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At least ten presidential nominating conventions will be held in August and September:
1. The Peace and Freedom Party meets in Sacramento, California, on August 2-3.
2. The Natural Law Party of Michigan meets on August 9.
3. The Independent Party of Delaware meets on August 16.
4. The Independent/Ecology Party formed this year by [...]

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Jesse Ventura will not be an independent/Independence Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota.
He says the only way he’ll run is if God intervenes between now and the 5:00 P.M. filing deadline tomorrow.

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Even though the Independence Party of Minnesota has endorsed Stephen Williams for U.S. Senate, that doesn’t mean that former governor Jesse Ventura is out of the race. He recently told the Associated Press that he would announce his plans on Tuesday, July 15.
Earlier, it was expected that the Minnesota Independence Party would nominate either Ventura [...]

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Originally posted in Ballot Access News
The incumbent Republican Congressman in New York’s 13th district, Vito Fossella, is not running for re-election. Last month, the Republican Party leadership choice for the seat, Francis H. Powers, died unexpectedly. Republican leaders are still not settled on a new nominee. However, some Republican leaders in the Brooklyn part of [...]

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The AP reports New York’s independent mayor Michael Bloomberg “is coming to Minnesota to help the fortunes of the state’s Independence Party. Party Chairman Craig Swaggert says Bloomberg is the featured guest for a fundraising breakfast and is scheduled to give a policy speech afterward. Both July 25 events are planned for Minneapolis. [...]

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In an editorial this morning, the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes, “The Independence Party has only one big success to credit — the election 10 years ago of Gov. Jesse Ventura. To justify its continued existence, it is going to have to find a meaningful role in some winning campaigns — and if you can’t [...]

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The Independence Party of Minnesota endorsed farmer Stephen Williams for U.S. Senate and will back Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg in the Sixth District U.S. House race.

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Minnesota’s St. Cloud Times reports Independence Party members will decide today whether to run a candidate for the state’s Sixth U.S. House District or cross-endorse Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg. Bob Anderson, “a dental technician and mental health activist with no previous Independence Party experience,” said Friday that he will seek the party’s backing. Anderson [...]

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The Minnesota Independence Party is perhaps second only to the Vermont Progressive Party in terms of state/regional-party success. Last election cycle, Independent Tammy Lee ran an aggressive campaign for Congress, raising $228,000 and scoring 21% of the vote in an overwhelmingly Democratic district. In fact, she fell just 0.33 percentage points shy of second place.
This [...]

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A Rasmussen poll out Friday and conducted Wednesday indicates ex-Gov. Jesse Ventura would enter the Minnesota Senate race with the support of about one in four voters. The survey has incumbent Republican Norm Coleman at 39%, Democrat Al Franken at 32%, and Ventura at 24%. Without Ventura in the race, Coleman leads Franken [...]

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