Matt Reichel is running for Congress in Chicago.  He sent the following out to supporters: It was a breakthrough day for the Illinois Green Party yesterday: all starting with revelations that Gubernatorial candidate, Rich Whitney, was showing up on electronic early voting machines as “Rich Whitey” throughout the city. That’s right: a city that is [...]

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Lynne Williams was running for governor of Maine this year, but dropped out due to new laws that made the race harder on Green candidates.  She is now running for state senate.  The following was a message sent to supporters: It has recently come to my attention, through phone calls from friends and supporters, that [...]

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Green Party of New York State governor candidate Howie Hawkins’ latest video has real New York citizens passionately questioning why we haven’t seen a significant increase in employment. Click on the video to see regular men and women ask: “Where Are The F#$%-ing Jobs?”

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“Compliance with the transfer tax provisions would have required petitioner unmistakably to identify himself as a member of [a]…”selective” and “suspect” group, we can only decide that when read according to their terms these provisions created a “real and appreciable” hazard of incrimination.” – Leary v. United States, 395 U.S. 6 (1969), U.S. Supreme Court

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An interesting situation in Texas. From Jamie Mock at Fort Bend Now: District 27 State Representative candidate Ron Reynolds says it was a shock when he was confronted this week by a Libertarian candidate questioning Reynolds’ use of the term “representative elect.” Reynolds, a Democrat, was speaking to the Fort Bend County Chamber of Commerce [...]

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From the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader: One of the best known Republicans in Luzerne County Friday endorsed the Libertarian candidate in the race for the seat in the 120th Legislative District. Walter Griffith Jr., Luzerne County controller, has endorsed Tim Mullen, the Libertarian Party candidate who is challenging state Rep. Phyllis Mundy, the Democrat who has [...]

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This piece, by Washington CP Chairman Robert W. Peck, is from the Constitution Party website. by Robert W. Peck Chairman, Constitution Party of Washington (a critical review from a Constitutional perspective) So does the Republican’s new “Pledge to America” make you want to jump for joy, run up and down and shout? Well that’s what it’s [...]

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The Constitution Party website is running a series of comments from readers on why they support the CP. The latest one is from David Graves. My Story – David Graves I have always been politically conservative, but never really wanted to align with a party. I usually favored the Republican choice for President unless there [...]

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Libertarian John Monds participated in a three way gubernatorial debate yesterday at the Georgia National Fair. Details can be found here. He reportedly stayed “out of the fray” as the Democrat and Republican hammered each other with ethics charges. As I was looking for the story above I stumbled upon this one as well; Monds [...]

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Wayne Root had 13 different media appearances this week, some of them more than once.

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From Rasmussen: The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows LePage picking up 35% of the vote, while Mitchell draws support from 32%. Democrat-turned-independent Eliot Cutler now earns 21% of the vote. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and another six percent (6%) are undecided. (For survey question wording, click here… [...]

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First, you can watch the Illinois gubernatorial debate that includes Green Rich Whitney – although it excludes Libertarian Lex Green – by clicking here to watch the livestream.  It starts at 9 PM EST (that’s 8 PM in Illinois). Also (H/T to commenter WalterGPW), the previously reported voting machine error that would have listed Whitney [...]

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From the Arkansas Times (read the full thing here): It’s difficult to find any media reference to John Gray, Green Party candidate for Congress. Short of of an occasional brief sort of mention on the news, the lion’s share pf coverage goes to either Republican John Boozman or Democrat Blanche Lambert Lincoln. It is as [...]

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From the Chicago Sun Times: The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled as “Whitey” on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen wards — about half in predominantly African-American areas — and election officials said Wednesday the problem cannot be corrected by Election Day. The misspelling turned up on touch-screen machines [...]

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Liberty For America, a political action committee dedicated to supporting Libertarian Party candidates, is focusing its last-minute efforts on ballot access and major party status for the LP in New Hampshire. From a fundraising letter sent to targeted lists of Libertarian Party supporters: In 2012, do you want a LIBERTARIAN Presidential Primary, with national coverage [...]

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From the Michigan Messenger: Glenn Wilson, a conservative candidate mounting a third-party bid for Bart Stupak’s seat in Congress from the 1st District of Michigan, has lost his campaign manager. Rich Carlson resigned from the campaign and is accusing Wilson of violating a promise he made to drop out of the race if the polls [...]

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A new poll is out on the three-way  (and a handful of write-ins) South Carolina Senate race. From The State on the Winthrop University poll: U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is poised to cruise to re-election, as 58 percent of poll respondents favor DeMint. But Green Party candidate Tom Clements of Columbia is preferred by 12 percent [...]

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Nick Youngers has provided an updated list of candidates his fledgling group plans to promote. For more background on this project, see this post. On a related note, you may want to check out the LNCC, which has been similarly promoting and supporting candidates in a variety of races across the country. [Note, I did [...]

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Matt Gonzalez has a colorful history as a third party candidate. He is the former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as a Green. In addition, in 2003 he ran against Gavin Newsom for Mayor, losing a hotly contested race. In 2008 Gonzalez left the Green Party, joining Nader to run on his [...]

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Sorry Woodrow. The Texas Tribune reports: Iconic Texas entertainer and perennial politician Kinky Friedman plans to endorse Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Kathie Glass, which presents him with a problem: “I already said I would endorse Woodrow the dog,” he explains. “He’ll have to be my animal endorsement, and Kathie will be my human endorsement.” Friedman, who [...]

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