The New York Observer’s Will Bredderman reports that comedian and political gadfly Randy Credico, who finished third in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary, campaigned yesterday at the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan with the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins. Credico, one of […]
Rejecting Republican Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois as a “partisan Democrat in Republican’s clothing,’“ a group of nationally-recognized conservative leaders endorsed the Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate on this weekend in 1984. Too often, they believed, Percy had voted with liberal Democrats. Percy […]
Mark Elworth, Jr., of Omaha, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for governor, said that he plans to appeal a recent ruling allowing the GOP to substitute its candidate for lieutenant governor in Nebraska’s gubernatorial election. On Wednesday, Lancaster County District Judge Lori Maret dismissed Elworth’s lawsuit […]
Former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, who plans to give a major speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, appears poised to join the growing list of potential challengers to presumptive Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in 2016. The former Secretary of […]
Benjamin Spock, the nation’s most famous pediatrician and the People’s Party candidate for president, carried his antiwar message to students at Bennington College in Vermont during this week in 1972. The 69-year-old Spock, who had spoken on hundreds of college campuses in the late sixties […]
By an overwhelming margin, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill modeled after former congressman Ron Paul’s “Audit the Fed” legislation. With 106 Democrats supporting the bill, the “Federal Reserve Transparency Act” was approved by a bipartisan vote of 333-92. A similar […]
Tom Ervin, a wealthy lawyer, self-styled “independent Republican” and wild card in South Carolina’s closely-contested gubernatorial race between incumbent Republican Nikki Haley and Democratic State Sen. Vincent Sheheen, recently upped the stakes in that three-cornered battle by purchasing an additional $500,000 in television advertising — […]
Consumer activist and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader traveled to Glens Falls and Albany this past Sunday to lend his support to two promising Green Party candidates — gubernatorial hopeful Howie Hawkins and congressional candidate Matt Funiciello, the latter of whom is polling double digits […]
Hoping to bolster his long-shot presidential prospects, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a decidedly populist message in Iowa earlier today. The folks on Capitol Hill have been asking all of the wrong questions, declared Biden, who appeared in Iowa only three days after former Secretary […]
Declaring that she’s the only candidate with the experience to deal with the city’s most difficult problems, former District Attorney Lynne Abraham said that she plans to enter the race for mayor of Philadelphia next year. Elected to four consecutive terms after initially being appointed […]
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