http://kristindavis2010.com/: Featured video: LinkedTube Media includes: High Times Reason CNN The Advocate UPI NY Post reports that she has been endorsed by a descendant of the original General Hooker NY Daily News 420 Times and more. Davis is running for Governor of New York.
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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