Source: Ballot Access News
On May 10, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed SB 3700, which moves the petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties from April to August. It also gives newly-qualifying parties the choice of whether to nominate by convention or primary (if they want a primary, of course they must file before the primary). This bill only passed because minor parties won the 2010 lawsuit and also the 2012 lawsuit, against the early deadline. Read more »
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The New Orleans Times-Picayune has this story about the approaching deadline for candidates to qualify for the Americans Elect primary ballot. The story, published early on May 14, says Buddy Roemer has 5,618 “clicks”. As of 12:45 p.m. eastern time on the same day, the Americans Elect web page says now he has 5,668. He needs 10,000 with at least 1,000 from each of ten states. Read more »
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On May 13, the most populous German state, North Rhine-Westphalia, held elections for its own state government. The Green Party polled 11.3%, the Free Democrats polled 8.6%, the Pirate Party polled 7.8%, and The Left polled 2.5%. The Social Democrats polled 39.1% and the Christian Democratic Union, which governs Germany, only polled 26.3%. Other parties polled the remainder of the vote. See this story. Read more »
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Michael Russnow is a California scriptwriter and recently an officer with the Writers Guild of America. He has worked on many well-known television series, and some films, and is a Democrat and a former congressional aide. He has this commentary on California’s top-two “open primary” system here.
He mentions the California June 2012 primary ballot, which lists 24 candidates for U.S. Read more »
Source: Independent Political Report
Debbie Schum resides in Colorado, and gave IPR permission to publish her article, below, which was originally sent to the LP-CT discussion list.
Progressives are Lost to the LP
By Debbie Schum
Just to prove how effective educating the masses is, my husband just registered Read more »
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C Michael Pickens is currently the Northern Vice-Charmain for the California Libertarian Executive Committee.
Source: Independent Political Report
This was published in OpEdNews May 11, 2012
This past weekend, the Libertarian Party celebrated its 40th birthday by choosing its candidates for President and Vice President. The Libertarians selected former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson for President, and retired judge James Gray of California for Vice President. The convention was broadcast nationally on C-SPAN , and received Read more »
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As was reported here at Green Party Watch May 12th found the San Francisco Green Party host to a presidential debate between Jill Stein and Roseanne Barr. Ann Garrison covers the debate at Fog City Journal, a widely read news website based in San Francisco.
Where Obama and Romney see a world full of terrorists requiring an ever-heightened Read more »
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Here is the newest Constitution Party Newsletter. Here is the announcement that accompanied the link:
From the Chairman…….
Dear Friend,
Former Virginia Congressman, Virgil Goode secured the Constitution Party’s nomination Read more »
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In an article by Elizabeth A. Harris, the New York Times reports on Colin Beavan’s congressional campaign in New York.
In the name of living his New York City life with as little environmental impact as possible, embarked on a punishing project five years ago. He and his family stopped taking the elevator to their ninth-floor Manhattan apartment; they did their laundry by Read more »
