As you may know, five “mystery” Greens ran for office in Florida. I say mystery because they were unknown to anyone in the Green Party, were recent registrants in the Green Party, and were pretty much un-reachable by Florida Greens. Ballot Access News says their being on the ballot had no discernible impact [...]

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My family will be moving to Simpsonville, SC by Thanksgiving. With 28 years of our married life and 55 years of married life for my in-laws, that’s a lot of stuff to deal with. In short, my posts here will be sporadic until after the move is complete.

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Many thanks to our standard bearers Cynthia and Rosa for their excellent campaigns!!  Each of them was wonderfully articulate and insightful on the issues.  I hope they will be our candidates again.

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According to a study summarized in the Times Online:
Cleverer children are more likely to vote for the Green Party or the Liberal Democrats in a general election than other parties when they become adults, research suggests. The study, by the University of Edinburgh and the UK Medical Research Council and published in the journal Intelligence, [...]

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Reported on Ballot Access News
October 25th, 2008

On October 21, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to re-open the question of whether the 2006 Green Party U.S. Senate candidate must pay approximately $80,000 in costs to the people who challenged the party’s statewide petition. The vote was 5-1, with one Justice not voting. Only [...]

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These were produced by members of a Political Science class at Mercer University.
Cynthia McKinney negative ad.

Cynthia McKinney on the State of the economy.

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During an interview at Break The Matrix tonight, I was able to have a question asked as requested by readers of Independent Political Report.
While the interviewer did not get it exactly right, he did ask her something along the lines of “Looking at economic thinkers on a spectrum from Ayn Rand on one side and [...]

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Tune in tonight after the debate and listen to Cynthia and Rosa in a joint interview on The Week In Review at 11 p.m. on 50 thousand watt WRKS-FM, aka KISS-FM, 98.7 on the FM dial, IN NYC and ONLINE STREAMING at www.987kissfm.com!

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Iowa Green Wendy Barth is covered in this Des Moines Register article.
New Mexico Green Rick Lass is covered in an article at The Santa Fe New Mexican in his race for Public Regulation Commission.
Nebraska Green Steve Larrick was covered by the Associated Press in his race for US Senate.
The Rev. Edward Pickney is running for [...]

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Details are still being hashed out, but so far at least Nader, Cynthia and Constitution Party Candidate Chuck Baldwin will attend a debate on Sunday at 7pm at Columbia University, moderated by Pacifica Radio’s Amy Goodman.  No word on whether Pacifica will carry the broadcast, but it will be on C-SPAN (whether live or not [...]

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Richard Carroll, Green Party candidate for District 39 in the Arkansas House of Representatives, may in fact face a Democratic candidate on the ballot in November. According to a post at Ballot Access News, Democrat Dwayne Dobbins has filed a state lawsuit to claim that party’s spot on the ballot, a spot he was [...]

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On the lighter side, my good friend Stwalley is a cartoonist. As part of his “Soapy the Chicken” strip, there is a little election going on between Quakers and Mallard to replace the dead Soapy the Chicken. But there are “Third Parties” in the running as well, including the reluctant Frog the Frog.
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Free TV : Ustream

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In an article linked at Fox News’ front page, Cynthia McKinney is reported to have accused the government of slaughtering prisoners and dumping them during Hurricane Katrina. Taken in large part from a video posted to You Tube, the reporter goes on to point out that several mental health experts refused to say that [...]

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Apparently only Wachovia and Washington Mutual will have these early in the morning, but they should be in all the banks by noon.

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