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Posts published in November 2010

New Zealand capital elects Green mayor

Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:

A bit of inspiring news from beautiful New Zealand:

Celia Wade-Brown has become New Zealand’s first Green mayor – a moment being described as a “watershed” by the party leader.

Libertarian Party campaign resources

This is on the LP.org site, although it was added only fairly recently and this is the first time I remember noticing it. You can get to it from the main page by going to “Campaign Resources” from the drop-down menu under “Action” at the top of the page.

Preliminary Libertarian Party election results

Posted by staff at LP blog:

These are preliminary results for Libertarians running for Governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House. Vote counts and percentages are not final, but percentages probably will not change much.…

More states elected independents to state legislatures this year than in any previous year in at least sixty years

Ballot Access News reports:

Thanks very much to Morgan Daybell for helping me find instances at which independent legislators were elected or re-elected last week. It appears that independents were elected to state legislators in 2010 in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont.

Green Party of PA and Philadelphia holding 3 events in the city this weekend

There will be a meeting of the state party’s committee, a fundraiser dinner featuring Green Party activist Mike Nance answering the question, “Was Hericletus right?” and a pancake breakfast the next morning at the house of Green Party activist Hillary Kane, which is part of an effort to form a new West Philadelphia Greens group. …