While Public Advocate Bill de Blasio anxiously awaits the results of Saturday’s recount to determine whether he will be forced into an October 1 runoff against former City Controller and 2009 Democratic mayoral nominee Bill Thompson, at least one of de Blasio’s lesser-known opponents in […]
A pair of polls released yesterday show Libertarian candidate Robert C. Sarvis polling at or near double digits in the three-way race for the Virginia governorship. A survey conducted by the Emerson College Polling Society showed the Libertarian Party nominee polling ten percent of the […]
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan announced her candidacy for governor of California Tuesday morning on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Sheehan, a resident of Vacaville who rode her bicycle from Davis to Sacramento to make the announcement, said that her candidacy on the […]
Long-shot mayoral candidate Randy Credico delivered perhaps the best one-liner of the evening during last night’s mayoral forum which took place less than an hour after Democratic front-runner Anthony Weiner, during a hastily-called press conference, admitted to engaging in lewd on-line conversations with a young […]
Comedian and citizen-activist Randy Credico, who recently qualified for New York’s Democratic mayoral primary ballot, is looking to extend his candidacy beyond the hotly-contested September 10th Democratic primary by running in November as the nominee of the Tax Wall Street Party, a newly-organized political party […]
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, widely regarded as a prohibitive favorite to win the late Frank Lautenberg’s U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey, enjoys a commanding lead against his three rivals for the Democratic nomination, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday. The popular Newark […]
In keeping with the party’s longstanding opposition to U.S. imperialism and reckless military adventurism, the Peace & Freedom Party of Florida has joined more than 125 other organizations and individuals in endorsing the following joint statement and call for action issued by the ANSWER Coalition (Act […]
Fred W. Halstead, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president in 1968, died of liver cancer at his home in Los Angeles on this day in 1988. A longtime civil rights activist and prominent leader in the antiwar movement during the war in Vietnam, Halstead […]
Wealthy hotel chain owner Jim Graves, who came within 4,300 votes of unseating U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann last year and planned to challenge her again in 2014, unexpectedly announced on Friday that he was ending his bid for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district seat. The decision […]
Facing a credit rating mired in junk bond territory, a long-term debt of at least $15 billion and a current budget deficit expected to reach more than $386 million by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, Mayor Dave Bing announced on Tuesday […]
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