Close on the heels of his victory in California, where the Peace and Freedom Party just put Nader on the ballot, the Natural Law Party of Michigan just did the same.…
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LPKY repudiates Landham again
By paulie on August 5, 2008 2:21 AM
PolitickerKY reports that Sonny Landham, the controversial Kentucky candidate who advocates economic nationalization, culture wars, and the use of a tax-funded military to conduct a war of genocide so that the US can appropriate other people’s oil, has been repudiated by the LP a second time.…
Green Horizons on the relative merits of McKinney and Nader
By paulie on August 5, 2008 12:43 AM
John Rensenbrink explores the relative merits of Nader and McKinney. The article is also relevant to other ideological perspectives in the past and future which see one candidate running as an independent, and another as part of a political party whose views are similar at the same time.…
Nader, Gonzalez address rally in Davis, California
By PJO on August 4, 2008 2:30 AM
The California Aggie of the University of California Davis reports this morning that independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez spoke at the Varsity Theatre in Davis on Saturday.…
Nader wins Peace and Freedom nomination
By Fred Church Ortiz on August 2, 2008 9:27 PM
The Peace and Freedom Party has selected independent candidate Ralph Nader and his runningmate Matt Gonzalez as its 2008 presidential ticket. According to the PFP’s homepage, “Both nominees agree with the fundamentals of the P & F platform and bring with them a strong combination of experience, credibility, and legislative accomplishment.”…
Photos from Peace and Freedom Convention
By Gregg Jocoy on August 2, 2008 5:02 PM
“Alice” posted this link at Ballot Access News. She reports that it is an index of photographs from the Peace and Freedom Party convention underway this weekend in California.…
Nader campaigns in Salt Lake City
By Fred Church Ortiz on August 1, 2008 3:05 PM
The Salt Lake Tribune has an article today remarking on Ralph Nader‘s campaign stop in Salt Lake City last night, where the independent presidential candidate made his pitch to a crowd of local supporters:
Nader, who is running for president for a fifth time, this time as an independent, criticized Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, as being a continuation of the status quo.
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West Virginia Libertarian petition reportedly fails
By paulie on August 1, 2008 2:21 AM
According to a field report by one of the Libertarian petitioners on the ground in West Virginia, as of tonight’s final turn-in of signatures by petitioners to the campaign, the LP gathered only around 12,000 raw signatures, falling short of the 15,118 required by state law.…
Landham: back on the LP ballot line?
By paulie on July 30, 2008 5:38 PM
PolitickerKY reports
The Libertarian Party of Kentucky will reconsider its endorsement of Senate candidate Sonny Landham Wednesday evening, just days after initially disassociating their party from his bid.
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