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Posts published in October 2011

End of October 2011 Update on Americans Elect

The October 2011 Ballot Access News reports the following data for Americans Elect ballot drives from about a month ago:

Alabama, 20,000 signatures (44,829 valid needed)
Alaska, already on
Arizona, already on
Arkansas, 0 (Paulie: they went for the 1,000 signature requirement and I believe they have collected them now)
California, finished (P: Over 1.6 million signatures submitted)
Colorado, 7,500
Florida, already on
Georgia, 6,000 collected; 57,956 valid required
Hawaii, finished
Kansas, already on
Maine, 500 towards 28,639 requirement
Michigan, already on
Missouri, finished
Montana, showed as O signatures but subsequent story says it started (5,000 valid required)
Nevada, already on
North Carolina, showed as O signatures but subsequent story says it started (85,379 valid required)
Ohio, subsequent story says signatures are being collected although number needed is not known
Oklahoma, showed as O signatures but subsequent story says it started (51,739 valid required)
Oregon, showed as O signatures but subsequent story says it started (21,804 valid required)
Rhode Island, showed as O signatures but subsequent story says it started (17,115 valid required)
South Carolina, showed as O signatures but subsequent story says it started (10,000 valid required)
Tennessee, showed as O signatures but subsequent story says it started (40,042 valid required)
Utah, finished
Wyoming, showed as O signatures but subsequent story says it started (3,740 valid required)

Meanwhile, at Irregular Times:

Americans Elect Hiring Actors with Accents to Appear in an Advertisement for $50

New Briefing Book Shows New Means for Americans Elect Meddling with Candidate Selection

Americans Elect Names 10 New Leaders, Drawing Heavily Again from Financial Sector

Guest Post: Americans Elect: The ‘Little Big Man’ of Astroturf?

Independence Party of Minnesota impressions of OccupyMN

by Buzz at IndependenceMinnesota.org:

Fed up with our current political system and interested in just what the Occupy movement is all about, a number of Independence Party members set off for downtown Minneapolis for the opening day of OccupyMN’s protests on Friday, October 7.…

Kristin Davis vs. Cyrus Vance

From ManhattanMadam.com, the blog of Kristin Davis, 2010 Anti-Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of New York:

EX-MADAM BLASTS VANCE RECORD ON WOMEN

Cites DSK Dismissal and Marvel Scott Plea Bargain

MANHATTAN – Former Madam Kristin Davis who went to prison for providing call girls to former Governor Eliot Spitzer and now heads a non-profit organization, HOPE HO– USE, that combats sex trafficking, today slammed Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance for dismissing the charges against DSK and letting former Channel 7 Sportscaster Marvel Scott rape a 14 year old girl and plead guilty only to a reduced misdemeanor charge of “endangering the welfare of a child” avoiding any jail time.…

Darryl Perry: Tom Woods Rolls Out a Winner With Rollback

By Boston Tea Party national committee chair Darryl Perry:

Tom Woods begins Rollback by asking “is it already too late?” Before giving a lengthy answer, he points to recent polls that suggests most Americans claim to not trust the federal government; though much like a teenager that insists his parents are clueless – still looks their way for a solution.

Socialist Equality Party: ‘A portrait of America in decline’

Per politics1, “The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) was originally named the Workers League (WL). The WL was founded in 1966 as a Trotskyist communist group closely associated with the electoral campaigns of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

Socialist Action: Support the Occupy Wall Street Movement!

Per politics1.com, “Socialist Action is a Trotskyist political party of “revolutionary socialists” originally founded by expelled members of the Socialist Workers Party. While the SA shares the SWP’s pro-Castro views, the SA still tries to retain its Trotskyist ideological roots (versus the SWP, which has drifted away from Trotskyism towards a more Soviet communist ideology).

Carl Person: How State LPs Can Win The State Wide Vote

Emailed to IPR:

HOW ANY STATE LIBERTARIAN PARTY CAN WIN THE STATE-WIDE VOTE – BY SHOWING THAT LIBERTARIAN PRINCIPLES WORK IN CREATING PROSPERITY

Substance of My Statements Made at the 10/22/11 Illinois State LP Presidential Debate

(by Carl Person, Candidate for Libertarian Party Nomination for President)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New York, NY, October 24, 2011.…