Being Green in Iowa

• Yet More Voting Problems…in Florida!?!?!

  Nah…it would never happen in Florida.  Would it? In Volusia County, a voting discrepancy at one early voting location has been corrected, said Election Supervisor Ann McFall. Election officials noticed a four-vote discrepancy between the number of ballots signed for and the number of ballots cast at the Daytona Beach City [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2008, 3:58pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Green Party Presidential Candidate Profile - Kent Mesplay

  From Kent’s Website Background   Born and raised in Papua New Guinea (first ten years; born July 19, 1962) to Lutheran Missionary parents. Home-schooled [...] [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2008, 8:43pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Pakistan’s Bomb, U.S. Cover-up

  Pakistan’s Bomb, U.S. Cover-up By Daniel Ellsberg January 22, 2008 For the second time in two weeks, the entire U.S. press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch’s London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation. <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece> But there is a worse journalistic sin than [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2008, 8:31pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Tell Us Something We Didn’t Already Know!

  The full story is at Yahoo! News. Study: False statements preceded war By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer 46 minutes ago A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2008, 10:11pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Jared Ball Ends Campaign in Support of Cynthia McKinney

  At the closing of the recent Green Party Presidential Debate, Jared Ball announced that his campaign would yield to and support Cynthia McKinney’s bid for the Green Party Presidential Nominee. The “Capital Resistance” component of the “Jared Ball for President” campaign will join the McKinney team and serve as the [...]
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  Posted: January 19, 2008, 8:52am EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Livestock Pollution Turns Off Young Iowans

  January 13, 2008 Livestock pollution turns off young Iowans BRIAN DEPEW, SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER I recently returned from a visit to my family’s farm. While there, I was dismayed to learn that three more livestock confinement buildings are being built within 2 miles. Once complete, there will be 13 industrial livestock buildings [...]
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  Posted: January 13, 2008, 6:10pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Obama vs. Clinton: What’s the Beef?

  (Editor’s Note: Ted Glick is the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network and a former candidate for US Senate on the Green Party ticket from New Jersey.  He publishes a regular column, “Future Hope” which is archived at the IPPN website.) Future Hope column, Jan. 13, 2008 Obama vs. Clinton: [...]
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  Posted: January 13, 2008, 2:39pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• The Search For an Enemy - Part 1

  It seems that conservatism, at least as served up by the GOP, must have an enemy. That enemy is then used to stir up fear in the electorate and, if the plan works, move the electorate to vote Republicans into office. In the past we had a generation or better [...]
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  Posted: January 10, 2008, 8:09pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Green Party Presidential Candidate Profile - Jesse Johnson

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  As promised, here is the Green Party Presidential Candidate Profile. I will be presenting the candidates in the order they are listed on the Green Party website. Also, I will use only material from the candidate’s website, articles/media published by the candidate, or from campaign approved media sites. The intent [...]
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  Posted: January 10, 2008, 7:07pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Fallon Campaign: Ed Fallon to announce his candidacy for Congress - IA 3rd

    Fallon Campaign: Ed Fallon to announce his candidacy for Congress 1/10/2008 Contact: Lynn Heuss 515-201-9405                                                                                  lynn@fallonforcongress.com DES MOINES, IOWA – Ed Fallon, the former state representative who ran for governor in 2006, will be announcing his candidacy for Iowa’s Third Congressional District, in a challenge to incumbent Rep. Leonard Boswell. The announcement will take [...]
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  Posted: January 10, 2008, 5:50pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Greens Protest the Exclusion of Antiwar Candidates from Democratic and Republican Primary Debates

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2008 1:52 PM CONTACT: Green Party Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org   Greens Protest the Exclusion of Antiwar Candidates from Democratic and Republican Primary Debates • Barring of Kucinich, Gravel, and Paul amounts to censorship of candidates whose positions are unacceptable to the [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2008, 4:06pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Results of Predictions

  My predictions on the Iowa Caucus results were: Democrats 1st - Obama by less than 2% over Clinton (Obama won with 37.58% of the delegates selected) 2nd - Clinton (Clinton received 29.47% of the delegates, coming in third) 3rd - Edwards (Edwards received 29.75% of the delegates, coming in second) Not bad, but I did [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2008, 11:22pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Burlington’s Gamble Fails

  Back in October of 2006 I posted here about the City Council’s successful attempt to use eminent domain to evict folks from the Flint Hills Manor, some WWII era houses that later became low-income housing. At that time I joined with a number of Burlington citizens who questioned this tactic, [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 9:42pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It

  This article was originally posted at the Santa Cruz IMC website.  Healthcare is fast becoming issue #1 for the average American, especially as costs for both healthcare and insurance coverage outpace inflation (and any increase in wages).  The author, Steven Argue, makes a number of good points well worth discussing [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 12:37pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Impeach Now! Presence at Pasadena for Tournament of Roses Parade

  THANKS FOR HELPING MAKE HISTORY TODAY Special thanks to those who contributed towards building an extraordinary and unprecedented protest both yesterday night (30+ encampment volunteers who distributed pamphlets and outreach literature) and today at the 2008 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. We estimated between 300 and 400 extraordinary activists present throughout [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2008, 5:54pm EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Iowans Can Now Register GREEN!!!

  The new Iowa voter registration forms are available online, and can be downloaded from the Secretary of State website.  After downloading the form and filling it out (and indicating that you are GREEN!) you can send it to your county auditor. For those looking to do registration tables as part of [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2008, 11:36am EST
  by Richard Johnson

• Green Party Presidential Candidate Profile - Jared Ball

  As promised, here is the Green Party Presidential Candidate Profile. I will be presenting the candidates in the order they are listed on the Green Party website. Also, I will use only material from the candidate’s website, articles/media published by the candidate, or from campaign approved media sites. The intent [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2008, 7:11am EST
  by Richard Johnson