‘Why I’m Challenging President Obama in the Democratic Primaries’
While it was my fervent hope that a candidate of national stature and credibility would challenge President Obama in the 2012 Democratic primaries, I have entered my name in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary to offer my fellow disillusioned Democrats a choice. The growing sense of political hopelessness, frustration and alienation symbolized in the fledgling Occupy [...]
Green Party’s Howie Hawkins Hopes to Make History in Syracuse Council Race
Longtime activist and community organizer Howie Hawkins hopes to become the first Green Party candidate in history to win a partisan office in New York State when he faces Democrat Khalid Bey in the race for 4th District Common Councilor in Syracuse on November 8. Hawkins polled 41 percent of the vote for the same [...]
Green Party’s Jill Stein Set to Declare White House Bid
Vowing to end joblessness in the United States while stopping Wall Street’s rampant looting of Main Street, Dr. Jill Stein will declare her candidacy for the Green Party’s presidential nomination on Monday on the steps of the State House in Boston. A longtime activist, physician and pioneering health-advocate, the 61-year-old Stein stated in a media advisory that [...]
Facing Foreclosure, Green Party’s Mary DeCamp Campaigns Proudly in Tucson Mayoral Race
Facing eviction from her home two days after the November 8 general election, longtime community activist and Code Pink member Mary DeCamp continues to fight for every last vote in Tucson’s three-way mayoral race. The Green Party candidate, who fell behind in her mortgage payments after a costly bicycling accident two years ago, isn’t letting [...]
Karger First to File in New Hampshire Primary
Long-shot GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger of California became the first Republican candidate to qualify for the New Hampshire primary when he turned in his declaration of candidacy and a cashier’s check for $1,000 early this morning. “I wanted to be the first Republican candidate for President to personally file for the New Hampshire Primary [...]
Socialist Party Taps Stewart Alexander for President
Delegates to the Socialist Party USA national convention in Los Angeles turned to their 2008 vice-presidential nominee yesterday to head the party’s ticket in the 2012 presidential sweepstakes. In nominating Stewart A. Alexander, an early frontrunner for the party’s top spot, the delegates turned back a late but spirited challenge from sociology professor Jerry Levy, a longtime [...]
Bill Still to Seek Libertarian Party’s Presidential Nomination
Award-winning documentary film director Bill Still announced yesterday that he intends to seek the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination in 2012. Appearing on Salt Lake City’s KTKK radio, the longtime fiat-money champion said that his candidacy will focus “like a laser beam on the monetary reform issue,” which he described as “the root cause of all [...]
Fusion’s Greatest Triumph: Major Parties Play Minor Role in 1933 NYC Mayoralty Campaign
At the height of the Great Depression, New York City experienced one of the most fascinating mayoral elections in American history, a campaign dominated by two distinct new party movements. The 1933 mayoral race pitted Fiorello H. La Guardia, a fiery former progressive Republican congressman running on a fusion ticket consisting of the GOP and [...]
Longing for More of the Same, Recession-Battered Nevadans Elect Another Republican
The GOP’s Mark Amodei easily defeated Democrat Kate Marshall and independent candidate Helmuth Lehmann, a political novice from Reno, to capture Nevada’s heavily Republican 2nd Congressional District seat Tuesday night. Amodei will take the seat of former U.S. Rep. Dean Heller, R-Carson City, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate in May after former U.S. [...]
Republican Bob Turner Captures Seat Vacated by Weiner
In a race largely viewed as a referendum on President Barack Obama’s economic policies, Republican Bob Turner, a retired television executive perhaps best known for producing “The Jerry Springer Show,” easily defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin to capture New York’s traditionally-Democratic 9th Congressional District seat vacated in June by former Rep. Anthony Weiner. Turner, [...]
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