After some pretty tough losses at the polls in local Burlington elections – the geographical base for the Vermont Progressive Party – VTDigger.org published a piece about the hard times the party is currently facing. “This is not their death knell,” says Garrison Nelson, a political scientist at the University of Vermont and longtime observer [...]

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The Boston Herald reports that Independent Tim Cahill’s campaign for governor in Massachusetts has enlisted the help of former McCain campaign strategists: Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill has tapped the same GOP muscle to steer his independent race for governor that engineered U.S. Sen. John McCain’s groundbreaking political ascent, as the Quincy pol guns for a [...]

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A new Rasmussen poll puts independent Lincoln Chafee ahead of all contenders in the race for governor of Rhode Island and by wide margins : Ex-Senator Lincoln Chafee is the leader for now in Rhode Island’s race for governor . . . Chafee earns the support of 37% of likely voters in Rhode Island to [...]

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via email from Brian Moore: Will the ‘Socialist’ Slam Swell Socialist Ranks? by Berry Craig http://www.laprogressive.com/ http://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/socialist-slam-swell-socialist-ranks/#more-25856 I’m not sure what to make of the recent Esquire magazine poll that showed 78 percent of “Republican leaders” think President Barack Obama is a socialist. My guess is the GOP brass is posturing for political gain. Brian [...]

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Although official results are not available yet, it is expected that in Tuesday’s election in Burlington, Vermont, city voters got rid of the instant runoff voting system they had been using since 2006 and voted one Progressive Party politician out of office.  The Progressive Party has two seats on the city council, as do two [...]

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Green Party press release transmitted by OnTheWilderSide:

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On The Wilder Side: Congressional candidate turns down money to avoid gas drilling Long time Green Party member Hank Bardel is running for congress in New York’s 13th Congressional District. Hank owns acreage in eastern Pennsyvania which is over the Marcellus Shale formation. Recently Hank was offered over $264,000 with 21% royalties to allow companies [...]

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Posted at http://theamericanconservatives.org: I am hard pressed to find a better illustration of a) Republican hypocricy, and b) why the “Tea Party” movement should have little or nothing to do with the GOP. This is from the CATO Institute’s Website. The Washington Times recently used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain letters sent to [...]

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Posted by inDglass at http://www.bostontea.us/node/776: Get Involved! The Boston Tea Party National Convention will be held at www.bostontea.us from Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 7:00 PM ET to Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 7:00 PM ET. Live events at times and places to be determined may also be held in St. Louis, MO, where the [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Tobin to speak at drug policy forum in San Francisco Today, Free & Equal has several interesting tidbits to bring to your attention. First, our founder and chairwoman, Christina Tobin, recently appeared on FOX Chicago Sunday, the weekly political show for FOX Chicago News. Those who missed it can look for the [...]

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by Carolyn Marbry http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3914 Many of us wrote resolutions and campaigned very hard to bring the required floor fee issue to the attention of the states and their delegates and to get people to speak out against it. Many of us argued passionately against the convention floor fee online and in person. A few of [...]

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Posted at Nader.org: The Honorable Senator Christopher Dodd Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs 448 Russell Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Dodd: On January 19, 2010, I wrote to you about news reports that you were considering dropping the proposal to create an independent and free-standing Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). In the [...]

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Ballot Access News: Kristin Davis, who is running for Governor of New York outside the five ballot-qualified parties, says her ballot label will be “Personal Freedom Party.” She will need 15,000 valid signatures, to be collected between June and August 2010. See this story. If she gets 50,000 or more votes for Governor, the Personal [...]

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Ballot Access News: Petitioning at the polls is an excellent technique for any group that is trying to get signatures on petitions. Virtually everyone at that location is a registered voter. The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to hear a case involving petitioning at the polls, Citizens for Police Accountability Political Committee v Browning, [...]

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Posted at ModernWhig.org: Established in 1833, the Whigs are one of America’s oldest mainstream political parties. We were the original party of Abraham Lincoln and four other U.S. Presidents. Revived by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the grassroots movement has quickly new members. We represent the moderate voters from all walks of life who cherry-pick between [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com There is a classic story about how no one had been able to capture a herd of wild hogs that was rooting up crops from numerous farms. It got so bad that rewards had been posted for anyone clever enough to corral the critters. But even this resulted in only limited [...]

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The following was posted by Ned Barnett in response to an article republished at IPR by Cody Quirk: Disclaimer: This represents my personal opinion; I am an officer in the Clark County (Las Vegas) Nevada Republican Party, but I want to make it clear that these comments in no way reflect the views of the [...]

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…According to sitemeter. We’ve had about 2.85 million page views, over 78,500 comments and over 4,800 posts since IPR was founded on May 20, 2008, which was coincidentally also my 36th birthday. -Paulie And, At Kn@ppster, IPR co-founder Tom Knapp writes about the events that led to the founding of IPR and some of the [...]

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Posted by Kris Broughton at bigthink.com: In the last twelve months we’ve seen two new political organizations hit the nationwide scene with an intensity and a geographic presence unheard of since the sixties. Unlike the Libertarian Party, which grew through more traditional methods during the seventies and eighties, the memberships in the Tea Party and [...]

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A press release from the Green Party of Pennsylvania: Monroeville, PA – On Feb. 21, 2010, the Green Party of Pennsylvania elected a new Steering Committee for 2010.  I.K. Samways and Katrina Brabham of Pittsburgh were elected as Chair and Secretary, respectively, while Vivek Ananthan of Philadelphia was retained as party Treasurer.  Mr. Samways had [...]

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