Posted at http://thirdpartydaily.blogspot.com Via the Constitution Party discussion forum: Greetings patriots and friends, I have just finished my first campaign video and it is now posted on YouTube and my website: http://www.SimmonsforUSSenate.com please click on the following link if you are interesting in viewing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZcVK7cDZis As you know these type of videos get around [...]
Entries from April 2010
Missouri: Constitution Party Candidate for Senate Releases Campaign Video
April 10th, 2010 · 11 Comments
Tags: Constitution Party
Idaho: Constitution Party Candidate’s Membership in Militia Draws Media Attention
April 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Posted at http://thirdpartydaily.blogspot.com/ From the Bonner’s Ferry Herald: Every able-bodied Idaho male 18 through 45-years old, already belongs to the militia, according to Jeff Stankiewicz. That is outlined in the Idaho Constitution, said Stankiewicz, major of the 21st Battalion of North Idaho’s Lightfoot Militia. A member of the Constitution party, Stankiewicz is challenging incumbent assessor [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Liberty Maven: ‘Ron Paul w/ Jesse Ventura on CNN’s Libertarian Larry King Live’
April 10th, 2010 · 8 Comments
Posted by Marc Gallagher at libertymaven.com. Note for IPR: Jesse Ventura was elected and served as a Reform Party Governor of Minnesota, and Ron Paul was the Libertarian Party’s Presidential nominee in 1988. Paul continues to support alternative parties, most recently endorsing the Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin for President in the general election in 2008. [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties
Libertarian Party Boots Boortz
April 10th, 2010 · 146 Comments
Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: NEWS RELEASE April 10, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact: Robert Butler 512-758-9134 Libertarian Party of Texas Libertarian Party Boots Boortz Syndicated radio talk show host Neal Boortz, a Libertarian Party member, has been uninvited as a speaker to the Libertarian Party’s national convention in St Louis the weekend of May 28 -31. [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Nebraska Libertarian Party begins ballot access petition drive
April 10th, 2010 · 10 Comments
Posted at http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/nebraska-lp-begins-ballot-access-petition-drive from the Libertarian Party of Nebraska: LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF NEBRASKA MOUNTS BALLOT INITIATIVE Party Begins Petition Drive to Regain Ballot Access in Nebraska OMAHA – April 3, 2010—Libertarian Party of Nebraska (LPNE) Chairman Gene Siadek issued the following statement concerning the Party’s petition initiative: “The two-party system has failed to produce liberty-centered [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Ralph Nader: ‘The Miserable State of Mine Safety’
April 10th, 2010 · 8 Comments
By Ralph Nader Nader.org The tragedy at the Massey Energy Company’s very profitable Upper Big Branch coal mine at Montcoal, West Virginia, which so far has cost 25 miners’ lives, is another reminder of the immense human and environmental cost of this fuel. More coal miners have lost their lives from cave-ins, explosions and lung [...]
Tags: Independents
Tom Knapp: ‘A Tale of Two Waynes?’
April 10th, 2010 · 14 Comments
Posted at http://knappster.blogspot.com/2010/04/tale-of-two-waynes.html by Tom Knapp: Wayne Allyn Root, February 14th, 2010: “People ask me: “You’re running for national Chair, will you run for President in 2012?’ Let me give you an honest answer: I think this party right now is too disorganized to ever do well in a presidential election. And I don’t think, [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Major labor union working against Democrats, forming third party in North Carolina
April 9th, 2010 · 30 Comments
Apparently inspired by certain Democrats voting against the health insurance reform, the Service Employees International Union – a union representing over 2 million workers – is surprisingly planning to work against Democrats this election season. Perhaps the strongest challenge to Democrats, if not the Democratic establishment itself, will be in North Carolina. The national SEIU [...]
Tags: Socialist/left parties
Video: Libertarian Party Chair Candidate Opposes Voting
April 9th, 2010 · 43 Comments
Libertarian National Committee Chair candidate Ernest Hancock responded to 10 questions posted on IPR for him by saying they will be answered by videos on a DVD he will be mailing to LP national convention delegates. This is the first in a series of investigative reports that will use Hancock’s video and audio archives to [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
ME: Republicans Put Independent Cutler Under Surveillance
April 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Independent candidate for governor of Maine Eliot Cutler must be worrying the Republican Governor’s Association. From the Press Herald: An independent candidate for governor complained to a national Republican group this week about a woman it hired to follow him and other opponents with a video camera. Eliot Cutler called it a juvenile practice that [...]
Tags: Independents
Columbus Examiner interviews Socialist candidate for US Senate in Ohio
April 8th, 2010 · 38 Comments
In what the author says will be a series of interviews with minor party candidates, Socialist Party candidate for US Senate in Ohio Dan La Bortz was interviewed by John Michael Spinelli of the Examiner. Read the full thing here. CGE: What’s your working definition of socialism? Do you think Americans have a good/bad view [...]
Tags: Socialist/left parties
Libertarian Party blog: John Stossel discusses libertarianism, Thu 8 pm ET
April 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Posted at LP.org blog: FOX’s John Stossel will be asking "What’s a libertarian?" on his FOX Business show this Thursday, April 8, at 8 p.m. (and again at midnight) Eastern Time. For a preview of this topic, see his blog here, and a FOX News clip here: The program is scheduled to re-air on Saturday [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party blog: ‘New York LP chair offers tips on getting press coverage’
April 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Posted at LP blog: from New York LP chair Chris Edes: Get free media time. Get involved in your local Tea Party, then call the media and say you’re available for interviews. I was interviewed by the local PBS affiliate regarding the upcoming Tea Party. So was the county CFL coordinator. As April 15 approaches [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
LP blog: 2010 Libertarian conventions around the country
April 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Latest list posted at LP.org: Below is a schedule of Libertarian national and state conventions occurring in 2010 (including some that have already taken place). Click on the links to get more information. Friday, February 12 – Sunday, February 14 LP California Convention Saturday, February 20 LP Nevada State Convention Friday, February 26 – Sunday, [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
High-profile Green presidential campaign in Colombia
April 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: After surpassing expectations in recent congressional elections, Colombia’s Green Party has a high-profile candidate for president in Antanas Mockus, a popular former mayor of Colombian capital Bogotá. Recent polls placed Mockus third in a crowded field of candidates – Mockus polled at 9%, while the second-place candidate [...]
Tags: Green Party
Progressive Party blog: ‘Plutonomy and preventing the poor vote’
April 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Posted by ShellyHatch at http://www.progressiveparty.org/blog/ A memo from Citi Group in 2006 talks about how they view the U.S. as a “Plutonomy,” not a democracy. They invented this word, but it basically means a society where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The memo describes this as a good thing and Citi [...]
Tags: Socialist/left parties
Green Party: President Obama must press Israel to end East Jerusalem settlements
April 8th, 2010 · 24 Comments
Press release from the US Green Party: WASHINGTON, DC — President Obama must put pressure on Israel immediately to stop the construction of settlements and displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Green Party leaders and candidates said today. “President Obama should send Prime Minister Netanyahu a message: enough is enough. If Israel continues to violate [...]
Tags: Green Party
New York Independence Party Leader Hired by Democrats
April 8th, 2010 · 14 Comments
Senate Democrats in New York have hired an influential Independence Party leader for $55,000 a year to run community outreach. While Senate Democrats have said the move is based purely upon credentials, some have questioned whether the move might be an effort to purchase the Independence Party line for Democratic state Senators in close races. [...]
Tags: Independents · Non-left/right parties
Carl Paladino Runs For Republican and Conservative Line, May Create “Tea Party” Line
April 8th, 2010 · 14 Comments
On April 5th Carl Paladino, New York Millionaire and Real Estate mogul, declared his candidacy for Governor of New York. He has pledged to spend up to $10 million of his own money on the race and is considered a favorite of conservative tea party activists. His campaign website says of his party affiliations and [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Louisiana Considers Restoring “Jungle Primary”
April 8th, 2010 · 8 Comments
From 1978 until 2006 Louisiana used the Jungle Primary, also known as the Nonpartisan Blanket Primary or Top Two Primary, for Congressional elections. This system is still used for state and local elections in Louisiana, but was discontinued in 2008. On April 7th, the the Louisiana House and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed HB 292. [...]
Tags: Third parties, general
