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Entries from July 2010

Vermont Progressive Party: ‘The Poison that is FOX News’

July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments

Chris Pearson at Vermont Progressive Party blog: Fox News isn’t news at all, it’s propaganda. The ProgBlog is propaganda too. We may give you some news, but it’s pretty clear that we have an agenda (the people’s agenda). Fox News has an agenda but they pretend they’re just a run-of-the-mill news outlet. They claim to [...]

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Tags: Socialist/left parties

Hagerstown, Indiana – Elected Libertarian Central

July 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Mark Rutherford at LP blog: Hagerstown, Indiana is a hotbed of elected Libertarian activity. It is a community of 1800 people, the community center of a significantly populated rural area and has Libertarians elected to partisan office. It is the home of Rex Bell, Wayne County Libertarian Chair, and the winner of the 2010 Thomas [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Florida Libertarian Accuses Scott Rasmussen of GOP Bias, Electioneering

July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments

Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Much like Rocky Balboa, the famed Philly underdog, Alex Snitker keeps getting knocked to the mat, but always comes up swinging. The former U.S. Marine and Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate who crashed a media-sponsored candidate forum in Sarasota last month has now set his sights on the man who he [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Green Party of Ohio Convention Tomorrow

July 23rd, 2010 · 6 Comments

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Green Party of Ohio will be having a state wide convention on Saturday, July 24th., Room 100 in the Northwood Bldg., 2231 North High St. Columbus Ohio. 10 am to 4pm. MEET Green Party of Ohio’s Candidates Dennis Spisak Governor Anita Rios Lt. Governor Dennis Lambert 89th Ohio State House Representative [...]

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Tags: Green Party

Baltimore City Green Party Supports Proposed Bottle Tax

July 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Via http://baltimoregreens.blogspot.com/: The Baltimore City Green Party supports Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s proposed 4-cent-per-bottle tax increase, and urges City Council members to support this and other ecologically-sound revenue generators for the city of Baltimore. “The city ought to be cutting taxes on things that are valuable to city residents, like home ownership, re-structuring city taxes to [...]

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Tags: Green Party

Kitten for Sheriff Campaign Announces Operation Litter Sweep

July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Via facebook: Kitten urges rogue sheriffs, crooked cops, bank CEOs, war criminals, politicians and other illegitimate rulers to turn themselves in immediately! MINNEAPOLIS– The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has announced plans to conduct a “sweep” of low-level fugitives this month, clearing warrants in a fashion similar to last December’s “Operation Year End Clearance.” In response, [...]

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Tags: Independents

Tom Tancredo Threatens Constitution Party Run for Governor of Colorado

July 23rd, 2010 · 170 Comments

Tom Tancredo has long been rumored to be flirting with the Constitution Party. Rumors have abounded since roughly 2004 that Tancredo might make runs for the House, Senate, or President as the Constitution Party nominee. Now, it seems, the rumor has become reality. Tom Tancredo, the former House member from Colorado and anti-illegal immigration firebrand, [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party

RI: Chafee Maintains Lead in Gubernatorial Race

July 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

From Rasmussen: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Rhode Island finds Chafee with 37% to Caprio’s 30% if John Robitaille is their GOP opponent. Robitaille, a former top aide to current Governor Don Carcieri, gets 23% of the vote. Two percent (2%) would vote for “some other candidate” and eight percent [...]

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Tags: Independents

PA Libertarians Embrace Their Major Party Opponents

July 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Well…. kinda….

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Democratic MO Senate Candidate Calls for Open Debates

July 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Robin Carnahan, Democratic candidate for US Senate and current Secretary of State of Missouri, has recently spoken up about the matter of debates: Missouri’s Democratic and Republican front-runners for the U.S. Senate already are talking about debates — even before the primary elections. Missouri’s primaries are Aug. 3. Yet Democrat Robin Carnahan, Missouri’s secretary of state, [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Libertarian Party

The Snitker Paradox

July 22nd, 2010 · 10 Comments

Libertarian Alex Snitker has been struggling to escape single digits in polling throughout his campaign. Is the candidate targeting the wrong voters?

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Warren Redlich: “Carl Paladino and the Mosque”

July 22nd, 2010 · 29 Comments

H/T Eric Sundwall in comments on Warren Redlich, Kristin Davis disagree on “Mosque” in New York City: Warren Redlich, Libertarian for Governor of New York in the Westchester Herald: Warren Redlich. ALBANY, NY, July 22, 2010 — Carl Paladino's "Mosque" press release (see below) was forwarded to me just now.  I oppose Mr. Paladino's plan [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Right-wing minor parties

Irregular Times reports on Unity12

July 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Articles at Irregular Times looking into the shadowy group “Americans Elect,” AKA “Unity12″ (formerly Unity08); Unity12 Changes its Name and its Goals, Dropping BiPartisanship Who is Paying Unity12′s Rent for its Top-Floor DC Beltway Suite? Where Does the Unity12 Task Force Dwell? Receipts Say the DC Beltway Before Going Public, Unity12 Task Force Starts Ballot [...]

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Tags: Non-left/right parties

FL: Crist, Rubio, Meek all make list of watchdog group’s most “Crooked Candidates”

July 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Darcy Richardson writes at Uncovered Politics: Floridians might need a lantern when looking for an honest candidate for the U.S. Senate this year, according to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The bright Florida sunlight might not be enough to find one. In the eyes of the widely-respected watchdog group, three of [...]

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party

Warren Redlich, Kristin Davis disagree on “Mosque” in New York City

July 22nd, 2010 · 54 Comments

NY Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Warren Redlich writes: There’s been a lot of misleading information about Cordoba House, the Islamic Community Center proposed for New York City, not too far from the World Trade Center site. Let’s be clear about one thing. It’s not a mosque. It’s a community center. Yes, it will have a large [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties

Redlich: Paladino evasive about Schumer/Clinton contributions

July 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments

NY Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Warren Redlich writes at wredlich.com: (Taxpayers Party/Republican primary candidate for Governor of NY) Carl Paladino continues to duck questions about his relationship with Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer. This morning on WIZR radio (930 AM in Johnstown), Paladino was asked to reconcile his purported conservative views with his $1000 contribution to [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Right-wing minor parties

Jesse Johnson Likely to be Mountain Party Nominee for U.S. Senate in West Virginia, Needs Fast Donations

July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Ballot Access News: The Mountain Party, West Virginia’s only ballot-qualified minor party, expects to nominate Jesse Johnson as its U.S. Senate nominee, in the special election for that office to be held November 2, 2010. Earlier this week, Republicans in the West Virginia legislature refused to vote for the bill setting up the special election, [...]

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Tags: Green Party

McKinney: Ag Secty Vilsack Must Keep Black Farmers on their Land

July 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

On The Wilder Side: “Vilsack Must Keep Black Farmers on their Land: One Million and a Half Black-Owned Farm Acres Being Looted by USDA While Farmers Wait for Justice“ Cynthia McKinney [USDA Secretary] Secretary Vilsack admitted in a press conference today, “I did not think before I acted.” It is clear from Agriculture Secretary Vilsack’s [...]

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Tags: Green Party

Wisconsin Won’t Print Independent Candidate’s Choice for Ballot Label

July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Ballot Access News: On July 21, the Wisconsin Elections Division voted not to permit Ieshuh Griffin, an independent candidate for lower house of the Wisconsin legislature, 10th district, to have her choice of ballot label on the November ballot. She chose “Not the ‘whiteman’s bitch’.” State law says an independent candidate may choose any label [...]

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Tags: Independents

Boston Tea Party National Committee Chair Darryl W. Perry: ‘The Non-Voters New Clothes’

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Emailed by Darryl Perry to contact.ipr@gmail.com: There’s an old story about an Emperor who was swindled into buying a new outfit. The Emperor “dressed” in his “new clothes” and began a procession through town. “Everyone in the streets and the windows said, “Oh, how fine are the Emperor’s new clothes! Don’t they fit him to [...]

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Tags: Non-left/right parties