Describing himself as “the most fiscally conservative and the most socially tolerant candidate in the race,” Daniel Fishman announced late Monday evening that he will seek former Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry’s seat in the U.S. Senate as a Libertarian candidate in the June 25 special […]
According to the New York Daily News, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned from office nineteen months ago amid a widely-publicized sexting scandal, has reportedly commissioned a private poll to gauge support for a possible bid for mayor of New York. The anonymous poll […]
Twenty years before his death on this day in 1944, legendary newspaper editor William Allen White, a man who advised Presidents and rubbed shoulders with some of the world’s greatest statesmen in a career that spanned five decades, waged one of the most fascinating and […]
Kevin Akin, state chair of California’s ballot-qualified Peace and Freedom Party and chair of the national Peace and Freedom Alliance — the party’s national organizing committee working to take the party national in an effort to provide a left-wing alternative to the corporate-controlled Democratic Party […]
Former Democratic Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich signed a multi-year deal with Fox News, the “fair and balanced” conservative news outlet announced on Wednesday. The eight-term congressman and one-time mayor of Cleveland will make his debut as a political analyst for the highly-partisan cable channel, masquerading as a legitimate news […]
In an apparent attempt to elbow aging incumbent Frank R. Lautenberg aside, Newark Mayor Cory Booker quietly took his first step toward a possible 2014 U.S. Senate candidacy earlier this week. Booker, who recently balked at an opportunity to challenge popular GOP Gov. Chris Christie […]
Declaring that Jack Lew’s nomination to replace Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury was yet another indication of the Obama Administration’s all-too-cozy relationship with Wall Street, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced on Thursday that he would oppose the 57-year-old Lew’s nomination. Sanders, a member […]
Thirty-six days after winning the governorship during this week in 1942, death cruelly intervened and denied the Wisconsin Progressive Party one of its greatest electoral achievements in the party’s twelve-year history. While Minnesota’s neighboring Farmer-Labor Party went out with barely a whimper and most of the country’s […]
Claude A. Watson, the Prohibition Party’s candidate for president, was unable to vote for himself on this day in 1948. Watson and his wife had requested that absentee ballots be mailed to them in Winona Lake, Indiana, where they were attending a church convention, but had […]
Saying that he would break the partisan “nonsense that’s literally strangling our country,” former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel endorsed Democrat Bob Kerrey in Nebraska’s increasingly competitive U.S. Senate race on Thursday. “Bob has never shied away from any of the tough issues,” Hagel said in […]
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