July 3, 2026
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In a message posted at News With Views, writer Jim Kouri reports on Oregon’s Measure 65. This proposal is titled “Changes General Election Nomination Processes for Major/Minor Party, Independent Candidates for Most Partisan Offices”, and News With Views reports in part
“If passed, Measure 65 will spell the end of all third parties in Oregon.
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In a letter hand delivered today to Eugene Platt, Green Party nominee for South Carolina State House District 115, Attorney F. Truett Nettles, II told Platt that he had filed a case against Platt in the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas.…
Maverick Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Kelleher, a former Green, has spent his political career advocating “a peculiar political passion: an American parliament,” the Missoulian reports.…
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org
For Immediate Release:
Monday, September 1, 2008
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, [email protected]
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, [email protected]…
Wisconsin’s Racine Journal-Times reports Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney will visit several Wisconsin cities, including Baraboo, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine, next week.…
Seeking to capitalize on the disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporter vote, John McCain has selected half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Ms. Palin is considered by some to be a “libertarian” Republican and, according to Eric Dondero’s Libertarian Republican blog, she has spoken to two Libertarian Party meetings in Alaska.…
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, running as an independent for Congress in California’s Eighth District against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has endorsed Green Cynthia McKinney for president:
In other McKinney campaign news, the Green candidate “has filed a lawsuit arguing she should be placed on Ohio’s November ballot,” the AP reports, and both McKinney and running mate Rosa Clemente were interviewed by Indymedia.…
The Oregonian reports on its website that former Oregon state senator Walt Brown, who served as a Democrat and in 2004 was the Socialist Party USA nominee for president, has been nominated by the Pacific Green Party to run for Oregon attorney general this year.…
Socialist Action has told given its take on the 2008 elections in two articles, one entitled The 2008 Elections: The Socialist View and the other The 2008 Elections: Does it Pay to Back the ‘Lesser Evil’.…