Tommie Vassel, a New Orleans resident and Orleans Parish Sewage and Water Board member, is considering an Independent run for Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District. He isn’t the only independent considering the race, though.…
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Independent Legislator in Louisiana Wants to Freeze Per Diem Payments
By Trent Hill on April 30, 2010 4:39 PM
Rep. Dee Richard (No Party – Thibodaux) wants to freeze per diem payments to legislators for the next two years. That is to say, Rep. Richard does not want to eliminate the payments, but suspend the growth of those payments by putting a pay-ceiling on them.…
Louisiana Newspaper Editorializes Against Top Two Primary Bill in Louisiana
By Trent Hill on April 30, 2010 4:33 PM
In an unsigned editorial in The Daily Advertiser, a Lafayette, Louisiana, based newspaper, yesterday comments onthe current movement back towards “open primaries” or “top two primaries” in Louisiana.…
Green Party of Florida calls on Obama and Crist to declare State of Emergency for the Gulf Coast
By Kimberly Wilder on April 30, 2010 5:44 AM
A press release sent to me via e-mail by the Green Party of Florida:
We sent this out yesterday to the governor and the media…
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December Congresional Runoffs Bill Passed by Louisiana Senate Committee
By Trent Hill on April 30, 2010 1:03 AM
Ballot Access News has the latest from Louisiana’s re-imposition of their jungle primary.
On April 28, the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee passed HB 292.
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Independent Elected to Leadership Position in Louisiana Legislature
By Trent Hill on March 30, 2010 2:04 PM
An independent legislator in Louisiana has risen to the second highest position of power in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Joel Robideaux was elected Speaker Pro Tempore at the State House over Democrat Noble Ellington in a 53-48 vote.…
Malik Rahim tackles Superbowl
By Jordan Willow Evans on February 9, 2010 11:48 AM
From Democracy Now!, by way of On The Wilder Side
DAVE ZIRIN: I was speaking to [former Green Party Congressional candidate] Malik Rahim, who I know you’ve had on your show before, a former Black Panther Party member, someone who has been a community activist in New Orleans for thirty years.…
John R. Rarick Dies
By on September 15, 2009 7:26 PM
Posted in Ballot Access News:
On September 14, former Congressman John R. Rarick died in St. Francisville, Louisiana, at the age of 85. He had been the American Independent Party’s presidential candidate in 1980.…
Louisiana Republican to conservatives: Don’t bolt to Constitution Party
By PJO on July 18, 2009 3:50 AM
In Louisiana’s Shreveport Times this morning, J.C. Allen of the Caddo Parish Republican Party responds to a letter published earlier in the week in the newspaper, written by a former Republican who has joined the Constitution Party because the GOP “is moving away from its Christian Conservative Constitutional roots and is no longer for less federal government, less taxation, and more expensive, beloved, and valued liberty.”…