Rep. Susan Davis at Vermont Progressive Party blog: Third parties speak out publicly when the issues that matter are left off the table for discussion or left in the waste basket after discussion. Still, the American system of elections tends to work against third parties. Vermont is not immune from this. I and many others [...]

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From New York Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins: Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, called today upon his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, to reject the Independence Party line following several new scandals involving payments by billionaire NYC Mayor Bloomberg and a loan to the wife of the state party chairperson by a [...]

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unityparty.us: Latest News The Unity Party is now in Maryland! The Unity Party of Utah launches the latest Unity Party site, unityutah.com! Unity Party of America Commends Passage of Election Law Reform Bill HB-1271. Unity Party Chairman Bill Hammons appeared on Denver’s 9 News to advocate for reform of Colorado’s election laws. Read more…

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Northern Virginia Green Party will launch its new Internet Radio Show Thursday, the 29th, at 10 p.m. It is called NoVa Greens Talk and will feature Bo Webb, an anti-mountaintop removal activist.

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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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Posted by Kyle at Libertarian Party blog: Recently, there has been uproar over plans to build an Islamic cultural center blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City. While the city council and Mayor Bloomberg are in favor of this project, conservative leaders such as Sarah Palin and other media pundits criticize its location [...]

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Libertarian Party blog: The Roanoke Civil Liberties Examiner interviews Libertarian congressional candidates William Redpath here and here, and Stuart Bain here and here.

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Libertarian Party blog: From Grannis for Congress: Congress fiddles while the economy burns by Mark Grannis, Libertarian for U.S. Representative, District 8, Maryland This afternoon the White House once again availed itself of the rather sophomoric tactic of scheduling the release of really important but really bad news on a Friday afternoon so that fewer [...]

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Libertarian Party blog On Thursday July 15th, Libertarian Party member and small business owner Debbie Schum stood up against Colorado’s big government establishment at an Orchard City public forum. The forum was intended to educate citizens on upcoming ballot measures designed to close loopholes in the state’s ‘Taxpayer Bill of Rights." Regarding the local news [...]

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