Third Party Watch

This is the first time I’ve read about Sam Nunn actually speaking with the Unity ‘08 crowd. This could be very interesting, particularly since it seems like NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg will sit out the 2008 election.

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution…

Sam Nunn left the U.S. Senate more than 10 years ago.

Since then, the Georgia [...]

Christian Gallery News Service, August 30, 2007) A new strategy to abolish legalized abortion is being revealed this election season. Three candidates for Governor in three different States all have the same strategy. They will interpose their States between babies slated for unjust death in abortion and the federal government authorizing such [...]

The Constitution Party does not expect to field a candidate in this year’s Lancaster County commissioner race, its national chairman said Tuesday afternoon.

If Thursday’s deadline to name a candidate passes without the Constitution Party offering one, it will mark the first time in eight years the conservative group doesn’t run a candidate in a county [...]

Grants Pass, OR - THE CONSTITUTION PARTY OF OREGON (CPO) advises voters to be wary of Republican politicians who claim to want to spread “compassionate conservatism”, when their only true goal is to win elections – even if that means spreading what would be more appropriately called “compassionate fascism.”

A collection of some well-known Bush [...]

This is the first time a Bloomberg denial has actually sounded remotely credible to me. In an interview with Dan Rather, Michael Bloomberg throws some water on the speculation that he’s plotting an independent Presidential campaign next year…

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said—again—that he’s not running for president, adding in a television interview that he wouldn’t [...]

If it’s not a third party per se, is it still third party-worthy? Austin (the publisher) will have to decide, but until then, here’s the latest from the Republic of Texas, a parallel government (read: separatist) group that will be holding “elections” soon:

ELECTION NOTICE
GENERAL ELECTIONS of
The Republic of Texas

Will be held on Monday 3rd [...]

Here’s more on the possible independent presidential intentions of former Democratic Senator Sam Nunn from the AJC:

Since then, the Georgia Democrat, who made his name nationally as a defense-minded hawk, has watched what’s happened to the country, and he’s more than a bit ticked — at the “fiasco” in Iraq, a federal budget spinning out [...]

The Libertarian Party of Texas Executive Director, Wes Benedict, has referred to Ellis County (my hometown, of which I publish The Ellis County Observer) the most intriguing for its Libertarian activity.

Phil Smart, an LP candidate for state senate last year, was arrested and had his entire campaign ordeals covered by Hammer of Truth, a big [...]

Here’s a list of different radio interviews leaders of the CP will be featured in, in the coming days…

Monday, August 20, Howard Phillips on WPTF Radio from 7:40 – 8:00am EDT, Raleigh, NC, host Jack Boston.

Monday, August 20, Jerome Corsi on WGMD Radio, Delaware, from 3:00-4:00pm EDT, host Randy Nelson.

Monday, August 20, Howard Phillips on [...]

Berks County Clerk of Courts James P. Troutman on Thursday denied intimidating an opponent when he went to her house to serve a court petition he had filed to get her thrown off the ballot.

Troutman told the county commissioners that he and Chief Deputy Sheriff Eric J. Weaknecht gave the papers to Matthew Hartzell, the [...]

He’s only toying with the idea of running for President, but former Senator Sam Nunn received his first newspaper endorsement this week from the Rome News-Tribune of Rome, Georgia…

THIS NEWSPAPER hereby endorses Sam Nunn for president of the United States, thus probably becoming the first daily in the nation to commit to anybody.

To be sure, [...]

“Moderate Party” candidate Bill Scheurer would end his bid for Congress if his wife wins the Democratic Primary. From DC’s Political Report…

Alternative Party News – Stepping Aside for the Right Democrat: Illinois Moderate Party candidate Bill Scheurer (I-IL) announced that he would end his campaign for Illinois’ 8th Congressional District if his wife, Randi [...]

If a country long ago had declared that we were their worst enemy, would you reward them, or be extremely cautious of them? Instead of caution, America has for years rewarded Communist Red China who declares us their worst enemy and that they will overtake us. Does this make sense?

Common sense should tell [...]

This morning the Ames Tribune profiles several candidates including Don Grundmann, kat swift, and Joe Schriner.

Earlier I linked to an entry from Kevin Thompson’s blog concerning the Lowell police preventing him from campaigning. The Lowell Sun has picked up the story here. You can submit a letter to the editor here.

If I’m not mistaken, he’s the only LP presidential candidate speaking:

LP Presidential Candidate Wayne Allyn Root to Speak at 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference

(Washington, DC) – The 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference announced today that
Wayne Allyn Root, a Libertarian Party presidential candidate, will be a speaker at the Reno event in October.

Root is a highly recognized sports [...]

On August 8th, Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes published a hatchet job on Christian Worldview Network columnist Reed Heustis that included insults directed at the American Heritage Party:

Today, the Willamette Weekly published a letter to the editor by former Constitution Party of Oregon chairman Bob Ekstrom:

In your Aug. 8 edition Beth Slovic’s column (“Uno If By Land, Dos If By Sea,” WW , Aug. 8, 2007) made gratuitous attempt after gratuitous attempt to portray the Constitution Party of Oregon negatively. References to [...]

It looks like LNC Chair Bill Redpath and RNC Co-Chairman Jo Ann Davidson are going to be engaged in some sort of panel debate at the 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference.

The 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference announced today that Jo Ann Davidson, Co-Chairman of the Republican National Committee, will be a speaker at the Reno event in [...]

Groups gathering signatures to overturn two Oregon gay-rights laws say they are disconnected, frustrated and uncertain whether they can muster enough voter names to qualify for the statewide ballot.

They have less than seven weeks to collect the 55,179 valid signatures needed to refer each of two laws passed by the Legislature to the November 2008 [...]

You can read the entire article here.

Clarkston resident Ronald Monroe isn’t a Republican, but he uses one as his political role model: former President Abraham Lincoln. . .

“Where did Abe Lincoln come from? The Republicans, which were the third party,” said Monroe, second vice chairman of the U.S. Taxpayers Party in Michigan. “There have been [...]

Ron Paul had lots and lots of supporters at the Ames Straw Poll yesterday, but many were not able to actually vote for him. The Washington Post reports that…

Give Paul credit. He got his troops here early. But, how many of them can vote in today’s straw poll? The rules only permit Iowans to [...]

Think of how this could affect third parties…

Ballot Access News

During August, a proposed California initiative to alter the way California chooses presidential electors has garnered considerable publicity. The proposed initiative, backed by Republican Party leaders, would provide that each U.S. House district would choose its own presidential elector. Since California normally casts all its electoral [...]

The Constitution Party of Virginia, chaired by Constitution Party founder and past Presidential nominee, Howard Phillips, met Saturday, August 11, in Vienna, Virginia and adopted a comprehensive state platform which is highlighted by its steadfast opposition to the Bush Administration’s plans to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership which critics claim would lead [...]

Rock the Debates is running around the country (at least New Hampshire and Iowa, so far) to see which of the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates would engage in public debate with the more serious third party and independent candidates using a concept called video bird dogging. Here’s how the first seven candidates have [...]