Ballot Access News reports:
The Peace Party became a ballot-qualified party in 2008 in Oregon. It was formed for the purpose of placing Ralph Nader on the ballot in Oregon. At the time, it was significantly easier to qualify a new party in Oregon than to get an independent candidate on the ballot (thanks to good legislative action in 2009, the independent procedures are now easier than they had been in 2008).
Because the Peace Party polled over 1% of the vote for president, it retained its ballot status, and is ballot qualified for 2010. On September 17, it filed paperwork with the Secretary of State to change its name to the Progressive Party. Oregon permits qualified parties to change their names. However, voters who had been registered in the Peace Party will need to change their registration, if they wish to continue being a member of the party under its new name.
Oregon and Vermont are now the two states that have a ballot-qualified party named the Progressive Party.
There needs to be far more articulation of our values. I’m quite tired of tepid Dems using progressive as a substitute for liberal because Rush made it a bad word. Blue Oregon (blueoregon.com), a solid Dem organ, has taken to bashing all things progressive with great glee, while self-identifying. We need real progressives to make their voices heard on blogs like that. Get out the word!
Progressive symbolism: Oregon, the Elk; Vermont, the Bull Moose.
Biggest iconography snafu of P2008: former GOP Bob Barr not adopting the 1912 Bull Moose /Teddy Roosevelt banner. Yes 2012 will be the Centennial of the greatest third party effort of the 20th Century. [Be sure to let this one slide by also. Never miss an opportunity that can not be ignored!]
And speaking of Progressive Party, I came across this party called the American Progressive Party: http://www.americanprogressiveparty.com/. There is of course not much on the website, just a contact with the email, the symbol of the party, and a rolling thing that shows the words “vision • integrity • strength • unity • freedom • justice • equality • prosperity”
Here’s a story on the interesting, and apparently independently wealthy, Jerry Wilson’s interest in the Progressive Party’s nomination for governor:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2009/10/soloflex_founder_jerry_wilson.html
I hope Milnes never gets near Oregon.
Two hilarious five year olds. Peter’s facebook statuses are classic.
It remains to be seen whether this development either ruins or just hampers The Progressive Libertarian Alliance Strategy…OR, helps its ticket get enough ballot access to win. The BTP could also do that. But probably not.
ROFLMAO
I never caught that. You see why more minds and eyes are a good thing?
Long live democracy and the Republic it is supposed to protect.
Yeah, we down with OPP. MN-OP, yeah you know me.
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Well Well
Chuckled loudly at this one.
You see, the MN OP actually sang this song when we decided, in an open, democratic manner to name ourselves the OPP. Although we can not officially call ourselves the MN OPP yet, until we run state wide candidates. Until then, we are not an official party. But we are definitely “Down with OPP.”
However, the MN OP have been contacting other states including Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin with our message.
We in the MN OP have also got some rather interesting news, just breaking today that will be shared with the good folks at IPR.
I am currently working on the story and Press Release. The MN OP have another candidate and she is an elected mayor in Minnesota.
Yeah, we down with OPP.
Here it is for those who have not had the pleasure
“They’re still down with OPP.”
😀 Damn you’re good, Paulie! I guess there are at least a few people who remember that song. I grew up in Buffalo, and Canada was less than a 10 mile drive away. I remembered when I heard it on the radio for the first time, I thought “Why are they singing about the Ontario Provincial Police?” I quickly realized that it was about something else.
I was going to say that as well that WA has a Progressive Party. However I wouldn’t say that the OPMN is a party that would relate itself to the others.
Well, there’s a nascent Progressive Party here in WA. And the Open Progressive Party in MN.
Read the last sentence of the article you are commenting on.
So how many state Progressive Parties does that make?
They’re still down with OPP.