Hooray!

But then how does a party missing the primary now select its candidates for races in the general election?

Are these change for the sake of change type progressives or Derio Gambaro loving type progressives?

Brian: A new party placed on the ballot by petition simply files a list of candidates with the petitions. The candidates on the ballot in the St Louis area are:
Lydia Lewis for U.S. Senator
Terry Bunker for State Auditor
David Sladky for Congress, 3rd District
Bill Hastings for Congress, 9th District

Howard: The Progressive Party candidates are progressive in the traditional sense of the word, not the Gambaro-loving faux progressives from Progressives for Change. The Progressive Party is the Missouri affiliate of the Green Party of the United States.

Oracle, could the Progressive Party have fielded candidates for citywide office in St. Louis this year?

Sorry, I should been more clear with my question (I knew about the petition's candidates). I should have asked, how can additional (this November) or future (beyond November) candidates file as a "Progressive"? I assume the candidate had to be included in the petition for November's election, limiting other offices, including those in the City of St. Louis, but is that true?

Some added questions:
Do these candidates filed by petition need to obtain a certain percentage of votes this November to enable other "Progressives" to be on ballots in future elections? And will there then be open primaries in the future, including a new "Progressive" ballot separate from the "Green" ballot available in the City of St. Louis?

Not sure that there aren't more comments on this topic than actual voters for the candidates.

It is too bad that they couldn't just use the name "green party." Calling themselves progressives is really going to confuse people. If the initiative to allow candidates to be endorsed by multiple parties makes the ballot, it would go a long way to supporting 3rd party candidate or at least allow them to garner mainstream support.

Most of the people who signed the petition to get the party on the ballot will never vote for the party's candidates. Most thought they were signing a petition regarding health care because that was the sales pitch- sign this to fix health care.

Because of their poor behavior while collecting petition signatures, when it comes to a protest vote, I will go with a drop off vote rather than vote for anyone carrying the label of Green Party or Progressive Party or whatever they rename themselves in the future.

Howard's first sentence is correct, but he is mistaken about the rest. The all-volunteer Progressive Party signature gatherers always made it clear that the petition was to get a new party on the ballot. Health care, if mentioned at all, was mentioned along with other issues, solely in the context of what the party stands for. The people who signed but don't vote for the party's candidates merely believe that in America anybody ought to have the right to compete. Others signed because they are sick and tired of both of the current major parties.

Certainly "opting out" is a viable alternative for any voter who believes that no candidate merits her/his vote. I am hopeful that the new choice that the Progressive Party provides will give some of those people someone to vote for.

"The all-volunteer Progressive Party signature gatherers always made it clear that the petition was to get a new party on the ballot."

Sorry, no, not my experience. When I took the clip board to examine the language, I did so because I thought, from the sales pitch, it had something to do with fixing our very broken health care system. I thought the surprise left out of the sales pitch that I would find was that the Progressive Party was pushing a tax hike of some sort to fund health care.

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