Richard Carroll, the former Green Party legislator in Arkansas, yesterday lost a Democratic primary race for State Senate. Ballot Access News reports: Arkansas held its primaries on May 18. Richard Carroll was defeated for re-election in the Democratic primary, for State House, 39th district. Carroll had been elected as a Green Party legislator in 2008, [...]

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When IPR found out that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan had written her thesis on the Socialist Party of New York City, we hoped to obtain a copy of the document for readers to take a look at. The thesis is available for viewing and downloading here.

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Tom Horner, one of the candidates for the nomination of the Independence Party of Minnesota in the Governor’s race, already has the endorsement of his party and has begun touring the state. On this tour he is pitching a message of conciliation and compromise. Tom Horner visited Fergus Falls Wednesday afternoon to let residents know [...]

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Lancaster Online is a website covering news in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This article goes into the details of the amazing growth of non-major party registrations over the last 6 months. The number of registered voters in Lancaster County who don’t identify themselves as either a Democrat or a Republican now totals 44,855, according to figures [...]

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Tim Fasano is the Independent American Party candidate for US Senate in Nevada, running for Sen. Harry Reid’s seat. Scott Ashijan, running in the same race, is the nominee of the nascent Tea Party and the source of a great deal of controversy because of that. Fasano and Ashjian have been included in most major [...]

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Chelene Nightingale, a candidate for Governor of California under the banner of the American Independent Party, spent the weekend campaigning at the California Eagle Forum, which was held in San Diego with over 350 attendees. The Eagle Forum is an organization of non-partisan conservatives headed by Phyllis Schlafly. This article describes the event’s happenings: Also [...]

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With over 84 percent of voting precincts reporting, Rand Paul has won the Republican primary in Kentucky for US Senate.  His father, Ron Paul, is a US Representative and was the Libertarian Party’s 1988 presidential nominee (Rand worked for this campaign, and is therefore at least aware of, if not sympathetic to, the legal hardships [...]

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Emailed by Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Wayne Allyn Root, the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee, best-selling Libertarian author, and now full-time national media personality, will appear on FOX News on Sunday with his daughter Dakota Root to discuss their remarkable education success story called “Homeschool to Harvard.” Dakota,18 and home-schooled since birth, was not only [...]

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DISCLAIMER: IPR Does not take any positions on LNC races. The opinions offered for discussion are those of the original authors. Jason Pye writes: Yesterday, I noted that Wayne Allyn Root had seemed to jump off the deep end by participating in a mock trail against Barack Obama based on some ludicrous claims by Pastor [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From the Virginia Green Party: The 2nd Quarterly business meeting of the GPVA will be held on Saturday May 22nd from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Five Points Community Farm Market in Norfolk. The Five Points Community Farm Market is located at 2500 Church Street: [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From Bay Area Indymedia: ANAHEIM, Calif — Duane Roberts, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, says Prop 14 is a “power grab” by big business interests that will disenfranchise millions of Californians by limiting their choices at the polls. Roberts urges voters to reject this “unprecedented attack [...]

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Ballot Access News: A feature story about Christina Tobin, head of Free and Equal, and the Libertarian Party candidate for California Secretary of State, has appeared in several newspapers. Here is the article as it ran in the Contra Costa Times. It is somewhat unusual for California newspapers to give publicity to minor party candidates [...]

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Posted at http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/: Stop Top Two campaign Join us on May 18 and May 24! Peace and Freedom Party members will join with demonstrators from all of the other five ballot qualified parties (Green, Libertarian, American Independent, Democratic, and Republican) and independents (people registered Decline to State) at two times and places Tuesday, May 18 [...]

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Ballot Access News: On May 15, leaders of the Vermont Progressive Party met and endorsed a full slate in the party’s primary for the six state statewide offices. They are: Governor Martha Abbott; Lieutenant Governor Marjorie Power; Secretary of State Peter Cooper; Attorney General Charlotte Dennett; Treasurer Don Schramm; Auditor Michael Bayer. The party nominated [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From Charles Kraul at the Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Armenia, Colombia — The surprise of the Colombian presidential campaign has been the surge of Bogota’s former mayor, Antanas Mockus, from nowhere to the top of voter preference polls in advance of first-round voting on May 30. [...]

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Via Baltimore Greens: Contact: Robb Tufts 443-370-6857, robb.tufts@yahoo.com PRESS ADVISORY Kathy Phillips, Keynote Speaker for Maryland Green Party Annual Assembly; Panel discussion to feature Maryland Green Party 2010 candidates WHAT: The Maryland Green Party Annual Assembly is the annual meeting for registered Green Party members in the state of Maryland. Maryland Green Party members from [...]

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From CP Discussion Forum, by way of Third Party and Independent Daily: Delegates from across Minnesota assembled at the Brookdale Public Library in Brooklyn Center on Saturday, May 8, 2010 to hear from candidates seeking office for various levels of government and voting for or against their endorsement. After deliberations on resolutions for revisions to [...]

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Interview with Alex Snitker by Anne Money Buck published in TampaBayStart.com. Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. I recently had the opportunity to interview Alexander Snitker, the Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate in Florida. My editor, who had heard Snitker speak at a campaign stop, gave me the assignment to interview him. “I want you to really work him [...]

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Via email from George Phillies. New Path for the LP is a slate of candidates for the Libertarian National Committee, and George Phillies is their candidate for Chair. This is Step 6 of Part Three of the 63-page New Path plan for the LP. IPR is not endorsing any LNC candidates, and is interested in [...]

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As requested by several IPR readers, this is a transcript of a conversation that took place on Libertarian Party chief co-founder David Nolan’s facebook wall. Participants in the chat included at least two of the candidates for Libertarian Party national chair, Wayne Allyn Root and John Jay Myers. Other participants included LNC members and candidates, [...]

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