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On June 5, the Peace & Freedom Party held a presidential primary. The results: Rocky Anderson 42.8%; Stewart Alexander 29.2%; Stephen Durham 28.0%. The Peace & Freedom Party presidential primary is not binding. The party will choose its presidential nominee in an August convention.
Anderson is also the Justice Party presidential nominee. Alexander is also the Socialist Read more »
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Over the June 2-3 weekend, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota held a state convention. Delegates voted by a margin of 60%-40% to put support for Ranked Choice Voting (sometimes called Instant Runoff Voting) into the party’s state platform.
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The Socialist Workers Party will announce its national ticket on the weekend of June 9-10. The party has already filed for James Harris for president in Colorado, but he may just be a stand-in.
The Socialist Workers Party is one of only two minor parties that has had a presidential nominee in every presidential election since the end of World War II. The Prohibition Read more »
Source: Libertarian Party (LP.org)
Bring Government Labor Contracts In Line with Private Sector Compensation
WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party supports measures taken by Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin to curtail collective bargaining rights of state unions in his bid to cut the state budget deficit. But it’s only a first step.
Government employee labor contracts in Wisconsin, like most made between unions Read more »
Source: GaryJohnson2012.com
June 5, 2012, New York, NY – Calling NY Gov. Cuomo’s proposed reduction of penalties for simple possession of marijuana “a welcome bit of sanity,” Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson today applauded the proposal, but repeated his call for legalization of marijuana as a better solution to the burdens marijuana prosecutions place on the courts and law enforcement. Read more »
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On May 17, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed HB 12-1292. It is an omnibus election law bill. It moves the deadline for an independent presidential candidate, or the presidential nominee of an unqualified party, from June 4 to August 8. This is a major improvement. Before this bill passed, Colorado had the nation’s earliest independent presidential deadline. The bill takes effect immediately. Read more »
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The Socialist Alternative Party has qualified a candidate for the Washington state legislature this year. She is Kshama Sawant. Here is the party’s web page, describing the campaign. She is running in the 43rd district, place one, for State House. Because the only other person who filed is a Democrat, she is guaranteed to place second and will be able to run in November. Here is a community news blog about her campaign. Read more »
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On June 2, the Michigan Libertarian Party held its state convention and nominated candidates for presidential elector. Party representatives will hand-deliver the nomination documents to the Secretary of State on Monday, June 4. The party’s documents certify that the presidential elector candidates are pledged to Gary Johnson who lives in New Mexico. But the party’s documents also say that if the Secretary of State sticks to her Read more »
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