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Bronx Green Party candidate Walt Nestler receives Matching Funds
The Bronx County Green Party entered into its first truly competitive New York City Council race last week with the notification by the NYC Campaign Finance Board that Green Party candidate Walt Nestler had received over $35,000 in matching funds from the City.
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From PolitickerNJ:
Relishing a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll this morning that shows him at 12% when Chris Daggett’s name is removed from a sample ballot and substituted with the name of another independent, indie candidate Gary Steele took the swap-in free advert as a boost to his long-long-long-shot campaign for governor.
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In an email message to supporters, Reverend Billy Talen, Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York City, asked fellow citizens to turn out into the streets tomorrow, October 13th to call for inclusive debates instead of choreographed debates controlled by the Democratic and Republican Party and their minions.…
New York State has mandated that certain health care workers receive the H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccine. At a Long Island demonstration against mandatory vaccination, the Constitution Party appeared, and received mention in the local press.…
from Ballot Access News
New York City Mayor Election Is an Eight-Candidate Race
October 11th, 2009
The November 3, 2009 New York city Mayoral ballot will include these eight candidates, in this ballot order: William C.
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Independent Chris Daggett’s campaign for New Jersey governor is picking up steam. And yesterday, he picked up the endorsement of the largest newspaper in New Jersey, the Star-Ledger. …
From a press release at the Green Party of the United States web-site: gp.org
Greens urge widespread antiwar protests on the day President Obama accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
Friday, October 9, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders expressed puzzlement and outrage over the decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, and urge widespread demonstrations against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to take place in Oslo, Washington, and other cities on the day Mr.
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KW: This is a repost from my onthewilderside co-blogger Ian Wilder.
Cindy Sheehan: If any American “politician” got the Nobel Peace Prize, it should have been Cynthia McKinney
I wonder if the Nobel Committee looked at the videos of the G20 protests in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago when the US stormtroopers were hunting down protesters like dogs and beating them and teargassing grandmas (me) without provocation.
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October 9, 2009
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Libertarians suggest Nobel announcements should be moved to April Fool’s Day
WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party today suggested that, in the future, the announcement date every year for Nobel Prizes be moved to April 1.…