From the San Francisco Chronicle: [Jane] Kim helped organize the now defunct San Francisco People’s Organization, a coalition of more than three dozen left-leaning groups that emerged as an offshoot of then-Supervisor Matt Gonzalez’s unsuccessful run for mayor in 2003. She lost her first race for school board in 2004. She ran again two years [...]

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Senator Lisa Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate for Senate in Alaska, after she was defeated in her primary by a candidate supported by Sarah Palin. Senator Murkowski has now officially been named winner of the state’s Senate race.

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In over a century of struggle to avoid monopolization of the general election ballot to just the two major parties, there has never been a pressure group that worked in favor of restrictive ballot access laws, until very recently. Leaders of the former New Alliance Party, who have renamed themselves several times, now call themselves IndependentVoting.org. They hold themselves out as the leaders of independent voters, but they have become a pressure group working to limit choices on the general election ballot to just Democrats and Republicans.

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From Philadelphia Weekly (read the whole thing here): Hugh Giordano, a 26-year-old, Roxborough native and food workers’ union organizer for UFCW Local 152, ran on the Green Party ticket against Democrat Lou Agre for a seat in the 194th. He lost, but garnered 18 percent of the vote (23 percent in Philly)—an unprecedented number for [...]

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In recent weeks there have been growing calls for Independent Senator Bernie Sanders to run for president, but Sanders has stated that he “ain’t gonna do it.”  From The Nation: activists across the country started talking up the notion of a “Sanders for President” run in 2012, either as a dissident Democrat in the primaries [...]

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I will interview Mik Robertson tomorrow night on IPR Radio at 9:00 EST. Mik Robertson is the Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania. He has served in several local offices, including Chair of the Licking Township Board of Supervisors and Vice-Chair of of the Clarion County Sewage Association. In addition, he has run for [...]

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The latest news on the Republican/Conservative/Libertarian NYC Councilman from Queens.

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As the title suggests, an Associated Press story about the growing influence of the Green and Conservative Parties – through their better ballot placement – since the 2010 election ran in several newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal: The big winners after November’s elections were the state’s Conservative and the Green parties. The Green Party [...]

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Nader writes, in part: “The corporate defrauding of taxpayers (eg. Medicaid and Medicare) and prescription drugs with skyrocketing prices was the subject of a report by Public Citizen’s Dr. Sidney Wolfe and his associates. Dr. Wolfe’s team compiled a total of 165 federal and state settlements since 1991 totaling $19.8 billion in penalties. A key finding is that the drug industry’s penalties under the Federal False Claims Act exceed even those assessed against the overcharging defense industry for fraud.”

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Dear Friend of Liberty, “This is the last Monday Message of 2010, and I thought I would take the opportunity to mention a few of the things our party has achieved this year. Over 800 Libertarians ran as candidates in the November 2 election. (That’s up from about 600 in 2008 and also about 600 [...]

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From the Cherry Hill Courrier-Post: Edward “Weedman” Forchion, a perennial political candidate in Burlington County, says he will keep running for office until lawmakers get the message that sticky ickies should be decriminalized.”The law is wrong and I am right,” Forchion said by phone from Oakland, Calif. “The state of New Jersey has made a [...]

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In this article in New York Magazine, Christopher Beam lays out the many paths followed by libertarian activists in recent years. Be warned: there is significant editorializing near the end of the article. Nevertheless, it presents many interesting facts, some of which may be interesting to third party politicos. A snippet: That’s how conservative politics [...]

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Merry Christmas 2010 & Happy New Year 2011 from Wayne Root and Family

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The following article on Al Jazeera English was written by Cindy Sheehan (peace activist, Peace and Freedom Party member, and 2008 independent candidate for Congress) and sent to her supporters.  An excerpt is printed below. It is hard to separate this issue from the activities of the military. War might be a “racket”, but it is also [...]

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The Green Party is part of a coalition addressing problems in Georgia prisons. Bruce Dixon, a Green from Georgia, wrote an article relating the prison issues to the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The article summary is as follows:

“Last Friday members of the Concerned Coaltion to Protect Prisoner Rights met with Georgia correctional officials. The following Monday they commenced the first of a series of fact finding visits to the state’s correctional institutions, seeking the reasons and right response to the stand of inmates demanding their human rights. Dr. King’s annual holiday is coming up too. What would he say about the prisoners and the nation’s misguided public policy of mass incarceration? What would he do, and what should we?”

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Wayne Allyn Root, the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate, best-selling author, Fox News Channel regular guest, and outspoken Libertarian-conservative media personality, guest hosts the nationally-syndicated “G. Gordon Liddy Show” on Monday December 27th. Root’s guests will include former Republican Presidential candidate, Chairman of “Campaign for Liberty,” and Best-Selling author of “End the Fed,” U.S. Congressman [...]

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A political opinion poll by AngusReid includes political data about people’s real vs. artificial Christmas tree preferences. (Guess which third party folks prefer imitation trees?)

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Lee Wrights, a libertarian writer, activist and potential 2012 presidential nominee, said that if elected president, his first message to the members of the US Armed Forces will be “you will be home for Christmas.”

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The latest press on the most influential mayor in America.

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WASHINGTON – While Democratic and Republican politicians outdo each other with calls for the prosecution and even execution of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange for providing information to various news media, Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle says that free speech and freedom of the press must be supported unconditionally. Hinkle released the following statement today: [...]

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