This is old news that Ballot Access News had previously missed. On November 4, 2014, an independent candidate was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Merrimack County district 10, which includes Hopkinton and part of Concord. The independent winner is David Luneau. See this story about the campaign. The district elects three(More)… …read more
This is old news, but better late than never. At the November 4, 2014 election, an independent candidate was almost elected to the Montana House of Representatives. The vote in the 94th district in Missoula County was: Democratic incumbent Kimberly Dudik 1,748 votes; independent Gary Marbut 1,700 votes. Montana hasn’t elected an independent candidate to(More)… …read more
Not many elected officials explain to their constituents the reasons they vote a certain way on a given bill. Even fewer are those who will explain their vote on every …
Corruption in this small American town goes to the top. It’s time to start crushing it.
Gavin Seim
Wenatchee, WA — Little old Douglas County Washington is about to spend huge taxpayer dollars in an attempt to punish a man for demanding a police officer tell him why he was being stopped. It’s one of the many counties in America where corruption is disguised under a covering of respect and politeness. Don’t let that fool you.
We see a lot of stories about the worst of the worst, officials that do really bad things. In my recent article about what makes a good …read more
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
In times of tragedy, the first question the media asks is, “Who is to blame?” It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to investigate, but certain familiar patterns develop. In cases of serial killers, there’s usually an investigation into the killer’s background, interviews with family members, and so on. When the government is under investigation, there’s a long process of buck-passing that the media dutifully follows like a cat entranced by a laser. And in …read more
Maine Representative Stanley Short (D-Pittsfield) says he will soon introduce a bill to make it illegal for out-of-state individuals to ask anyone to sign an initiative petition. Maine already has a ban on out-of-state circulators working on initiative petitions, but out-of-state workers are free to ask anyone to sign a petition if that work is(More)… …read more
On January 10, the Montana Republican State Central Committee voted 83-43 to add the state party’s name to the list of co-plaintiffs, in Ravalli County Republican Central Committee v McCulloch, 6:14cv-58. See this story. The lawsuit, filed by some county units of the Montana Republican Party, says that the party has a constitutional right to(More)… …read more
“All three of them started beating me on the head….they beat me like a bunch of thugs”
San Antonio, TX — A violent trio of San Antonio cops won’t miss even one day of work after they mistook an innocent man for a drug suspect and brutally beat him.
In May of 2014, Roger Carlos was taking pictures of a building in the 10600 block of Westover Hills Boulevard in San Antonio, TX, when his life changed forever.
Carlos was photographing a building of what was soon to be home to his wife’s medical practice when all of the sudden he was ransacked …read more
Two of the largest newspapers in Great Britain, the Telegraph and the Guardian, together with YouTube, are willing to sponsor five-party debates for the upcoming British Parliamentary election. See this story. The BBC has refused to include the Green Party, but the new potential hosts are willing to include it. …read more
On January 9, U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Watson issued a procedural order in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, s.d., 2:13-cv-953. This is the case in which the Libertarian Party is challenging the definition of “political party” passed by the Ohio legislature in November 2013. This is also the case in which the(More)… …read more
