The Hartford Courant reports on its website that Ralph Nader “issued a congratulatory welcome to the new Green Party candidate who will surely be speaking to the same type of voters that would be drawn to the independent Nader.…
Posts published in “Independents”
Wisconsin GOP legislator goes independent
By Trent Hill on July 15, 2008 11:31 PM
This article cites how and why a Wisconsin Republican state legislator became an independent.
State Rep. Jeff Wood, who represented northwest Wisconsin’s 67th District as a Republican in the last legislative session, decided against filing for re-election Tuesday as a candidate of the Grand Old Party.
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It’s official: Jesse Ventura will not run
By Administrative Team on July 14, 2008 9:14 PM
Jesse Ventura will not be an independent/Independence Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota.
He says the only way he’ll run is if God intervenes between now and the 5:00 P.M.…
Prediction: Jesse Ventura will be ‘the next Ron Paul’ if he runs
By Administrative Team on July 14, 2008 7:41 PM
Libertarian Bob Barr and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin have both sought the mantle of “next Ron Paul” — i.e. the person who would carry on the R3VOLution through November.…
Dean Barkley talks about a possible Ventura for Senate campaign
By Austin Cassidy on July 14, 2008 6:51 PM
Former U.S. Senator Dean Barkley (I-MN) sat down to talk with a reporter from MinnPost.com about what would be involved if Jesse Ventura takes the plunge and announced a run for Norm Coleman’s Senate seat.…
Historical pockets of support for third party and independent candidates
By Austin Cassidy on July 13, 2008 1:19 PM
It’s interesting to look back through past election results and see how some third party candidates for President have done really well in small pockets of the country.…
Jesse Ventura speaks out on two-party system, Libertarians, Ron Paul, on Al Jazeera interview
By Administrative Team on July 13, 2008 1:01 PM
Potential Minnesota Independence Party candidate for U.S. Senate, Jesse Ventura, was interviewed by Al Jazeera on April 9.
In the interview, he says of the two major parties: “They’ve turned the whole business of elections into panhandling and bribery,” and “These two parties now have America $9 trillion in debt.”…
Ugandan writer meets Imperato in Washington, D.C.
By PJO on July 12, 2008 11:35 PM
A very strange article on independent presidential candidate Daniel Imperato appears in the Sunday Monitor of Kampala, Uganda, of all places. Writer Andrew Agaba says he met “the unknown candidate running for President of the United States of America” about two weeks ago at Union Station in Washington, D.C.,…
Nader campaigns in Richmond, Virginia
By PJO on July 12, 2008 11:28 PM
The AP reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader “made a campaign stop at the Virginia Holocaust Museum” in Richmond om Saturday, where he “encouraged supporters to raise money and gather signatures to gain him a place on Virginia’s ballot in November.”…