Third parties and independent candidates since 2008


Lynne Williams to participate in bottled water forum

May 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Lynne Williams, former Green candidate for governor of Maine and now running for state senate, will be participating in a forum on bottled water and its local impacts: FORUM ON BOTTLED WATER AND ITS IMPACTS Sunday, May 16th from 1:00 – 3:30 pm at Reel Pizza in Bar Harbor Film about Bottled Water “Tapped” Followed [...]

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Walter Joseph “Wally” Hickel, 1919-2010

May 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Walter “Wally” Hickel — US Secretary of the Interior in President Richard M. Nixon’s administration and two-time governor of Alaska — died yesterday, the Washington Post reports. Hickel served his first term as governor as a Republican in the 1960s, and was fired by the Nixon White House after criticizing the administration’s policy versus anti-war [...]

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Press Release: Ken Block Calls for a Budget and Review Commission in Woonsocket

May 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Via contact.ipr@gmail.com: Warwick, RI- May 6th, 2010- Ken Block, Moderate Party Candidate for Governor, called upon the state to establish a budget and review commission in Woonsocket. Last week, Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the city’s bond rating to junk status making it highly unlikely that Woonsocket will have access to bank loans that the city [...]

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Tags: Non-left/right parties

BAN: South Carolina Greens Run Their First Gubernatorial Nominee

May 8th, 2010 · 7 Comments

From Ballot Access News: On May 1, the South Carolina Green Party state convention nominated candidates for office, including the party’s first gubernatorial nominee in this state. He is Morgan Bruce Reeves, whose web page, www.morganreevesforgovernor.com, is at this link. The web page shows a 3-minute clip from a past Spartans-Trojans football game in which [...]

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