New Independence
Party
National
politics: On January 26, 2008,
the Independence Party of Minnesota voted to affiliate with a newly
created national organization called "The Independence Party
of America". Frank MacKay, president of the Independence Party
of New York took that initiative to bring state organizations in New
York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and Minnesota, into a confederation
of parties which, among other things, might support the "independent"
candidacy of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg for President of the
United States. On February 27, 2008, Mayor Bloomberg announced that
he would not be running for President. Bill McGaughey now favors Barack
Obama for President. He wants to leave the Bush-Cheney years behind.
Bill McGaughey’s statement
to party members while seeking the IP endorsement for U.S. Senate
in June, 2008 Scale back the military and
rebuild our sagging economy.
Blue
Print for a Senate Race in 2008 What Bill
McGaughey might do if nominated for U.S. Senate by the Independence
Party of Minnesota
Four Issues that
sum up the McGaughey campaign for Senate (a brief statement)
Trade
policy is Bill McGaughey's main issue. In 1992, he published
a book criticizing NAFTA and suggesting alternatives. (A U.S.-Mexico-Canada
Free Trade Agreement: Do We Just Say No?, ISBN 0-9605630-2-4) Here
are some more recent writings on the subject:
A
labor and environmentally oriented trading system
This
article by Bill McGaughey appeared in Synthesis/Regeneration,
a national publication of the Green Party, in the spring of 1993 (Presents
concept of employer-specific tariffs.)
A
search for trade standards to protect labor and the environment
This article by McGaughey appeared in Synthesis/Regeneration
in the winter of 1996 (Advocates an accounting
rather than legal approach to enforcing labor standards.)
Why
employers want to outsource manufacturing production An
illustration of the financial impact
The
politics of free trade Bill Moyers' interview
with John MacArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine
U.S.
trade deficit by month and year (in millions
of dollars)
The
challenge of trade with China as analyzed
by Prof. Behzad Yaghmaian
The human side of production in south
China by
Prof. Behzad Yaghmaian
Government
as Regulator of the Labor Market McGaughey's
conceptual framework for dealing with long-term employment problems
McGaughey's
book opposing NAFTA how it might have affected the 1992 Presidential
campaign
Fighting the last war The
free-trade concept is now obsolete.
Meeting the Objections to Trade
Reform that more jobs are created than are
lost
Where the trade issue is today
Our politicians are mostly in denial.
The ultimate twist of the screw
Call centers in India collect bills from America's
destitute.
Why it's time to scrap free trade
Instead we need a development model of trade.
Where
a McGaughey campaign might fit into the political woodwork:
What Minnesota's Independence
Party has been and might become some history
and speculations regarding the future
What
is a progressive? How does this label fit the DFL party? The Republicans?
McGaughey
biographical information
Bill McGaughey’s Record as
a Political Candidate in
three primary elections
My Strange Relationship
with the Romneys by
Bill McGaughey
Tales from the Urban Forest Can
squirrels be tamed?
Full
text of William McGaughey's book, The
Independence Party and the Future of Third-Party Politics, published
in 2003.
Links
to other web resources
the front page in the
2006 version of this website