‘Encouraged’ by IP endorsement vote, Anderson undecided about battling Bachmann

One obstacle keeping Bob Anderson from running against Rep. Michele Bachmann next year was a pending vote by the Independence Party over cross-endorsements. Last election, the party endorsed the DFL’s Elwyn Tinklenberg, but Anderson ran anyway, getting 10 percent of the vote in a race won by Bachmann by a 3-percent margin. After the IP voted to drop cross-endorsements Saturday, Anderson is “encouraged,” but still undecided about running.

Barkley: Dobbs would be ‘perfect’ IP Party candidate for prez

Could “Mr. Independent” — as Lou Dobbs promotes himself — become “Mr. Independence Party”? A Politico piece this morning ponders news that the illegal-immigration foe, Birther and former CNN anchor is considering a run for president in…

Gold rush: Pols pan for cash before refund program runs dry

Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s announced plans to axe state refunds for political contributions of $50 or less has set off an email stampede as candidates urge donors to give before the program dies July 1.

Independence Party conjures Black Knight in post-unallotment fundraising

Last used as a metaphor for Norm Coleman’s dwindling odds at winning back his old U.S. Senate seat, Monty Python’s Black Knight is again being conjured as a political metaphor — this time by the Independence…

Independence Party’s 3rd CD candidate, David Dillon, among nation’s top self-funders

UPDATED Well, they do call it the Independence Party. It turns out the party’s candidate in the 3rd Congressional District race, David Dillon, has donated a considerable sum of his own money to his campaign through Sept. 2: $122,000. That’s 81 percent of his campaign’s $150,513 war chest, which according to a fresh report from the Center for Responsive Politics’ opensecrets.org, makes Dillon the eighth biggest self-funding candidate for the U.S. House or Senate this year, by percentage of total money raised.

Independence Party tries to stay strong in a partisan age

They say that numbers don’t lie. If so, then there are three numbers that tell a dismal tale for the Independence Party: 37, 16 and six. That’s the share of the vote Independence Party gubernatorial candidates won in…

Independence Party Looks to the Future

Rallying around 2006 gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson’s exhortation that “the campaign’s not over,” the Independence party’s central committee worked Sunday to chart their course for the next two years.

Hutchinson’s speech, delivered after extensive discussion…

Now the IP will have to fight defections

Despite its generally lackluster performance in Tuesday’s elections, the Independence Party will wake up Wednesday morning positioned to make a move against the major parties in ways it has never been before. The party has build a solid fundraising mechanism,…

An interview with Indie the Bison — or is it Buffalo?

Cross-posted at Vox Verax.

I’m sick and tired of politics, particularly negative advertising and public broadsides coming primarily from the GOP side. But the Dems are not innocent either, and when they start slinging mud it makes me doubly…

Waseca, Minnesota: Independence Central?

Tim Penny brings the IP ticket to town

Cross-posted at Vox Verax.

Early in his remarks Saturday evening, gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson introduced some of those in attendance at the house of Tim Penny in…