IPR has received information that Carl Person has sought and received the endorsement of the Reform Party for Mayor of NYC in 2013. Person, who sought the Libertarian Presidential nomination in 2012 and was the Libertarian nominee for New York State Attorney General in 2010, allegedly sent the following proposed press release to the Reform [...]

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From the Reform Party website:    The Reform Party is Building a Small Base of Donors Mar 13, 2013 by Nicholas Hensley No Comments » For Immediate Release – The Reform Party of the United States of America is a centrist party supported by small donors. In the 2012 presidential election it improved its vote total [...]

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The following was posted on the Reform Party’s website on March 10th:  Reform Party member Cleave Drummond has announced he will run for Florida’s Second Congressional District’s seat in the 2014 elections, which is currently held by Republican Steve Southerland. He is the first Reform Party member to announce his candidacy for the 2014 Federal [...]

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Karl Dickey in the Examiner: Former Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr., former Louisiana Governor and presidential candidate Buddy Roemer and Whole Foods co-founder and co-CEO John Mackey announced today they have joined the Honorary Board of the Our America Initiative, an issue advocacy organization whose Honorary Chairman is former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. Roemer and [...]

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This was sent to IPR for publication by Steve Krabbe. It can be found on his blog, The Moderate Independent. By Steve Krabbe On March 2, 2013, I had the pleasure of speaking with David Collison, the Chairman of the Reform Party National Committee. It was a pleasant conversation, where he and I discussed the [...]

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H/T Red Phillips at Conservative Heritage Times and Just American in IPR comments, Dylan Stableford at Yahoo News reports: On Monday’s “Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” Maher said he would donate $5 million to the charity of Trump’s choice (Maher suggested Hair Club for Men, among others) if the “Celebrity Apprentice” host could prove he [...]

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Press release from the Reform Party: The Reform Party of the United States of America is rebuilding their organization. Founded in 1995, the party found mainstream success when Ross Perot obtained eight percent of the popular vote in the 1996 presidential election and Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1998. Disaster struck in [...]

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Americans Elect was believed by many to have ended when they failed to recruit a presidential candidate who met their standards, after spending eight figures to get millions of signatures and getting on the ballot in about 30 states. However, late in the election season they spent a non-trivial amount of money to help elect [...]

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Most people are aware now that Governor Gary Johnson received over 1% of the vote, including over 1.1 million raw votes. However, it has been harder to find information about the Presidential candidates who did not perform as well. Jill Stein currently has 396, 684 votes–she is expected to clear 400k easily once all votes [...]

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Kyle Lewis is the Third Congressional District Co-Chair of the Minnesota Independence Party. He explains why building the IP as an alternative to the Bipartisan establishment is important: “In a world where we can choose from hundreds of boxes of Mac & Cheese, why is it that we’re left with only two options for matters [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to an October 5 story in the Washington Times, Americans Elect’s super-PAC has spent $700,000 on independent expenditures recently to boost Angus King, the former independent Governor of Maine who is running for the U.S. Senate as an independent. The story also says that the donor to the Americans Elect super-PAC [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to the Americans Elect Mission Report, published this year, the organization spent $1,157,723 for ballot access in 2010, and $10,158,324 in 2011. Those total $11,316,047. The report does not have the 2012 figure. Americans Elect eventually qualified itself in 29 states. The last state in which it qualified was Oregon. It [...]

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