From MySuburbanLife.com:
Berwyn, IL —Rita Maniotis knew that running a campaign for school board in Morton High School District 201 would be difficult, but she didn’t anticipate a legal fight just to get on the ballot.
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Posts published in January 2011
Green Party of NYS gets excellent coverage on Capital Tonight TV show
By Kimberly Wilder on January 9, 2011 12:17 AM
Howie Hawkins ran for Governor of New York on the Green Party line in the 2010 campaign. On January 7, 2011, Hawkins was interviewed by Elizabeth Benjamin of Capital Tonight.…
Georgia Greens Demand Answers on Inmate’s Brutal Treatment
By Kimberly Wilder on January 8, 2011 11:16 PM
Excerpt from a press release posted at the website of the national Green Party:
Georgia Green Party
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Georgia Greens Demand Answers on Inmate’s Brutal Treatment
Macon State inmate Transported to Atlanta Medical CenterIn a New Year’s Eve letter sent to Governors Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal, officers of the Georgia Green Party asked why the Georgia Department of Corrections withheld from Terrance Dean’s family news of his condition and whereabouts.
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Libertarian Ron Vandevender To Run For Governor of Montana
By IPR Contributor on January 8, 2011 4:30 AM
A new candidate has emerged in the open seat gubernatorial race in Montana. From the Great Falls Tribune:
[Ron] Vandevender lives near Craig and twice unsuccessfully has run for a seat state House District 84.
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Libertarian Andrew Gray To Run For Topeka City Council
By IPR Contributor on January 8, 2011 4:23 AM
After earning 2.6% of the vote as the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Kansas, Andrew Gray is running for the Topeka City Council. From a local news outlet:
Gray stated that he was recruited to run for Topeka City Council by voters who identified with his passionate commitment to fiscal responsibility and personal liberty during the recent campaign.
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Green Party opposes Cuomo recycling failed fiscal policies
By Kimberly Wilder on January 7, 2011 7:31 PM
From a Green Party of New York State press release, as posted by Ian Wilder at onthewilderside.com:
The Green Party blasted the Emergency Fiscal Plan outlined by Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State Message as a continuation of the failed policies of previous administrations of the Democratic and Republican Parties.
…Reform Party of NJ Plans Protest Against Eminent Domain
By Gene Berkman on January 7, 2011 3:36 PM
(Long Branch, NJ, 01/06/2011) Jacob Zychick, chairman of the
newly created Reform Party of New Jersey, recently visited the
largely vacant storefronts of downtown Long Branch.…
Left Establishment Censorship in the Age of Obama by John Halle
By Ross Levin on January 7, 2011 2:52 PM
John Halle is a former Green Alderman from New Haven, Connecticut. The full piece, excerpted below, appears in Dissident Voice.
Counterpoised to these brute force tactics, a more traditional and effective means of information management is to prevent positions judged unacceptable from finding their way into print in the first place.
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Australian millionaire donated $1.6 million to Greens last election
By Ross Levin on January 7, 2011 2:47 PM
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
Mr Wood, whose wealth was estimated at $372 million in last year’s BRW Rich 200 list, gave $1.6 million to fund the Greens’ TV advertising campaign, helping to significantly increase votes for the party in key states…
Mr Wood’s donation enabled the Greens to run advertisements on high rotation on commercial television stations for the first time.
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