Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party has announced another endorsement for Mark Miller, the Green candidate for MA State Representative in the 3rd Berkshire District: Breaking News! Mark just today received the endorsement of the Mass Alliance, the foremost coalition of progressive organizations in Massachusetts, including economic and social justice, labor, [...]

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Press release from the national LP: WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: "In the Republican candidate debate last night, I observed that not a single Republican candidate made any proposals for immediate cuts to Social Security, the single largest government program in America. "Republicans are so scared of losing [...]

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From the New York Times: But Switzerland, which may be the world’s most direct democracy, takes fringiness to an entirely different level. Here, any citizen over the age of 18 can start a political party. To get on the ballot for Parliament’s lower house, all a party needs are 100 to 400 voter signatures, depending [...]

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From Truthdig.com: By now, probably everyone reading this is already sick of America’s quadrennial political spectacle—the one in which politicians and media outlets ask us to believe that there remain vast differences between our two political parties. It’s like cheaply staged pornography on a red and blue set, with words like “polarization,” “socialist” and “extremist” [...]

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Ballot Access News: On October 18, Massachusetts holds a special election to fill the empty State House seat, in the Berkshire 3rd district. So far, Green Party nominee Mark Miller has more funds in his campaign bank account than any of his three opponents. He is opposed by a Democrat, a Republican, and an independent. [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Over at Alternet, Jeff Biggers has published a detailed interview with Bob Henry Baber, the West Virginia Mountain Party’s candidate for governor in an October 4th special election: In a blatant genuflect to the coal industry’s stranglehold over state politics, the West Virginia Broadcasters Association blocked the participation of [...]

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Ballot Access News: Rhode Island State House member Daniel P. Gordon, Jr., elected as a Republican to his first term in November 2010, was expelled by the Republican House caucus earlier this month after he was arrested for not having appeared some time earlier in a Massachusetts court. See this story about his legal troubles. [...]

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Carl Person, a candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination, has sent IPR and posted on his website a release calling to “CREATE COMPETITION FOR “TOO BIG TO FAIL” BANKS BY HAVING EVERY STATE, CITY AND TOWN SET UP A NORTH DAKOTA TYPE STATE BANK”. I haven’t been able to copy and paste the text of [...]

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Brian Irving at Wrights2012.com: Hidden deep on page 359 of the defense appropriations bill being written behind closed doors is the latest faux declaration of war being concocted in Washington D.C. Sabin Willett, a partner at Bingham McCutchen in Boston which has represented prisoners at the Guantanamo prison, writes in the Boston Globe: “Provisions in [...]

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IPR Note: This press release was issued last week. Troy Davis was executed tonight. “We must not Sacrifice Fairness for Finality, Nor Ignore Perjury Enticed by Law Enforcement Officers” “Why was the testimony of all those recanting witnesses credible enough to send a fellow human being to prison, but is not credible enough to release [...]

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Bob Morris at Politics in the Zeros: The Pirate Party — which is committed to freeing up the internet — came up big, garnering 9% of the vote (!) and winning seats in government for the first time in the party’s history. Merkel’s party came in second and their coalition partner failed to qualify for [...]

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Ballot Access News: On September 19, Tim Quinn, an independent candidate for Mayor of Elyria, Ohio, at the November 8, 2011 election, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to get on the ballot. His petition was not questioned, but he was still kept off the ballot because he voted in the partisan primary. The [...]

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Latest stories from http://www.modernwhig.org/: Our Reaction to the Debt Ceiling Debate The recent debt limit “debate” and resulting “deal” (whose text can be found at http://rules.house.gov/Media/file/XML_112_1/WD/DEBT_016.XML) once again showed how deeply dysfunctional our two-party system has become. The “debate” was really just a series of tone-deaf pontifications in which each side lectured the other and [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Maria Allwine, former Maryland Green Party gubernatorial candidate, recently had a letter published in the Baltimore Sun decrying the newspaper’s failure to cover Green Party candidates in local elections: As usual, The Sun does a grave disservice to its readers and Baltimore City voters by refusing to acknowledge that [...]

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Emailed to IPR: New Martinsville, WV, September 9, 2011 – Raymond V. Davis III is an Independent who is running for the US House of Representatives. His campaign platform is focused on methods to help create jobs in West Virginia. Mr. Davis believes the way to create full employment is to build up existing small [...]

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Latest updates on Americans Elect At Ballot Access News: California Secretary of State Web Page Has Data on Americans Elect Petition Validity Americans Elect Begins Petitioning for Oregon Ballot Americans Elect Adds Details About Building Itself as an Organization Americans Elect Asks its Delegates to Help Build the Organization At Irregular Times: Americans Elect keeps [...]

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Here is a weekend event many IPR readers might be interested in.  There will be over 70 speakers over the course of three days–plus, it’s free! Check it out: Agora I/O: The Liberty Unconference               

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The Utica Observer-Dispatch via Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: UTICA — The city mayoral race is going green. Robert Clemente, 53, on Tuesday announced he will be running for mayor on the Green Party line – meaning five people are in contention for the position. Clemente acknowledged he is starting late in the race, [...]

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Emailed to IPR: Independent 9th District Congressional candidate Bruce Burleson’s campaign is officially underway. Flyers are going up, Burleson is meeting and greeting voters at local shopping centers, yard signs are on their way, and he has also just launched a campaign website. The site details much of Burleson’s views on a variety of issues, [...]

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E-Verify has morphed into a monster by Bob Barr as published on The Daily Caller 9/19/2011 In this column last week, I raised the alarm about the “E-Verify” program proposed to be implemented as part of the Legal Workforce Act (HR 2164) under consideration to be fast-tracked by House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TX). Now, [...]

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