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Jason Gonella: An Open Letter to Gary Johnson

February 10th, 2012 · 58 Comments

Posted to Mr. Gonella’s blog here Although there are those who thought it would be a bad idea , you did go ahead and switch to the Libertarian Party in an effort to continue your presidential campaign. Now that you have gone ahead and moved in to the Libertarian Party race, hopefully you will run [...]

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Update on Candidates for the Green Party Presidential Nomination

February 3rd, 2012 · 19 Comments

Green Party Watch held a presidential poll with the following results: 1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%. There were 35 votes for Kent Mesplay, and 8 votes for Harley Mikkelson GPW reports [...]

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CA LP: ‘Exceptional Line-up of Speakers Planned for CA Libertarian Convention 2012′

February 1st, 2012 · 4 Comments

February 1, 2012 is the last day for early-bird pricing for this year’s California Libertarian convention, to be held March 2 through 4 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Ventura. Here are the speakers scheduled: Peter Schiff As CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff is one of the most in-demand [...]

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California: Senate Votes to Eliminate Write-Ins; Bureaucrats Can’t Translate “Americans Elect” into Spanish

January 20th, 2012 · 11 Comments

Ballot Access News reports that On January 19, the California Senate unanimously passed AB 1413, which, among other things, eliminates write-in space from November ballots for Congress and partisan state office. The bill now goes to the Assembly, because when it passed the Assembly last year, it didn’t have the same provisions. Meanwhile, another article [...]

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Starchild: Volunteering for Ron Paul in Iowa

January 20th, 2012 · 69 Comments

  Written for IPR by Starchild at the request of  Jill Pyeatt   A couple days after Christmas, I went to Iowa to help Ron Paul’s presidential campaign in the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses. I’d never been there before, and I like traveling, but mainly it was just something I felt like I needed [...]

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CA Libertarian Party Submits Nine Names for Meaningless Presidential Primary

January 15th, 2012 · 4 Comments

Nine candidates vying for the Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party in 2012 have been listed on the ballot in California’s Presidential primary. They are, in alphabetical order, Roger Gary, R. J. Harris, Gary Johnson, Scott Keller, James Ogle, Carl Person, Bill Still, Joy Waymire, and Lee Wrights. Richard Winger points out that the primary [...]

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Ralph Nader Editorializes Against Higher Education Spending Cuts in California

January 3rd, 2012 · 5 Comments

Ralph Nader, the former Green Party and Independent presidential candidate writes in the Register Citizen concerning higher education spending cuts in California and how students should feel about them. Students of California, arise, you have nothing to lose but a crushing debt! The corporate state of California, ever ready to seize its ideological and commercial [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Independents · Socialist/left parties

Rocky Anderson, co-founder and presidential candidate of the newly formed Justice Party, TV appearances

December 26th, 2011 · 34 Comments

Rocky Anderson is the former mayor of Salt Lake City.  In August, he denounced and left the Democratic Party.  Earlier this month he announced the formation of a new party, the Justice Party, the nomination of which he’ll be running for.  The party is starting its organizing by recruiting interested volunteers online and attempting to [...]

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Article on Top Two in California Separates Fact from Fiction

December 16th, 2011 · 5 Comments

This article by Paul Mitchell highlights how Top Two has impacted California elections, as opposed to how it was supposed to effect elections. Mitchell sets out to separate myth from reality: Much of this year’s legislative and congressional drama has focused on the decennial redistricting, but the greater impact could come from our seemingly annual [...]

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Tags: Proposition 14 · Third parties, general

California: Green and AIP Team Up For Legalization of Marijuana

December 13th, 2011 · 9 Comments

It is not very often that you see a member of the Green Party partner with a member of a far-right party like the American Independent Party in government. However, that is just what happened at a meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors. A couple of days ago former Congressman and Green Party [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party · Right-wing minor parties

Laurie Roth Makes Independent Run for President, Says AIP Will Put Her On the Ballot

December 12th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Laurie Roth is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host based out of Washington. Roth’s talk show is reflective of her own conservative beliefs. Ms. Roth has, in the past, been active at the local level in the GOP, but has now announced a run for President in which she will seek the ballot-lines of [...]

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An Open Letter to Gary Earl Johnson

November 30th, 2011 · 110 Comments

  Found  today on Facebook, on the Libertarian Party of California Page   America is at a crossroads. We borrow and print forty-three cents of every dollar the federal government spends and are now choking on debt. One candidate not only understands we must reverse this policy before heading down the path of Greece or [...]

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Richard Rider: Caution! Be circumspect of Wayne Root’s latest hustle

November 19th, 2011 · 32 Comments

Email from Richard Rider: Wayne Allyn Root has been a very effective spokesperson for liberty. Not perfect, but a much better communicator than most libertarians. That is perhaps both his strength and his weakness. At heart, Root’s a salesman. Nothing wrong with that. So am I (and I’m FAR less effective than he is). But [...]

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It’s Time to Reclaim Armistice Day

November 11th, 2011 · 9 Comments

Written by Alan Pyeatt for ”Independent Political Report” for publication on this special day.               On June 1, 1954, Congress passed a law which officially changed the annual November 11 holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.  The Korean War had ended less than a year earlier, and according to President Eisenhower’s Proclamation 3071, Congress [...]

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Terry Baum, Green Party candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, speaking at Occupy San Francisco event

October 29th, 2011 · No Comments

Video via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:

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Governor Jerry Brown Vetoes Bill to Outlaw Paying Registration Workers on a Per-Card Basis

October 9th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Ballot Access News (excerpt): On October 7, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB 205, which made it a crime to pay registration workers on a per-registration card basis. Because Proposition 14 has left California minor parties with only one means to remain on the ballot, by having registration equal to 1% of the last gubernatorial [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Libertarian Party · Socialist/left parties · Third parties, general

States beginning to list Americans Elect registered voters

October 7th, 2011 · No Comments

Ballot Access News: According to this story, the Kansas Secretary of State’s office has released a new voter registration tally, as of October 1, 2011, and that tally shows that one person in Kansas is registered in Americans Elect. This appears to be the first official registration data in any state that shows any registered [...]

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Peace and Freedom Party: Occupy Wall Street!

October 2nd, 2011 · 50 Comments

The Peace and Freedom Party issued the following statement on September 24, 2011. To download this statement as a flyer to print and distribute click here. Peace and Freedom Party of California, the only working class, feminist-socialist party on the ballot in California, expresses our solidarity with the activists participating in the Occupation of Wall [...]

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KALW News interview with Terry Baum, Green for San Francisco Mayor

September 21st, 2011 · No Comments

Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: KALW News has published an interview with Terry Baum, Green Party candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, at SFGate.com: This year’s SF mayoral election is ranked choice, meaning San Franciscans can all vote for more than one candidate. If the frontrunner doesn’t get a majority of first place votes, [...]

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Flavio Fiumerodo: Beer and Government – Drink up! You just bought a home!

September 20th, 2011 · No Comments

As I type this rant, I am sitting here in the State Board of Equalization’s office in Ventura where I just handed them a check for $5581 in sales tax. Today is a special day, a little victory for me. You see, moments before I walked in and paid my final sales tax to the [...]

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