From the Argus: Caroline Lucas could hold the key to a new Government power-sharing agreement… The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru have called for a ‘progressive alliance’ government involving all of the minority parties. The left-wing nationalists have suggested joining forces with Labour and the Liberal Democrats to form the Government to form a [...]

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Read the full piece here. “Millionaires and celebrities get all the attention,” said Tim McKee, a spokesman for Connecticut Greens and a member of the party’s national committee. “We want to get more average people running for office, but it’s becoming harder and harder. … It’s a millionaires’ club.” This year, the Green Party has [...]

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This morning, ballot access expert and California resident and Christina Tobin campaign manager Richard Winger faced off against California Lt. Gov. Abel Moldonado on KQED, San Francisco’s public radio station, on Proposition 14.  Prop 14 is a measure that would establish a top two primary system in California, and all of the political parties in [...]

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From Ballot Access News: According to this news story, New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera has appointed three members to a commission to plan new regulations for election procedures. One of the three is a Republican, one is a Democrat, and one is a Green. The problem with New Mexico is not the election [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: WHAT A press conference uniting leaders across the political spectrum will be held in Sacramento on Tuesday. The speakers will discuss their opposition to Proposition 14, the Top Two Primaries Act. California leaders from the American Independent, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, Peace and Freedom, and Republican Parties will be in attendance. The press [...]

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From Jake Towne’s (he is running in PA’s 15th congressional district as an independent, has attended tea parties, and talks about Ron Paul) website: We have a version for television, but we need more funds to accomplish this.  The campaign is always on the lookout for volunteers to help at the polls next Tuesday to [...]

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Email from Wes Benedict, Executive Director of the Libertarian National Committee: You’ve probably seen a lot about the big BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Libertarians are sometimes attacked for not having good answers to environmental questions. In this case, I think there are problems that Republicans and Democrats in Congress have created, [...]

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Sent to supporters of Cindy Sheehan: For this Mother’s Day, I am not going to write about Juliet Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day proclamation and how Mother’s Day is a “Day for Peace.” By now, most of us are well aware of Ward’s proclamation (if not, click here) that we Mother’s should not send our sons [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Free and Equal: New York (May 6, 2010) – New York’s gubernatorial race is living up to the state’s reputation for political corruption and backroom deals by party insiders.  Republican hopeful Carl Paladino’s personal emails were made public to discredit him. Sitting Governor Paterson was hit by a series of scandals, [...]

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An article today at LibertyForAll.net by Dr. Mary Ruwart, an at-large representative on the Libertarian National Committee: This term, LNC Treasurer Aaron Starr instigated attacks on At-Large reps that consumed more LNC time than any other single activity.  I urge delegates to say “No!” to such divisive behavior by refusing to return him to the [...]

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Cannabis activist and 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination candidate Steve Kubby wants candidates for chair of the Libertarian National Committee to act more like generals. Or more like one general, anyway. In an article published today on Nolan Chart and Liberty For All, Kubby proposes a “Sherman Pledge” for those candidates: The LP’s members need [...]

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Richard Winger, the nation’s leading ballot access expert, will participate in an hour-long debate with Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, author of California’s Proposition 14, the “top-two” ballot measure, on Monday, May 10, at 9AM Pacific Time. The first five minutes of the program will include remarks from Professor Eric McGhee, author of last February’s report [...]

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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 “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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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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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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From Poli-Tea: the Utah League of Independent Voters has organized an online, Facebook-based debate featuring the third party and independent candidates for office in Utah’s third congressional district . . .  the ground rules for the Utah 3rd Congressional District Online Debate 2010 were set on April 30th. The first rule is likely to ensure [...]

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Since the end of former US Representative Bob Barr’s 2008 presidential run on the Libertarian Party ballot line, his campaign committee has listed various outstanding debts on its reports to the Federal Election Commission (see schedule D of the campaign’s Q1 2010 report for details). Among those debts: $47,000 to libertarian writer James Bovard, described [...]

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Brighton Pavillion was considered the UK Greens’ best shot at picking up an MP this election, and the results are rolling in as I type. Carolina Lucas, leader of the Greens, has won Brighton Pavillion–becoming the first Green elected to the United Kingdom’s Parliament.

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The following article about the Libertarian National Committee Chair’s race was posted Apr. 30 by Tom Knapp on his blog. Knapp is a former member of the LNC, and has endorsed said he will be voting for George Phillies for Chair. A month from this coming Wednesday,over Memorial Day weekend, St. Louis, Missouri will host [...]

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