This article appeared on Salon.com on December 31. The author researched what Mayor Mike Bloomberg has said and done about foreign policy issues during this decade. Thanks to Jack Ross for this.
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Four parties have told the Texas Secretary of State that they will try to qualify for the 2008 ballot: Green, New American Independent, Reform, and Texas Independence. The deadline for filing this form is Wednesday, January 2. Unity08 has indicated it will also file this form, but it has not done so yet. The Libertarian Party doesn’t need to file it since it is already on the ballot.
The latest issue of The Militant (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party) has this article about Ron Paul and the people who support him.
The latest issue of The Militant (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party) has this article about Ron Paul and the people who support him.
Former Oklahoma U.S. Senator David Boren has long been known to be sympathetic to the creation of a new, centrist political party. Boren is retired from the U.S. Senate and is president of the University of Oklahoma. He is hosting a meeting on January 7 for other prominent individuals who seem to be in sympathy with his views, or the somewhat similar ideas of Unity08. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sam Nunn, Charles Robb, Chuck Hagel, John Danforth, and others say they will attend. See this story in the December 30 Washington Post.