From Der Spiegel:
Never in its history has Germany’s Green Party led one of the country’s 16 states. Now, the party could come out on top in two state elections next year.…
Posts published in October 2010
Green Party U.S. Senate Candidate Calls for Ending All U.S. Military and Economic Aid to Israel
By on October 21, 2010 9:22 PM
ANAHEIM, Calif — Duane Roberts, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, calls for “ending all U.S. military and economic aid to Israel” arguing that it is “morally wrong for taxpayers to continue financing this nation’s acts of state-sponsored terrorism against the Palestinian people”.…
Free Speech Radio focuses on Ben Manski, Green running for state assembly in WI
By Ross Levin on October 21, 2010 9:13 PM
You can listen to the full piece here.
With its long progressive tradition, Madison, Wisconsin has been described as “78 square miles surrounded by reality.” This year’s elections in Madison might reinforce that reputation.
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Tom Clements TV Commercials
By Jordan Willow Evans on October 21, 2010 7:34 PM
Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:
Tom Clements, South Carolina Green Party candidate for US Senate, has put out three TV commercials:
“Extremists”
“What has he done”
“Harmful Vision”
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Colorado Republican politicians switching support to Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Tancredo
By Jordan Willow Evans on October 21, 2010 6:48 PM
Faith Mangan at Fox News Blog reports that, with Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo polling within 4% of frontrunner Democrat John Hickenlooper and Republican Dan Maes now at 10% and dropping, numerous elected Republicans are now pulling their support from Maes and switching to Tancredo.…
Green Party of PA votes unanimously to support Dimock residents’ attempt to get clean water
By Ross Levin on October 21, 2010 6:36 PM
GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA
http://www.gpofpa.org
Green Party supports residents of Dimock
Since DEP Secretary John Hanger announced his decision to construct a
pipeline from Lake Montrose to Dimock to provide safe drinking water to the
residents who are unable to use their wells, there has been a backlash.…
Maine Gov race: Democrats and Republicans Boost Independent Eliot Cutler
By Jordan Willow Evans on October 21, 2010 6:02 PM
From the Journal Tribune via TPID:
Maine’s two major political parties have been doing a marvelous job advocating for one of the state’s gubernatorial candidates.…
Massachusetts: Independent Seeks to Provide Voice for the Moderate Middle
By Jordan Willow Evans on October 21, 2010 5:58 PM
From Wicked Local
via TPID:
Like many of her neighbors, K.C. Winslow was fed up with politics as usual. On Beacon Hill and at the national level, she had grown tired of seeing divided parties taking it too far to the right, or too far to the left.
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Raw Story features Green criticism of two major parties
By Ross Levin on October 21, 2010 4:42 PM
Featured prominently on the front page of the progressive news site Raw Story:
“This is a very opportune moment to tell people that whether you elect Democrats or Republicans, you’re basically getting a GOP agenda,” Scott McLarty, a national spokesman for the US Green Party, told Raw Story.
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