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Larry King, the celebrated talk show host accustomed to A-list interview guests, has agreed to moderate a debate featuring a squad of minor-party presidential candidates.

Americans Elect, after qualifying for ballot in 29 states, won't nominate a third-party presidential candidateAmericans Elect qualified for the presidential ballot in Oregon and 28 other states, but the group on Thursday said it is abandoning its effort to field a third-party presidential candidate this year. The well-funded group developed an elaborate online process aimed at attracting millions of voters who would nominate a candidate for president.  But the group said that no candidate managed to get enough voter support to participate in an online convention in June. "We will not hold a June convention," Ileana Wachtel, the group's press...

Rocky Anderson, it turns out, is not stepping aside quietly. Joining a list of liberal luminaries, including Noam Chomsky and George McGovern, Salt Lake City's outgoing mayor submitted a letter Friday that calls on the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the Bush administration for abuses of power. The letter, signed by 18 political and cultural figures, asks House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., to hold hearings on alleged violations of the law under President Bush that include kidnapping and torture, warrantless wiretapping, a war of aggression against Iraq and disseminating false propaganda to deceive the American people. It came...

Grand Junction Mayor Jim Doody ... is one of 40 mayors in the country who will gather in Utah for four days beginning Sunday to learn the latest information on global warming — and what cities can do to address it. The third-annual Sundance Summit is co-hosted by actor Robert Redford’s environmental nonprofit organization, Sundance Preserve, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. “For me, personally, (it is about) being an elected official trying to balance all the growth we have here, all the great resources we have here,” Doody said. “At the...

Salt Lake City mayoral hopeful Keith Christensen's newly minted support for a downtown skywalk will not vault Mayor Rocky Anderson back into the race after all. "I'm out. I'm not running for re-election," Anderson said Friday, slamming shut the third-term door he had creaked open last month.

This is the debate tonight between Sean Hannity and the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah.

I usually avoid listening to Michael Harris Live (1-3pm CFRA 580AM Ottawa Canada http://www.cfra.com/hosts/michael.asp) like the plague. The guy is totally anti-Bush and doesn't have clue when it comes to anything to do with the military. I am working at home today however and a cooling fan on my PC started making a bad noise so I shut down right away and hopped into the car to get a replacement and the radio was already tuned to that station (their morning guy is conservative). Anyway, before I could reach for the dial, he starts introducing Rocky Anderson, the lefty, Bush-hating...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has cooled his friendship with Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson now that the liberal Democrat has called for President Bush?s impeachment. In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Romney sought to minimize his relationship with Anderson, once a prominent example of bipartisan camaraderie. The two worked closely together when Romney ran the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. ?He was a mayor that worked well with me during the Olympics, and I supported his work as a mayor,? said Romney, who spoke before an event in heavily Republican western Iowa, where he...

From the website: "This is a thank you to Rocky Anderson, a class act. " Yes, a low-class act. A Bush-bashing, troops-disrespecting, appeasing capitulationist. If you don't know who Rocky is, he's the lowlife mayor of SLC who has publicly protested and trash-talked President Bush and the War on Terror many times. Now, the libs have a Rocky love-fest site, where they can all worship him for his courage to "speak truth to power." Yadda yadda yadda. So far, over 400 moonbats have posted their fawning, slobbering praise over on this website: http://www.thankyourockyanderson.org/wordpress/ Let's thank Rock ourselves, FReeper-style.

The American Legion opened its national convention in Salt Lake City this week with high hopes the gathering would help "unite America" behind the war in Iraq. Instead, the veterans have found themselves in a fight with the city's anti-war mayor. Mayor Rocky Anderson, a Democrat in a city that is considered liberal by heavily Republican Utah's standards, has accused the Bush administration of lying about the rationale for war. He has called President Bush a "complete disaster." And he organized a protest rally Wednesday a few blocks from the Salt Palace Convention Center, just hours before Bush's arrival here...

Go to ABC 4 Hompage. The poll is on the upper third of the page. Question: Do you agree with Rocky Anderson's decision to protest during President Bush's visit this week? YES: 26.2% NO: 73.8%

Offended by Rocky Anderson's plans to protest President Bush this week, the Utah Republican Party is waging a public-relations campaign urging Utahns to call the mayor and tell him to "stop embarrassing" the state. And while Utahns have listened - flooding City Hall with almost 300 calls and overwhelming the phone system - Anderson hasn't. Salt Lake City's mayor isn't altering his protest plans. "Given the nastiness of some of these people, it actually just bolsters my resolve," said Anderson, who previously alleged that the "real embarrassment" is Utahns' unwavering support of Bush. The GOP acknowledged that its push, sending...

Republican Party Ad: "Now Rocky Anderson has invited her to Utah. Does he really share her anti-American beliefs?" The debate over the Iraq War debate heats up with the state Republican Party blasting Salt Lake's mayor and prominent war protester Cindy Sheehan. The debate over public protests against the Iraq War is escalating today. Two days away from a visit by the President, the GOP is taking aim, essentially raising the question: Are anti-war protesters anti-American? The new ad is running on 20 Utah radio stations. It equates Mayor Anderson and protester Cindy Sheehan with a "cut-and-run strategy," and urges...

Salt Lake City is preparing for at least five demonstrations the afternoon and evening of Aug. 30, but all five may miss their mark if President Bush doesn't come until later in the day. The White House said Tuesday that Bush will spend the night of Aug. 30 in Salt Lake City and then "on Thursday, Aug. 31, the president will have events in Salt Lake City" before traveling to Camp David for the Labor Day weekend. It is not known when he will arrive in Salt Lake City on Aug. 30, and rallies are scheduled beginning at 11 a.m....

Family urges war support By Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Many in her country had turned against the war. The mayor of her city was organizing a protest against the president. And the insurgents in Iraq, Amy Galvez feared, were growing bolder by the day. Galvez decided she had heard enough. Hoping her words might persuade those who support the president, the war and the troops in Iraq to assemble in a great demonstration of patriotism and support, Galvez sat at her computer and began to type. "My son, who is a resident of Salt Lake City, is...

When President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visit Salt Lake City next month for an American Legion national convention, Mayor Rocky Anderson plans a protest - even bigger than the one he spoke at last year. Critical of Bush on several fronts - from the Iraq war to funding cuts to environmental policies - Anderson expects "tens of thousands" to demonstrate. "I'm glad he's coming to Salt Lake City," Anderson said Friday. "I certainly hope there is an effective expression of opposition to where this country is headed right now under the Bush administration. When that happens in...

Democrat supports an inquiry on Rocky Expenditure probe should not fall along party lines, she says By Brady Snyder Deseret Morning News Wednesday, October 12, 2005 The chairwoman of the Salt Lake County Democratic Party is joining Republicans who want District Attorney David Yocom to investigate Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for possible misuse of public funds. Rocky Anderson "I believe that if a public official has done something wrong they should be investigated," Megan Risbon told the Deseret Morning News on Monday, saying she is sending Yocom a letter today officially requesting an investigation. Investigations of wrongdoing should...

Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson has named his seventh communications director in less than five years after firing Deeda Seed, a longtime friend and his former chief of staff. Deeda Seed Clifford Lyon, a former executive with a gift wholesale company and a member of the Human Rights Center of Utah governing board, replaces Seed, who Anderson fired Friday apparently for complaining about his management style and in part over how the controversy surrounding his involvement in last week's anti-war protest during President Bush's visit was being handled. Like some of her predecessors, Seed complained that Anderson doesn't abide dissent...

Rocky to push non-married benefit, without OK He says he can file order without council approval By Brady Snyder Deseret Morning News Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is moving forward with a plan to provide medical and dental benefits for domestic partners, sans City Council approval. After seeking legal advice from City Attorney Ed Rutan, Anderson said Tuesday he believes he can administratively offer medical and dental benefits to domestic partners. In a strange legal twist, however, Anderson said it looks like he cannot administratively offer them bereavement benefits. The mayor, then, plans to pass an executive order offering...

SALT LAKE CITY Mayor Rocky Anderson was nonplussed by the boos that greeted him Monday when he addressed the 106th convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars before a scheduled speech by President Bush. Anderson, a Democrat, has called on anti-war activists and Democrats to conduct "the biggest demonstration this state has ever seen.'' "Our beef is not with the military, it's with the president and his administration,'' Anderson said after his speech. ``We all need to support our troops. They're doing the very best they can, they're putting all on the line as they have since the country's founding,...