The following is an e-mail sent to IPR by Darcy Richardson*:
FWIW, I qualified for the February 7th Democratic presidential primary in
Missouri yesterday. An “illegal immigrant” — I detest that term — from Iowa
traveled to Jefferson City to pick up my receipt for the qualifying fee from
the Democratic State Committee’s headquarters and delivered it to the
Secretary of State’s office! How cool is that? By the way, it looks like anti-abortion activist Randall Terry also filed
for the primary. Hope all is well. With best wishes, Darcy
*Because of Darcy’s past association with IPR and because of his status as one of the premier chroniclers of third party history, there is general agreement among IPR writers that we should cover Darcy’s primary challenge of Obama. I would like to do so in the future without always having to use this disclaimer. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Democratic Party presidential candidate .
U.S.  presidential candidate  of Florida took some time to answer a few questions from ''Wikinews'' reporter William S. Saturn.

Richardson, 55, is a political activist that helped form the  in 1989 and founded the  ''Battleground Blog'' earlier this year. He is also a political historian, and has authored six books covering  and presidential elections, including ''A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign'' (2002).  His current work, ''The Spirit of ’76: Eugene McCarthy’s Struggle for Open Politics'', chronicles the late Democratic Senator 's  for which he volunteered.  Richardson admires McCarthy, and served as manager for his  run. Recently, Richardson advised 's   in 2008.

In addition, Richardson himself has sought political office, albeit unsuccessfully. In 1980, he ran for Pennsylvania , and in 1988, vied for one of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seats as a member of the Consumer Party.  Last year, he ran for  as the running mate of gubernatorial candidate .

Richardson has criticized President Barack Obama's policies for being too similar to those of former President George W. Bush. He hoped to convince several prominent progressives to challenge Obama in the Democratic primaries, but none were available to do so. Last month, Richardson decided to begin a campaign himself and announced through his ''Battleground Blog'' that he would challenge Obama in the Democratic Party primaries as a progressive candidate. So far, he has qualified for the New Hampshire  in January and the Missouri primary in February. In an interview with the '''', Richardson proclaimed his campaign slogan as "no fourth term for George W. Bush."