part of GreenChange Blog Action Day. Learn more here. I’m not going to pull any punches here. I detest the two party system. I believe that it undermines representative government. It makes our government more responsive to corporations than to citizens. It decreases the chances of progress [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Thursday, February 18, 2010 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on energy policy, climate change, and related issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-energy.php WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders and candidates are [...]

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Posted by Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik: Libertarian Party embarrassment Wayne Allyn Root has long intimated that Obama never went to Columbia University, because Root never saw Obama at Columbia and does not know anyone who did. The Reverend Manning now knows why. It seems that Obama was a CIA agent, his cover being that [...]

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