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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Green congressional candidate Laurel Lambert Schmidt will be present today at a demonstration outside of Trader Joe’s, in favor of the Coalition of Imokalee Workers‘ attempts to organize tomato pickers, as reported here: La Grange, IL — Activists from Near West Citizens for Peace and Justice, Third Unitarian Social Action and Fair Food Chicago will [...]

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From the Patch: As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, Simon Ribeiro of Evanston filed nominating petitions to enter the March 20 Democratic primary against Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston). Ribeiro’s website describes him as a high school teacher in an Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic school, and a former lifeguard and swimming instructor. According to the Chicago Tribune, [...]

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According to http://rjharris2012.com/, Harris won a straw poll of attendees at the recent Illinois LP state convention (revolving story at the top of the page, I see no way to link to the story directly). The site also has video from that convention of Harris debating fellow candidates for the Libertarian presidential nomination: Roger Gary, [...]

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From the NBC affiliate WREX: ROCKFORD (WREX) -The Illinois Green Party wants people to be more aware of the dangers of nuclear energy. Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service Chicago Dave Kraft says residents and lawmakers should be concerned because Illinois has four reactors the same type and vintage as the ones in Japan’s Fukushima [...]

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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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NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Two bills before the Illinois legislature offer a stark contrast for reform. One would open up the ballot to more competition, while the other would restrict the right to run for office, for people who vote in a party primary. HB 2009 is a bill which would make it illegal [...]

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From Ballot Access News: Both Wisconsin and Illinois held local non-partisan elections on April 5. Green Party members won six elections: 1. Steve Alesch was elected to the Warrenville Park District Commission in DuPage County, Illinois, in a contested election. 2. Toni Williams was elected to the Thornton Township High School District 205 board, Cook [...]

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In 2010, LeAlan Jones ran a notable US Senate campaign for Barack Obama’s former seat.  He started his radio journalism career at age 13 with his piece “Ghetto Life 101,” so he already had considerable name recognition going into it.  At one point he polled 14 percent overall and well over 20 percent among his [...]

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Read the whole piece at Dissident Voice: The only candidate resembling a progressive, City Clerk Miguel Del Valle, limped home with 9% of the vote: a sad reminder that populism is entirely dead in Chicago. He did inspire a fairly impressive ground game, but these don’t amount to votes in the era of the “googoo,” [...]

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Primaries were held across Illinois yesterday, and even though they were non-partisan, the Green and Libertarian Parties each endorsed several candidates (see this previous post).  The results for each of them are below.  They were obtained, in part, here and here. Green Party Alberto Bocanegra, even after raising tens of thousands of dollars and an impressive [...]

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Illinois Representative Jim Watson to introduce electoral reform bill CHICAGO (Feb. 21) – Today, State Representative Jim Watson (R-97, Jacksonville) introduced

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by Thomas Hill BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – Since I signed on as the campaign manager of the Lee Wrights for President Exploratory Committee I’ve taken some heat from some of my radical and anarchist friends in the libertarian movement, people I love and respect, for getting involved in electoral politics. Some of them have [...]

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The following is from the Illinois Green Party, and might shed a bit of light on what kind of elections are taking place in Illinois on the 22nd (below is information from other third parties on the non-partisan primaries): On Tuesday, Feb. 22, Municipal primaries will be held in several towns across Illinois, including a [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch (with amendments from comments): Tuesday Feb 15, the Logan Square Green Party in Chicago Illinois are meeting at the Green Party office on Fullerton Ave. The Northeast Ohio Greens will meet tonight at Mac’s Backs Bookstore 1820 Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights – 7pm-9pm. Wednesday Feb. 16 the Los [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Alberto Bocanegra, Jr., Chair of the Cook County Greens, has apparently raised over $50,000 in his campaign for the 12th Ward Alderman in Chicago against incumbent George Cardenas and 3 other challengers. Cardenas has raised over $135,000 according to the Chicago Sun-Times. From his website: 12th Ward Committeeman Alberto [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com and posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Reichel claims debate victory; Admonishes Mainstream Press for Failing the Public This Wednesday, the four contenders for the now-vacant 47th ward aldermanic seat met in a packed gymnasium at Coonley Elementary School, and discussed a number of issues ranging from TIF’s to environmental [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: After the announcement of incumbent alderman Gene Schulter’s departure from the 47th ward aldermanic election, Green Party candidate Matt Reichel has pronounced himself the favorite: “I am the only remaining candidate who has been actively campaigning and organizing in this ward for nearly two years, as part of my congressional campaign. “ [...]

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From MySuburbanLife.com: Berwyn, IL —Rita Maniotis knew that running a campaign for school board in Morton High School District 201 would be  difficult, but she didn’t anticipate a legal fight just to get on the ballot. Paul Nosek of Berwyn and Alejandro Rueda of Cicero have filed a formal objection to Maniotis’ nominating papers and [...]

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The following press release was sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Free and Equal Elections Foundation held a press conference yesterday at 1pm to introduce the language for a proposed ballot access bill. State representative Jim Watson (R-97, Jacksonville) has expressed interest in sponsoring the proposed bill. If passed, the bill would open Illinois elections, improving democracy for [...]

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