From the Des Moines Register, by Kathie Obradovich: Libertarian candidate for governor Eric Cooper pulled off a rare feat at a recent forum: He upstaged the major-party contenders. And not just because he announced he’s lost 144 pounds in eight months. Cooper, of Ames, owned the audience at the Iowans for Tax Relief gubernatorial forum [...]

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The following is posted at Warren Redlich’s campaign website. In related news: 1) Both Paladino and Davis have caused a stir with comments and emails that appeared to endorse bestiality, among other things. See Bestiality, pornography, racism, and the race for Governor of New York 2) From the Albany Times-Union http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/25264/e-mails-show-stone-strategizing-for-paladino/ E-mails show Stone strategizing [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Republican Party of Riverside County, California, has posted Independent Political Report’s Proposition 14 editorial on the party’s website. See the Republican Party’s blog here: The editorial, originally posted at http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/03/editorial-ipr-opposes-proposition-14-in-california/ reads as follows: Slowly, painfully, the movement to improve ballot access for minor parties and independent candidates has been winning. States [...]

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Relayed by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch From Jill Stein, Green candidate for Governor of Massachusetts: 40 years ago tomorrow, millions of people around the country took part in the first-ever Earth Day. The event was designed “to shake up the political establishment and force the environment onto the national agenda,” according to Gaylord [...]

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Press release from GP.org: Two fossil-fuel dangers threaten America’s economic health, public health and natural habitats: coal and offshore drilling for oil, say Greens on Earth Day 2010 • Greens demand an end to mountaintop removal mining, poisoning of water, lethal worker safety violations, and industry corruption and control over government policy • Obama’s offshore [...]

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Press release posted at Kristin Davis 2010: SPITZER MADAM ASKS CUOMO TO INVESTIGATE CONDITIONS AT RIKERS ” I think most New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of Abu Ghaib-style treatment of prisoners in the New York Penal system. ” Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis, who supplied call girls to Governor Eliot Spitzer, today requested that [...]

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Buffalo Rising: WNYMedia has found and published controversial emails allegedly sent by Carl Paladino, Buffalo real estate magnate and newly announced candidate for Governor of New York. The emails contain rather crude racist and sexist material. WNYMedia’s report has been picked up by countless national sites including Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, Opposing Views and [...]

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Rasmussen has just released the results of a survey that contained a number of questions inquiring as to respondents’ views on third party and independent politics.  The possibility that Charlie Crist may run for US Senate as an independent served as the report’s lede. Among the findings: Fifty percent (50%) of U.S. voters have voted [...]

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From an article at PCWorld.com on Apr. 20 (Hitler’s birthday): YouTube has recently begun removing videos that feature content from Constantin Films’ 2004 film, Der Untergang (“Downfall”), despite the fact that many of these videos are parodies and thus constitute fair use of the material. [...] According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), these videos [...]

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In 2009 Doug Hoffman made the national news as candidate for the Conservative Party of New York candidate in a special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. He lost the Republican nomination to a candidate whom he claimed was too liberal so he continued his run as a member of the Conservative Party. He [...]

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With all of the recent rumors of Charlie Crist’s possible switch to Independent in the 2010 Senate race, the news has been speculating about how well he would do, polling and fundraising numbers aside. The Sun Sentinel newspaper in Florida has interviewed a number of figures in Florida about Crist’s possible switch to Independent. One [...]

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Posted on the front page of http://www.walterforcongress.com/ David Walter is a Constitution Party candidate, and is currently the only alternative party/independent candidate seriously trying to get on the ballot for Congress in Alabama. He is running in District 1, which covers all of Mobile, Baldwin, Monroe, Washington and Escambia counties and part of Clarke county. [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party 2008 Presidential candidate http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=1237 In a report on its web site dated April 2010, entitled “Meet The Patriots,” the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) profiled “36 individuals at the heart of the resurgent [patriot] movement.” (In reading the list, I counted only 35 “patriots” and 5 “enablers” for a total [...]

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Excerpted from an editorial at The Liberty Ticker http://libertyticker.blogspot.com/2010/04/legalized-monopoly-ballot-access-laws.html Except for the board game of the same name, Americans have generally railed against the power of monopolies. With their ability to maintain predominance over the production and sale of some product, monopolies are seen as having the power to destroy competition and fairness. However, few [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/04/21/green-party-us-national-convention-set-for-detroit-during-us-social-forum/ From a Green Party US email entitled “Another World is Possible, the Green Party is Necessary”: Join the Green Party in Detroit This June! The Green Party of the United States will be holding its Annual National Meeting this June in Detroit. Will you be there? [...]

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Ballot Access News reports http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/04/21/nader-asks-d-c-court-not-to-permit-2004-pennsylvania-challengers-to-take-money-out-of-his-bank-account/ On April 21, Ralph Nader’s attorney Oliver Hall argued in the D.C. Court of Appeals that the Pennsylvania court order, awarding $81,000 to the people who challenged Nader’s ballot access petition in 2004, was fundamentally unjust. See this story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10111/1052186-100.stm The people who challenged Nader’s petition [...]

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Posted at http://goldamericagroup.com/diary/168/the-new-path-plan-for-the-lp New Path — Introduction. The New Path for the Libertarian Party slate of LNC candidates has assembled a proposal for advancing the Libertarian Party. It’s a serious plan, not a puff piece. This series of articles is offering the proposal itself, not the sales documents for selling the proposal to delegates. Like [...]

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Posted at Green Party Watch by Dave Schwab. http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/04/21/david-cobb-gives-anti-corporate-personhood-presentation-in-arizona/ David Cobb, the Green Party’s 2004 candidate for president, has been active recently as a leader of Move To Amend, http://movetoamend.org/ a coalition working for a Constitutional Amendment to establish that constitutional rights are for humans, not corporations. The Arizona Daily Wildcat recently covered Cobb’s presentation [...]

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(I-Newswire) April 21, 2010 – Libertarian candidates Erin Lale, Art Lampitt, and Nate Santucci participated in an End Marijuana Prohibition 4/20 Rally at UNLV in front of a university building where Harry Reid was speaking. The UNLV student Libertarian group organized the event, which included students speaking on a megaphone and carrying protest signs, a [...]

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