Michael Heath’s candidacy was exceptionally short, but interesting nonetheless. Heath is the former head of the Maine Family Policy Council, a socially conservative organization in that state. WCSH-TV said he issued a statement Wednesday saying he quickly determined that it’s not realistic for him to circulate the necessary petitions.Independent candidates have until June 1 to [...]

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Aside from two recent articles at IPR, and results pertaining to a completely different Kristin Davis who is an actress appearing on the TV show Sex and the City, the top of a recent Google News search for Kristin Davis is dominated (or should that be dominatrixed?) by articles from the NY Times focusing on [...]

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http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/04/18/national-co-chair-feinstein-debates-top-two-primary/ Video posted by Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch: H/T to Richard Winger

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Not long after announcing the end of her Maine gubernatorial bid, Green Lynne Williams has announced that she will be running for State Senate.  Williams is also a community activist and ran for State House in 2004, garnering almost 13 percent of the vote.  The announcement posted on her website: The Maine Green Independent Party’s [...]

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The following questions for Wayne Root, candidate for Libertarian National Committee chair, were posted by immediate past LNC Vice Chair Chuck Moulton in IPR comments on a previous Q &A between Wayne Root and Brian Holtz. It was also emailed to Wayne Root on April 8 by me (Paulie) with an explanation that the questions [...]

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Slightly edited version of email sent several days ago to the Davis and Redlich campaigns (so far no response): http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/04/lnc-alternate-scott-lieberman-kristin-davis-and-supporters-to-meet-in-new-york/ Would anyone who was there let us know more about what was asked and what was answered? Any video, audio, transcripts or reports of the meeting available? I really do want to get IPR to [...]

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Posted at http://politeaparty.blogspot.com/2010/04/fl-tea-party-and-whig-party-challenge.html by d. eris: Given this week’s tax day tea party protests, it is worth reiterating that any movement intent on fostering constitutional representative government is doomed to failure if it works within the confines established by the Democratic-Republican two-party state and ruling political class. Like untold numbers of anti-war activists during the [...]

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Ballot Access News: On April 14, the Massachusetts Libertarian Party filed this brief in the First Circuit, in Barr v Galvin, 09-2426. http://www.antiwar.com/ban/Appellee-brief-as-filed.pdf The issue is whether the Massachusetts Libertarian Party should have been permitted to use a stand-in presidential candidate on its 2008 ballot access petition. The U.S. District Court had ruled in 2008 [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Within the burgeoning tonnage of business press—print and electronic—precious little has been written about the near zero interest paid on savings and money market accounts that total trillions of dollars. The Federal Reserve periodically and proudly announces that it is determined to keep interest rates very low to help lending and [...]

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Posted at http://politeaparty.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-are-odds-of-independent-sweep-in.html In the northeast, three prominent and promising independent candidates for governor continue to attract the attention of commentators who recognize the latent power of those who have declared their independence from the two-party state and the politics of the Democratic-Republican political class. In the Providence Journal, Froma Harrop reflects on the regional [...]

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Posted by me (Paulie) in comments on a previous post; slightly edited: http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/04/libertarians-question-republican-participation-in-tea-parties/ I attended three tea parties [April 15, 2010] in south Alabama. I was petitioning to put the Constitution Party on the ballot for Congress. [I'm a Libertarian, but] the LP candidate always runs as a write in, and neither he nor the [...]

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According to wikipedia, Neal A. Boortz, Jr. (born April 6, 1945) is an American radio host, author, and political commentator. His nationally-syndicated talk show, The Neal Boortz Show, airs throughout the United States on Dial Global (formerly Jones Radio Networks). It is ranked seventh in overall listeners, with 4.25+ million per week. As reported at [...]

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From the Advocates for Self-Government online newsletter. Mary Ruwart was a close runner-up for the Libertarian Presidential nomination in 2008 and currently serves on the Libertarian National Committee. QUESTION: How do we get ourselves out of the national debt hole that has been dug for us, so we can move toward a truly libertarian society? [...]

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Former Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg, who also ran for governor of California as a Green in 1998, is now running for 5th District County Supervisor in Mendocino County.  The county is known for being a place where the spirit of the sixties lives on, with marijuana being its biggest cash crop and, in the words [...]

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Recently, the British Green Party released their new manifesto in anticipation of the May parliamentary elections.  The Greens are said to have a greater chance of winning a seat in Parliament this year than ever before, especially in the Brighton seat where their leader Caroline Lucas is running, and they are running a record number [...]

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Last night former Independence Party Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura made an appearance on Bill Maher’s show Real Time, which airs on HBO.  They talked about many topics, including Ventura’s refusal to support the two party system, electing independents, and “alternative voting,” which is more commonly known as instant runoff voting or ranked choice voting [...]

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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 third in a series of reports that will use Hancock’s archives to anticipate what messaging he [...]

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On Thursday, April 22, the groups below will be gathering outside the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s regional offices – as one – to call for: • an immediate moratorium on all horizontal hydrofracturing in the Commonwealth, including in our state forests and on floodplains, • an immediate freeze on all new Marcellus Shale drilling [...]

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From Ballot Access News: On April 16, the Las Vegas, Nevada Review-Journal published the results of a poll that the newspaper itself commissioned. The poll listed all eight candidates who will be on the ballot, which is rare for polls. Assuming the Republicans nominate Sue Lowden, the poll shows these results: Harry Reid, Democrat, 37%; [...]

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Read the full piece here.  Hedges is a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his war reporting at the New York Times. Ralph Nader’s descent from being one of the most respected and powerful men in the country to being a pariah illustrates the totality of the corporate coup. Nader’s marginalization was not accidental. [...]

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