Third Party Watch

Looks like Scott Jameson will participate in a Texas U.S. Senate debate to be broadcast statewide on local PBS affiliates.

From the Dallas Morning News…

As Texas’ governor and his three challengers finished prepping for their first debate tonight, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison finally committed to facing off against her rivals, after weeks of wrangling and taunts [...]

I just happened to check up on the website of the American Reform Party earlier this morning and I noticed the following disclaimer…

We are NOT a political party, we DO NOT have ballot access in any state and DO NOT run candidates. We support third party candidates and independents.

So I guess they are a [...]

This item from the Bend Bulletin in Bend, Oregon sheds some light on why State Senator Ben Westlund abandoned his independent gubernatorial campaign a few months ago. Apparently, he was out of funds and running into difficulties raising more…

When state Sen. Ben Westlund, I-Tumalo, abandoned his independent campaign for governor in August, he said [...]

Well, this is extremely annoying. Even with his own contribution of nearly $1.2 million, it’s possible Guthrie will be kept out of the debates. On the plus side, it turns out he has about $3 million in additional assets that are less liquid. So in theory he might be willing to actually [...]

Absolutely nothing to do with third party politics. Well, ok… maybe it is an accurate description of some candidates… but seriously. I didn’t mean that. Don’t kill me.

I just felt sharing this video for a laugh…

Someone posted these links in the comments section of another topic, so I figured I would give this it’s own topic.

As we mentioned in a past article, some Texas Libertarian candidates seem to be having a hard time making it to press interviews. Here are two more examples of that…

Libertarian Justin Winn did not [...]

From the Post-Gazette…

The prospect of a three-way U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania appeared all but over yesterday as the state Supreme Court rebuffed Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli’s bid to get on the November ballot.

The ruling, in a one-sentence order, was good news for the Bob Casey campaign, which had feared that Mr. Romanelli’s [...]

The Badnarik campaign has posted photos of sign wavers on the official campaign blog. As I’ve stated before I think this kind of concrete evidence of campaign activity is what can restore some hope and faith among supporters/donors to this campaign. So kudos to those folks for getting out there.

And another photo zooming [...]

A little piece today on Kevin Zeese’s run for the U.S. Senate from Maryland. I particularly liked the “Zeese for Peace” and “Zeese and Resist” slogans, kind of clever.

From Gazette.net…

Kevin Zeese has a fitting surname to run for U.S. Senate as an anti-war third-party candidate.

His campaign signs read ‘‘Zeese for Peace” and supporters don [...]

A pretty nice ad, slick production values…

Cindy Sheehan is lending her support to New York’s Green Party gubernatorial candidate Malachy McCourt.

See this video for her endorsement.

Turns out there was a little bit of an election this weekend. Ballot Access News has all the details, including a better than 10% showing for a Libertarian in a statewide race…

Louisiana held special elections on September 30 for Insurance Commissioner and Secretary of State. This was the first time the Libertarian Party had [...]

From The Journal News…

With all the embarrasing hoopla over Jeanine Pirro, the Republicans couldn’t replace her on the ballot if they wanted to — not that anyone has (publicly) suggested they should. This far into an election season, the parties are usually stuck with the slate of candidates they have chosen.

Not so in the 99th [...]

Exciting news out of Washington State today!

Bruce Guthrie, the LP’s candidate for U.S. Senate against Maria Cantwell, has decided to donate the bulk of his life savings to his own campaign. Suddenly this race is one of the top 2 or 3 third party contests to watch this year.

The campaign’s official press release follows…

Bruce [...]