Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
According to this article, it is likely that a ballot-qualified Independent Party will soon come into existence in Louisiana.…
Posts published in December 2014
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
The Maine Libertarian Party has become the first group to comply with the 2013 law that says if a group wants to qualify as a political party, it must notify the state in December of an even-numbered year.…
From party co-chairman David North & 2004 SEP presidential nominee Bill Van Auken at the World Socialist Web Site:
The simultaneous announcements Wednesday by Barack Obama and Raul Castro of moves to “normalize” US-Cuban relations have been hailed as a turning point by Latin America’s governments and major American corporations alike.…
IPR Note: The following article from the DuPage Co., IL LP talks about setting and meeting goals by a local county party. For our readers who head up county, state or national parties/chapters (any party), did you have similar lists of goals set when you started 2014 (or your term, if part way through the year)?…
In the busyness of the season, many readers undoubtedly missed an article which appeared in Alternet by Walter Dean Burnham and Thomas Ferguson on December 17th which made a stunning admission by its very title:
Americans Are Sick to Death of Both Parties: Why Our Politics Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought
2014 signaled a new stage of disintegration
The article begins with this:
The way many pundits tell it, the Democratic debacle in the 2014 midterm elections sounds like a perfect storm of bad breaks.
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I contacted Judge Jim Gray, the Libertarian Party’s 2012 Vice Presidential nominee, about an article published here on December 25 announcing that Gray planned to attend the January 3 Democratic Liberty Caucus event in South Carolina. …
From John McDevitt at Liberation News:
“I got to tell all the things that are hidden inside me of what really
happened”–Renee Felton, Kwadir’s mother
“I don’t really do anything for the holidays anymore since all this
happened to Kwadir,” Renee Felton, Kwadir’s mother, told Liberation in the one bedroom apartment that she now shares with her daughter.…
The Salt Lake City Tribune appears to be the first daily newspaper to announce that Gary Johnson and Jill Stein will be suing the Commission on Presidential Debates.…
From the Vermont Progressive Party website:
Thu, 2014-12-18 20:31
Governor Peter Shumlin abandoned single payer healthcare yesterday right when political leadership was needed most to push Vermont and the country forward.…