Asa Gordon is Chair of the D.C Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force; a member of the Green Party Black Caucus Organizing Committee; and is the founder and Executive Director of the Douglass Institute of Government (DIG).…
Posts published in August 2009
Chicago Sun-Times columnist ‘looking forward to’ Green U.S. Senate campaign
By PJO on August 13, 2009 4:40 AM
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Don Terry profiles LeAlan Jones, who is running for U.S. Senate in Illinois as a Green. Terry writes that the 30-year-old is “green all right.…
Legalize Marijuana Party founder profiled
By PJO on August 13, 2009 4:32 AM
Jazz News profiles Edward Forchion, a.k.a. “New Jersey Weedman”, who founded the Legalize Marijuana Party in 1998 and ran for several offices. In 2008, he “fled New Jersey in a self imposed political exile to sunny California, a state that, per the passage of the Prop.…
Root endorses Internet marketing tool
By PJO on August 13, 2009 2:46 AM
A news release from CarbonCopyPRO says Wayne Allyn Root has endorsed the product, which the makers call “the premier internet marketing system and entrepreneurial education platform.…
America’s Independent Party of Tennessee chairman organizes protest
By PJO on August 13, 2009 2:41 AM
Nashville Scene reports Tom Kovach, chairman of America’s Independent Party of Tennessee, is organizing a demonstration outside a Nashville middle school for Friday morning.…
NYC Mayor Race Round-Up
By Kimberly Wilder on August 12, 2009 10:05 PM
The article below by Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News reports a list of candidates who have already filed for Mayor on independent/non-automatic-ballot-status-third-party lines, and notes that petitions are expected from Green Party candidate Reverend Billy (William Talen).…
Federal Court Upholds South Carolina’s Method of Restricting Fusion
By Kimberly Wilder on August 12, 2009 8:51 PM
from Ballot Access News / August 12th, 2009
Federal Court Upholds South Carolina’s Method of Restricting Fusion
On August 12, U.S. District Court Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Clinton appointee, upheld South Carolina election laws that permit fusion, but which also say that if someone gets the nomination of one party first, and later tries to get the nomination of a second party and fails, then the first nomination is voided.
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ABC News and Wayne Root on Steve Kubby
By wredlich on August 12, 2009 12:16 AM
ABC News Medical Unit posted a story last week about possible uses of Steve Kubby’s cannabis lozenge to treat flu, and this week 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate Wayne Root made available an excerpt from his book passionately criticizing the prosecution of his 2008 LP rival Kubby on charges related to medical marijuana.…
Reverend Billy Talen for Mayor campaign gives numbers: 12,000 signatures
By Kimberly Wilder on August 11, 2009 9:24 PM
William Talen — also known as “Reverend Billy” — is collecting signatures to run on the Green Party line for Mayor of New York City. In an August 11th letter from Savitri of the Reverend Billy Talen for Mayor campaign to supporters, information was given about the number of signatures already collected, as well as an upcoming campaign event.…