Todd Pritsky, who is running for VT House as an independent this fall, has decried the state’s ballot access regime as “election Calvinball.”  As Pritsky wrote last Friday in a post under that title: the Legislature very bravely changed this year’s election rules very late in the game, so the Secretary of State has moved [...]

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Richmond, California is the largest city in the United States with a Green mayor, with a population of over 100,000.  That mayor is Gayle McLaughlin, and she’s running for reelection.  Here’s her first campaign update sent to supporters: This is the 1st campaign update of my re-election campaign, and I am pleased to announce that [...]

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Email from Wayne Allyn Root: “I fear the LP is running out of time. The irrational want to keep the party small so they may appear to be ‘big fish’. Between now and 2012, the LP can gain power. People want smaller government and those governing they know they can trust. This is why I [...]

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Yes, folks, two full years of anti-establishment political party and candidate news, views and commentary. During that time, according to sitemeter, we have had over 1.1 million visitors with over 3.1 million pageviews, and close to 89,000 comments on almost 5,500 posts. In other news, your faithful correspondent, Paulie, am turning two for the nineteenth [...]

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Likely delegates to the Libertarian Party’s 2010 national convention are, around this time, receiving a “snail mail” letter from Christopher Barber, a Georgia LP activist and member of the national LP’s platform committee.* Excerpt: When you and I joined the Libertarian Party we proudly signed this statement: “I certify that I oppose the initiation of [...]

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Email from Debbie Tharp: Prop 14 in California in incumbent protection and access prevention. Loss of ballot access in California is a loss for the nation as a whole. Prop 14 (the top two initiative) allows voters to vote for any party they want in the primary elections, and it is being sold as a [...]

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Via email and LP blog: Dear Libertarian, I hope you will attend our National Convention in St. Louis. If you haven’t decided whether to attend yet, it’s still not too late — you can even show up unannounced. However, there are some risks you need to be aware of if you show up to the [...]

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SF Weekly: San Franciscans are understandably proud of their quirky liberal heritage, but our town’s lovable eccentrics aren’t confined to the political left. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine another city where a doctrinaire Libertarian who moonlights as a bisexual escort and exotic dancer could become a permanent fixture in the political firmament. This has been [...]

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Posted at Third Party and Independent Daily: From Newsday: Steve Levy’s twice having run on the left-ish, since-submerged Green Party line for state Assembly in 2000 and 2002, as described here earlier today, didn’t surprise state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long, who backs Levy’s GOP rival, Rick Lazio. Also from Newsday: For major-party candidates, ties [...]

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Posted at Liberty For All by George Phillies, candidate for LNC chair: Recently — hey, I’m a candidate, did you expect my opponents to say nice things about me? — a number of bizarre rumors have arisen about Massachusetts Libertarian ballot access. Please note that I am one member of the state committee, our chair [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Goodwell – Stephen Skacall, independent candidate for State House District 61, issued a call today for the Legislature to enact an immediate pay cut. “With more budget cuts looming around the corner, you’d think that our legislators would be doing everything in their power to make those cuts as small as possible. [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From Jill Stein for Governor of Massachusetts: BOSTON (May 19, 2010) – Calling it a commitment to transparency, and a show of respect for the voters of the commonwealth, Gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein released her personal tax returns for 2009 to the media. In doing so, she [...]

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From former IPR editor Austin Cassidy, posting on the site he created with IPR writer Darcy Richardson, Uncovered Politics: This week, we’re taking a look at Billy Roper. This Mr. Roper doesn’t live downstairs and participate in wacky sit-com antics. No, he’s running as a write-in candidate for Governor of Arkansas this year and a [...]

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Video posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: If you are not able to watch the video, jump to http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/comments/?page_id=823.

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Posted by 2008 Constitution Party presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: People all over America are discussing freedom’s future. In short, they are worried. In fact, many are actually talking about State secession. In coffee shops and cafes, and around dining room tables, millions of people are speaking favorably of states breaking away from the [...]

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Linda Bentley reports in the Sonoran News: ATLAH, N.Y. – Dr. James David Manning has renamed Harlem “ATLAH,” a name “given to him by Almighty God” on Sept. 14, 1991, which means “the land where the people shall walk barefoot, because the land is holy ground.” Manning got the world’s attention through his animated videos [...]

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