Mike Niecestro is an Independent Conservative in Illinois who made waves last week when he announced that he would run for the U.S. Senate in Illinois as an Independent and spend up to $1 million on his campaign. Niecestro, however, has conceded his campaign since he collected just over 25,000 signatures in total, making any [...]

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Helen Thomas was fired recently from the White House Press Pool after making some statements regarding Israel that were deemed either insensitive or anti-Semitic, depending upon the source. Ralph Nader did an interview with The Real News Network, part of the transcript of which is excerpted below: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to [...]

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Bob Barr recently penned an article to Roll Call, a website that reports on Congress. The article concerns how certain financial reforms can “imperil consumer privacy”. There may be a number of reasons to oppose the financial services “reform” legislation passed recently by both houses of Congress and now headed to conference committee to work [...]

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Randy Stufflebeam is the former chairman of the Constitution Party of Illinois and a U.S. Senate candidate in that state for the Constitution Party. Today he submitted 34,000 signatures in order to get on the ballot. He needs a minimum of 25,000 valid signatures. Stufflebeam’s website can be found here.

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The Libertarian Party of Mississippi held an event on July 18th in Pearl County, Mississippi, which received press coverage in the Picayune Item. Mississippi Libertarian Party chairman Danny Bedwell and Libertarian fourth congressional district candidate Tim Hampton both appeared here on Thursday afternoon at a rally at Cafe Amore on East Canal Street, and both [...]

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Dan La Botz is the Socialist Party of Ohio’s candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010. He was quoted in this article in the Cincinnati Enquirer discussing Obama and whether he is or is not a socialist. Dan La Botz knows with certainty that President Barack Obama is no socialist. He’s sure because he’s one himself, [...]

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The first debate held in the race for Montana’s congressional seat was a three way event, including the Libertarian Party candidate, Mike Fellows. Several times, Rehberg said Democrats in Congress have been unwilling to consider Republican initiatives. Rehberg called for an “all of the above” energy plan that increased domestic production of fossil fuels while [...]

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From the St. Petersburg Times: A new Florida Chamber of Commerce poll suggests Charlie Crist may be widening his lead over Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek in the U.S. Senate race. Where other recent polls showed Crist barely edging out Rubio, the June 9-13 survey of 607 likely voters by the Florida Chamber [...]

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Scott Lee Cohen is the former Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor of Illinois. He dropped out under pressure from Democratic party leaders in Illinois. Cohen appears to regret his decision to drop out and is now running for Governor of Illinois as an Independent. Cohen turned in over 133,000 signatures in his attempt to get [...]

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Alan Keyes has been given a regular column at WorldNetDaily, one of the most popular conservative websites on the Internet. Similar to Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin’s columns, Keyes’ columns will be excerpted here occasionally. Keyes’ latest column concerns what he calls the “slumming of America”. Slums are not born, they are made. When I [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: INDIANAPOLIS—U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth, Democrat; former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, Republican; and Rebecca Sink-Burris, Libertarian; have agreed in principle to participate in three televised debates sponsored by the Indiana Debate Commission. The commission is now soliciting venue applications as it did for the gubernatorial race in 2008. Three debates will be conducted at selected [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Florida Whig Party Chairman Paul Truesdell released a public video message on Friday calling for the resignation of Florida Press Association (FPA) President Dean Ridings. The Whig Party was responding to the FPA’s exclusion of Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Alexander Snitker in a candidate forum at the Ritz Carlton in Sarasota Thursday. [...]

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Below is a post from Ballot Access News and a press release on the subject. Ballot Access News: On June 21, the Moderate Party, a ballot-qualified party in Rhode Island, filed a federal lawsuit called Moderate Party of Rhode Island v Lynch.  Here is the complaint.  The number has not been assigned yet. The case [...]

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Posted on the Examiner: Moderate National Political Movements Announce Merger Favoring common sense, rational solutions while rejecting strict ideology, American Centrist Party and Modern Whig Party join forces WASHINGTON (Monday, June 14, 2010) – As the Democrats and Republicans continue to spiral into unprecedented depths of polarization, recent events have highlighted the fact that the [...]

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Reporters and political pundits will often claim that a particular third party hurts one major party more than the other. This argument because most popular during Nader’s 2000 run for President, as well as in Ross Perot’s two candidacies for that office, in 1992 and 1996 respectively. Mark Noble, one of the leaders in the [...]

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Austin Cassidy reports from Uncovered Politics that former Socialist Party USA Presidential candidate Brian Moore is running for Governor in Florida. Moore is not, however, running as a Socialist Party candidate. Rather, he’ll be participating in the Democratic Party primary. Brian Moore, the Socialist Party’s 2008 candidate for President, has filed to run for Governor [...]

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From Colombia Reports: Colombia’s National Registry says it is fully prepared for Sunday’s runoff presidential election between Partido de la U’s Juan Manuel Santos and the Green Party’s Antanas Mockus, and that the world will know the outcome by 5:30PM. “The results from May 30 [the first-round presidential election] has generated a lot of expectations. We think [...]

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Read the full thing here.  Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Vaughn Stull: David Ellison, a Cleveland architect running for the Green Party, opposed the county charter that created the executive position. Ellison said he thought the executive structure was too hierarchical, but he later decided to run for the job. “It just seemed like now was [...]

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From Ballot Access News: On June 15, Port Chester, New York, held a partisan election to elect six village trustees. The winners include the only Conservative Party nominee (he was not the nominee of any other party), and one of the two independent candidates. Only two Hispanics were on the ballot. The one who was [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: US SENATE CANDIDATE, FATHER LEALAN JONES TO SALUTE “FAITHFUL FATHERS” CHICAGO, IL (June 20, 2010) — US Senate candidate LeAlan Jones, a legal guardian for his teenage nephew, will celebrate Fathers’ Day at a special dinner for the Pine Forge Academy Foundation. “Fatherless is an epidemic, particularly in my community,” said the [...]

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