BY FROMA HARROP They make less of a ruckus than the Tea Party people, but independents in New England are brewing their own revolution. Third-party governors may have been elected elsewhere – Walter Hickel in Alaska [1990] and Jesse Ventura in Minnesota [1998] – but in New England, such candidacies have become almost routine. Independents are making credible runs for governor in Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island. The strongest contender, Rhode Island’s Lincoln Chafee, is […]
Burgeoning Centrist Third Party?
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