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 [...]
End of October 2011 Update on Americans Elect
October 31st, 2011 · No Comments
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Independence Party of Minnesota impressions of OccupyMN
October 31st, 2011 · No Comments
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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Kristin Davis vs. Cyrus Vance
October 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment
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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Darryl Perry: Tom Woods Rolls Out a Winner With Rollback
October 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment
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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Socialist Equality Party: ‘A portrait of America in decline’
October 31st, 2011 · No Comments
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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Socialist Action: Support the Occupy Wall Street Movement!
October 31st, 2011 · 4 Comments
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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