American Third Position Party candidate Harry Bertram, who got 0.35% of the vote for Governor of West Virginia in the recent special election, ran a controversial ad in the campaign’s closing days that proclaimed him to be the “voice for white American issues,” according to WTOV channel 9. Excerpts from the news story: “We’re against [...]

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Ballot Access News: The West Virginia Secretary of State’s web page carries the unofficial votes for Governor in the October 4 special election. Here is the link. So far, the percentages are: Democratic 50.23%, Republican 46.40%, Mountain 1.90%, independent .97%, American Third Position .35%, write-ins .14%. UPDATE: at 11:15 pm, the newer percentages are Democratic [...]

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Source:  ThirdPartyPolitics.us   Today West Virginia is holding a special gubernatorial election. Besides the Republican and Democratic candidates, there are two third party candidates, one independent candidate, and three write-ins. The third party candidates are the Mountain Party’s (West Virginia affiliate of the Green Party) Bob Henry Baber, former Mayor of Richwood, and Harry Bertram [...]

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IPR note from Paulie: Independent Marla Ingles and America’s Third Position Party candidate Harry Bertram are also in the race. See Poli-Tea for some details on that. Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: West Virginia is holding a special election for governor today, October 4, and one of the candidates is the Mountain Party’s Bob [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Over at Alternet, Jeff Biggers has published a detailed interview with Bob Henry Baber, the West Virginia Mountain Party’s candidate for governor in an October 4th special election: In a blatant genuflect to the coal industry’s stranglehold over state politics, the West Virginia Broadcasters Association blocked the participation of [...]

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Emailed to IPR: New Martinsville, WV, September 9, 2011 – Raymond V. Davis III is an Independent who is running for the US House of Representatives. His campaign platform is focused on methods to help create jobs in West Virginia. Mr. Davis believes the way to create full employment is to build up existing small [...]

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Jack Wagner at the Free Independent-Sun: On October 4th West Virginia will hold a special election for Governor. On September 7th a 3-Way Debate was held between candidates Earl Ray Tomblin (Democrat), Bill Maloney (Republican) and Bob Henry Baber (Green-Mountain). I support the elimination of the food tax. I am opposed to new taxes on [...]

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From a media release from the LPWV on June 27, 2011: Weston, WV (HNN) — The Libertarian Party of West Virginia (LPWV) held an executive committee meeting on Saturday, June 26, 2011 in Weston. At the meeting, they elected Tom Thacker as the new Chairman of the LPWV, who served as Secretary of the LPWV [...]

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From an email by Tom Thacker, Chair, Libertarian Party Of West Virginia: On May 14, 2011 The Libertarian Party Of West Virginia held a meeting at the Truck Stop Restaurant in Flatwoods WV to resolve an LPWV officer issue. Our Chair Tad Birtch has recently returned from a 90 day deployment in the Middle East. [...]

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Ballot Access News: West Virginia State Senator Clark Barnes (R-Beverly) has introduced SB 417, to ease the definition of “political party.” The existing law, ever since 1916, has defined a political party as a group that polled at least 1% of the vote for Governor in the last gubernatorial election. SB 417 would define “political [...]

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Ballot Access News: Connecticut Senator Andrew Maynard (D-Stonington) has introduced Proposed Bill 778, which cuts the number of signatures for statewide and U.S. House candidates, in the general election, down to 1,000 signatures. Current law requires 7,500 signatures for statewide candidates, and signatures equal to 1% for U.S. House candidates, which is always close to [...]

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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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by Gary Odom National Field Director at constitutionparty.com   2010 Election   Brings Victories and Near Misses; Highlights Progress And Reveals Challenges As The Constitution Party Looks To The Future     Congratulations To Nevada…Again!    In 2006, the Independent American Party, the Constitution Party’s state affiliate in Nevada elected two of its candidates to office.  This year it doubled up and elected four:three [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch The eleven Green Party candidates on the ballot this year for US Senate netted a combined half million votes. The 510,000 votes is the highest combined total for Green Party Senate candidates since 2000, when Medea Benjamin won 326,000 votes for US Senate in California and Vance Hansen picked [...]

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Poli-Tea: Over the last few weeks, in opinion pieces for college and university newspapers across the country, students have stepped up their criticism of the reigning two-party state and duopoly system of government. AJ Warne writes for the Daily Athenaeum, out of West Virginia University, and argues that the “rise of a third (or fourth) [...]

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From the Jesse Johnson for Senate campaign: CHARLESTON, WV: Mountain Party candidate Jesse Johnson, who is running to fill Robert C. Byrd’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, has won endorsements from historical heavyweights Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) and Congressman Ken Hechler (D-WV). In West Virginia, the Mountain Party is the affiliate of the Green Party of [...]

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From the Marshall Parthenon via TPID: A third-party candidate is seeking to be elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat left vacant by Robert C. Byrd. Jeff Becker, the Constitution Party’s candidate for the election of West Virginia’s new U.S. Senator, said he wants to help government make a return to Constitutional values. [...]

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Several stories at TPID today about the Constitution Party: CO-Gov: Progressives Debate Import of Tancredo’s Third Party Candidacy From Political Chili: Over at The Huffington Post, liberal blogger Jessica Corry is making “The Liberal Case for Tom Tancredo.”  According to Corry, Tancredo’s victory “could mean a handful of policy goodies long championed by liberal progressives.”  [...]

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The Mountain Party’s (that is, the West Virginia affiliate of the Green Party) candidate for US Senate Jesse Johnson participated today in an anti-mountaintop removal protest at the White House.  More than 100 people were arrested at the protest in an act of civil disobedience, although Johnson does not appear to be one of them. [...]

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After losing the race to represent the Democrats in a special US Senate election, former Democratic politician (and arguably, institution as far as West Virginia is concerned) Ken Hechler has endorsed Jesse Johnson. Johnson is the nominee for US Senate of the Mountain Party, West Virginia’s affiliate of the Green Party. Salon describes Hechler and [...]

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