From Der Spiegel: Never in its history has Germany’s Green Party led one of the country’s 16 states. Now, the party could come out on top in two state elections next year. Renate Künast’s apparent intention to run in Berlin increases the Greens’ chances in the capital. Germany’s Green Party has had a number of [...]

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ANAHEIM, Calif — Duane Roberts, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, calls for “ending all U.S. military and economic aid to Israel” arguing that it is “morally wrong for taxpayers to continue financing this nation’s acts of state-sponsored terrorism against the Palestinian people”. Roberts points out “most Israeli leaders” would be “tried as war criminals” [...]

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You can listen to the full piece here. With its long progressive tradition, Madison, Wisconsin has been described as “78 square miles surrounded by reality.”  This year’s elections in Madison might reinforce that reputation.  In a year when Republicans appear to have momentum in the national political scene, the race for the Wisconsin State Assembly [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Tom Clements, South Carolina Green Party candidate for US Senate, has put out three TV commercials: “Extremists” “What has he done” “Harmful Vision”

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Faith Mangan at Fox News Blog reports that, with Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo polling within 4% of frontrunner Democrat John Hickenlooper and Republican Dan Maes now at 10% and dropping, numerous elected Republicans are now pulling their support from Maes and switching to Tancredo. If Maes ends up with less than 10% of the [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA http://www.gpofpa.org Green Party supports residents of Dimock Since DEP Secretary John Hanger announced his decision to construct a pipeline from Lake Montrose to Dimock to provide safe drinking water to the residents who are unable to use their wells, there has been a backlash. Cabot has denied all responsibility.  They claim [...]

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From the Journal Tribune via TPID: Maine’s two major political parties have been doing a marvelous job advocating for one of the state’s gubernatorial candidates. But neither Democrats nor Republicans are making a convincing case for their own party’s nominee. The aspirant they’ve unwittingly been boosting is an independent. . . . A governor whose [...]

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From Wicked Local via TPID: Like many of her neighbors, K.C. Winslow was fed up with politics as usual. On Beacon Hill and at the national level, she had grown tired of seeing divided parties taking it too far to the right, or too far to the left. “That leaves most of us right here [...]

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Featured prominently on the front page of the progressive news site Raw Story: “This is a very opportune moment to tell people that whether you elect Democrats or Republicans, you’re basically getting a GOP agenda,” Scott McLarty, a national spokesman for the US Green Party, told Raw Story. The Green Party, officially founded in 2001 [...]

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Posted by Jake Towne at Liberty Maven on October 6: “Know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?” – Lord Byron Last night at a local candidates’ night I gave the below speech, though the bracketed paragraphs were cut out due to time limitations. The event was co-sponsored by the Lehigh [...]

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Email from Steve Kubby, candidate for South Lake Tahoe, CA City Council (rearranged to put items relating to the current campaign at the top): [H]ere’s our latest radio commercial for my run for South Lake Tahoe City Council: http://proxychi.baremetal.com/kubby.com/60.couple.TRPA.mp3 For more media and updates on my South Lake Tahoe campaign see here: http://kubby4citycouncil.com/ Kubby South [...]

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Ciara O’Rourke in the Austin American-Statesman: True to his word, GOP Gov. Rick Perry did not attend Tuesday night’s gubernatorial debate in Austin. He’d earlier said he wouldn’t gab toe-to-toe with Democratic nominee Bill White until White released more tax returns from his stints in public posts. Unsilenced, White, Libertarian candidate Kathie Glass and Green [...]

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Press release from Free and Equal: U.S. Senate and Illinois gubernatorial candidates will debate on issues ranging from the economy to environmental concerns to the War on Drugs, in back-to-back debates today, Thursday, October 21, 2010, at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. The debates will take place in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium in Holmes Student [...]

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On October 20, 2010, the Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties of Pennsylvania filed a brief in the Third Circuit. The case is Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v Cortes. The issue is problems with PA election law related to minor parties, including the fact that, currently, minor parties and independent candidates who try to run for office are subjected to the risk of paying up to $100,000 if they submit a petition that is insufficient.

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Constitution Party 2008 Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves [...]

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The following is from the Tancredo campaign: At midnight tonight, my Road to Victory Money Bomb comes to an end. Tomorrow morning, my campaign manager – Bay Buchanan – will make our final media purchases. My campaign a still far away from her original goal, but I have some wonderful news: Due to a technical [...]

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Posted by Staff at LP blog, October 1: On September 29, LP Chair Mark Hinkle appeared on the "Baldy & the Blonde" show on WGSO radio in New Orleans. Part of the discussion was about our recent statement about the Republicans’ "Pledge to America." Listen to the podcast.

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Mark Hinkle at Libertarian Party blog, October 3: I am, once again, please to add another web link on our Liberty-Links web page: www.ntu.org The National Taxpayers Union has been long time advocate for the U.S. taxpayers. I’ve been a member for at least a couple of decades. If you want to keep up with [...]

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Posted by Rachel Hawkridge at LP blog on October 3:   Who has one of the year’s best political ads for third party and independent candidates (so far)?         See "Most Aggressive Challenge to a Major Party Rival"   Who is Florida’s first Libertarian Senate candidate? Rachel Hawkridge    Arianna Halgren       Alex Snitker       Who will [...]

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The latest video from Libertarian Travis Irvine for Congress in Ohio. H/T IPR reader Be Rational in comments on a previous post.

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