NOLA via TPID: The Libertarian Party will hold its first-ever Louisiana primary next month, when Anthony “Tony G” Gentile faces Randall Todd Hayes in the race for the U.S. Senate. It also will be the last one unless lawmakers change their minds on how federal elections should be held in the state. News 13 via [...]

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Ernest D. Wooton has been a Republican Representative in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, since 1999. Wooton recently changed his registration to Independent and filed for the U.S. Senate race in Louisiana, against GOP incumbent David Vitter. Rep. Wooton represents the parish which is geographically closest to the oil spill and is expected to make that his [...]

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In 2008 the Constitution Party nominated Darrell Castle of Tennessee to be their Vice Presidential nominee for 2008. Castle has penned an article in which he both criticizes and lauds Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal for his response to the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana. Dear Gov. Jindal:Thank you for the remarkable degree [...]

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Tommie Vassel, a New Orleans resident and Orleans Parish Sewage and Water Board member, is considering an Independent run for Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District. He isn’t the only independent considering the race, though. Reverend Byron Clay, the immediate past President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is being urged by many to enter the race [...]

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Rep. Dee Richard (No Party – Thibodaux) wants to freeze per diem payments to legislators for the next two years. That is to say, Rep. Richard does not want to eliminate the payments, but suspend the growth of those payments by putting a pay-ceiling on them. The House and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the measure [...]

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In an unsigned editorial in The Daily Advertiser, a Lafayette, Louisiana, based newspaper, yesterday comments onthe current movement back towards “open primaries” or “top two primaries” in Louisiana. The first and loudest objection will be the one we cited earlier: Open primaries let everyone vote for anyone they want. But it’s important to remember that [...]

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Eleven oil rig workers have died in the April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, there are dire consequences for the ecosystem as crude oil gushes into the Gulf. The Green Party of Florida has called on President Obama and Florida Governor Crist to declare an immediate State of Emergency for the Gulf Coast in response to the oil rig disaster. The Green Party of Florida believes that all available federal and state resources must be mobilized to protect threatened communities and wildlife habitats in four states.

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Ballot Access News has the latest from Louisiana’s re-imposition of their jungle primary. On April 28, the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee passed HB 292. It moves congressional elections back to the pattern used between 1998 and 2006. There are no congressional elections until November. All voters use the same ballot, and that ballot [...]

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An independent legislator in Louisiana has risen to the second highest position of power in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Joel Robideaux was elected Speaker Pro Tempore at the State House over Democrat Noble Ellington in a 53-48 vote. Rep. Robideaux is one of three independents in the Louisiana House and four in the legislature. [...]

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From Democracy Now!, by way of On The Wilder Side DAVE ZIRIN: I was speaking to [former Green Party Congressional candidate] Malik Rahim, who I know you’ve had on your show before, a former Black Panther Party member, someone who has been a community activist in New Orleans for thirty years. And I asked him [...]

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Posted in Ballot Access News: On September 14, former Congressman John R. Rarick died in St. Francisville, Louisiana, at the age of 85. He had been the American Independent Party’s presidential candidate in 1980. He had served in Congress as a Democrat from Louisiana between 1967 and 1975. He endorsed George Wallace for President in [...]

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In Louisiana’s Shreveport Times this morning, J.C. Allen of the Caddo Parish Republican Party responds to a letter published earlier in the week in the newspaper, written by a former Republican who has joined the Constitution Party because the GOP “is moving away from its Christian Conservative Constitutional roots and is no longer for less [...]

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