The recent NYT/CBS poll comparing the opinions of tea party activists with those of the general public asked respondents whether they agree with those who support third party and independent alternatives to the ruling Democratic-Republican two-party state. 46% of all respondents answered in the affirmative, compared with 40% of tea partisans. The poll inquired: Some [...]

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Posted at http://theamericanconservatives.org/cms/index.php Yes, the Republican Party WILL make gains this fall. In the current environment, it would be virtually impossible for them not to. But do they really have what it takes? Witness Rep. Aaron Schock from the Peoria, IL area, hem and haw and show a complete inability to come up with any [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: ROOT To Appear on FOX News Channel on Thursday April 15th, After Political Barnstorming Trip Across American Midwest Root Also Headlines Tea Party in Ventura County, California Wayne Allyn Root, best-selling Libertarian author and 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential nominee will appear on FOX News Channel on “FOX & Friends” the #1 [...]

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Press release from Libertarian Party of Texas emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Libertarians Mobilize for Tax Freedom Day; Tea Parties Rallies and Dinner Events Planned LP Gubernatorial Candidates Forum AUSTIN, TEXAS – April 14, 2010 – Libertarians across Texas will commemorate Tax Freedom Day and rally against the income tax in Tea Parties across the state this [...]

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Posted in Ballot Access News: Froma Harrop is a syndicated columnist whose work appears in 200 newspapers. Her most recent column focuses on the fact that independent candidates for Governor this year are doing very well in the polls in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. Thanks to Peter Gemma for the link.

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com THE DC STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org For immediate release: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Contact: Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party media coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org David Schwartzman, DC Statehood Green Party Tax and Budget coordinator, 202-829-9063, dschwartzman@gmail.com DC Statehood Greens promote “Fair Tax & Revenue Plan” to provide tax [...]

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Press release via email and LP.org: WASHINGTON – Wes Benedict, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party, issued the following statement today: “Many Libertarians around America are planning to go to Tea Party rallies tomorrow. I also expect lots of Republican activists and politicians to be there. But frankly, I don’t think those Republicans belong there. [...]

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Green Party state legislative candidate Hugh Giordano recently participated in a candidate forum.  He was the only non-Democrat in attendance, and he also had the largest crowd.  (Disclosure: I was there myself, in support of Hugh Giordano, and he did have the biggest crowd!)  Montgomery Media wrote a report on the event (in the picture, [...]

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This week, NY political writing veteran Elizabeth Benjamin has begun a new project with YNN/NY-1, a Time Warner Cable project. Benjamin will host the TV show, “Capital Tonight”, as well as write for the blog, “State of Politics”. Today, Benjamin wrote, “Green Party gubernatorial hopeful Howie Hawkins questioned Cuomo’s Adirondack land probe.”

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From Friends of Jill Stein, via TPID: WAQUOIT — Members of the Cape’s Green-Rainbow Party are hoping to cash in on voter dissatisfaction this fall by presenting candidates who present an alternative to the status quo. Roughly two dozen people attended the party’s regional convention yesterday at the Moonakis Café in Waquoit, where activists expressed [...]

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

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Cross-posted from Poli-Tea.  Under ten days after Obamacare was signed into law, leading Republican Senators began to downplay any talk of repealing the measure. On April 1st, Michelle Malkin didn’t “feel much like laughing” as she noted that the GOP was “already starting to go wobbly on repealing the health care reform monstrosity,” and directed [...]

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Cross-posted from Poli-Tea.  As a follow-up to my recent post asking if progressives will finally declare their independence from the Democratic Party in 2010, perhaps it is only proper to elaborate why the Green Party would be a better home for progressives than the Democratic wing of the corporatist two-party state. Let’s look at but [...]

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The Missoula, Montana,  Tax Day Tea Party will feature a familiar face for third party aficionados, former Rep. Rick Jore will be addressing the gathering. The former representative from Ronan is one of the local leaders of the Constitution Party of Montana and the only Constitution Party member to ever be elected to a state [...]

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The Libertarian Party National Chairman, Bill Redpath, has been lobbying legislators in Oklahoma to lower the ballot access requirements for third parties and independent candidates in the state. NewsOk’s political blog reports that Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform is pushing a bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles Key (R-Oklahoma City), which will lower signature requirements from [...]

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The Independent Party of Massachusetts is largely seen as a favorable reaction to, and supportive move towards, the campaign of State Treasurer Tim Cahill, who is running as an independent for the state’s highest office. Cahill, a former Democrat, is emphasizing his non-partisan credentials–we previously reported that he chose an ex-GOP state representative as his [...]

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Reverend Billy Talen, who ran for Mayor on the Green Party line in 2009, was arrested on April 4th while drawing attention to the problems of mountain top removal mining in West Virginia. On April 6th, Reverend Billy and his wife welcomed their new daughter, Lena Nightstar Talen, into the world.

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By Wayne Root Wayne Root and Mark Rutherford bring a results-oriented team to the Libertarian Party. Wayne Root, as Chairman, brings expertise in sales, marketing, fundraising, branding and promotion. Root will focus on reaching out to the public and media. Mark Rutherford, as Vice Chairman, has spent seven years as a state chairman, six years [...]

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By John Jay Myers It seems that Libertarians are staring up at National as if they are the Federal Government and saying, “please save us”. But National is not going to save the Libertarian Party, you are, and it is with you in mind that I am running for LNC chair. This is the only [...]

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Emailed by John Jay Myers to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Myers is running for Congress (L-TX 32) and Libertarian National Committee chair. http://www.johnjaymyers.com/

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