FB event;
https://www.facebook.com/events/349232545192122/
Hopefully Joshua Fauver, Cody Quirk, Peter Gemma and/or others will be able to live blog from the event. Here’s a report from CP Facebook page on yesterday:
… Read more ...“REPORT FROM THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING: Day one saw Constitutionists gathering from across the nation. Old friends greeted and new friends made.
Green Party Watch held a presidential poll with the following results:
1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%. There were 35 votes for Kent Mesplay, and 8 votes for Harley Mikkelson
GPW reports that Roseanne Barr is very active on Twitter, and had tweeted a challenge to Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to have both herself and Jill Stein on their programs.… Read more ...
Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
Maria Allwine, former Maryland Green Party gubernatorial candidate, recently had a letter published in the Baltimore Sun decrying the newspaper’s failure to cover Green Party candidates in local elections:
… Read more ...As usual, The Sun does a grave disservice to its readers and Baltimore City voters by refusing to acknowledge that there are Green Party candidates running in the general election.
From an article on LP.org:
On June 21, a Maryland judge ruled that the Libertarian Party had submitted enough petition signatures to gain ballot access in Maryland. The state Board of Elections had previously determined that there were not enough signatures. The main issue was whether to count voters who wrote a printed name that did not perfectly match their voter registration.… Read more ...
Via http://baltimoregreens.blogspot.com/:
The Baltimore City Green Party supports Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s proposed 4-cent-per-bottle tax increase, and urges City Council members to support this and other ecologically-sound revenue generators for the city of Baltimore.
“The city ought to be cutting taxes on things that are valuable to city residents, like home ownership, re-structuring city taxes to provide incentives for other valuable things like home-based renewable wind and solar power and public transportation,” said party chair Brian Bittner, of Westport, “and raising taxes on things that are valuable to beverage corporations and other corporate interests, including oil and energy companies.”
The Baltimore City Green Party also urges the Baltimore City Council to seriously consider a plastic bag ban, or pass a plastic bag ‘tax’ similar to Washington DC’s 5-cent-per-bag fee.… Read more ...
In light of the potential close three-way split (and there are nine other candidates in the race, too), three major newspapers have printed opinion pieces in favor of instant runoff voting. The Times of Trenton – in Trenton, New Jersey – printed a piece by George Amick:
… Read more ...The good news is that there’s a simple way to fix the election system that would allow independents and third-party candidates to exercise their right as Americans to run for office, and allow their supporters to exercise their right to vote for them, without fear that they would help elect another candidate whom they might detest.