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	Independence Party of Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Independence Party of Minnesota (often abbreviated MNIP, IP or IPM), formerly the Reform Party of Minnesota, is the third largest political party in Minnesota, behind the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and Republican Party.
		The state party carried that name until it disaffiliated from the national party in 2000 due to factional dissent and the increasing influence of Pat Buchanan.
		In May, 2005, Peter Hutchinson, who was Minnesota Finance Commissioner in the Perpich administration, announced that he was planning to seek the Independence Party's nomination for governor in the 2006 election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Independence_Party_of_Minnesota (734 words)

	Jesse Ventura's Independence Party collapses. By Burl Gilyard
		Independence Party candidates for statewide offices such as secretary of state and state auditor garnered between 4 percent and 8 percent of the vote.
		The state Democratic Party is still known as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, dating to a 1944 merger with the Farmer-Labor Party, a successful third party in the 1930s.
		While the party's battle cry against "politics as usual" may resonate with voters, they are wary of candidates who they fear can do little but holler from the sidelines—even if elected.
	www.slate.com /id/2073695 (857 words)

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		Independence Party Gov. Jesse Ventura announced in June that he wouldn't seek re-election, saying his heart was no longer in the job and that he wanted to protect his family from the media.
		The well-known activist is the party's best shot at securing the 5 percent of votes needed in a statewide office to keep its major-party status and public funding.
		Every incumbent in Minnesota is seeking re-election, but most are running in different-shaped districts this time around due to a map drawn by the courts to better reflect population changes over the last decade.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /collections/campaign2002/ap/mn.shtml (587 words)

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		Petitioner Allen is the Independence Party candidate for Minnesota House of Representatives from District 41B and received the most votes for that office in the Independence Party primary on September 14, 2004.
		The secretary of state determined that none of the 24 candidates of the Independence Party for the Minnesota or United States House of Representatives satisfied the ten percent threshold of the primary threshold law in the September 14, 2004 partisan primary election.
		After consultation with, and based on advice from, the Minnesota Attorney General, the secretary of state notified the Independence Party on September 17 that all of the Independence Party candidates for the state legislature and for congress would be excluded from the general election ballot based on the primary threshold law.
	www.minnlawyer.com /opinions/041115/a041775.htm (3115 words)

	USATODAY.com - Minor party, independents make impact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minor party and independent candidates were hopeful Tuesday that they would achieve historic results in election victories and the number of major races in which they shaped the outcome.
		In Minnesota and New York, minor party candidates for governor were hoping to out-poll one of the two major party candidates to grab second place.
		Minnesota Independence Party governor candidate Tim Penny was in a three-way tie to succeed Ventura, who is from the same party.
	usatoday.com /news/politicselections/2002-11-06-independent-usat_x.htm (615 words)

	Center for Voting and Democracy
		Penny is currently running for governor of Minnesota with the Independence Party and brought an Associated Press reporter and photographer with him.
		Penny was in Washington to attend an 80th birthday celebration for the man he calls the father of the third-party movement, John Anderson, who received 6 percent of the popular vote as a third-party presidential candidate in 1980.
		Minnesota and Maine are the only two states with independent governors whose seats are up for election this year.
	www.fairvote.org /events/anderson.htm (604 words)

	Center for Voting and Democracy
		Independence Party members didn't vote for just one presidential candidate at their precinct caucuses, they ranked them.
		The vote wasn't binding since the Independence Party is a state party only and doesn't send delegates to other parties' conventions.
		The Minnesota Senate has already passed a bill allowing Roseville to use instant-runoff voting in a city council election next month, and the House is considering it.
	www.fairvote.org /articles/edwards.htm (298 words)

	Ballot Access News -- August 1, 2002
		The party nominates by convention and is ballot-qualified.
		The Rhode Island Green Party is a qualified party but wasn't listed on the tax forms because the "political party" definition in the tax law isn't the same as the definition in the election code.
		Parentheses means that a party has a statewide candidate on the ballot, but he or she doesn't have a party label.
	www.ballot-access.org /2002/0801.html (2871 words)

	MPR: Morning Edition: Archive for 9/20/2004 - 9/24/2004
		The future of the Minnesota Independence Party could be determined in the courts in the next few days instead of in elections this November.
		Cobb, who was in Minnesota yesterday, acknowledges that he does not have the support necessary to win the race, but he says by laying the foundation for a growing third-party movement, his efforts will pay off in the long run.
		In Minnesota, that would include convincing many of their new neighbors that they are capable of contributing to the community.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /programs/morninged/listings/me20040920.shtml (1960 words)

	Minnesota's in the middle: Kelly Doran, what we've learned
		Somehow he was convinced the only way to win was to join one of the two big money parties even though he himself invested the money to make the lack of money in the Independence Party or the difficult prospects of raising money as an independent irrelevant.
		He was by no means the perfect candidate, but given the stage he would have been given with the combination of his money and the status that the Independence Party has built over the years he could have had something he never had with the DFL, hope.
		In the process he took Shelia Kiscaden to the DFL party with him, and while she is still a good Senator a little more of her freedom to make the best decisions for her district and Minnesota is gone.
	minnnesotamiddle.blogspot.com /2006/03/kelly-doran-what-weve-learned.html (778 words)

	A trailblazing campaign for third-party politics
		Today's third parties, aspiring to do likewise, should find one or two issues that will resonate with the voters and lead the way to victory at the polls.
		The Democratic party, in its post-1960s incarnation, is primarily a party of the Civil Rights movement and of demographic groups that consider themselves victimized by society: African Americans, feminist women, gays and lesbians, new immigrants, etc. It is also a party of lawyers and lawsuits.
		He placed second in the Independence Party primary receiving 31% of the votes, compared with 49.5% for the party-endorsed candidate and 19.5% for a third candidate.
	www.worldhistorysite.com /NIP/campaign.html (486 words)

	CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Does Jesse Ventura 'Stand Alone'? - September 20, 2000
		And either party is capable at any time of finding its center of gravity, which may be more to the right or to left than the other.
		And he challenged the parties in such a way as he said: Look, there are a lot out here who think these parties, as valuable as the two-party system is to the country -- and Howard Baker is absolutely right about that -- but that parties have grown away from the people.
		It wasn't the Whig Party or the Republican Party, it was slavery, it was the issue.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0009/20/lkl.00.html (7901 words)

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		The virulent protest that accompanied a small Ku Klux Klan rally at the Minnesota state capitol in August 2001 contrasts oddly with the tolerance of Islamic groups in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
		After attending the Independence Party state convention in St. Cloud, the author jumped into the Senate primary at the last moment.
		The Independence Party has both a legacy of achievement and new opportunities to reach out to a broader constituency.
	www.newindependenceparty.org /book.html (2203 words)

	The Daily Tribune - Hibbing, MN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But that fact that the party is drawing from the ranks of the credible now, rather than just angry centrists, should serve as either a wake-up or a warning to the major parties.
		If their answers are clear and address the needs of the independent voters who decide our state elections — Penny will win and the IP may become part of a permanent tri-partisan government in Minnesota.
		Political analysts have joked that Minnesota’s Independence Party is starting to resemble the “Island of misfit toys” from the popular television Christmas special, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” People who felt alienated from the DFL or Republican Party are now banding together in a strange collection of non-belongers.
	www.hibbingmn.com /placed/index.php?story_id=115092 (621 words)

	The Independence Party and the Future of Third-Party Politics
		Brandishing a picket sign emblazoned with statements of two issues that were totally outside the political mainstream, the author waged a campaign for U.S. Senate which captured 8,482 votes, or 31% of the total, in the 2002 Independence Party primary.
		Many observers believe that Minnesota's Independence Party is in the best position of any U.S. third party to break loose from the pack and do what the Republicans did to the Whigs in the 1860s: displace one of the nation's two major parties.
		It elected a Governor of Minnesota (Jesse Ventura) in 1998 and briefly sent another of its members (Dean Barkley) to the U.S. Senate.
	www.worldhistorysite.com /thistlerose/TP-sixthbook.html (532 words)

	Minnesota Reform Party votes yes for disaffiliation - Minnesota Daily
		Echoing the infighting that has marred the Reform Party-USA, the Minnesota Reform Party held a special convention Saturday in which members voted 151-23 to disaffiliate with the national organization.
		The state party, which also voted 131-10 to change its name back to the Minnesota Independence Party, has recently seen its political energy expended on the growing fight within the national party.
		Regardless of the pointed rhetoric, both the Reform Party-USA and the new Independence Party face uncertain futures in the chaotic world of third-party politics.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2000/03/06/13539 (560 words)

	That's Senator Dean Barkley To You
		In the wake of the untimely death of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone in a plane crash on October 25th, Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura appointed long-time political adviser Dean Barkley, 51, to finish Wellstone’s term of office.
		He is active in Minnesota Youth Athletics, a fundraising organization for Youth Rugby in Minnesota; and is at the forefront of a campaign to recruit serious coaches for college rugby programs.
		This result allowed the Independence Party to qualify for public financing in 1998, which proved to be vital to the success of the Ventura campaign.
	www.rugbymag.com /archive/2002/december/barkley.htm (673 words)

	The First Ring: Fitz of Fergus Falls
		Or a Green, Independence, Reform, Libertarian or Monster Raving Looney Party member (yes, that’s a real party…in many senses of the word).
		Robert Fitzgerald is an independent with a small ‘i’.
		"Party politics have compromised Minnesota's interests," is how you explained your independent candidacy to the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.
	thefirstringblog.blogspot.com /2005/04/fitz-of-fergus-falls.html (886 words)

	Minnesota's in the middle
		Becky Lourey is a candidate of conviction, and represents the core of the DFL party well I respect her greatly for the strong stances she has taken even when I disagree with her, but question if she would be able to win the race in November.
		The reason such a scenario can exist is because he is a polarizing figure, I think the Independence Party can defeat him by inspiring those that have a strong negative opinion of Hatch, but at the same time he might roll over everyone in his path.
		As someone who is critical of every word about the Independence Party and it's candidates, or the lack of it, I have to say I was suprised to see this.
	minnnesotamiddle.blogspot.com (3137 words)

	Ventura leads new party convention - Minnesota Daily
		The Independence Party is attempting to solidify a third-party political influence by running campaigns for both local and national legislative seats.
		Three candidates were nominated for party endorsement in the senatorial race: James Gibson of Edina, a software developer; Leslie Davis of Minneapolis, a prominent environmentalist; and Buford Johnson of Baxter, former vice-chairman of the Reform Party Minnesota.
		The party also endorsed Pam Ellison for U.S. Congress and many state representatives, including Lionel Sullivan in District 56, Lance Bennett in 23B, Mary O'Connor in 47B, Robert Anderson in 61B, Denn Evans in 60B, Ron Lischeid in 63A and Don Walker in 18B.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2000/06/26/14895 (508 words)

	U.S. Senate: Senators Home > Senator Dean Barkley
		Dean Barkley, an independent appointed to fill the expiring term of Paul Wellstone, took the oath of office on November 12, 2002.
		Barkley was born in Annandale, Minnesota in 1950, and graduated from Annandale High School in 1968.
		Barkley ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991 and for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and 1996 as a Reform Party candidate.
	www.senate.gov /pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/barkley.htm (309 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Who is Dean Barkley?. by Micah L. Sifry. November 4, 2002. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Inspired by Ross Perot's campaign, he ran for Congress as an independent and garnered a healthy 16 percent of the vote while blending fiscal conservatism and social liberalism.
		In 1994, he ran for the U.S. Senate and got 5.4 percent, which gave the Independence Party major party status in Minnesota.
		For a while he tried, as a leader of his Minnesota party, to wrest control of the national party away from Perot and his minions, and later, to keep it out of the hands of Pat Buchanan, whom he saw as a religious fundamentalist nightmare.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2002/11/sifry-m-11-04.html (738 words)

	MPR: Campaign 2004: John Kerry
		For many Minnesota delegates, it was the first political convention, and in some cases the first trip to New York.
		For about two-thirds of the Minnesota delegates, this is their first national convention.
		We talk with the former chairs of Minnesota's Green and Independence parties about the role third parties and independent voters will play in upcoming local and national elections.
	minnesota.publicradio.org /collections/special/2004/campaign/president/kerry/index.php?page=8 (1218 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ventura's pick sees things from the political 'center' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PAUL — One-time wrestler Gov. Jesse Ventura may have been the public face of the Minnesota Independence Party, but it was rugby enthusiast Dean Barkley who provided the political brawn to get Ventura into office.
		Dean Barkley of the Independence Party was appointed Monday by Gov. Ventura as the U.S. senatorial replacement for Wellstone.
		Barkley will be the first Independence Party member to hold a House or Senate seat and the first minor party candidate from Minnesota in the Senate since Henrick Shipstead of the Farm-Labor Party was elected in 1934.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/2002-11-04-barkely-background_x.htm (491 words)

	ljonn.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Because of this, any candidate that is willing to run outside the major party system (and thereby begin with a disadvantage in financing and infrastructure) is an asset to the electoral process.
		In the particular case of the Libertarian Party, running candidates in as many elections as possible has been effective in furthering the views of the party and influencing legislative action indirectly - even though there has been little electoral success beyond the local level.
		Tim Penny, a former Democrat Congressman and co-author of the Penny-Kasich financing plan, has left the Democratic Party and joined the Minnesota Independence Party (formerly the Reform Party of Minnesota and the party of current governor Jesse Ventura.) Penny accepted the Independence Party's nomination to run for governor at their state convention last weekend.
	www.ljonn.com /tolp.html (544 words)

	Chaotic Reform Party meeting votes to oust chairman - February 12, 2000
		Gargan, a Ventura ally, said the meeting of the party's National Committee in Nashville was illegally conducted because of insufficient advance notice.
		The stated purpose of the one-day meeting was to discuss where the party should hold its convention for the 2000 presidential campaign.
		Ventura said he would not form a new national party but planned to remain an active member of the Minnesota Independence Party, which he said was formed prior to 1992.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/12/reform.party.02 (765 words)

	Minnesota League of ~Conservation Voters -- Other Useful Resources
		Minnesota Independence Party A central site to find information on the Independence Party and its candidates.
		Minnesota Secretary of State - Elections and Voting This is the SOS's site for elections, including polling place finders and registering for vote.
		Minnesota Environmental Partnership MEP is a network of over 70 non-profit environmental and conservation groups working together to protect, restore and enjoy Minnesota's precious natural resources.
	www.mnlcv.org /index.asp?Type=B_LIST&SEC={C3E077E3-8729-4986-82F2-208A9F3BA8E3} (218 words)

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