From the Washington Post: When Natasha Pettigrew, a Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate, was killed while riding her bicycle two months ago, her mother, Kenniss Henry, filled in, campaigning throughout Maryland. “I pretty much was my own campaign team,” said Henry, who switched her party from Democratic to Green to take her daughter’s [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: By suddenly selling much more of the taxpayer owned stock in GM then Washington let on before Tuesday the Obama Administration has made it far less likely that it will fully recover the bailout money when the Treasury Department sells the remaining shares next year. Once again the taxpayers are kept [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Dennis Mikolay: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ABOUT THE NATURAL LAW PARTY APPEARED IN THE MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY “OUTLOOK” ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2010. ——————————————————————– WHEN POLITICS COMES NATURALLY By Dennis “DJ” Mikolay Whenever the public becomes discontent with government policy, the masses start to recognize the ineffectiveness of the two-party duopoly. Thus, the talk [...]

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The Independence Party candidate for Governor of Minnesota this cycle hasn’t just disappeared into the woodwork. Instead, he seems to be shifting into the job of party-building. From an op-ed in the Star Tribune: Campaigns attract passionate and committed people. My campaign — and those of IP candidates before me — was no different. The [...]

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From the Fall 2010 Green Pages. Related article from the Libertarians: LP: Wherefore the urge to purge? by Brent McMillan, Green Party Executive Director When one crab tries to crawl up out of a bucket of crabs, the other crabs will reach up and drag the escaping crab back down into the bucket. I first [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: GREEN-RAINBOW CONVENTION CELEBRATES SUCCESSES, LOOKS TO FUTURE WORCESTER- The Green-Rainbow Party’s annual state convention was held on Sunday at Clark University in Worcester. The 80 attendees celebrated the fact that their small party had won major party status as a result of the elections and had emerged [...]

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Email from Vicki Kirkland, LP of Florida Chair: The Libertarian Party of Florida voted on their Sunday night, November 14th State Executive Committee phone conference to endorse Dallas, Texas as the site for the 2012 Naional Convention. The vote was unanimous. See previous discussion here. The issue will be decided at this weekend’s LNC meeting.

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Ballot Access News: In a massive defeat for ballot access for minor parties, on November 16 the First Circuit ruled that the Constitution permits the states to let qualified parties make a substitute nomination, but does not require that the state extend the same ability to non-qualified parties. The case reverses the U.S. District Court’s [...]

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As reported by George Phillies in IPR comments, Libertarian Party co-founder David Nolan has proposed the following resolution to be considered at this weekend’s LNC meeting: “WHEREAS the Libertarian Party can grow only by attracting new members and supporters, and “WHEREAS libertarianism is a unique political philosophy, distinct from both contemporary liberalism and contemporary conservatism, [...]

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The Long Island daily newspaper, Newsday, notes that The New Jersey Libertarian Party will be holding an Opt-Out demonstration at Newark Airport on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 (the day before Thanksgiving). The demonstration is in response to new security measures by the TSA.

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Ballot Access News: Kathleen Curry, Colorado’s only independent state legislator, still does not know if she won the election on write-in votes. The odds seem to suggest that she lost narrowly to her Democratic Party opponent, Roger Wilson. See this story.

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Independent Eliot Cutler recently penned an  op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. He finished within 2% of the winning Republican candidate, Paul LePage, in the Maine gubernatorial contest. You can read the full thing here, but below is an excerpt: To begin with, early voting diminishes the already scant attention voters pay to the issues [...]

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Dr. Tom Stevens writes at Liberty Lion: New York City Council Member Dan Halloran represents 161,000 constituents and is the highest elected Libertarian Party official in the nation elected from a single district in a partisan race. He ran as a fusion candidate and appeared on the ballot in 2009 as the candidate of the [...]

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Incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski has won re-election to her Alaska Senate seat with write-in votes. She is the first candidate to win a write-in bid for Senate since 1954.

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Thought the elections were over? Not in Texas…

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Krsiean was a conservative independent candidate for the U.S. House in Wisconsin. Here is a recap of his campaign from my co-blogger Sean Scallon. Sorry it is a little delinquent. My friend Mike Krsiean, spending little money in a huge U.S. House District in Wisconsin, still managed to come away with three percent of the [...]

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From Bloomberg via TPID: Australia’s Greens Party will introduce legislation in the lower house today in a bid to place restraints on the ability of Westpac Banking Corp. and its closest competitors to increase mortgage interest rates. The Greens aim to put a 24-month freeze on the so-called “Big Four” domestic banks, banning them from [...]

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from Green Party Watch Winona LaDuke in 2012? One election ends and the next begins. A movement is afoot to draft Winona LaDuke for President in 2012. There is a Facebook Page Draft Winona LaDuke for President 2012 up. There is a People for Winona Twitter feed…

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Via Florida Whig Party: Some additional videos from the site:

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org: George W. Bush is on a roll—a money roll with a $7 million advance for his book Decision Points and a rehabilitation roll to paint his war crimes as justifiable mass-slaughter and torture. His carefully chosen interviewers—NBC’s Matt Lauer and Oprah Winfrey—agreed to a safe pre-taping to avoid demonstrations and [...]

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