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Good for the League of Women Voters for standing up to the major party candidates in Oregon and refusing to sponsor a debate that didn’t include all candidates polling at or above 5% support.
From the Mail-Tribune…
The League of Women Voters of the Rogue Valley has withdrawn its sponsorship of a …
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Neal Boortz ran the following item in his “Neal’s Nuze” online column today…
I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I EVEN GOT STARTED ON THIS LIST
Who knows .. .maybe I’ll include it in “Somebody’s Gotta Say It”! At any rate … it just occurred to me that it might be a …
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An impressive list of candidates have been lining up to compete for the Libertarian Party’s 2008 Presidential nomination. And it’s only 2006!
Activist George Phillies, Comedian Doug Stanhope, and now you can add Steve Kubby to that list. Kubby is best known as a fighter for marijuana legalization who …
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From KMBC-TV…
Missourians will have a fourth choice this November when voting for senator, auditor and some other top offices.
The Progressive Party said that it has been approved by the secretary of state to field candidates in six races this fall. The party had to submit more than 10,000 petition signatures …
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On the good side, Ohio will have an above average number of gubernatorial debates this year…
Four debates are scheduled between Ohio’s major-party candidates for governor, including a final one in Columbus, the two campaigns announced yesterday.
It will be the most gubernatorial debates in the state in at least 24 years.
Specific …
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Good bit of news for the LaMarche campaign in Maine…
Democrat Christopher F. Miller has announced his support and endorsement for Pat LaMarche for Governor in November. Miller ran as a Democratic candidate and got 24% of the vote against incumbent governor John Baldacci in the June primary election.
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Two researchers, Ilyana Kuziemko and Eric Werker, recently published a study examining the monetary perks that go with a seat on the United Nations Security Council. According to the study, for the two-thirds of the seats that rotate membership every two years the amount of U.S. aid increases by 59%. The U.N. aid to those countries increases by 8 percent. The effect is even greater during times of crisis, when member votes are especially valuable.
On average, the typical developing country serving on the council can anticipate an additional $16 million from the United States and $1 million from the United Nations During important years, these numbers rise to $45 million from the United States and $8 million from the United Nations.
The study also concludes that the U.N. increases in aid appear to be driven by UNICEF, whose actions are historically dominated by the United States.
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