Tom Cleland is an activist from Minnesota who left the Green Party for the Democrats. Cleland wrote a blog post explaining in detail the background, and then the voting, at a March 14, 2010 Democratic Party convention in Minnesota. His frustration with various candidates and their issues, and with the outcome of the voting, has motivated him to announce a return to the Green Party.

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Independence Party member Steven Wilson has announced his candidacy for Congress in Minnesota’s first congressional district:

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC-DT) — Another candidate is throwing his hat into the ring for U.S. Congress.
Seven Wilson is with the Independence Party of Minnesota and hopes to someday represent the First Congressional District.
Wilson says he’s a conservative Independent and will not [...]

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Posted on the Independence Party of Minnesota website
Srp Website is up. Check it out!
by Laura Kundsen

Mayor Roy Srp’s Senate District 26 special election website is up and running. The election is just four weeks away on January 26th. WIth your support, this is the start of a ground breaking year for the Independence Party.

Pawlenty: Waseca [...]

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Ballot Access News:
Minnesota will hold a special election to fill the vacant State Senate seat, 26th district, on January 26. The Independence Party nominee will be Roy Srp, Mayor of Waseca, a city of about 10,000 people. Five Republicans have also filed so far. There will probably be a Republican primary on January 12. Probably [...]

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Lynne Torgerson is running for Minnesota’s fifth Congressional district as an independent, against Democratic incumbent Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. On Torgerson’s website, she claims that we cannot discriminate against anybody on the basis of religion, race, sex, etc, but she goes on to declare that Islam is not a religion [...]

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The Washington publication Politico reports independent candidates “are poised to run serious campaigns for governor in at least a half-dozen states, a development that threatens Democratic fortunes in some of the bluest and most progressive-minded states in the nation.” In New Jersey, polls suggest independent Chris Daggett, “a moderate former Republican who once worked [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
At a meeting in St Paul, the recently formed Minnesota Open Progressives endorsed Maplewood Mayor Diane Longrie in her bid for re-election.
Mayor Longrie sat with the MN-OP and discussed her goals of increased citizen participation and empowerment, honesty, transparency and maintaining respectful relations with others, even when they disagree. She also talked about [...]

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by Peter Tharaldson
Independence Minnesota Blog:
The hoopla over national healthcare reform has been silly. I am of the opinion that those who favor national healthcare reform and those who believe we should preserve the market system are mistaken. Here are my points.
The healthcare system, in point of fact, is not market-based. The fact that healthcare inflation has [...]

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The Open Progressive Party of Minnesota is running a city council candidate in Minneapolis – and he just happens to be Michael Cavlan, a frequent commenter at IPR. According to Cavlan, he is qualified for the ballot and the party is in the first stages of associating with a national organization.

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While the mainstream news reports on Papa John’s pizza, and its founder’s retrieved Camaro, the political world has been percolating the story about a unique, independent candidate running for Mayor of Minneapolis, who happens to be called “Papa John.” He will be running on the ballot name “Independent Civic Leader”. Papa John Kolstad — and ten of his electoral opponents — will be running under the Instant Runoff system (IRV).

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The Constitution Party of Minnesota has issued a statement giving support to Colleen Hauser. Colleen’s 13-year-old son Daniel Hauser has Hodgkins lymphoma. When the family decided to discontinue Daniel’s chemotherapy, the courts ordered the child be turned over to the county family services. The Constitution Party of Minnesota states that Colleen Hauser “is a true hero and patriot, risking incarceration for the right to raise her family free of government interference.”

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Former independent governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura has been causing a stir in the media lately.  He has been on the View, FOX and Friends, and Sean Hannity’s show, among other outlets.  In his usual outspoken style, Ventura has been calling for the prosecution of officials involved with torture.  Ventura himself was actually waterboarded during [...]

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The program is scheduled for Wednesday, May 6th from 7PM to 8PM East Coast Time. To listen live, or after the webcast, click here. To participate in the show on Wednesday dial (646) 478-3778. Cavlan says he has plans to bring someone representing the other side of his position onto the [...]

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Posted at http://www.mngreens.org/node/224. H/T Green Party Watch; reposted to IPR by Paulie.

The Green Party of Minnesota is outraged at the sudden vote on April 2 by which the state Senate seeks to bypass public debate and end the ban on licensing new nuclear reactors. The measure, already defeated in one House committee, was attached [...]

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Report sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Michael Calvan RN. No changes have been made to the text.
Last week there was a meeting of Third Party activists in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and strategize on building an effective electoral resistance to the current pro-war, corporate corrupted two party system.
Activists invited and [...]

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