The New Agenda is an organization started in 2008 that seeks to achieve opportunity for women by addressing issues which unite women, and by advancing women into leadership roles in the U.S. The New Agenda’s blog has this July 11 article about Lynne Williams, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for Governor of Maine.

The article’s lead sentence, “Lynne Williams is the only woman from a third party running on a gubernatorial ticket” is not well-thought out, but the remainder of the article is worth reading.

Richard Whitney, the Green Party nominee for Governor of Illinois in 2006 who polled 10.36%, will run for Governor in 2010. See this story from the politics column from the July 12 issue of the Springfield, Illinois daily newspaper, the State Journal-Register (scroll down). The story says he will formally announce on July 15.

Earlier this month, the California Moderate Party created a webpage for itself and says it will attempt to qualify for the 2010 ballot. It needs 88,991 registered members by January 6, 2010. The party’s webpage is www.camod.org.

The founder, or one of the founders, is Ash Roughani of Sacramento, who has ties to both the United States and Iran. The party’s webpage does not make it clear if it wants people to register as a member of the “Moderate Party” or the “California Moderate Party”. UPDATE: as commenter #1 says, the party wants people to register “California Moderate”.