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Chicago Greens to march in St. Patrick’s Day Parade

March 9th, 2010 · 11 Comments

Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From Rich Whitney for Governor on facebook: Chicago’s 55th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be a little bit Greener than years past, but Rich Whitney needs your enthusiasm to paint Chicago a different shade of politics! The Whitney for Governor campaign will need festive parade marchers [...]

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D. Dustin: ‘Why I support the Constitution Party’

March 9th, 2010 · 37 Comments

The latest in the series of posts from members about how they came to join the Constitution Party, posted on the national party website’s front page (http://www.constitutionparty.com/): Why I support the CP I grew up in a conservative household that valued freedom. Of course we supported the Republican Party, assuming that they were the only [...]

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MA Green-Rainbow Party launches new website

March 9th, 2010 · 13 Comments

Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party has a snazzy new website at greenrainbow.org. In addition to the new look, the site has a Campaign 2010 link with profiles of candidates Jill Stein (governor), Nat Fortune (state auditor), and Scott Laugenour (state rep, 4th Berkshire). The site also has links [...]

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Major Newspapers Persist in Speculating About Florida Governor Running as an Independent for U.S. Senate

March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Ballot Access News: The Washington Post for March 9 has this speculation about the idea that Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who is running for U.S. Senate this year, might become an independent candidate. Crist says nothing to encourage this idea. But, polls show that Crist will lose this year’s Republican primary badly if he remains [...]

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Green politics on the rise in Africa

March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Posted at Green Party Watch by Dave Schwab… From Marie-Laure Josselin at RFI, “Green politics make their debut”: For the very first time African states acted together during 2009’s Copenhagen negotiations on global warming. During the 90s, African green movements made a first, timid appearance. To this day they are struggling to get their voices [...]

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Ralph Nader asked if he will run in the future

March 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments

On March 9, Ralph Nader appeared on Curtis Sliwa’s NYC radio talk show. Nader was asked if he would consider running for office again.

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Tags: Green Party · Independents

Candidates for Libertarian National Committee debate at Missouri convention

March 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Video by way of Kn@ppster. Knapp describes it as a “forum featuring three candidates for chair of the Libertarian National Committee: Ernie Hancock, John Jay Myers and Wayne Allyn Root. Two other candidates, Mark Hinkle and George Phillies, weren’t able to be there.”

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George Phillies: ‘Our National Party Is Dying…But It Can Still Be Healed’

March 9th, 2010 · 133 Comments

By George Phillies, candidate for Libertarian National Committee chair (Slightly revised from a post at http://LibertyForAll.net) Since the year 2000, we’ve lost more than half our membership. Party income has fallen by nearly 3/4 in real dollars. We cannot survive if we continue along this path. How many state affiliates do we actually have? Certainly [...]

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Mitt Romney warns tea party activists not to form third party

March 9th, 2010 · 6 Comments

USA Today reports Former and likely future GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney issued a warning to tea party activists in an interview with the conservative newsmax.com website. His warning: don’t form a third party and run candidates in the general election. That would divide the Republican vote and keep the Democrats in power, he told [...]

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Tags: Right-wing minor parties

Libertarian Party Monday Message: 2010 St. Louis Convention Early Bird Deadline March 31

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Posted at LP.org: Dear Friend of Liberty, The Early Bird registration deadline for the 2010 Libertarian National Convention in St. Louis has been extended to March 31. I hope you’ll visit the registration page and purchase a discounted convention package today. A new "Business Session Only" registration option will be provided shortly which allows delegates [...]

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Peace and Freedom Party: ‘In Jail? You Can Vote’

March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Posted at http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/in-jail-you-can-vote By Bob Evans The differences between jail and prison and between probation and parole are the key factors in a December, 2006, California appeals court ruling that restores the voting rights of as many as 100,000 people in county jails on probation. Prison is an institution run by the Department of Corrections, [...]

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Tags: Socialist/left parties

Ralph Nader: ‘In The Shadow of Power’

March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

posted at Nader.org: Our just published In the Shadow of Power is a penetrating collection of 92 black and white photographs about life in Washington, DC, by Venezuelan photographer Kike Arnal. After scores of books and reports by our groups over forty-five years, where the premise was that “a thousand words is worth one picture,” [...]

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Wayne Root: ‘Is Obama the Tiger Woods of Politics?’

March 9th, 2010 · 13 Comments

By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee First Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he’s been awarded an Olympic Gold Medal- for going downhill faster than any President EVER! It’s all falling apart for Obama and his cabal of socialists, elitists, tax cheats, and now alleged sexual harassers. As Obama promises to [...]

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NC: Constitutional Conservative Fights Unconstitutional Ballot Access Regime

March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

In North Carolina’s Lincoln Tribune, Sara Burrows reports on the efforts of one unaffiliated candidate for State House, Mark Brody, in his fight against the ballot access regime constructed to protect the Democratic-Republican two-party state and duopoly system of government: Unaffiliated congressional candidate Mark Brody is suing the state over what he calls unfair and [...]

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Free and Equal: Stubborn Oklahoma lawmakers need to hear from you

March 9th, 2010 · 5 Comments

In an email to supporters today, the ballot access reform organization Free and Equal is asking people to contact Oklahoma state legislators and urge them to pass a ballot access reform bill.  The email: Oklahoma’s largest newspaper, The Oklahoman, mentioned Free & Equal in an editorial titled “Access endeavor” on March 6. The daily paper [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Third parties, general