Third Party Watch

Regarding the five mysterious Green Party candidates in Florida, some people have suspected that this is a plot by the Republican Party to divide the Democratic vote. I doubt it, because there are so many better ways to help achieve that goal with the nearly $10,000 in filing fees, but who knows?

On June 26, [...]

Rosa Clemente, the vice presidential running mate of Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, gets the “where is she now?” celebrity treatment from her college alma mater. We learn this about her days at Albany State University:

Clemente, who later worked briefly in the Legislature, was arrested twice at protests here….

Prominent rappers like Chuck D [...]

Workers World, whose slogan is “workers & oppressed peoples of the world unite!” carries this news about Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney:

Cynthia McKinney, a U.S. presidential candidate, spoke of her goal of establishing a Department of Peace to oppose war at a July 18 news conference at the offices of Manhattan Neighborhood Network, a [...]

The following is a media release from the Nader presidential campaign:

July 24, 2008
www.votenader.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chris Driscoll, 202-360-3273, chris@votenader.org

NADER TO CAMPAIGN IN MONTGOMERY, ALA., SAT., JULY 26

Who: Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader
What: News Conference
When: Sat., July 26, 12:00 p.m. News Conference
Where: Rosa Parks Museum, 252 Montgomery St, Montgomery, Ala., 36104 (Outside, in front of the [...]

Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate for President, scores 20 out of a possible 99 on Liberty Maven’s Ron Paul Paul-O-Meter. See Wednesday’s posting on this topic for a full explanation.

The “Paul-O-Meter” figures show just how much each candidate is in agreement with Ron Paul on the issues. Of the presidential candidates measured [...]

The following is a media release from the Libertarian Party of Nebraska:

The Libertarian Party Receives Ballot Access in Nebraska
Jun 26th, 2008 by ABissen

Jerry Kosch, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Nebraska, received official notification from the Secretary of State’s office today that the Party’s candidates will be on the ballot come November. By gathering nearly [...]

Louisville businessman Edward Martin apparently has enough ballot petition signatures to run for Congress from Kentucky’s third district. He will be running against Democratic incumbent Rep. John Yarmuth and Republican challenger Anne Northrup, the former congressman from that district.

PolitickerKY.com says:

The [Libertarian] Party’s chair, Ken Moellman, said earlier this week that he expects efforts to [...]

Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate, says in a recent media release:

“After emphasizing confrontation and thinly-veiled threats of war for many months, the Bush administration apparently may now be considering initiating some form of diplomatic relationship with Iran. Such a step is long overdue….

“It is imperative to find a peaceful answer, since war [...]

Tom Jackson says on his blog in the Sandusky Register:

A federal judge has ordered Ohio to put the Libertarian Party’s candidates on the ballot this fall, and to list them as Libertarians. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner decided to accept the ruling rather than appeal it. It will be the first time in Ohio since [...]

Bob Barr has passed the $500,000 fundraising mark, notes Austin Cassidy of Conservative Pulse. Also:

This is really the first time we’ve ever seen a serious candidate at the top of the Libertarian ticket, and it’s interesting to watch Barr on the campaign trail. He’s able to get the news media to cover him. [...]

The New Hampshire Union Leader reports on Bob Barr’s recent campaign visit to the Granite State:

His New Hampshire visit comes the same day that John McCain visited the Granite State, which McCain has twice won in hard-fought Republican Party primaries.

McCain said he’s not discounting Barr’s potential impact on the November election.

Reporter Mark Hayward adds:

State Republican [...]

The battlefield where the devil has amassed his greatest forces and is thrusting his deadliest armies is the surrender of our national sovereignty and independence, and the creation of global government. And it is our own political and corporate leaders that are facilitating this chicanery. Furthermore, by refusing to oppose this surrender, our Christian leaders [...]

Jack Hunter is a radio talk jockey and Charleston City Paper columnist who is not suffering from Alzheimer’s, so he remembers when James Dobson said “I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.”

Well, the spectre of President Barack Hussein Obama seems to have Dobson changing course, as with the Big Guys on talk [...]

The following report is taken from the Trail Blazers blog of the Dallas Morning News:

9:48 PM Tue, Jul 22, 2008
Dave Levinthal

In part, because it probably wouldn’t depressurize while skirting the stratosphere.

Paul, a Texas congressman and former 2008 Republican presidential candidate, was among seven Texas congressmen on Continental Airlines Flight 458 which made an emergency landing [...]

The following is a media release from the Nader presidential campaign:

July 23, 2008
www.votenader.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chris Driscoll, 202-360-3273, chris@votenader.org

NADER RELEASES LETTER TO CONYERS ON IMPEACHMENT HEARING

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008——Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader today sent the following letter to U.S. House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers on the hearings about presidential misconduct scheduled for Friday, July [...]

His name won’t be on the ballot in Texas, but that’s not stopping Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader from raising money there and campaigning for write-in votes. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that only Obama, McCain, and Barr will be on the ballot, but Nader’s vice presidential running mate, Matt Gonzalez, is a Texan [...]

The following is a media release from the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania:

Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania
915 Union Deposit Road #223
Harrisburg, PA 17109
www.lppa.org

For Immediate Release: July 21, 2008
Contact: Doug Leard (Media Relations) or
Michael Robertson (Chair) at 1-800-R-RIGHTS / chair@lppa.org

Harrisburg, PA - Pennsylvania gun owners breathed a sigh of relief at the Heller vs. DC Supreme Court [...]

Some of the losers in the Libertarian Party—those who didn’t want Bob Barr to get the nomination—just aren’t moving on. Here, a bunch of them in New Hampshire hold a mock funeral for Barr and the LP. If you have as much beer and perhaps other stuff as they apparently had, it might [...]

The Los Angeles Times gives star treatment to Bob Barr in a long, rambling story full of campaign anecdotes and the candidate’s personal life on the trail. We don’t learn a lot more about Barr’s positions, and his responses to the “spoiler” questions remain the same as before:

“The GOP has no agenda, no platform [...]

Reason magazine’s David Wiegel was having lunch with House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and around 50 conservative bloggers, reporters, and think-tankers. Then he got his question in: Might the Barr candidacy force the GOP to reform itself?

Boehner’s response:

“A vote for Bob Barr—you might as well vote for Barack Obama. If you [...]

An AP story in USA Today reports on the struggles by the Nader and Barr campaigns to get on the ballot in New Hampshire. A presidential candidate needs 3,000 certified signatures—1,500 from each congressional district. The deadline is September 3.

“We absolutely are going to be on the ballot,” says Barr national media spokeswoman [...]

Pro-war, racist, or just blackmail? You decide. Libertarian Party of Kentucky candidate for US Senate Sonny Landham wants to release oil from the strategic oil reserve, drill in areas of the U.S. currently off-limits to the oil companies and then try to persuade OPEC to cut the price of oil. What [...]

The following is an article from Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader:

Socialism for Speculators
by Ralph Nader

Wednesday, July 16. 2008

Here they go again! Financial capitalism is crashing. So the lights are on late in Washington’s Federal Reserve, SEC and Treasury Department trying to figure out how socialism (your tax dollars and credits) can once again bail [...]

“Why is it important to have Ralph Nader on the ballot in November?” asked the Nader campaign as Barack Obama prepared to visit Israel. Because “without him, the plight of the Palestinian people will not be an issue in this year’s election.”

The Nader campaign asserts that “Obama/McCain stand with the militaristic right wing AIPAC [...]

Gay.com reports that a new Harris interactive poll shows LGBT adults favoring Obama over McCain by 60% to 14%. Bob Barr gets 3% of the LGBT vote, Ralph Nader only 1%.