March 13, 2025
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2008 Vermont Gubernatorial Race Watch blog carries the news that
Buried deep within its news coverage concerning Ralph Nader‘s stops in Vermont today, Fox 44 News offers a sole paragraph within a longer report stating about how (here; video clip available, plays in IE browser, not Firefox):
Nader touched on state politics as well, throwing his support behind independent candidate for governor Anthony Pollina.
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WCAX.com reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader will campaign in Vermont this weekend, with stops in Waitsfield and at the University of Vermont.
In other Nader news, Santa Cruz Sentinel columnist Mike Rotkin says the “essence of the Nader campaign for president, as is the case with any third party campaign in the U.S.,…
Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, September 30, 2008: Sarah G. Reisetter, Elections director of the the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office, emailed Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore today indicating that his original statement of candidacy, postmarked August 11, 2008, arrived in the Iowa Secretary of State’s office seven weeks later, on September 29th, 2008.…
From the candidates websites:
Oct. 1st, 7:30pm
Nader/Gonzalez Rally
Baltimore, MD
2640 Space, Saint Johns UMC
2640 Saint Paul Street
Suggested Contribution: $10/ $5 students
(202) 471-5833 or [email protected]
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Ballot Access News carries the news that
On September 23, U.S. District Court Judge James Brady ruled that Bob Barr should be on the Louisiana ballot, but that co-plaintiff Brian Moore (Socialist Party nominee) should not be on.
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A Research 2000 poll of 400 Vermont voters shows independent Anthony Pollina at seven percent. Incumbent Republican Jim Douglas is at 48%, Democrat Gaye Symington 33%.…
Independent Vermont Gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina secured the endorsement of the Vermont State Employees Association Saturday, in what the Burlington Free press characterized as a blow against his Democratic opponent, Gaye Symington:
The union, which represents about 8,000 state workers, cited Pollina’s work on labor issues as an activist, as well as specific support he’s offered this year as the Douglas administration launched efforts to cut 400 state jobs through attrition.
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Thomas Hermann, Progressive Party candidate for Vermont’s At Large House seat, was recently profiled in the Rutland Herald. Hermann talks about his time as a soldier in Iraq, and how he came to oppose a war he enlisted for after being swayed by claims of weapons of mass destruction:
“I thought we were bringing democracy to a nation that wanted it,” he said.
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PolitickerVT informs us that independent Vermont Gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina may have found himself facing a major campaign finance obstacle he was not expecting:
Independent gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina’s campaign will review a hard copy of the Vermont pre-campaign finance reform law from 1997 tonight after learning several days ago from the secretary of state’s office it may have to return approximately $28,000 in campaign contributions due to his switch from the Progressive Party.
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Cris Ericson, who is on the ballot in Vermont as the U.S. Marijuana Party candidate for both governor and the state’s at-large U.S. House seat, said this week that she has been the victim of identity theft.…
As reported earlier, Anthony Pollina, Progressive Party candidate for Governor of Vermont, held a press conference today announcing his plans going forward. It was widely speculated that he would abandon his gubernatorial campaign in favor of a bid for Lieutenant Governor (the two offices are elected separately in Vermont), for which he would have received support from the state’s Democratic establishment.…