Ted Waitt is the founder of Gateway and a notable Independent who has created the icPurple SuperPAC in an effort to help fund Independent political campaigns which are winnable.…
Posts tagged as “Maine”
Jill Stein Has Secured Nearly 75% of Allocated Delegates to Green Party National Convention
By Trent Hill on May 9, 2012 5:31 AM
Jill Stein is one of several Green Party presidential candidates vying for the party’s nomination. The nomination is mostly determined by pre-allocated delegates awarded for winning primaries in various states.…
Angus King Leads the Fund-Race in U.S. Senate Race in Maine
By Trent Hill on April 23, 2012 3:42 PM
Former two-term Governor Angus King is running for U.S. Senate in Maine. King served his two terms as Governor as an Independent and is running for U.S.…
Angus King Declares as Independent for U.S. Senate in Maine, Democrats May Not Run Anyone
By Trent Hill on March 14, 2012 4:47 PM
Angus King is a former two-term Independent Governor of Maine from 1995 until 2003. He has, since then, served as a distinguished lecturer at Bowdoin College and Bates College.…
Author Stephen King launches liberal Maine radio show, with 2004 Green Party VP nominee Pat LaMarche as host
By Ross Levin on August 24, 2011 12:42 PM
From the Bangor Daily News:
Horror novelist and Bangor radio station owner Stephen King announced on Tuesday a new talk radio show featuring a former vice presidential candidate and a former Maine secretary of state’s communications director.“We
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Greens enter Portland, Maine’s first mayoral race; hope for boost from IRV
By Ross Levin on May 3, 2011 6:05 PM
From the Portland Daily Sun:
Portland this year embarks on an elected-mayor campaign that replaces a council-appointed mayor with one elected to an at-large seat.
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Independent Maine state legislator introduces bill on Earth Day to fund commuter rail from casino revenue
By Ross Levin on April 22, 2011 2:59 PM
Ben Chipman represents Portland in the Maine legislature’s lower house. He has been a Green Party activist for years and was elected as an independent. On his facebook, he said, “On Earth Day I am proud to release a bill to fund commuter rail service!…
Independent Maine state legislator Ben Chipman cosponsoring anti-Real ID bill
By Ross Levin on April 13, 2011 4:12 PM
From the Kennebec Journal:
AUGUSTA — Republicans, Democrats and the only independent in the Maine House are backing a renewed effort to reject a federal identification program that some consider too invasive.
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Pat LaMarche’s weekly columns now published on Elexn.com
By Ross Levin on March 24, 2011 3:04 PM
Skyler McKinley, a staff member of Mike Gravel’s presidential campaign, has alerted me to the fact that he will now be publishing former Green Party vice presidential candidate Pat LaMarche’s weekly columns on the website Elexn.com…