From an article at the Examiner.com:
Roger J. Stone Jr, the celebrated political consultant, lobbyist and strategist, and youngest staffer on Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign, announced Wednesday that he has quit the Republican Party. …
Posts published in February 2012
Wayne Root Touts Media Successes To LNC
By wredlich on February 16, 2012 10:24 PM
Libertarian National Committee alternate Scott Lieberman forwards an email from LNC member and 2008 LP VP candidate Wayne Root:
Some Libertarians have complained that the Libertarian National Committee has a super-secret e-mail list that no one other than LNC members are allowed to read.…
LP Media Release: End Dangerous Sanctions Now; Peace Through Free Trade
By Marc Montoni on February 16, 2012 9:15 PM
From a media release by the Libertarian Party:
For Immediate Release
Thursday, February 16, 2012
WASHINGTON – Libertarian National Committee Chair, Mark Hinkle, released the following statement today:
“As relations with Iran deteriorate, President Barrack Obama and the Bipartisan Senate Committee are making things worse: inciting yet another war in the Middle East through economic sanctions.…
LP 2012 Delegation Chair’s Manual Released
By Marc Montoni on February 16, 2012 7:12 PM
The Libertarian Party has begun distributing the 2012 Delegation Chair’s manual.
Other information & documents delegates will want to have on hand are:
Virgil Goode apparently running for Constitution Party Presidential nomination
By Jeremy C. Young on February 16, 2012 3:16 PM
Daily Kos’s David Nir reports that former Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia has created a Presidential campaign committee with the FEC. Here’s the FEC form.…
The Real News Interview: ‘Why is Rocky Anderson Running for President?’
By Ross Levin on February 15, 2012 5:23 PM
Below are the video and transcript of an interview with Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City and 2012 presidential nominee of the recently formed Justice Party, from the Real News Network.…
CO Green Party County Commissioner seeking reelection
By Ross Levin on February 14, 2012 7:41 PM
Art Goodtimes, a Green Party-affiliated Commissioner in San Miguel County, Colorado, has decided to run for reelection.
Goodtimes said he has tried to balance his West and East End constituents throughout his tenure.
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Roseanne Barr at 6 percent in national poll, 19 percent among young voters
By Ross Levin on February 14, 2012 7:21 PM
From Green Party Watch:
Roseanne Barr’s presidential bid has penetrated the veil of media silence so deeply that North Carolina based national polling firm Public Policy Polling has included her in a head to head to head comparisonwith Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.…
Jill Stein featured on New York Times’ ‘The Caucus’ blog
By Ross Levin on February 14, 2012 7:14 PM
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was interviewed by the New York Times today, for their blog The Caucus. The full interview can be read here.…