Entries Tagged as 'Green Party'

Gordon Clark, MD 8th Dist. on Green Party Watch Radio

September 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Gordon Clark will be the guest on a special edition of Green Party Watch Radio at 8 PM East Coast time, Sunday, September 7th. Those who want to do so can call in live by dialing (646) 478-3778. Clark is focusing his Maryland 8th District seat on Stopping Global Warming, Ending the War in [...]

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Socialist Alexander hopes to convene national labor conference

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Socialist Party USA vice presidential nominee Stewart Alexander is calling for a national conference on labor, he writes at Indymedia. He says he “is hoping that plans for such a conference would begin with the Socialist Party USA and the Peace and Freedom Party; he has membership with the two socialist parties. Alexander would also [...]

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Ohio Green U.S. House candidate wants spot on ballot

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Dennis Spisak, the Green candidate in Ohio’s Sixth U.S. House District, filed as a write-in candidate but is now “demanding his name be printed on the ballot due to a recent ruling regarding the Green Party,” the Salem News reports.
Spisak “cited a federal court ruling Tuesday which said Cynthia McKinney had the right to be [...]

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Bloomberg backs out on VA Indy Greens; Pickens invited to join ticket

September 5th, 2008 · 16 Comments

The Virginia Independent Green Party made a splash last month when they announced they intended to run a presidential ticket of Michael Bloomberg and Ron Paul. Richard Winger, the foremost expert on third parties and ballot access in America, stated his belief that the Virginia Indy Greens would ultimately nominate the Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party · Independents · Non-left/right parties

Pacific Greens address Measure 65

September 5th, 2008 · 9 Comments

A recent post here at IPR reported on Oregon’s Measure 65. Referred to as a “Top Two Primary”, the measure would pit all candidates against one another in a May primary with only the top two facing off in the November general election.
The Green, Constitution and Libertarian party leadership in Oregon has been contacted [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party

Baldwin on in Kentucky, McKinney in Utah

September 5th, 2008 · 20 Comments

The AP reports the Constitution Party Chuck Baldwin-Darrell Castle ticket has qualified for the ballot in Kentucky, while another AP story reports the Green Cynthia McKinney-Rosa Clemente ticket has qualified in Utah.

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Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party

More from The Onion

September 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Onion profiles third-party presidential hopefuls Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader.

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McKinney, Nader to speak at Wisconsin’s ‘Fighting Bob Fest’

September 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Wisconsin’s Janesville Gazette reports Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and independent presidential hopeful Ralph Nader will be among the speakers at “Fighting Bob Fest”, named for Wisconsin Populist leader Bob LaFollette, this Saturday in Baraboo.

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Constitution Party activist points to Democratic and Republican cooperation to limit democracy

September 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

In a message posted at News With Views, writer Jim Kouri reports on Oregon’s Measure 65. This proposal is titled “Changes General Election Nomination Processes for Major/Minor Party, Independent Candidates for Most Partisan Offices”, and News With Views reports in part
“If passed, Measure 65 will spell the end of all third parties in Oregon. [...]

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Charleston (SC) Democrats sue Green nominee

September 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

In a letter hand delivered today to Eugene Platt, Green Party nominee for South Carolina State House District 115, Attorney F. Truett Nettles, II told Platt that he had filed a case against Platt in the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas.
The Nettles Law Office LLC used the good services of the Charleston County Sheriff’s [...]

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