The California Voter Guide has been made available online in anticipation of the June 8th primaries. The guide includes, amongst many other things, statements from third party candidates and arguments concerning Proposition 14, the Top Two Primary. Marsha Feinland, a Senatorial candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination, placed this statement in the voter [...]

[Read more →]

Richard Winger reports at Ballot Access News on the founding of a new party, the Resource Party of Minnesota, which is running candidate in 2010. He also cites the resurrection of an older party, the Grassroots Party of Minnesota. The Resource Party appears to have placed its nominees on the Minnesota ballot for the joint [...]

[Read more →]

A few days ago IPR reported on Rob Hahn, an Independence Party gubernatorial candidate, choosing his running mate, Thomas Harens. We reported that Harens was a former DFL legislator in Minnesota, but new party-affiliations have emerged too. Harens served one term in the Legislature in 1982, when he was 25, and ran for president in [...]

[Read more →]

Tom Horner, the Independence Party of Minnesota endorsed candidate, still has to face a primary against several other Independence Party gubernatorial candidates in a primary. He announced his running mate on the last day of filing. Independence Party candidate for governor Tom Horner marked the final day of Minnesota’s candidate filing period by announcing he [...]

[Read more →]

Assemblymember Juan Arambula, California’s only independent legislator, and the California Independent Voters Network held a press conference on May 26th to call for the lowering of petition requirements for independent candidates in California. Richard Winger at Ballot Access News reports: The press conference said CAIVN will seek to persuade the legislature to ease the number [...]

[Read more →]

The Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, is running for Lt. Governor of California currently and is largely considered the frontrunner for both the Democratic nomination and the eventual win. Should Newsom win, an Interim Mayor will need to be appointed–apparently several figures familiar to the third-party world are being mentioned for the job. The [...]

[Read more →]

Cynthia McKinney is a member of the Free Gaza movement which is currently embroiled in a controversy involving a humanitarian ship and an attack on that ship by Israeli commandos. She penned an OpEd about the controversy which can be read, in its entirety, here. The first couple of paragraphs follow. I am outraged at [...]

[Read more →]

Ken Pentel, the former gubernatorial candidate of the Green Party of Minnesota in 1998, 2002, and 2006, is running for Governor again–but under a different label this time: The bike-riding former Green Party leader is doing it again – this time with the brand-new “Ecology Democracy Party.” He said the Green Party has a “great [...]

[Read more →]

The Party for Socialism and Liberation had a hand in organizing last week’s protest against an Arizona law which they believe to be racially discriminatory. Over 50,000 people marched through the streets of Phoenix, Ariz., May 29 to demand an end to SB 1070 and all other racist attacks on immigrants. The national protest marched [...]

[Read more →]

Warren Redlich is recieving the Rand Paul treatment. Redlich, who is the Libertarian Party nominee for Governor and a former election lawyer for Rand Paul’s father’s presidential campaign in 2008, has stepped into the Civil Rights Act controversy started by Rand Paul a couple of weeks ago. Republican gubernatorial candidate Warren Redlich said Tuesday that [...]

[Read more →]

Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Free and Equal: Leaders from Washington State’s Third Party Coalition released a statement today urging California voters to vote no on Proposition 14. The coalition is comprised of the American Heritage Party, Constitution Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Progressive Party. Here is the full text of the statement: The Top [...]

[Read more →]

An interesting election result in Iceland, thanks to an email from Tom Knapp: Running on a platform described as “anarcho-surrealism,” Iceland’s Best Party (Besti Flokkurinn) is no longer just a big joke. The six-month-old party led by one of the nation’s best-known comedians, Jón Gnarr, won a stunning victory in the capital city of Reykjavik’s [...]

[Read more →]

The St. Louis Beacon, one of the area newspapers for St. Louis, Missouri, reports on the Libertarian Party National Convention in this article as a battle between the traditions of the past and possible future directions. Sunday afternoon, more than 500 delegates from around the country selected a new party chairman in a battle that [...]

[Read more →]

Judge Jim Gray, who was elected to the National Libertarian Party’s Judicial Committee yesterday, published an article concerning illegal immigration today. OK, let’s calm down and see these recent developments in Arizona and even the city of Costa Mesa for what they really are. They have little or nothing to do with racism and everything [...]

[Read more →]