August 16, 2022
Covering Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Robert Bird, 2008 US Senate nominee of the Alaskan Independence Party:
“My country, wrong or right” is an old folk-slogan meant to demonstrate the importance of patriotism in war, but any person with a brain understands that such a mouthing has only limited virtue.… Read more ...
Lauri Apple in the Chicago Reader alternative weekly:
The Libertarian Party of Illinois ran a full slate of candidates this year, with a guy named Lex Green at the top of the ballot. A “Green” Libertarian? Confusing! No wonder they didn’t meet the five percent threshold required to more easily get on the ballot in 2014.… Read more ...
Excerpts from an article by Matt Welch of Reason:
New York Times columnist Frank Rich accused the Kochs of plotting “a billionaires’ coup” to secure “corporate pork,” tax cuts, and a blank check for Wall Street bailouts. “What the Koch brothers have bought with their huge political outlays,” opined Times columnist Paul Krugman, “is, above all, freedom to pollute.”