Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is plotting the launch of a new third party next month, POLITICO reports today.
Yang, who lost a bid for New York mayor earlier this year, is said to no longer personally identify as a Democrat. It’s unclear if Yang’s new party will be a national effort or confined to New York state, where fusion could allow the party to cross-nominate candidates friendly to Yang’s Universal Basic Income proposal.… Read more ...
On this day 155 years ago Hiram Johnson was born to Annie De Montfredy and 1 term representative Grove Lawrence Johnson. While Hiram spent a lot of his time in public life as a member of the Republican Party, he has a large impact on the minor party political sphere that should not be overlooked as well.… Read more ...
According to Ballot Access News, former chairman of the American Independent Party (AIP) Markham Robinson has died of an unspecified illness. Robinson had been part of the leadership of the AIP since 2008 and is currently listed on the party website as Executive Committee chair. He was 77.
Robinson was active on Twitter under the name @BraveLad.… Read more ...
Good morning and welcome to the new server!
IPR is now housed on a new and upgraded web hosting plan that should lead to snappier performance and MUCH less downtime. In fact, I expect no more downtime!
Apologies to anyone who has written or posted any comments in the past couple of days, those appear to have gotten lost in the shuffle.… Read more ...
Author and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, the 1996 and 2000 Green Party presidential nominee, 2004 Reform Party presidential nominee, and 2008 Peace and Freedom Party presidential nominee, sent the following fictional account last week to his e-mail subscribers.
Jeff Bezos touched down after his 10 minutes, 10 second vertical 66 mile zoom above Earth.… Read more ...
Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm, who challenged Ross Perot for the 1996 Reform Party presidential nomination, died yesterday at the age of 85. According to Colorado Public Radio, Lamm died after suffering complications from a pulmonary embolism.
Lamm, who served as governor of Colorado for three terms (1975–1987) as a Democrat, sought the presidential nomination of the Reform Party after industrialist Ross Perot founded the party in 1995. … Read more ...
This is the Open Thread for July & August of 2021.
Please leave your tips, announcements, or other things below.
The Constitution Party today sent the following update to its email subscribers.
The Semi-Annual National Committee meeting of the Constitution Party was held in Corunna, Michigan, on April 23rd and 24th. It was well attended and the speakers delivered some very timely and powerful messages which were well received.… Read more ...
I’m technically jumping the gun, as the vote runs through the end of today, July 25, but a peek at the vote numbers so far, running 10-1 in favor and well past a necessary quorum, indicate that I’m not jumping the gun in reality.
This is the denouement of a long issue that’s had at least some degree of bad faith on “both sides,” as I see it.… Read more ...
The Libertarian National Committee has announced that Whitney Bilyeu of Texas will serve as the new Chair of the LNC.
“Her natural ability to lead and her drive for excellence make her an outstanding choice for the position,” the LNC said via press release.
The LNC convened a special session to fill the vacancy left by Joe Bishop-Henchman’s resignation in June.… Read more ...
Watch 5 minutes of Tucker Carlson’s program on Fox News and you would assume his devotion to former President Donald Trump extended to actually casting a vote for Trump’s re-election. However, several outlets including POLITICO are reporting that Carlson told multiple people that he did not vote for Trump in 2020 and instead cast his ballot for friend and entertainer Kanye West.… Read more ...
The Alliance Party sent out the following newsletter earlier this month updating email subscribers on the latest party news for this month:
“Own Your Future”NEWSLETTER June 2021 The past few months have been spent in research, polling, and focus groups. Now that we have laid out our strategy to be the party of the future, rather than of only the next election we are developing a marketing strategy to get the word out. |