Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The North Carolina Libertarian Party believes it finally has enough valid signatures on its petition. It has been working for over three years to meet the requirement of 69,734. It has collected approximately 102,500. Assuming the petition is complete, this will be the largest numerical ballot access hurdle that any new or minor party [...]
VH1 (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Cuerpo Aztlan (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Parties and their abbreviations that are acceptable to the Secretary of State American Independent Party (AIP) Citizen's Party of New Mexico (CNM) Constitutional Party (CON) Democratic Party (DEM) First New Mexican Party (FNM) Independent (IND) Independent New Mexican Party (NMI) La Raza Unida de Nuevo Mejico (LRU) Libertarian Party (LIB) Natural Law Party of New Mexico (NLP) New Mexico Alliance Party...
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Richard Winger is reporting that the founder of the world Natural Law parties has died: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi died at his home in The Netherlands on February 6, 2008. He was age 91. In 1992 he told his followers all over the world to found Natural Law Parties in their own nation. The U.S. Natural Law Party [...]
mutations of mortality (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
The Maharishi has died aged 91. The old charlatan deceived the Beatles, who may have known a thing or two about pop music, but were hopelessly naive about living life. George Harrison funded the Natural Law Party which contested the 1992 General Election fielding a candidate in nearly every constituency and garnering 0.4% of the vote. Not enough to have kept John Major in power. That...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
... in the air in the lotus position. By the 1980s he had set up schools across the world, founded the Natural Law Party and built a multimillion-pound business empire including a property dealership and a company selling Ayurvedic medicine and cosmetics. Most were financed by donations and a $2,500 fee to learn TM.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
The Maharishi set up universities and schools all over the world and his Natural Law Party - which promotes yogic flying, a practice that involves sitting in the lotus position and bouncing into the air - has campaigned in dozens of countries.
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Ballot Access News Jefferson County, Iowa, was the stronghold of the Natural Law Party, while that party existed. The party was associated with the Maharishi and his Transcendental Meditation movement. That movement's university is in Fairfield, the county seat and largest town in Jefferson County. In November 1992, Jefferson County has cast 22.8% of its vote [...]
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Jefferson County, Iowa, was the stronghold of the Natural Law Party, while that party existed. The party was associated with the Maharishi and his Transcendental Meditation movement. That movement's university is in Fairfield, the county seat and largest town in Jefferson County. In November 1992, Jefferson County has cast 22.8% of its [...]
Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
... Meditation devotee named Ed Malloy. And for 12 years ending in 2004, Fairfield was home to a peace party, called the Natural Law Party, which hoped to elect a Transcendental Meditation practitioner as president.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 12/24/2007
Nearly a third of Fairfield's 10,000 residents are meditators. Typically, they tend to vote more Democratic than Republican. But just as commonly, they favor candidates and politics that fall outside the mainstream. For a time, that was the Natural Law Party, which had its headquarters in Fairfield, which tried — with little notice from the rest of us — to elect John Hagelin president...
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
Any party that is not now on the Texas ballot, and wishes to be on the ballot in 2008, must tell the Texas Secretary of State no later than January 2, 2008. That deadline is only two weeks away, and so far only the Green Party has filed the necessary form. The Libertarian [...]
Stress (Free subscription) | 11/27/2007
... the first one: “What happens if Iraq is overtaken by extremists'” This has already happened. The parties in control of Iraq are pro-Iranian, Shiite religious parties. And they are in power because of U.S. intervention. As for al Qaeda in Iraq taking over, that is about as likely as the Natural Law Party winning the U.S. Presidency in 2008.
Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
... and hilariously dismiss Ralph Nader as an unimportant figure… But Browne beat most of the third-party challengers, including Howard Phillips of the U.S. Taxpayer’s Party (178,000 votes) and John Hagelin of the Natural Law Party (110,000 votes). However, a last-minute vote surge in California pushed the highly publicized Ralph Nader, the candidate for the Green Party,...
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 08/22/2007
John Hagelin, presidential candidate of the Natural Law Party in 1992, 1996 and 2000, has announced that he is creating a new university, Maharishi Central University. Here is the webpage. The school will be in Kansas.
