Minnesota Public Radio (excerpts): Minneapolis — Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Minneapolis Friday for the opening of the OccupyMN demonstration, patterned after weeks of protest in New York’s financial district. …. The protest featured an appearance by Independence Party and former Gov. Jesse Ventura, who spoke as people started to gather. He compared the [...]

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by Mark Jenkins at independenceminnesota.org: The Independence Party of Minnesota platform declares that “We support high standards of morality, family values and personal responsibility, but we oppose having the government impose state-sponsored morality or values on people of good conscience with differing views.” With this principle in mind, I ask members of the Independence Party, [...]

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From the Twin Cities Daily Planet (read the full thing here, there is a lot more information in the article itself): The Green Party of St. Paul began a new effort to recruit candidates for upcoming 2011 local elections June 16, as candidates and around 40 supporters gathered to launch the effort dubbed Green St. [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Local and State Green Party groups meet throughout the year. Is there a local in your area? Do you want to start one? See this nice Organizing Kit put together by GPUS. Monday Feb 7, the Triangle Greens (NC) met at the Durham County Library. This Saturday the Green [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Dennis Mikolay: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ABOUT THE NATURAL LAW PARTY APPEARED IN THE MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY “OUTLOOK” ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2010. ——————————————————————– WHEN POLITICS COMES NATURALLY By Dennis “DJ” Mikolay Whenever the public becomes discontent with government policy, the masses start to recognize the ineffectiveness of the two-party duopoly. Thus, the talk [...]

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Lauri Apple in the Chicago Reader alternative weekly: The Libertarian Party of Illinois ran a full slate of candidates this year, with a guy named Lex Green at the top of the ballot. A “Green” Libertarian? Confusing! No wonder they didn’t meet the five percent threshold required to more easily get on the ballot in [...]

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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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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Al-Jazeera English has published a detailed profile of Farheen Hakeem, a current Green Party US co-chair who has run for office several times in Minnesota, including a recent run for governor: Every four years the US elects a new president. It is a process that is scrutinised the world [...]

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According to the New York Times election results board, with 100% of precincts reporting, only 0.5% separates the Democratic and Republican candidates. Additional votes which may be counted, such as provisional ballots, make this race too close to call. Tom Horner of the Independence Party got 11.9% in this race, with several other candidates in [...]

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Mary Turck in the Twin Cities Daily Planet (H/T Michael Cavlan): Farheen Hakeem and Dan Dittman are listed on the ballot as Green Party candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, though they are not listed on the Green Party of Minnesota web page and did not win endorsement in the Green Party’s May convention. The [...]

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FairVote is hosting a ranked-choice poll for Governor of Minnesota. The poll is a chance to see IRV (Instant Runoff Voting) applied in a race with several, third party candidates. The IPR post includes a link to the poll itself.

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Ballot Access News: There is at least one Libertarian on the ballot across the U.S, in areas containing 81.9% of the voters, for the November 2010 election. The Libertarian Party, as is usual in midterm years, is on the ballot in more places than any other minor party. For 2010, the equivalent percentages for other [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: MINNEAPOLIS – The Campaign Committe to Elect Michael Cavlan to Congress is proud to announce that the National Association Of Muslim Women Of America has endorsed Independent Congressional Candidate Mike Cavlan for the US House of Representatives for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. NAMWA contacted the campaign writing: “We know that Ellison is [...]

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Ballot Access News: On August 31, the MPR News-Humphrey Institute released a poll for the Minnesota gubernatorial race. It shows: Republican Tom Emmer 34%; Democratic-Farmer-Labor Mark Dayton 34%, Independence Party Tom Horner 13%, undecided or other 19%. See this story. Horner, the Independence Party nominee, is already higher in this poll than Jesse Ventura was [...]

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Via facebook: Kitten urges rogue sheriffs, crooked cops, bank CEOs, war criminals, politicians and other illegitimate rulers to turn themselves in immediately! MINNEAPOLIS– The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has announced plans to conduct a “sweep” of low-level fugitives this month, clearing warrants in a fashion similar to last December’s “Operation Year End Clearance.” In response, [...]

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Rob Hahn is one of the candidates running in the Independence Party of Minnesota’s primary for Governor. His running mate is Thomas Harens, who has a lot of third party connections. Hahn pitched his proposal for riverboat gambling in Minnesota yesterday. Hahn is one of five Independence Party candidates, including former public relations executive Tom [...]

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The Republican Party of Minnesota has filed a complaint against the Independence Party of Minnesota’s endorsed gubernatorial candidate, Tom Horner. This is not the first complaint they have made against Horner, a complaint to the state’s campaign finance board last week was rejected. the Republican Party of Minnesota is trying again: It filed a complaint [...]

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GreenChange.org has put out a piece on “8 Young Greens to Watch”, featuring 8 young Green candidates that Green Change considers deserving of national attention: Introducing 8 Young Greens to Watch: 8 young candidates who are running hard to bring our values into the halls of power. With your help, 2010 can be a breakthrough [...]

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Tom Horner, one of the candidates for the nomination of the Independence Party of Minnesota in the Governor’s race, already has the endorsement of his party and has begun touring the state. On this tour he is pitching a message of conciliation and compromise. Tom Horner visited Fergus Falls Wednesday afternoon to let residents know [...]

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From CP Discussion Forum, by way of Third Party and Independent Daily: Delegates from across Minnesota assembled at the Brookdale Public Library in Brooklyn Center on Saturday, May 8, 2010 to hear from candidates seeking office for various levels of government and voting for or against their endorsement. After deliberations on resolutions for revisions to [...]

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