Michael Cavlan is running for U.S. Senate in the 2012 race, under the Minnesota Open Progressive banner. Cavlan’s opinion piece about the importance of third parties was recently published at a local media outlet.

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National Green Party leaders strongly criticized President Obama’s recent decisions on the controversial tar sands pipeline and EPA smog regulations, calling his support for the Keystone XL Pipeline and withdrawal of smog standards reckless and dangerous to public health and the environment.

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This correspondence was sent out yesterday regarding the recent developments in the LP Oregon. For background, read here, here, and here. There are actually a few more articles about it on this site, if the reader chooses to search “lp Oregon”. From: Mark Hinkle Date: September 5, 2011 1:15:20 AM EDT To: lnc-discuss@hq.lp.org Subject: Re: [...]

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“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind [...]

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Source: Ballot Access News New York holds a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 9th district, on September 13. Magellan Strategies, a pollster, just released a poll for this race. Three candidates are on the ballot: the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, and Socialist Workers Parties. See the poll results here. Thanks [...]

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Source: Ballot Access News “The Empire”, politics blog of WNYC (the leading National Public Radio station in New York city) has this lengthy story about Jesus Gonzalez, the Working Families Party nominee in the September 13 special election, Assembly, 54th district. Gonzalez is one of three 2011 minor party nominees in special legislative elections who [...]

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  Creating jobs in America is not all that complicated and it clearly is not the job of the Federal government to create jobs. Private sector companies create jobs, individuals create jobs – governments create cost.  Here are a few simple suggestions to create jobs in America:   • Cut the corporate tax rate from 35% [...]

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The Green Party of Suffolk — a local, Long Island, New York, chapter of the Green Party — has adopted the US Conference of Mayors’ resolution “Calling on Congress to Redirect Military Spending to Domestic Priorities.” The Green Party of Suffolk calls on our villages, towns and the county government to also pass the US Conference of Mayors’ resolution.

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Discuss almost whatever you want in the comments here, other than stuff that would get you and/or IPR in legal trouble, or stuff that has already been quarantined in “special” threads. This can include news items IPR should be covering, as well as just about anything else. Personal update: I still don’t have enough time [...]

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Beginning September 9, 2011, C-SPAN will present “The Contenders”. Each show will present the story of a presidential candidate who ran and lost, but who changed U.S. political history. Three candidates who ran outside the major parties are included.

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An LP ”insider” has told Lew Rockwell that he is. An old LP insider tells me that Gary has reached out to the Libertarian Party to see if he would be welcome as a 2012 presidential candidate.

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Brendan Kelly is the Libertarian Party candidate for New Hampshire State Representative, Rockingham District 14 in the special election on September 6, 2011. ThirdPartyPolitics.us: Why are you running for State Representative in New Hampshire? Brendan Kelly: I’ve been running for State Rep. because we need to change the direction our country is going and we’ll [...]

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Dr. Tom Stevens at Liberty Lion: Warren Redlich, the New York Libertarian Party’s Gubernatorial Candidate in 2010, has filed a defamation lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York seeking 10 million dollars in compensatory damages and 20 million dollars in punitive damages for a flyer mailed in [...]

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Jeremy Young at the Crolian Progressive: For a break from my usual fare, I decided to take a look at the campaign websites of the main declared 2012 minor-party presidential candidates. I’m doing this because there’s not a one that’s particularly good. I’m a supporter of third parties across the board, and I’d like to [...]

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Via Staff at LP.org: The following text is taken from the Indiana LP website: (Editor’s Note: By Josh Featherstone, Originally posted at his blog, Featherstone on Government. The LPIN candidate selection process takes place at our annual convention in April. LPIN Leadership and Rupert’s team will be exploring this idea further in the coming weeks.) [...]

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Source: Libertarian Party (LP.org)   Donna Knezevich: Why I\’m Running as a Libertarian Candidate   Donna Knezevich, running for Mississippi State Representative, reports about her campaign: You requested some information from me relative to what I have done on my campaign already, which includes: – Set up a website: www.donnak4ms.com – Held a kick off [...]

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Source: Ballot Access News New York fills the vacant 9th district U.S. House seat on September 13. Three candidates are on the ballot: Democrat David Weprin, Republican Bob Turner, and Socialist Workers nominee Christopher Hoeppner. All three candidates debated on Queens Public TV on August 23. The debate will be broadcast on four dates: (1) [...]

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Source: Infowars.com Below is an interview of Gatewood Galbraith, Independent candidate for Governor of Kentucky, on the Alex Jones Show, August 24, 2011.   Gatewood Galbraith: Running for KY Governor Against A \”Culture of Corruption\”   YouTube video link Gatewood Galbraith resources & links: Gatewood Galbraith campaign website: http://www.gatewood.com/site/ Gatewood Galbraith Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gatewood.galbraith Gatwood/Riley Facebook [...]

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Source: Libertarian Party (LP.org) The Newburyport News recently reported on the September 6 special legislative election in New Hampshire. In that three-candidate race, Libertarian Brendan Kelly is the only candidate with experience in elected office. Related Articles: August 21, 2011: New Hampshire Libertarians Hope to Win September 6 Special Legislative Election July 11, 2011: New [...]

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Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States with the Green Party, and more recently, as an independent candidate. Nader recently posted an excellent piece of commentary on the Tar Sands Arrests at The White House. Nader also includes commentary on the dilemma of liberals, progressives, environmentalists, and labor unions, during a Presidential election cycle when there is a Democratic President in office and running for re-election.

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