Yesterday evening, Andy Jacobs and I (Paulie) discussed harassment of ballot access petitioners, including Andy’s arrest outside a public library while petitioning to get the Green and Libertarian Parties back on the Maryland ballot. For the first hour of the show we were joined by Maryland Green Party Co-Chair Brian Bittner.… Read more ...
UPDATE: I screwed up last week and scheduled the show for 15 minutes, and Andy also was not on the call. This time I have made sure that we will have long enough for the show. It will be on today (Monday) at 8 PM Eastern time, and I will also try to make sure everyone is on this time.… Read more ...
[Posted by Paulie]
The Maryland Green Party submitted 14,842 signatures and the Maryland Libertarian Party submitted 13,787 signatures towards a requirement of 10,000 valid signatures. The deadline for submitting additional signatures has been extended to March 7:
… Read more ...The Maryland petition deadline for a party that wishes to obtain, or regain, its qualified status is not until August 2012.
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An Update for the Kansas 3rd Congressional District – House of Representatives
A historic moment has come about in the 3rd Congressional District of KS. Having met Friday with our Petition Drive Coordinator, Bob Schmidt, we have now surpassed our goal of 5,000 signatures on our Kansas Independent Nomination Petition.… Read more ...
The Salt Lake Tribune reports on a recently launched campaign by a group called The People’s Right, that aims to run petition drives in order to help independent candidates for office achieve ballot access across the state:
… Read more ...One grassroots group took advantage of Presidents Day as the opportune time to launch its own brand of revolution.