August 13, 2026
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Dr. Jill Stein, the victor in the Green Party presidential primaries, this morning issued the following statement about yesterday’s recall elections in Wisconsin:
“For over a year now, the working people of Wisconsin have been under siege by the fossil fuel, mining, and toxic chemical corporations.…
Press release from LPHQ; this is the first release since the election of the new chair and LNC last month:
Bring Government Labor Contracts In Line with Private Sector Compensation
WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party supports measures taken by Gov.…
Tonight all of the news is swirling around the recall effort of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Tom Barrett is the Democratic candidate and polling shows Barrett has, in recent weeks, closed the gap.…
Reason-Rupe conducted a survey recently in the state of Wisconsin which covered a number of issues, including favorability ratings of local government, the Scott Walker Recall Election, and the Presidential election in the state–with polling in that last contest including Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson.…
Green Party Watch held a presidential poll with the following results:
1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%.
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The Wisconsin legislature is currently considering SB 116, a bill with the major purpose of moving the primary (for office other than President) from the first Tuesday in September to the first Tuesday in August.…
St. Croix, WI, October 1, 2011. Carl Person, Candidate for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for President, made the following statement today as part of solving the unemployment and economic problems existing in Wisconsin and most if not all other states:
Background – My background – business owner at age 9 (newspaper route in North Platte, Nebraska); high school dropout; AB magna cum laude; Harvard Law School; commercial and civil rights litigation; created paralegal field, inventor, came in 3rd for NYS Attorney General during November, 2010; creating a new career field with more than 10,000,000 waiting to be filled – Assistant to the Owner of a Small Business.…
From Madison.com:
Ben Manski, the Green Party candidate who lost his bid for a West Side Madison Assembly seat to Democrat Brett Hulsey last year, has great ideas for opening up the political system and correctly identifies the existing redistricting process as “an incumbency protection racket.”
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From Ballot Access News:
Both Wisconsin and Illinois held local non-partisan elections on April 5. Green Party members won six elections:
1. Steve Alesch was elected to the Warrenville Park District Commission in DuPage County, Illinois, in a contested election.
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