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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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate John Mertens has received the endorsements of two different non-partisan organizations. The Connecticut Citizens for Ballot Initiative, a non-partisan grass roots organization dedicated to bringing Initiative and Referendum to Connecticut, issued a press release today announcing the endorsement. Mertens also received an endorsement from Chair and Founder of [...]

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From the West Hartford News (read the full thing here): WEST HARTFORD — If anything, getting arrested for snapping photos of Governor M. Jodi Rell during her 2007 inaugural parade reaffirmed a lot of political ambitions for Ken Krayeske, now a candidate for Congress in the state’s First Congressional District. Krayeske was managing Cliff Thornton’s [...]

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Megan Cassano got a mention in a newspaper article about the race: Megan Cassano, 30, is running on the Green Party line for the second consecutive year. Cassano is a social worker, who said she deals with people every day with serious childhood and adolescent issues. “I want to make a difference in (children’s) lives in [...]

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A press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: U.S. Senate candidate John Mertens has received reports of phone polls conducted for Linda McMahon that misinform voters about their choices on the ballot. West Hartford resident Giovanni Ciriani has received multiple calls from a phone number attributed to the McMahon campaign (203-413-5265 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              203-413-5265      end_of_the_skype_highlighting) that follow a script stating [...]

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Ballot Access News: On August 24, the Connecticut Secretary of State said that the Socialist Action Party’s candidate for U.S. House, 1st district, has enough valid signatures. The candidate is Chris Hutchinson. This will be the first time any party with “Socialist” in its name will have been on the ballot for a U.S. House [...]

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David Nolan at Libertarian Party blog: How do we Libertarians most effectively allocate our limited resources? Suppose you have $100 to contribute to aiding the cause of liberty. How should you spend that $100? One obvious answer is to donate it to the Libertarian Party – at the national, state or local level.  Another is [...]

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens begins thus: IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the [...]

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From The Day by way of Third Party and Independent Daily: Scott Deshefy, the Green Party candidate running for Congress in the 2nd District, issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing the district’s representative, Democrat Joe Courtney, for voting against a resolution to pull American troops out of Pakistan. The Green Party had urged Congress to [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Green Party of Connecticut announced today that Don Alexander is running for State Representative, House District 64 (Torrington, Sharon, Cornwall, Goshen, and Salisbury) this fall. A resident of Torrington, Alexander is a quality assurance engineer at a state company. He is married, with three children. He is veteran [...]

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Cross-posted from Poli-Tea: Earlier this month Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz began an aggressive propaganda campaign instructing voters to register with the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the state’s August 10th primary elections. Byscewicz launched the effort at a press conference flanked by leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties and political [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Working Families Party has been circulating a petition to place its statewide nominees on the Connecticut ballot, and has over 9,000 signatures. The deadline is in early August and 7,500 valid signatures are needed. The Working Families Party’s statewide nominees are the same individuals as the Democratic Party nominees. Because the [...]

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Cross-posted from Poli-Tea: Independents are the largest bloc of registered voters in Connecticut. According to Pollster.com, independents account for 42.5% of registered voters in the state, with only 36.8% registered Democrat and 20% registered Republican. In 2008, there were 24 active political parties in the state. Last year, another party joined that list: the Independent [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: U.S. Senate Candidate John Mertens charged the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute with misleading voters and misrepresenting the results in their recent survey. In the most recent Q-Poll, voters were asked “If the 2010 election for United States Senator were being held today, and the candidates were Richard Blumenthal the Democrat and Linda [...]

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Cross-posted from Poli-Tea: Connecticut’s primary elections are scheduled for August 10, 2010. If recent voter registration trends in the state hold, unaffiliated voters will soon outnumber registered Democrats and Republicans combined. They already constitute the largest bloc of registered voters. According to Pollster.com, as of late last year, independents accounted for 42.5% of registered voters [...]

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Ballot Access News: Socialist Action has nominated a candidate for U.S. House in Connecticut’s First District, and is petitioning to place him on the ballot. He is Christopher Hutchinson. He needs almost 3,000 valid signatures by August 4. If he gets on the ballot, he will be the first Connecticut congressional candidate of a party [...]

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The Hartford Courant, a newspaper based in Connecticut, published a lengthy profile of the four Connecticut Green Party candidates who are running in 2010. The Connecticut Green Party is running four candidates for statewide seats and seats in the General Assembly. They include a youth counselor, a retired guidance counselor and a dual contender for [...]

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Read the full piece here. “Millionaires and celebrities get all the attention,” said Tim McKee, a spokesman for Connecticut Greens and a member of the party’s national committee. “We want to get more average people running for office, but it’s becoming harder and harder. … It’s a millionaires’ club.” This year, the Green Party has [...]

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The Working Families Party of New York has indicated their opposition to the Anti-Illegal Immigration Law in Arizona in a unique way–by expressing concern about a Yankee pitcher. “Will Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera have to show ID to take the mound next year?” wonders the Working Families Party in email calling for the Yankees and [...]

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…Marsh was elected as a Republican, but has now switched his registration to show membership in the Independent Party…

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