Posted by Andrew Davis on the LP National blog
It’s been more than 36 hours since my plane landed in West Virginia and I began volunteering with the Barr campaign’s ballot access drive.
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Posts published in July 2008
Peace and Freedom Convention this Weekend – Four Candidates, including McKinney and Nader stand-off
By paulie on July 29, 2008 9:19 AM
The State Convention for Peace and Freedom Party will convene on Saturday, August 2 and 3 at the Hawthorn Suites, 321 Bercut Drive, Sacramento California.
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Candidates at the Green Party US Presidential forum
By paulie on July 29, 2008 9:13 AM
via http://polidoc.blogspot.com/
Kat Swift, Texan Green, reminds us that “We are the change we seek” in her introductory remarks at the 2008 Green Party National Convention Presidential Candidate Forum in Chicago, IL on Friday, September 11.
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Libertarians help San Francisco prostitution decriminalization measure get national publicity
By paulie on July 29, 2008 8:41 AM
Posted by Starchild on LP Radicals Yahoo group. Starchild is an activist with the San Francisco LP.
Most prominently, as many of you know, Carol Leigh (aka Scarlet
Harlot) was on the Bill O’Reilly show.
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Green Party to antiwar Americans: don’t waste your vote on Obama
By paulie on July 29, 2008 12:46 AM
Green Party press release.
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders said today that antiwar voters will not get an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by voting for presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama on Election Day.…
Alabama shuts out all non-presidential independents and smaller parties; lawsuit in the works
By paulie on July 29, 2008 12:27 AM
Posted at Ballot Access News
Alabama is almost certain to be the only state with no independent or minor party candidates on the ballot this year, for any federal or state office other than president.…
Ten Presidential Nominating Conventions Coming in August and September
By paulie on July 29, 2008 12:11 AM
Posted at Ballot Access News
At least ten presidential nominating conventions will be held in August and September:
1. The Peace and Freedom Party meets in Sacramento, California, on August 2-3.
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Libertarians drop Sonny Landham
By paulie on July 28, 2008 11:27 PM
On tonight’s Weekly Filibuster, Libertarian Party political director Sean Haugh revealed that the Libertarian Party of Kentucky is dissociating itself from Sonny Landham. He explained that the LPKY needed to wait until today to find out the ramifications for dissociating itself from Landham for the purpose of getting Barr/Root and LPKY on the ballot, since he was listed on the petition.…
Pollina runs as an independent, Vermont Progressives react
By Fred Church Ortiz on July 28, 2008 8:14 PM
Presumptive Vermont Progressive Party gubernatorial nominee Anthony Pollina announced last week that he would seek election not as the candidate of his party, but rather as an independent.…