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Update on PFP primary trouble

Earlier this month, IPR noted the reports of Peace and Freedom Party voters being given the incorrect ballots during the June 3rd California statewide primary. Since then, Alameda County’s registrar Dave Macdonald has offered an explanation:

He explained that there are two lists that poll workers use, a “roster index”—a master list—and a street-level list.

La Riva/Puryear campaign makes demands on behalf of Iowans

In light of the recent flooding in Iowa, the Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear campaign has issued a statement calling for generous government financing for disaster relief and condemning DC’s current spending priorities:

When big investment banks were in trouble because of the housing crisis, the government gave them $200 billion literally overnight.

Stewart Alexander on economic stimulus

Stewart Alexander, the vice-presidential nominee of the Socialist Party USA and Peace and Freedom VP hopeful, has written an article for Bay Area Indymedia highlighting his concerns with Bush’s $168 billion economic stimulus package:

Millions of working people are waking up to the harsh reality that the Bush stimulus package is not working and that the U.S.

Socialist Moore aims for matching funds

WMNF Radio in Tampa, a community radio station, interviewed Socialist presidential candidate Brian Moore, mainly about ballot access. Moore said, “One of the easiest is our own state of Florida.…

Marxist parties and ‘The Cuban Five’

A hot topic among the country’s Marxist political parties in recent weeks has been “The Cuban Five.” Cuban nationals Fernando González, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, and Ramón Labañino were arrested in 1998 on 26 charges, including espionage and conspiracy, for their intelligence gathering activities focused on anti-Castro groups based in Miami.…