The October 2011 Ballot Access News reports the following data for Americans Elect ballot drives from about a month ago: Alabama, 20,000 signatures (44,829 valid needed) Alaska, already on Arizona, already on Arkansas, 0 (Paulie: they went for the 1,000 signature requirement and I believe they have collected them now) California, finished (P: Over 1.6 [...]

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by Buzz at IndependenceMinnesota.org: Fed up with our current political system and interested in just what the Occupy movement is all about, a number of Independence Party members set off for downtown Minneapolis for the opening day of OccupyMN’s protests on Friday, October 7. Among them were CD2 delegate Ted C. Williams and IP treasurer [...]

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From ManhattanMadam.com, the blog of Kristin Davis, 2010 Anti-Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of New York: EX-MADAM BLASTS VANCE RECORD ON WOMEN Cites DSK Dismissal and Marvel Scott Plea Bargain MANHATTAN – Former Madam Kristin Davis who went to prison for providing call girls to former Governor Eliot Spitzer and now heads a non-profit organization, [...]

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By Boston Tea Party national committee chair Darryl Perry: Tom Woods begins Rollback by asking “is it already too late?” Before giving a lengthy answer, he points to recent polls that suggests most Americans claim to not trust the federal government; though much like a teenager that insists his parents are clueless – still looks [...]

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Per politics1, “The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) was originally named the Workers League (WL). The WL was founded in 1966 as a Trotskyist communist group closely associated with the electoral campaigns of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The goal of these Trotskyist groups was a build a working-class labor party in the US affiliated with [...]

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Per politics1.com, “Socialist Action is a Trotskyist political party of “revolutionary socialists” originally founded by expelled members of the Socialist Workers Party. While the SA shares the SWP’s pro-Castro views, the SA still tries to retain its Trotskyist ideological roots (versus the SWP, which has drifted away from Trotskyism towards a more Soviet communist ideology). [...]

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Austin Cassidy at Uncovered Politics: The Florida Tea Party, an officially recognized political party in the state of Florida, was disbanded earlier this month by former party chair Peg Dunmire. In 2010, the TEA Party gave many state Republicans cause for concern when they filed more than two dozen candidates for office. Most were inactive [...]

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Written by Lee Anderson Posted at American Conservative Party (theamericanconservatives.org) Mitt Romney has taken a lot of heat over his “Romney Care” effort to insure all citizens while he was governor of Massachusetts. And for good reasons. The Massachusetts plan was supposed to accomplish two things; achieve universal health insurance coverage and controlling costs. An [...]

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Emailed to IPR: HOW ANY STATE LIBERTARIAN PARTY CAN WIN THE STATE-WIDE VOTE – BY SHOWING THAT LIBERTARIAN PRINCIPLES WORK IN CREATING PROSPERITY Substance of My Statements Made at the 10/22/11 Illinois State LP Presidential Debate (by Carl Person, Candidate for Libertarian Party Nomination for President) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, October 24, 2011. [...]

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Emailed to IPR Libertarian Party of Rhode Island www.LPRI.us For Immediate Release: LPRI On Pension Reform Like most political and civic organizations in our state, the Libertarian Party of Rhode Island (LPRI) has been taking an active role in the state and municipal pension crisis that threatens to become THE biggest issue in Rhode Island [...]

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By Jeremy Young From comments on a prior IPR post. The debate can be viewed at http://rjharris2012.com/: Instead of finishing what I was supposed to be doing tonight, I went ahead and watched this entire debate. Here are my thoughts on what I saw and heard. Interested readers should know that I’m a supporter of [...]

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‘The only occupations in our interests are here in the U.S.’ Veterans and GIs: Why we are joining the Occupy movement By March Forward! via the Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation at LiberationNews.org Active-duty soldier, Iraq war veteran marches with Occupy DC March Forward! co-founder and former Marine sergeant Eddie Pages was [...]

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Video via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:

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Via CPUSA.org: We greet the Occupy Wall St. movement as it spreads throughout our country from large cities to small towns, led by youth and joined by people of all ages and backgrounds, giving voice to deep anger at extreme economic inequality. The unemployed, those who have lost their homes, who cannot afford education or [...]

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By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee Posted at LP.org blog: Is an entire country being run based on “marble envy?” As a child I’m willing to bet that Obama felt short changed of his share of marbles. Unfortunately this made him obsessed with taking other kids’ marbles (or as he called it [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Dirk Langeveld at the New London Patch has published 5 Green candidates’ responses to a questionnaire sent to all local candidates. Jessica Cartagena, Kenric Hanson, and Joan Sullivan Cooper are running for City Council. Ronna Stuller and Mirna Martinez are running for the Board of Education. With 5 local [...]

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According to http://rjharris2012.com/, Harris won a straw poll of attendees at the recent Illinois LP state convention (revolving story at the top of the page, I see no way to link to the story directly). The site also has video from that convention of Harris debating fellow candidates for the Libertarian presidential nomination: Roger Gary, [...]

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Bob Barr at the Daily Caller: Ask the average citizen if he thinks his emails and Facebook messages to friends and family members are protected from government snooping, and he’d likely answer, “Sure, the government would have to obtain a warrant before it could go snooping into my personal communications, the same as it must [...]

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by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (Oct. 29) – When someone runs for office, the first question they’re asked is: “Why are you running?” No matter how lowly or lofty the office, the question is the same. Most of the time the answer consists of a series of promises, things the candidate says he will [...]

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By LPNY Chair Mark Axinn Posted by Wes Benedict at LP.org blog: Lady Liberty was dedicated at a ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland 125 years ago today after New York’s first ever ticker-tape parade. She sits in a harbor approximately five miles from me and has welcomed millions and millions of immigrants to [...]

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