WASHINGTON – According to The Hill, House Republicans have just announced that they will seek appropriations for the rest of 2011 that are $32 billion below current spending levels. LP Chair Mark Hinkle commented, “The Tea Party supporters have been betrayed. These cuts are so small, you need a microscope to find them.” Hinkle continued, [...]

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by James N. Clymer Chairman, Constitution Party National Committee “A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest Clung to the hope which springs eternal in the human breast” These poignant lines from Casey at the Bat speak to the emotions that those of us who follow and cheer our favorite baseball [...]

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Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik blog: People are urging Ron Paul to run once again, in 2012: I can’t think of a better candidate. If Paul runs, it will probably be for the Republican Party nomination. If he loses (as he probably will), he can then run on either the Libertarian Party or Constitution Party, [...]

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By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Best-Selling Author The media has done it again. As usual, they’ve presented the wrong message to the American people about the Egyptian crisis and it’s not just because of the liberal bias of the U.S. media. It’s also because both the left and right have [...]

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We previously reported that several candidates were courting the Monroe County Green Party for its Rochester mayoral line. Now, the party has made a decision. From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Saying the Democratic candidates for mayor have had their chance, Green Party nominee Alex White on Tuesday said he would seek creative solutions to [...]

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From Nader.org: Dear President Obama: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reflected your sentiments when she commented on the Egyptian uprising with the words “We want to see free and fair elections.” But in the District of Columbia, where you and Secretary Clinton reside, there are no “free and fair elections” for electing representatives with full [...]

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Ballot Access News: On January 31, Peace & Freedom Party candidate Daniel Frederick filed a lawsuit in state court in Sacramento, contesting the interpretation and constitutionality of the California Secretary of State’s rules for candidates who choose to file a petition in lieu of a filing fee, rather than paying the filing fee. The lawsuit [...]

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Third Party and Independent Daily: Two stories out of Salem Ohio appear to indicate that a local independent movement is gaining steam.  From Salem News: SALEM – Republican Mayor Jerry Wolford switched to being an Independent candidate for mayor for the second time in his long political career. On Tuesday, after Councilman at-large John Berlin [...]

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At 8:00 EST, Cindy Sheehan will take part in a live chat on Patriot Polls.com. Sheehan is a member of the Peace and Freedom Party of California. In 2008, she ran as an Independent against former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, earning 16.14% of the vote in that bid. Sheehan also runs a website here.

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Posted by Paulie: In my last update on Americans Elect I wrote: Jim Cook has updates on Americans Elect activities in Arizona, Nevada and Ohio. The petitioner grapevine has it that Americans Elect petitioning has been completed in Arizona and Kansas, but Nevada is the only state that their signatures have been verified to have [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Darryl W. Perry, Chair, Boston Tea Party National Committee: Mass protests recently broke out in North Africa and the Middle East, with the protests in Tunisia & Egypt garnering more coverage than those in Jordan & Yemen. Yet protests in all four of these countries are bringing about the change that [...]

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Vermont Progressive Party: This past week Gov. Shumlin delivered his first budget recommendation. Since he has summarily dismissed the idea of looking at increasing taxes (even as the wealthiest 5% of Vermonters will enjoy $190 million savings thanks to the extension of the Bush tax cuts), cuts were inevitable. Consistent with his predecessor, Shumlin proposed [...]

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by the Socialist Party USA International Commission- January 31, 2011 Tunisia has become the latest hot spot in a global wave of popular rebellion against failed economic policies, corruption, and despotism. Ongoing protests throughout the country – called the Sidi Bouzid intifada by Tunisians in reference to the city where the protests began – were [...]

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The following statement was adopted by the State Executive Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party on January 30, 2011. The Peace and Freedom Party rejects the 2011 budget plan presented by Governor Jerry Brown. The Governor proposes to cut education and other vital social programs while extending regressive tax increases. We can have a [...]

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org; also published in the Wall Street Journal: I have long fought against the systemic disempowerment of investors in large public corporations, but the mistreatment of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders, including me, is uniquely reprehensible. For decades Fannie and Freddie behaved like other large, publicly held financial corporations. [...]

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Charles Barron ran for Governor of NY State in 2010 with the Freedom Party. On January 31st, Charles Barron was arrested, along with a dozen other protesters, at a demonstration against school closures in New York City.

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