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The Green Party of the United States filed a lawsuit against the City of Davenport and the local chamber of commerce alleging its members were prevented from collecting petitions for a presidential candidate at a street festival last year, the Quad-City Times reports.

Wendy Barth, the Green Party’s 2006 candidate for governor, filed for Congress Wednesday in the 2nd Congressional District, setting up a four-way contest.

Iowa’s two official third parties both qualified their presidential candidates for the state’s ballot on Wednesday. In a coincidence, both parties are running former U.S. House members from Georgia.

Wendy Barth, the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor, is considering a run for the 2nd Congressional District seat now held by Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Mt. Vernon.

Iowa’s largest third parties, the Greens and Libertarians, won a big victory last year when they earned a place on the state’s voter registration forms. But few voters have exercised that option, and few of their candidates will appear on ballots below the presidential level.

The Libertarian Party, which has run nearly full slates for state [...]

The first registered Green in the state is “elated” to finally be able to vote under his preferred political affiliation after years of complaining, but he’s still hoping the Greens achieve full political party status.

Beginning Jan. 2, Iowa has established a new class of minor political party called a “political organization.”  The change is part [...]

Runs into Edwards chair David Bonior at Hamburg Inn

Strictly speaking, the Green Party doesn’t participate in the Iowa caucuses.  Nevertheless, their most likely candidate was in Iowa City Sunday, meeting supporters and making the ritual Hamburg Inn visit — where she saw a former congressional colleague.

David Bonior, John Edwards’ campaign chair, meets his former congressional [...]

The Green and Libertarian Parties are well on their way to a place on Iowa’s voter registration forms under a new petition procedure.

“One conservative-looking woman asked why we had to petition, and I explained that the requirement is to weed out non-serious time-wasters, like a Flying Loony Bats party,” Green Party secretary Holly Hart of [...]

Ballot Access News reports that the lawsuit filed by the Iowa Libertarian and Green Parties in 2005, with the support of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, was settled this week. 

Iowa will now print a blank line on the “political party” question on the voter registration forms.  Voters will be allowed to register into any “unqualified [...]