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).…
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).…
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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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).…
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?…
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 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. …
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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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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