From iBerkshires: Getting into a routine is exactly what Mark Miller, former Green-Rainbow party candidate for the county’s 3rd District, hopes to achieve with monthly meetings and greater exposure within the community. He cited many venues through which the party could spread its message of the 10 Key Values as well as show a strong [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: GREEN-RAINBOW CONVENTION CELEBRATES SUCCESSES, LOOKS TO FUTURE WORCESTER- The Green-Rainbow Party’s annual state convention was held on Sunday at Clark University in Worcester. The 80 attendees celebrated the fact that their small party had won major party status as a result of the elections and had emerged [...]

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Ballot Access News: In a massive defeat for ballot access for minor parties, on November 16 the First Circuit ruled that the Constitution permits the states to let qualified parties make a substitute nomination, but does not require that the state extend the same ability to non-qualified parties. The case reverses the U.S. District Court’s [...]

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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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Third Party and Independent Daily: From Rasmussen, via KintlaLake: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 31% of likely primary voters say they are at least somewhat likely to consider supporting a third-party candidate for president if former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the GOP nominee. That includes 17% who say it is [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Illinois Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney led all Green Party gubernatorial candidates in 2010 in total votes and percentage of the total vote, with 99,625 votes, 2.70% of the vote. Only three times in history have Green Party gubernatorial candidates exceeded 10% of the vote. The first [...]

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Libertarian Party HQ Monday Message: Dear Friend of Liberty, First of all I want to thank our over 800 candidates again for taking the time to run for office. Now that we’ve all had a little time to catch our breaths after election day, we’re working to compile and analyze the results of our efforts. [...]

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Via Green Party Watch: From the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party: Event Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 9:00am – 6:00pm No matter what your current party affiliation — and especially if you aren’t enrolled in any party — we’d like to invite you to our annual State Convention to hear us out, and to find out [...]

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From the Boston Herald via TPID: Republican Charlie Baker, in his first public comments since Election Day, blamed Treasurer Tim Cahill and fizzling GOP enthusiasm for his defeat in an e-mail to supporters in which he also expressed sadness for failing to deliver a victory. . . . Baker finished 8 points behind Democratic Gov. [...]

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By AuMass at Gold Mass Group: CD-3 Patrick Barron got 4% in a 3-way CD-5 State Committee member Bob Clark got 1% in a four way. He faced among others a classic tea party opponent who advocated war with Mexico – ‘send the army to occupy Northern Mexico’. State Representative races State Committee member Jon [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Despite having a number of promising campaigns for state legislature in various states, Greens fell short of victory in every race – a few by painfully close margins. However, one former Green running for state legislature as an independent in Maine did win. In Maine, Fred Horch of Brunswick [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: In a year that has seen the biggest upsurge of activism against marijuana prohibition in American history, Green Party candidates across the country are leading the fight for marijuana legalization while Democrats and Republicans defend the failed, destructive “war on drugs” prohibition regime. The eyes of Americans who oppose [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein took part in a debate with Democratic incumbent Deval Patrick, Republican Charlie Baker, and Democrat-turned-independent Tim Cahill on Monday, October 25th. Here is footage of the debate from Boston TV station WGBH:

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From the Milford Daily News via TPID: Independent candidate for Secretary of State Jim Henderson today said he would be in favor of implementing ranked choice voting in Massachusetts. Also known as instant runoff voting, the method involves asking voters to rank candidates on the ballot instead of choosing just one. Candidates are eliminated until [...]

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Staff at LP blog: Libertarian Carla Howell chairs the Alliance to Roll Back Taxes in Massachusetts. She has led an initiative to roll back the state’s sales tax from 6.25% to 3%. That measure is on the ballot this November. USA Today covered the story on October 18. Carla Howell has also worked to eliminate [...]

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From Wicked Local via TPID: Like many of her neighbors, K.C. Winslow was fed up with politics as usual. On Beacon Hill and at the national level, she had grown tired of seeing divided parties taking it too far to the right, or too far to the left. “That leaves most of us right here [...]

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Much of the piece is devoted to the “spoiler” issue.  Read the full thing here.  H/T to Third Party and Independent Daily. If they were sincerely concerned about preventing any “spoiling’’ of elections, the Massachusetts Democrats could simply pass Ranked Choice Voting. But that’s been sitting in the Legislature untouched for 10 years. When you [...]

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From AP via the San Francisco Chronicle (H/T to Gene Berkman): Massachusetts independent Timothy Cahill filed a lawsuit Thursday against former operatives who recently defected from his campaign, saying they conspired to get his running mate Paul Loscocco to quit the ticket, and were working with national Republicans to pass along confidential information that would [...]

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Although neither the Stein campaign nor the media have yet reported on it, her Green-Rainbow campaign for governor has apparently met the requirements for getting matching public funding from the state.  The campaign had to raise $125,000 in contributions of less than $250 by today, and the fundraising thermometer at JillStein.org stands at well over [...]

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The debates will also include independent Tim Cahill.  From the Stein campaign: Watch Green-Rainbow Party candidate for governor, Dr. Jill Stein, join her 3 opponents in the Boston Media Consortium’s first major debate. The media consortium, made up of The Boston Globe, WCVB-TV, WHDH-TV, WGBH-TV, NECN, and WBUR, has re-invited Dr. Stein after a lot [...]

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