From the Michigan Messenger: via TPID: Now that Stupak’s seat is open, Republicans are eager to win it back, Democrats are struggling to hang on to it, and candidates from outside these parties are trying to get voters to rethink the fundamentals of how government operates. . . . Glenn Wilson, owner of a telecom [...]

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Ballot Access News: On August 25, the Socialist Party of Michigan asked for reconsideration in its ballot access lawsuit, Socialist Party of Michigan v Land, in Ingham County Circuit Court. On August 18, the judge had ruled that the party had filed the case too late. The brief for reconsideration points out that Michigan can’t [...]

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On The Wilder Side: John Anthony La Pietra Offers Ideas on Protecting Election Rights, Withdrawing Petition Signatures, and How to Make Elections Fairer and Better for Voters John Anthony La Pietra, nominated by the Green Party of Michigan (GPMI) as the party’s 2010 candidate for Secretary of State, has posted the first three “position discussion [...]

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Ballot Access News: On August 25, the group that submitted a petition to be on the Michigan ballot as a political party called the Tea Party, filed a lawsuit to obtain a place on the ballot. The case is The Tea Party v Board of State Canvassers, state court of appeals, Lansing, 299805. The group [...]

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From the Michigan Messenger by way of TPID: With the Republican and Democratic candidates already decided by the party primaries earlier this month, a third party — the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan — has announced its list of candidates for various offices in the state. Among them is a physician from Fremont who advocates [...]

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Ballot Access News: On August 23, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers blocked the Tea Party from appearing on the November 2010 ballot. The vote was 2-2. A tie keeps a party off the ballot. Apparently some of the party’s documents refer to it as “The Tea Party” whereas other documents just call it “Tea [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Michigan Tea Party (the ballot-qualified party), which most observers feel is an insincere party artificially created by Democrats, recently nominated 23 candidates. But two of them will not appear on the ballot because they are under age 21. The Michigan Constitution requires legislators to be age 21 or older. See this [...]

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From City Beat via Third Party and Independent Daily: OH: City Beat Profiles Dan La Botz, Socialist Party Candidate for US Senate As Republicans and Tea Party members continue to throw around the term “socialist” as a sort of epithet, LaBotz, a Clifton resident, is one of just three national candidates from the Socialist Party, [...]

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Ballot Access News: This story reveals that some detective work has found a link between an official of the Democratic Party of Michigan, and the successful petition drive that put the Tea Party on the Michigan ballot. The story also reveals that the party’s nominees, so far at least, are not making themselves available to [...]

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Ballot Access News: On Saturday, the Michigan Tea Party held a nominating convention in Saginaw and nominated 23 candidates. On July 26, it filed the list with the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State has still not validated the party’s petition, but the petition is very likely to have enough valid signatures. In Michigan, [...]

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From a post at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy: The Green Party of Michigan is holding their State Membership Meeting and Nominating Convention in Lansing, MI, where candidates for local, county, state and federal offices will be nominated for the fall election. The Convention is both Saturday July 31 and Sunday Aug. 1 from [...]

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Charles Crumm in the Daily Tribune: Local tea party groups headed to Lansing today to oppose a group called Tea Party that is trying to gain political party status on the November ballot. In an e-mail Thursday, the Lakes Area Tea Party in Oakland County urged its supporters to join the 9 a.m. rally before [...]

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TPID: From RBR: Former CNN investigative reporter and Radio & Records Washington Bureau Chief Pat Clawson is a candidate for the Michigan State Senate. He is running in District 27, the Flint area, as a member of the Libertarian Party ticket, with support from people in the local Tea Party.

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A poll conducted in Michigan registered support for the Green Party and Libertarian Party in that state at 3% and 8%, respectively. The U.S. Taxpayer’s Party of Michigan, the Constitution Party’s affiliate in the state, was not included in the poll. Thinking about the following political parties and groups that are getting involved in political [...]

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News from the Libertarian Party of Michigan For Immediate Release Contact Bill Hall, Political Director, politics@mi.lp.org 616-460-9516 Emily Salvette, State Chair, chair@mi.lp.org 734-645-5809 The Libertarian Party is fielding 83 candidates for office on Michigan’s November 2, 2010 ballot (list attached). This is a 46% increase over the number of candidates it placed on the 2006 [...]

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Video posted at http://ernesthancock.org/. Root appeared via teleconference.

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Ballot Access News: According to this story, a petition is circulating to qualify the Tea Party for the Michigan ballot. However, the story also says that the same petitioning company that is circulating this petition has worked in the past for the Democratic Party. The story does not interview any leader of the drive to [...]

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LP blog: Emily Salvette, chair of the Michigan LP, writes in the Detroit Free Press in opposition to the new Michigan law banning all texting while driving: Will this law increase public safety? Probably not. It is intended to deter distracted driving that is reckless. But reckless driving is already illegal. Police can already issue [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: President Obama must cancel his plans for Atlantic and Alaskan offshore drilling, and hold BP and Halliburton liable for the Gulf spill’s damage, say Greens • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on energy policy, climate change, and related issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-energy.php http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-ecological.php • The Green Party’s 2010 Annual [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/04/21/green-party-us-national-convention-set-for-detroit-during-us-social-forum/ From a Green Party US email entitled “Another World is Possible, the Green Party is Necessary”: Join the Green Party in Detroit This June! The Green Party of the United States will be holding its Annual National Meeting this June in Detroit. Will you be there? [...]

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