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Luminous Animal

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2. I was a New Party member in the 90s

Reply to SoutherDem (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 07:20 PM

Jun 2012

We worked on cross-endorsing progressive lefty candidates as well as left issues.

A person could be a New Party without registering to vote as New Party voter (I'm not even sure they had ballot status in California) member AND a member of another party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Party_%28United_States%29

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I was a New Party member in the 90s Luminous Animal Jun 2012 #2

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