A recent piece from Vermont Public Radio focuses on the Vermont Progressive Party’s primary for Lt. Governor. One candidate sees alliances with Democrats as reasonable, while the other would like the Progressives to be more independent. …
Posts tagged as “Vermont”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): ‘No to Oligarchy’
By Ross Levin on August 1, 2010 4:28 PM
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is closely associated with both the Democratic and Progressive parties, recently wrote a piece for The Nation in which he talks about the accumulation of wealth in the United States and a bill he has introduced to raise the estate tax. …
Vermont Progressive Susan Davis: ‘Third parties and primary elections’
By on July 26, 2010 3:26 PM
Rep. Susan Davis at Vermont Progressive Party blog:
Third parties speak out publicly when the issues that matter are left off the table for discussion or left in the waste basket after discussion.…
Progressive Party of Vermont Runs Gubernatorial Candidate Who Promises To Drop Out
By Trent Hill on June 25, 2010 1:49 AM
Martha Abbott, the chairwoman of the Progressive Party of Vermont, is both running for the office of Governor and planning to drop out. The Burlington Free Press has the story.…
Pollina To Run For Washington County Senate
By on June 9, 2010 9:51 PM
From the Vermont Progressive Party:
I am entering the Democratic Primary for Washington County State Senate and expect to run in the general election under the banners of the Democratic and Progressive Parties.…
Liberty Union Party: ‘The Texas Textbook Massacre’
By IPR Contributor on May 23, 2010 5:44 PM
Posted on the front page of the Liberty Union Party website by Rosemarie Jackowski:
The missing part of the news report about the Texas textbook fiasco is that this is not new news.…
Independent Candidate for VT House Decries Ballot Access Rule Changes as “Election Calvinball”
By d.eris on May 20, 2010 6:27 PM
Todd Pritsky, who is running for VT House as an independent this fall, has decried the state’s ballot access regime as “election Calvinball.” As Pritsky wrote last Friday in a post under that title:
the Legislature very bravely changed this year’s election rules very late in the game, so the Secretary of State has moved up filing deadlines for Independent candidates from September to June.
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Vermont Progressive Party Fills Statewide Slate for State Office
By on May 18, 2010 10:31 AM
On May 15, leaders of the Vermont Progressive Party met and endorsed a full slate in the party’s primary for the six state statewide offices.…
Vermont Progressive Party state representative not running for reelection in 2010, or anything else
By Ross Levin on April 25, 2010 6:08 PM
Vermont Progressive Party state representative David Zuckerman, who has been representing the same seat since 1996 (he ran unsuccessfully for it while he was attending University of Vermont in 1994), has decided that he will not be running for reelection this year. …