“…revenues are down dramatically. Coincidence?

Everything happening today under Obama resembles the storyline of Ayn Rand’s famous book, Atlas Shrugged…”

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“There are 4 lessons to be learned from Weiner-mania and the media’s obsession with Weiner’s weiner.” – Wane Root

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From Ballot Access News: New York State held a special U.S. House election on May 24, 2011, to fill the vacant 26th district seat. The official results by party: Democratic 42.77%; Republican 32.15%; Tea Party 9.03%; Conservative 8.18%; Working Families 4.67%; Independence 2.14%; Green 1.06%. In November 2010, the results in this same seat had [...]

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From The New York Times: The Socialist Party U.S.A. does distribute red cards to members willing to “subscribe to the principles” of the party, but another leftist group, the Democratic Socialists of America, prefers online registration, with members using a virtual shopping cart to pay yearly dues of about $60 by credit card — Marx [...]

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From CounterPunch (read the whole thing here): On the evening of May 4, a day before he was to join dozens of billionaires convened by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in Phoenix, Arizona to discuss how they might spend over half their wealth for “good works,” media entrepreneur, peace advocate and environmentalist, Ted Turner joined [...]

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Below are two news stories focusing on how, although he lost, Green mayoral candidate Alex White ran a strong campaign, building up his own reputation and that of the Green Party in Monroe County, New York.  That’s certainly a good thing with regards to their upcoming special congressional election, in which the Greens are running [...]

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From a media release by the One Community Party: NEW PALTZ – March 25, 2011 – The One Community Party today submitted petitions for the Village of New Paltz election. Pete Healey is running for Mayor, and Trustee candidates Sally M. Rhoads and Martin Sherow are seeking four-year terms. Trustee candidate Stewart P. Glenn is [...]

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Email from Green Party activist Edy: Forward this around the country!! Thanks!! So I had a conversation online and the question came up if it would be un-Green like to take money from Republicans in order to help fund a campaign. Ralph Nader didn’t do it in his 2000, 2004 runs to give you some [...]

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OnTheWilderSide reports: The Green Party of NY State has officially nominated Ian Murphy as its candidate for upcoming special Congressional election in the 26th District. The Green Party said it wanted to provide an alternative to the anti-worker, pro-war, pro-corporate, anti-environmental agenda of the Democratic and Republican Parties. The special election will be held May [...]

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From an article by Jill Terreri in the Democrat & Chronicle: The Green Party has selected Ian L. Murphy, editor of the irreverent Beast web site, based in Buffalo, to be its candidate for a special election in the 26th Congressional District… Murphy, of Amherst, gained national attention last month following a phone call he [...]

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Following the sex scandal driven resignation of Republican Chris Lee in NY-26, Scott Walker’s prank caller Ian Murphy (see previous IPR story) is described by Steve Peoples at Roll Call as “likely to capture the the Green Party ballot line” according to state Green Party co-chairman Peter LaVenia: “The local out in western New York [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: NEW PALTZ – The One Community Party announced a full slate of candidates for the Village of New Paltz election. Pete Healey is running for Mayor, and Trustee candidates Sally M. Rhoads and Martin Sherow are seeking four-year terms. Trustee candidate Stewart P. Glenn is seeking a two-year term, filling [...]

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GP of NY press release from March 10 (h/t TPID): The Green Party of New York said today that state Democratic and Republican Parties have become an organized crime family at the State Capitol. “Rather than starting the legislation session with the pledge of allegiance, state legislators and the Governor should submit to a lie [...]

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Dr. Tom Stevens on his blog (as with all opinionated articles on intra-party controversies, IPR is open to publishing a response should we receive one): On March 10, 2011, the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of Queens County unanimously adopted the following resolution, which contains a “strong recommendation” to LPQC members NOT TO ATTEND the [...]

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From New York LP chair Mark Axinn via LP blog: Libertarian Party Candidate Files Lawsuit against NYS Board of Elections for Failure to Count Votes Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Governor of New York in the 2010 election, today filed a lawsuit in Albany County Supreme Court against the New York State Board [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to this story, a New York State Supreme Court Justice has frozen $200,000 of funds that are in the bank account of the New York Independence Party.

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Participate in a live chat with Alex White, the Green Party Candidate for Mayor of Rochester, NY. The chat will be at http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus at 8 p.m. EST until 9 p.m. EST, Sunday March 6. Alex White is running in a special election for Mayor of Rochester, NY [...]

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GPNYS via On The Wilder Side: Green Party Calls for State Lawmakers to Reject Cuomo’s Austerity Budget A Green New Deal would invest in jobs, education, fair taxes Image by ucloccupation via Flickr Green Party of NY State leaders today called Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget an attack on working and middle class New Yorkers that [...]

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Below are videos posted on Youtube from the Green Party of Monmouth County.  On February 27th, they hosted a regional conference on “the Greens, labor, and healthcare,” featuring speakers and performers including Hugh Giordano of the Green Party of Philadelphia, folk singer Tom Neilson, Howie Hawkins of the Green Party of New York, and Margaret [...]

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From The New Yorker: Two weeks after Gawker published a shirtless Craigslist photo of Congressman Chris Lee and solicitous e-mails he sent, leading him to resign, Ian Murphy, one of his erstwhile constituents, prank-called Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, and now has his eye on Lee’s vacant seat. Murphy, editor-in-chief of the Buffalo Beast, the alt-weekly [...]

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