The time has come for you to make a choice. You must choose where you stand. You must take a stand and decide what society you wish to live in. Do not tell us that you follow orders, we dealt with that one decades ago. We don’t want to hear that policies are set far [...]

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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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“…revenues are down dramatically. Coincidence?

Everything happening today under Obama resembles the storyline of Ayn Rand’s famous book, Atlas Shrugged…”

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From an article distributed by Connecticut Libertarian Party activist Marc Guttman: It’s often said that if someone doesn’t like something the government is doing, he or she should convince enough people to change it.  Is this our idea for community, granting government the power to push through special interest will and expect that if innocent [...]

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From The Day: [Lori] Hopkins-Cavanagh is a member of the New London Republican Town Committee but says she would not run for mayor as either a Democrat or Republican. She said she has had conversations with members of the Green Party in the city about running as a Green candidate for mayor. If she announces, [...]

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An excerpt from a blog on The Hartford Courant’s website: But in the United States the drug reform movement is sharply focused on marijuana and not on drug prohibition as a whole. Unfortunately, this focus ignores three other longstanding and devastating social issues. First, drug war policies have needlessly taken potential taxpayers out of the [...]

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From Counterpunch, and also posted at Single Payer Action: But under the Connecticut law, minor party candidates and independents have to show public support by raising the small contributions. But then they must do more. They have to gather a certain number of signatures – or show a certain level of voter support from past [...]

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From the Foothills Media Group: CANTON — Canton resident Ben Holden is seeking the Green Party nomination so that he can run for the Canton Board of Selectmen in November. Some of the items topping Holden’s platform include the building of two hydroelectric dams, an electric charging station, and issues with the current board of [...]

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Ballot Access News: Connecticut Senator Andrew Maynard (D-Stonington) has introduced Proposed Bill 778, which cuts the number of signatures for statewide and U.S. House candidates, in the general election, down to 1,000 signatures. Current law requires 7,500 signatures for statewide candidates, and signatures equal to 1% for U.S. House candidates, which is always close to [...]

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Christopher Keating in the Hartford Courant’s CapitolWatch: Consumer activist Ralph Nader, who has tangled publicly with both Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman, is quite pleased that Lieberman will be leaving the U.S. Senate after 24 years. Democrats praised Lieberman throughout the day on Wednesday, but Nader did not join in on the accolades. “He couldn’t [...]

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Originally posted at Green Party Watch: According to the Stamford Times, Rolf Maurer of the Connecticut Green Party failed to get enough signatures to appear as a balloted candidate for the Feb 22 special election to fill a vacant seat on the Connecticut State Senate. He will instead be running as a write in candidate: [...]

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From the Stamford Daily: If you live in state Senate District 27, you might get a visitor this weekend asking for your help. Stamford resident Rolf Maurer wants to fill the seatvacated by Andrew McDonald, and he plans to canvass the community this weekend. Not only will he distribute leaflets, he’ll also seek signatures for [...]

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Originally posted on Green Party Watch: In New London, Connecticut, local politics makes for strange bedfellows. In this case, it may result in Green Party City Councilor John Russell being appointed Deputy Mayor. If all goes according to plan, Councilor John Russell, a member of the Green Party, will be nominated and elected deputy mayor. [...]

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Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: This list was put together by Brent McMillan, consisting of Green Party campaigns for State House (or Assembly) seats. It includes all of the races that finished with over 15% of the vote in 2010: Mark Miller for State Representative 3rd Berkshire District, MA 4,459 votes 45.0% Jeremy [...]

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Ballot Access News: In the aftermath of the November 2010 election, 35 states plus the District of Columbia have at least one ballot-qualified party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties. This is the highest such number, immediately after a midterm election, for any election since 1918. The 15 states without a ballot-qualified party (statewide), [...]

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Ballot Access News: In 2010, two very old political parties that had never appeared on the ballot in a partisan election finally decided to enter a partisan race. The Labor Party placed Brett Bursey on the South Carolina ballot for state representative, 69th district. He ran against a Democrat and a Republican and polled 442 [...]

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According to the New York Times election results board, with 100% of precincts reporting, only 0.5% separates the Democratic and Republican candidates. Additional votes which may be counted, such as provisional ballots, make this race too close to call. Tom Horner of the Independence Party got 11.9% in this race, with several other candidates in [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate John Mertens has endorsed Independent Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Marsh. “Tom Marsh has been honest about the huge challenges facing Connecticut in regards to the budget shortfall, and the sacrifices that will be necessary,” said Mertens. “His honest assessment demonstrates the need for another round of direct federal [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: There are 60 candidates running for the United States House of Representatives on November 2. This is the first of three posts on Green Party House candidates, beginning with the Eastern portion of the United States. There are candidates running in Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Although the Connecticut Green Party has no candidate for governor this year and is running a write-in campaign for US Senate, CT Green candidates running for a variety of statewide, congressional, legislative and local seats have been steadily making news. Here are some recent stories: CT News Junkie: Nader [...]

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