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Entries from August 2010
Kristin Davis (Anti-Prohibition Party-NY) update
August 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Libertarian John Jay Myers (TX-32): League of Women Voters Answers
August 31st, 2010 · 5 Comments
LWV questions Myers responses: 1. Please describe the training and experience that qualify you for this office. (50 words) I have read and understood the Constitution of the United States. I understand that our country is going bankrupt, and that we can no longer continue to spend money on policing the world or running a [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Westword: Jaimes Brown and Colorado’s Libertarians are bringing the party to the people for the first time
August 31st, 2010 · 5 Comments
Jonathan Easley at Westword: At the 2008 Libertarian National Convention in Denver, some party members derisively passed around shots of Scope to wash the bad taste from their mouths following the presidential nomination of former Republican, Bob Barr. It wasn’t just that Barr was seen as an impure strain of Libertarian; some members felt he [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Talking Points Memo: Independent Candidate Bud Chiles Expected To Drop Out Of Florida Gubernatorial Race
August 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments
TPM: The Florida gubernatorial race could be getting yet another curveball thrown into it, the St. Petersburg Times reports, with independent candidate Bud Chiles expected to drop out soon. The article goes on to say “I’ll say this till the end: I’m not in this race to create a situation where (Republican) Rick Scott becomes [...]
Tags: Independents
TX: Gov candidates Kathie Glass (L), Bill White (D) Address North Texas Crime Commission; Rick Perry (R) skips
August 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments
HOUSTON, TEXAS – August 31, 2010: Kathie Glass, the Libertarian nominee for Texas governor and Bill White, the Democratic nominee, will share a forum before the North Texas Crime Commission on Wednesday, Sept 1, 7:30 AM at the Park City Club, 5956 Sherry Lane, Suite 1700, Dallas, Texas. The candidates will address challenges facing criminal [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Florida Tea Party Legislative Candidate Sues Secretary of State Over Ballot Exclusion Caused by Paperwork Error
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Ballot Access News: Recently, John A. Ferentinos filed a federal lawsuit against the Florida Secretary of State, over his exclusion from the ballot. He wishes to run as a Tea Party candidate for State Senate, 26th district. He paid his filing fee and submitted candidacy forms, but he was kept off the ballot because he [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Michigan Tea Party Loses Ballot Access Lawsuit
August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment
Ballot Access News: On August 30, the Michigan State Court of Appeals ruled that “The Tea Party” should not be added to the ballot because of discrepancies over its name. In many official documents it had said its name is “The Tea Party”. But on the petition sheets, the name of the party is “Tea [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Minnesota Independence Party Gubernatorial Candidate at 13% in Poll
August 31st, 2010 · 6 Comments
Ballot Access News: On August 31, the MPR News-Humphrey Institute released a poll for the Minnesota gubernatorial race. It shows: Republican Tom Emmer 34%; Democratic-Farmer-Labor Mark Dayton 34%, Independence Party Tom Horner 13%, undecided or other 19%. See this story. Horner, the Independence Party nominee, is already higher in this poll than Jesse Ventura was [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Ballot Access: North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from Green Party and Libertarian Party
August 31st, 2010 · 4 Comments
(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States, http://www.gp.org) North Carolina Green Party For immediate release Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Contact: Theresa El-Amin Phone Number: 919-824-0659 E-mail: teagreenparty@aol.com Web site: http://www.ncgreenparty.org Press conference, 9 am in front of the courthouse in Raleigh on Sept. 9 On September 9, 2010 , the North Carolina Supreme [...]
Tags: Green Party · Libertarian Party
Steve Kubby: ‘Restoring Trust and Credibility to the City Council’
August 31st, 2010 · 9 Comments
By Steve Kubby, candidate for South Lake Tahoe City Council. Kubby was the 1998 Libertarian candidate for Governor of California, 2000 and 2008 runner up for the party’s Vice Presidential nomination, and sought its presidential nomination in 2008. Dear South Lake Tahoe City Council, Last week the Tahoe Daily Tribune published a compelling narrative about [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Constitution Party Will Sue to Get on Illinois Ballot
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Ballot Access News: The Constitution Party of Illinois expects to file a lawsuit on September 1 to get its statewide slate of candidates on the Illinois ballot. Illinois requires 25,000 valid signatures. After employees of the State Board of Elections checked each signature, they found 25,017 valid signatures. But then members of the Board reduced [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Third Party and Independent Daily: Latest Tancredo News
August 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments
TPID has two new items about former Congressman Tom Tancredo’s run for Governor as an American Constitution Party candidate in Colorado: CO: Tancredo Admits Drug War is a Failure, Calls for Legalization and Taxation of Marijuana From the Real Vail news: One of the more candid moments in McGarry’s interview with Tancredo was when he [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
MI-1: Independent Glenn Wilson, Green Ellis Boal in race to succeed Stupak
August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment
From the Michigan Messenger: via TPID: Now that Stupak’s seat is open, Republicans are eager to win it back, Democrats are struggling to hang on to it, and candidates from outside these parties are trying to get voters to rethink the fundamentals of how government operates. . . . Glenn Wilson, owner of a telecom [...]
Tags: Green Party · Independents
Illinois: At Least Seven Libertarian Candidates on Ballot
August 31st, 2010 · 28 Comments
The Libertarian Party of Illinois (“LP Illinois”) proudly announces that our state-wide slate of candidates will be on the ballot for this November’s election. By a unanimous vote last week, the Illinois State Board of Elections determined that LP Illinois has a sufficient number of valid petition signatures and as a result will be able [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Tea Party of Florida calls candidate forum a fraud and a scam
August 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments
This press release is from Aug 12, just found it while cleaning out my emails. TEA PARTY DENOUNCES GOP 8TH CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE FORUM FOR CHARGING $1,000 TO ATTEND AS FRAUD AND SCAM. Forum organized by group already under fire for making money illegally. WFLA 540 Host Bud Hedinger caught up in alleged scam. (Orlando) The [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Socialist Party of Michigan Asks for Reconsideration in Ballot Access Case
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Ballot Access News: On August 25, the Socialist Party of Michigan asked for reconsideration in its ballot access lawsuit, Socialist Party of Michigan v Land, in Ingham County Circuit Court. On August 18, the judge had ruled that the party had filed the case too late. The brief for reconsideration points out that Michigan can’t [...]
Tags: Socialist/left parties
Chuck Baldwin: ‘We Need A Revolution, Not A Movement’
August 30th, 2010 · 14 Comments
By Chuck Baldwin, 2008 Constitution Party Presidential Candidate: The elections of 2008 (and the early elections of 2010) produced two significant phenomena: the “Ron Paul Revolution,” and the “Tea Party Movement.” And, mark it down: both of them will have profound effects upon the upcoming November elections–and upon the 2012 elections as well. Call them [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Tom Tancredo: ‘Time is Running Out’
August 30th, 2010 · 33 Comments
Tom Tancredo sends this along. Here it is free of the “donate here” buttons. Dear Conservative, Time is running out! My campaign must file our campaign finance report with the State by September 1st and we must show at least $175,000 raised. It is critical that we have a strong report to prove we can [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
US Pirate Party: ‘Why Biometrics?’
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Bradley Hall at US Pirate Party: As the first results of our Endorsement Survey are arriving, and we feel that we need to clarify one of our questions and share our reasons for opposing a particular law in Oklahoma. The Pirate Party of Oklahoma is not opposed to the inclusion of an identifying facial picture [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Reform Party of New Jersey Holds 1st Convention, Nominates Mark Quick For Congress
August 30th, 2010 · 6 Comments
Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: On August 14th, 2010, delegates of the Reform Party of New Jersey gathered in Piscataway for the party’s first convention in over a decade. The Reform Party of the United States was America’s most successful third party during the 1990s. The populist appeal of candidates like H. Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura, and [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
