“…when I go home my workday doesn’t end. I toss and turn in my sleep worrying about how to pay my bills and taxes. That’s how it works when you pay your own bills…” Wayne Allyn Root

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A press release from the Green Party of the US, along with a statement from the Global Greens: WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders from the U.S. have joined Green elected officials and leaders from countries throughout Latin America and Europe in Cancun, Mexico, to participate in the 16th session of the Conference of the [...]

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From Dissident Voice (read the full thing here): Wikileaks is the most important thing to happen to the cause of democratic rule since the multitude of grassroots uprisings in 1968. Even sympathetic commentators miss the fundamentally radical threat to the existence of the bureaucratic state it represents; Wikileaks is most powerful contemporary weapon in the [...]

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From NorthJersey.com: About 20 members of the Green Party of Essex and Passaic Counties and the Sierra Club handed out fliers and recruited others in downtown Bloomfield to sign postcards opposing the power plant to be sent to Governor Christie and the state’s two U.S. senators. “They’re trying to find all these ways to keep [...]

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Andrew Malcolm and Craig Howie of the Los Angeles Times report the Libertarian Party’s plans to hold its next Presidential nominating convention in Las Vegas. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ticket-20101205,0,7529802.story Finally, the desert city of Las Vegas breaks the ice and gets its first national political convention. The Libertarian Party will gather there the first week of May 2012 [...]

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The Bristol Press writes about the results for the Working Families Party in the 2010 elections in Connecticut.

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A Newsweek story includes interview with Green Party leaders: Renate Künast of Germany, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, and Elizabeth May of Canada.

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Siân Berry is a Green campaigner, writer and politician. She has written an opinion piece on how to think about and communicate about Christmas, with a Green Party and an atheist world view. One of her green examples is the Stop Shopping crusade of Reverend Billy Talen, 2009 Green Party candidate for Mayor of NYC.

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Gatewood Galbraith has officially thrown his hat in the ring for Kentucky Governor. The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: FRANKFORT, Ky. — Perennial candidate Gatewood Galbraith officially kicked off his fifth run for governor Wednesday, saying that this race will be different from past campaigns when he finished near the bottom of the pack. “We figure we [...]

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From the Free & Equal Elections Foundation: Since 1964, not even one third party or independent candidate has appeared on the Georgia ballot for U.S. House of Representatives. In the last 10 years, Georgia has been the only state to have no minor party or independent candidates on the ballot for the office. Georgia law [...]

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First there was tea. Then came coffee. Are Hispanic voters looking for something with a little more spirit?

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From Libertarios of America: Texas Libertarios co-founder Robert Butler will be touring South and West Texas next week from Saturday, Dec. 4th to Thursday, Dec. 9th recruiting candidates for the local elections in May, organizing local Libertarios, and educating voters on the principles of liberty. Texas Libertarios is comprised of Hispanics from all across Texas, from all walks [...]

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From Gold America  Group: Lee Wrights is considering running for President. The Exploratory Committee of the Lee Wrights for President exploratory effort has moved to its first organizational phase. Campaign officers include Thomas Hill – Campaign Manager/Chair of Exploratory Committee Brian Irving – Press Secretary Robert Butler – Treasurer Julie Fox – Assistant Treasurer Sean [...]

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From Vermont Public Radio (H/T to paulie): A Progressive Party lawmaker will return to the Vermont House after a judge rejected a challenge to a recount that showed her winning. A recount Friday confirmed earlier election results showing Rep. Susan Hatch Davis ahead of Republican challenger Rodney Graham, of Williamstown, by four votes. Republicans challenged [...]

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In NY State, a party must receive 50,000 votes for Governor in order to gain automatic ballot status (and have its party name appear on the voter registration form.) News that the NYC vote tally is 17% higher than first reported, bodes well for the Libertarians, whose candidate, Warren Redlich, was close to the 50,000 mark.

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In a blow for the Green Party and many others, the party’s only City Councilor in Boston, Chuck Turner, was voted out of office by the City Council today.  He had been previously reelected with about 60 percent of the vote, even after accusations of bribery that eventually led to his conviction were made (see Turner’s defense of [...]

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After being convicted in an extortion case, which Turner claims was a persecution rather than a prosecution, Boston’s Green City Councillor penned the following piece: Reporters keep asking me why I won’t resign since I have been convicted of the crime of extortion of $1000 and three crimes of lying to FBI officials. I appreciate [...]

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Besides Root, speculation about potential Libertarian presidential candidates is focused on Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Reform Party Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican who could run in the GOP primary as well.

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