Staff at LP blog:
Libertarian Doug Burlison, an incumbent city councilman in Springfield, Missouri, is running for re-election and received 48.6% of the vote in the February 22 primary (the highest of three candidates).…
Posts tagged as “incumbent”
Vermont Progressive incumbent legislator prevails over Republican challenger by just four votes
By Ross Levin on December 2, 2010 9:52 PM
From Vermont Public Radio (H/T to paulie):
A Progressive Party lawmaker will return to the Vermont House after a judge rejected a challenge to a recount that showed her winning.
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David Franke: ‘Fun on Election Day’
By on November 5, 2010 11:32 AM
Posted by David Franke at LewRockwell.com blog:
I don’t look at voting as a patriotic duty, or as having any intrinsic importance (there isn’t a worthless Fed note’s difference between the major parties).…
PSL: ‘Election results: right-wing shift or anger at the status quo?’
By on November 4, 2010 4:28 PM
Brian Becker at PSLweb.org:
Class-wide struggle is brewing
Do the Nov. 2 election results signal a major shift to the right and a resurgence of conservatism among the people?…
Huff Post profiles Green state rep. candidate in Chicago Jeremy Karpen
By Ross Levin on September 25, 2010 10:22 PM
From the Huffington Post (read the full thing here):
Jeremy Karpen figures if there was ever a year to do the impossible, this is it.
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Gayle McLaughlin re-election bid update
By Ross Levin on September 11, 2010 2:03 PM
Gayle McLaughlin is the mayor of Richmond, California, a city of over 100,000 and the largest one in the United States to have a Green Party mayor. …
Richmond news outlet profiles Gayle McLaughlin, incumbent Green mayor running for re-election
By Ross Levin on June 11, 2010 6:36 PM
Read the full thing here. Hat tip to Third Party and Independent Daily.
The journey from rabble-rousing candidate to sometimes-embattled municipal leader has been a learning experience, and sometimes a bruising one, she said acknowledged during a wide-ranging interview at the downtown offices of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, a local political group she co-founded.
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Republican incumbent fails to debate two independent challengers
By Ross Levin on October 7, 2008 5:33 PM
From the Naples Daily News:
Republican icon Teddy Roosevelt is credited with saying, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Republican Congressman Connie Mack has his own variation on the theme.
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