Darrell Castle was the Constitution Party Vice Presidential nominee and is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Constitution Party National Committee. This essay appears at the Constitution Party of Tennessee’s website: “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that [...]
Entries from March 2011
Darrell Castle: Are We all Just Pawns on the Grand Chess Board?
March 7th, 2011 · 11 Comments
Tags: Constitution Party
North Carolina’s Jordon Greene Instrumental In Introduction of Electoral Freedom Act of 2011
March 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment
From an e-mail from Gary Odom: “Free the Vote” Founder Will Appear At Ballot Access Workshop At Upcoming Harrisburg National Committee Meeting in April Jordan Greene of Charlotte, North Carolina, who, along with Albert L. Pisano and Terry D. Hardison, was recently selected to serve on the Constitution Party National Committee from the State of North Carolina, is playing a major role in the [...]
Tags: Constitution Party · Third parties, general
Special Election for Alabama Legislature Will be Between a Republican and a Constitution Party Nominee
March 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments
From an e-mail from Gary Odom. The first two paragraphs are from Ballot Access News. The rest is Constitution Party editorial: Alabama will hold a special election on June 28 to fill the vacant seat in the State House of Representatives, 105th district. The legislator elected in November 2010, Spencer Collier, resigned in January to [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Wayne Root: ‘A Teachable Moment: How Obama Would Solve the NFL Labor Crisis’
March 7th, 2011 · 83 Comments
Tags: Libertarian Party
Virgil Goode: Trading Away Sovereignty
March 7th, 2011 · 14 Comments
Virgil Goode is a former Congressman from Virginia. He was once a Democrat, then a Republican, and is now affiliated with the Constitution Party. He is rumored to be a potential candidate for the Constitution Party Presidential nomination in 2012. This appeared in The American Conservative: Last week, the New York Times reported that Obama [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Fuzzy Math in Tony Hall’s Path To San Francisco Mayor
March 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Tags: Independents
Jake Porter: ‘Mind Your Own Business: Why The U.S. Should Stay Out of Libya’
March 7th, 2011 · 5 Comments
Excerpt reposted at LP blog by Mark Hinkle: With the recent protests and split within the nation of Libya, many are suggesting that the United States should enforce a no-fly zone or even take military action on Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi and his loyal forces and mercenaries to stop the violence, continued bloodshed, and threat [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Garland Favorito of VoterGa: Legislative Update
March 6th, 2011 · No Comments
VoterGa focuses on ballot access and ballot security issues: VoterGa Supporters, For the last two months I have been working with some legislators who are friendly to our cause so that we can get our good legislation from last year re-introduced. This would include bills such as the HB1215, Optical Scan Voting bill, we call [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
Alex White Online Chat Tonight
March 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Participate in a live chat with Alex White, the Green Party Candidate for Mayor of Rochester, NY. The chat will be at http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus at 8 p.m. EST until 9 p.m. EST, Sunday March 6. Alex White is running in a special election for Mayor of Rochester, NY [...]
Tags: Green Party
Poli-Tea: Independent Majority in Massachusetts
March 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments
From Mass Live via Poi-Tea: ong-term, the percent of the state’s 4 million voters not affiliated with a political party leapt from 40.6 percent of the total in 1982 to 51.9 percent in 2010. Over the same 28-year period, the percent of registered Democrats in the state fell from 45.3 percent to 36.5 percent. Republican [...]
Tags: Independents
Massachusetts Libertarians Schedule National Political Event in New Hampshire
March 6th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Email from George Phillies: Massachusetts Libertarians have organized a national political event ‘The Future of the Libertarian Political Movement’. The event will be held Sunday, June 19 at the Highlander Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire. Keynote speaker Judge John Buttrick of Arizona will speak at lunch. Libertarian Presidential candidates will debate. For morning, afternoon, and [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Wayne Root Comments on FOX News Featured on Jon Stewart Show
March 6th, 2011 · 145 Comments
Email from Wayne Root to IPR: Wayne Root continues to attract media attention. Yes, he was a guest on 30+ shows in the past couple of weeks- as usual. But Wayne’s appearances on FOX News actually get noticed and discussed by other mainstream media. A year ago NBC News aired a one hour special on [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Green mayoral candidate and Nader’s VP candidate Matt Gonzalez named chief attorney of San Francisco’s Public Defender
March 6th, 2011 · 4 Comments
For some time, Matt Gonzalez represented the Green Party as well as his constituency on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He also ran what was perhaps the most competitive Green campaign for mayor of a major city in US history, losing by about six percentage points to Gavin Newsom. He later left the Green [...]
Tags: Green Party · Independents
Update from Richmond, CA: Green mayor helps uphold ban on chain restaurants, encourages constitutional amendment, and more
March 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Richmond, CA is the largest city in the United States with a Green mayor. Her name is Gayle McLaughlin, she was reelected recently, and Richmond Confidential has an update on a few recent votes that she was involved in (read the full story here): After voting last month to approve a moratorium on chain restaurants [...]
Tags: Green Party
Eugene Platt, SC’s only elected Green, pushes for ‘historic’ rules against electronic voting machines
March 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The full story from the South Carolina Green Party: Eugene Platt is doing great work in local government alerting people to the serious problems with SC’s electronic voting machines. Voting machines targeted: James Island PSD official pushes for replacement BY EDWARD FENNELL JAMES ISLAND — A day after engineering a “historic” vote by his fellow James [...]
Tags: Green Party
Green Party Urges NY State to Reject Cuomo’s Budget Attacks on Workers & Poor NYers
March 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments
GPNYS via On The Wilder Side: Green Party Calls for State Lawmakers to Reject Cuomo’s Austerity Budget A Green New Deal would invest in jobs, education, fair taxes Image by ucloccupation via Flickr Green Party of NY State leaders today called Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget an attack on working and middle class New Yorkers that [...]
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Lee Wrights: Defending the Constitution means not enforcing unconstitutional laws
March 6th, 2011 · 7 Comments
Via email and Liberty for All: Most decisions in life are matters of individual choice. When faced with a decision you may ask a trusted friend or beloved family member for their advice or guidance, but most people have no need or desire to have someone else make the decision for them. They certainly don’t [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Videos from Green Party of Monmouth County, NJ regional conference on healthcare and labor
March 6th, 2011 · No Comments
Below are videos posted on Youtube from the Green Party of Monmouth County. On February 27th, they hosted a regional conference on “the Greens, labor, and healthcare,” featuring speakers and performers including Hugh Giordano of the Green Party of Philadelphia, folk singer Tom Neilson, Howie Hawkins of the Green Party of New York, and Margaret [...]
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In Pennsylvania, the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader notes Libertarian Tim Mullen’s run for Luzerne County Council
March 6th, 2011 · No Comments
Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader via LP blog: Seven more candidates have surfaced in the Luzerne County Council race, bringing the total number of contenders to 28 Democrats, 13 Republicans and one Libertarian. .. Tim Mullen said he will run as a Libertarian. .. Independent, Libertarian and other third-party candidates won’t be selected in the primaries but will [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Evergreen Libertarian: Bring The troops Home Now
March 5th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Michael H. Wilson at Evergreen Libertarian: Since this is the only focus group I have access to I’ll pitch this piece your way. This is a piece I am hoping to use as a brochure this summer at an outdoor booth or two, so any comments you may have are much appreciated. Thank you, Imagine [...]
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