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Air America Radio - (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Ross Perot's 1992 Reform Party movement got more independent votes (19%) than any third-party candidacy since Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose Party run. But, it's interesting to see where he got his support. Perot did exceedingly well in New Hampshire and Maine (he came in second place in Maine). He got 24% in Minnesota, which pre-saged the governorship of Jesse Ventura....
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
No one has ever accused Garth Turner - a man once skewered for trying to "out-Reform the Reform Party? when he was a Conservative MP, who now sits as a Liberal - of being a pie-in-the-sky optimist.That fact my change with this outrageous prediction.Get serious. The malaise within the party and the disaffection within the electorate concerning he Dion Liberals isn't likely...
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Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
He is 82 years old, his Reform Party launched last month has only 10 members. But Singapore's opposition politician JB Jeyaretnam was featured in the New York Times yesterday. One does not have to necessarily agree with him to admire...
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
With filing deadline for congressional candidates in Florida passing last night , let's check in with a few key races: FL-10 : Crumb-bum Bill Young qualified for another term in this tossup district. Three Democrats have filed: Ron Paul aficionado Samm Simpson, '06 Reform Party gubernatorial candidate Max Linn , and Dunedin Mayor (and former Republican) Bob Hackworth . Linn, who won 2%...
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tampabay.com blogs (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Three Democrats qualified by today's deadline to run against Rep. C.W. Bill Young this fall. No surprises -- they are Samm Simpson, who ran against Young in 2006, Max Linn, the former Reform Party candidate for governor, and Bob Hackworth,...
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Buckdog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Stephen Harper quietly slipped into Calgary's Bow Valley Club, as a surprise guest at a National Citizens Coalition dinner which was honouring Preston Manning, former leader of the Reform Party. Stephen Harper previously served as a Reform Member of Parliament under Manning and he was once also head of the National Citizens Coalition. Of Manning,...
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BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
... bodies at the provincial level) has recently overstepped its original mandate and is in need of reform. Its mandate is to protect the human rights of Canadian citizens, not to curtail free speech and impose censorship on an open, democratic society. I give you my assurance that when motion M-446 comes before the House of Commons it will have my support. Furthermore, the passage of M-446...
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Body Parts (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
FNC has been running stories today with interviews with leading black politicians. These black leaders say that the Clintons are playing the race card with Obama; and doing so in a way that is driving a wedge between black (Democratic Party) voters and the Clintons. Of course, since the South Carolina primary, Bill Clinton has been saying that the Obama campaign has been playing the race card...
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Itching for Eestimaa (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
... angry neighbor was railing against are treated as one unified block. The actions of one political party, like Isamaa, can be attributed to all Estonians, because the state is wrongly seen as ethnocentric. But when we revisit the facts, we see, for example, that the vote to remove the odious Soviet statue last winter only passed by two votes. The reality on the ground is that, when it comes...
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Despite all the advantages independent voters have — like never feeling beholden to a major party — we’ve historically had one serious disadvantage: finding each other. It's not as if we had an umbrella organization that held annual conferences or nominating conventions; we’re independents, after all, and not exactly joiners by nature. All that changed when God created the Internet. [...]
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MyJoyonline (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Only three out of the eight registered political parties since 2000 were able to file their returns and statements of account for 2006 at the Electoral Commission (EC).
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MyJoyonline (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
In view of the ongoing disagreements over some primaries within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC), we reproduce excerpts from an analysis headed, 'HOW THE NDC LOST 15 SEATS IN 2000 ELECTIONS DUE TO LACK OF INTERNAL DEMOCRACY'. It was in the 2003 publication, - COUNTDOWN TO 2004 ELECTIONS By Ben Ephson:
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Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
TALLINN - A rift has formed in Estonia’s ruling coalition over whether to reduce income taxes, a key pre-election promise made last year by the Reform Party that, according to critics, threatens to exacerbate the country's shaky public finances. The Social Democrats, a junior partner, say further
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Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
... demonstrations is an undeclared state of emergency , the opposition charged. The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) is an opposition coalition of the Islamic Reform party, Islah, the Yemeni Socialist Party and some smaller parties. The JMP announced it will boycott upcoming elections for governors in May, which they call a façade of democracy. The governors will be selected...
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tampabay.com blogs (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Another Democrat announced his candidacy today for the U.S. House seat held by Rep. U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young , R-Indian Shores. Dunedin Mayor Bob Hackworth, 53, emphasized Young's length in office and said he's in touch with the local community. He also knocked Young for bringing in federal dollars through earmarks when the country is running a national debt. Hackworth, who said he changed his party...
