Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Charleston Gazette reports that Jesse Johnson has filed as the West Virginia Mountain Party (WV’s Green Party affiliate) candidate for the US Senate special election to fill the seat left by the late Robert Byrd. Johnson is a well-known campaigner against mountaintop removal and an experienced Mountain Party [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Green Party of Connecticut announced today that Don Alexander is running for State Representative, House District 64 (Torrington, Sharon, Cornwall, Goshen, and Salisbury) this fall. A resident of Torrington, Alexander is a quality assurance engineer at a state company. He is married, with three children. He is veteran [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Arkansas Green Party nominated several candidates at its state convention on July 24th. The candidates include two former state representatives, Jim Lendall for Governor and Bobby Tullis for Treasurer, as well as Rebekah Kennedy for Attorney General, who earned over 20% of the vote for US Senate in [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein has set a goal of raising $125,000 by mid-September. Once Stein raises at least $125,000, her campaign is eligible for 1-to-1 matching funds. Here is an email she recent sent to supporters: This is just a quick note to update you on [...]

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From Capitol Hill Blue via TPID: Joined by tea party members, Ron Paul disciples and old-guard conservatives, Beck strode into the three-day confab in Idaho Falls amid a swelling national tide of frustration with Washington, D.C., magnified by Idaho’s already rightist tilt. When it was over, a majority of the 500 delegates had transformed their [...]

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Bruce A. Dixon – the “managing editor of Black Agenda Report, and a member since last year, of the state committee of the Georgia Green Party,” to which he adds, “Deal with it” – has written a piece in Black Agenda Report that proposes black activists leaving the Democratic Party and heading to the Green [...]

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TPID: Remember Congressman Frank LoBiondo?  He is the Republican lawmaker whose gross ignorance of the Constitution was revealed at a town hall meeting earlier this year.  LoBiondo was embarrassingly stumped when asked about Article 1 Section 1 of the Constitution, and stuttered that it might have something to do with freedom of speech.  Peter Boyce [...]

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From Constitution Party News via TPID: Why is the Constitution Party of Missouri smokin’ hot? Maybe it is because it has 26 candidates running for various partisan offices in Missouri, [actually 27, but two are vying for the same US Senate Seat in the August primary], and 41 members who are running to be party [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Rob McNealy Libertarian Candidate for CD6 will Hold an Unconventional Fundraising Event Aurora, CO – July 25th, 2010 – Rob McNealy, candidate for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, plans an unorthodox fundraising event on Wednesday, July 28th. The event will be held at the southwest corner exit ramp of 1-225 and Parker road [...]

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From the Denver Post: “I will officially announce at noon that I will seek the nomination of the constitution party,” Tancredo told The Denver Post. The Littleton Republican must file some papers with the Colorado Secretary of State and register as a member of the American Constitution Party, but then “he’s ready to go,” raising [...]

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Billionaire Tom Golisano is a familiar face in New York state politics. However, he appears to be keeping his head low since his high-profile move to the Sunshine state. With rumors abounding about his potential support for Carl Paladino, pols have begun to wonder if he has quit New York politics for good or is simply waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike.

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A story in The Atlantic Wire exams the political ideology of Jedi Knights, and why so many Canadians listed “Jedi Knight” as their religion in the national census.

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