http://www.greenmassgroup.com/diary/168/its-420-and-time-to-take-a-stand The 420 holiday–by all appearances a national feast–got off to an early start here in MA with Extravaganja in Amherst over the weekend. Which is only fitting, since a recent headline in the Daily Collegian proclaimed that the “Marijuana Legalization Bill With Origins in the Pioneer Valley has Hearing on Beacon Hill.” Now that [...]

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Ballot Access News: Mary Norwood said on April 18 that she will be an independent candidate this year for Chair of the Fulton County, Georgia, Commission. She will need 27,628 valid signatures by July 13. Fulton County is Georgia’s most populous county and contains most of the city of Atlanta. See this story: http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/04/19/mary-norwood-to-run-for-fulton-county-chairmanship-as-an-independent/ County [...]

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Ballot Access News: This New York Times editorial http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/opinion/20tue2.html urges the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the Republican Party’s lawsuit against the parts of the McCain-Feingold law that restrict how much money an individual may give to a national political party. The case is Republican National Committee v Federal Election Commission. A 3-judge U.S. District [...]

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Posted at http://baltimoregreens.blogspot.com/ Petition Drive is in Full Swing! The Maryland Green Party has launched its 2010 ballot access petition drive. To stay ballot-qualified, the party must collect 10,000 signatures from registered voters by the end of the year. Baltimore Greens have stepped up to the challenge and have been collecting signatures for several weeks. [...]

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Posted by Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/04/19/arkansas-greens-hiring/ In a message at their Facebook page, Green Change reported that the Arkansas Green Party is offering to pay $1 per signature to help them secure ballot status. They will also provide housing. Contact Mark Swaney to get involved. The Green Party nation wide needs the [...]

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Via facebook: The Libertarian Party of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County is undertaking the task or organizing in each of Davidson County’s voting precincts. This will allow Libertarian voters to network, but more importantly it will allow Libertarian candidates to connect with Libertarian voters and activists that live in the precincts that make up their [...]

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Via email from State Chair Tad Britch: The LPWV successfully held its bi-annual meeting yesterday in Clarksburg. We would like to thank Dr. Jim Lark for taking the time to appear at our meeting. Dr. Lark once again provided valuable guidance and assistance to the party. An additional thanks to all members who attended the [...]

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The following was posted by one of the candidates for LNC chair, George Phillies, in IPR comments on a thread of questions for another candidate for LNC chair, Wayne Root: http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/04/questions-for-wayne-root-from-chuck-moulton/ Mr. Root has not yet sent a response, although we would still welcome one. We would also welcome additional questions readers may have specifically [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 19, 2010 George Ochsenfeld President of STAND Green candidate for State Rep, 79th district 708 534-7319 Patrick Kelly IL Green Party Media Coordinator 773-203-9631 EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PEOTONE AIRPORT MUST BE HALTED * State spending on 500 acres lacks justification, jobs won’t materialize, say S.T.A.N.D. and Green Party [...]

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As posted at LP.org blog. Note for IPR readers: the library computer I am using to repost this is not allowing me to view/copy source. Please see the original for embedded links. Other IPR writers welcome/encouraged to fix this article to include them. -p http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/lp-monday-message-send-tax-day-feedback Dear Friend of Liberty, If you participated in a Tax [...]

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Opinion piece emailed by Doug Guetzloe to contact.ipr@gmail.com. The subject has been discussed on past IPR threads. Vote splitter or political game changer? The tea party movement has been credited with a political awakening that has transformed the political landscape in 2009. Rallies, protests, the 912 movement; the health care debate and the summer of [...]

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Email to supporters of Free and Equal: Leading Voices for Independent Politics Unite on April 26 for Landmark Event at University of Wisconsin at Madison CHICAGO, Ill., April 20, 2010 – Next week, a distinguished group of panelists from across the American political spectrum will gather to discuss electoral reform, the peace movement, and the [...]

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From Ekklesia: The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, whose party is enjoying a dramatic surge in support, has come under attack from the Green Party for promoting the Liberal Democrats as the environmental option in the election… The spokesperson insisted that, “There is only one Green Party”. Clegg said that the Liberal Democrat plan would [...]

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In the run-up to the general election scheduled for early May in the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg, the leader of the UK’s third-largest party, the Liberal Democrats, has quickly become the most popular figure in British politics, having soundly defeated his rivals from the ruling duopoly parties in the first of three televised debates.  Cross-posted [...]

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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 fourth in a series of reports that will use video archives to anticipate what messaging he [...]

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From a story today in Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News: The Massachusetts Libertarian Party is ballot-qualified, and it could keep its status through 2012 by running a candidate for any statewide office this year. Although the law requires that one of the party’s statewide nominees poll 3%, it is a virtual certainty that the Libertarian [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Event: Watertown Independent Party Town Committee Meeting Location: 565 Main Street, Watertown, CT Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Time: 7 pm U.S Senate Candidate John Mertens will speak at the Watertown Independent Party Town Committee Meeting on April 27, at 7 pm. The meeting will be held at the Community Meeting Room [...]

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Chicago is an area of the nation with a Green party of growing influence, and here is a recent letter to the editor from the Daily Herald: The latest report indicates that nearly 17 percent of our workers are either unemployed or underemployed. Our infrastructure, and school and health care systems are failing. We are [...]

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Press release: On January 10, 2010 a group of long time activists from inside and outside the Democratic, Green, and Progressive Parties united to form a broad coalition. This coalition, composed of Democrats and Republicans, individual activists , and third-party supporters, has united to support an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held [...]

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Charlie Crist, the retiring Governor of Florida is running for US Senate in Florida. Only a year ago he was far ahead in the polls facing only token opposition from a virtually unknown candidate named Marco Rubio, the former Speaker of the House in the Florida House of Representatives. Rubio has since caught fire thanks [...]

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