OK: Pirate Party Slams Google CEO on Transparency, Privacy and Surveillance From the Oklahoma Pirate Party via http://thirdpartydaily.blogspot.com/: “In a world of asynchronous threats it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.” – Eric Schmidt, Google CEO [...]

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Ballot Access News The Prohibition Party will hold its 2012 presidential nominating convention on June 21-23 in Cullman, Alabama. Cullman is in northern Alabama, about midway between Birmingham and Huntsville. The Prohibition Party has been holding its presidential conventions in the odd year before the presidential election year ever since 1943/1944. The habit came about [...]

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Posted by Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Bell, California, a working-class town of some 38,000 ten miles outside of Los Angeles, is a unique place. Its local government has proven to be citizen-proof, media proof, city-council proof and even leak-proof from inside its self-enriching top officialdom. Get this: Bell city manager. Robert Rizzo resigned a month [...]

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Numerous candidates for statewide office, including Libertarians, a Green and Tea Party candidate, in Pennsylvania were forced to withdraw from their respective races in recent weeks following Democratic and Republican led challenges to their ballot access petitions.  The ballot purge has drawn a fair amount of attention to the disparity and double standard governing ballot [...]

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In July, Green Party candidate for State Representative in PA’s 194th district Hugh Giordano received the endorsement of Bill Morris, a Democrat who ran and lost in the May primary.  (Full disclosure:  I’m doing a lot of volunteer work for the Giordano campaign.)  The news made several newspapers, including the Philadelphia Public Record, which ran [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Carbondale, IL—Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will hold two events this Monday, August 23rd, with representatives from the organization Move to Amend in Springfield. Move to Amend is a consortium of over fifty organizations that are rallying against the creation of the classification of corporate personhood. The day will begin with [...]

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I have been looking for an account of last Saturday’s Convention of the Constitution Party faction of the California AIP, and lo and behold I found this at the Constitution Party website. Imagine that. Sorry this is a tad late, but here it is. The first paragraph is obviously referring to a photo that is [...]

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From the Constitution Party website: (Delaware, OH)—Robert M. Owens, candidate for the office of Attorney General of Ohio, has been awarded the endorsement of the Family First Political Action Committee (Family First PAC) for the general election in November 2010.  This major statewide endorsement was based on Owens’ principled positions on family policy issues. “Robert [...]

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While the Progressive Party of Oregon nominated five candidates at its recent convention, one noteworthy candidate was left off its slate.

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In a blast from the recent past, a Georgia Libertarian could force a runoff in a statewide race with a strong showing at the polls.

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While IPR does not make it a habit to report on major party candidates, Ed Thompson may be a good exception to the rule. In 2002 he ran for Governor of Wisconsin as a Libertarian, winning 12% of the vote. His campaign was the most successful Libertarian gubernatorial race in the party’s history. Today, Thompson [...]

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Libertarian Stuart Bain, running against Independent/Modern Whig Jeff Vanke and incumbent Republican Bob Goodlatte in Virginia’s 6th congressional district, held a virtual town hall Friday night in conjunction with a planned moneybomb. The event brought in over $500 for the campaign. To see some quotes from Bain on the campaign trail, see this article. There has been at least one poll of the [...]

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A large dispute has erupted in local Florida politics over a “transit tax referendum.” For minor party enthusiasts, this passage from Mitch Perry may be of particular interest: Meanwhile, one of the most prominent elected official to champion the proposal, Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe, is being challenged next week by Josh Burgin in a [...]

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Luke Thomas at the Fog-City Journal reports: Former Board of Supervisors President and Vice Presidential Candidate Matt Gonzalez, Congressman and former Presidential Candidate Ron Paul, and 8th Congressional District candidate John Dennis (GOP), are scheduled to speak during a non-partisan, antiwar, anti-Washington and anti-incumbency free speech rally, September 4 in San Francisco. Matt Gonzalez also ran [...]

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Tom Tancredo, the Constitution Party nominee for Governor of Colorado, will soon name his own running mate in the contest.

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Former Constitution Party Presidential nominee, Michael Peroutka, will be addressing the 2010 League of the South National Conference. This year the annual conference is 8 – 9 Oct. at the Atlanta Airport Hilton.

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A recent piece from Vermont Public Radio focuses on the Vermont Progressive Party’s primary for Lt. Governor.  One candidate sees alliances with Democrats as reasonable, while the other would like the Progressives to be more independent.  Read or listen to the full thing here. (Kinzel) Power says the key is whether or not the winning [...]

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According to a recent Insider Advantage poll, the Libertarian candidate for Georgia Governor, John Monds, is polling at 5% and the Libertarian Senate candidate, Chuck Donovan, is at 7%. Historically libertarian candidates in Georgia have polled better than they eventually perform. Via Jason at PeachPundit.

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Carbondale, IL—Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will celebrate the opening of his newest campaign office this Saturday, August 21st, in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.  The grand opening celebration will take place from 2 PM to 4 PM at 516 E. 47th Street. The Whitney campaign also has offices in [...]

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On September 14th, voters in the DC Statehood Green Party primary will decide between two candidates running for city council, at-large.  One is David Schwartzman, self-described “professor, scientist, ecologist, human rights and peace activist, and fair tax advocate,” while the other candidate is Darryl Moch, the Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and ordained [...]

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