Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr will appear on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday morning.

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Presidential candidate Average Joe Schriner is continuing his “Buckeye Back Road Tour” of Ohio, where he spoke with the ABC and NBC affiliates in Toledo. While Schriner has been running as an independent, he is also seeking the Green Party nomination, about which he says, “The Green Party has, by far, the best platform [...]

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Independent presidential candidate Daniel Kingery was in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, this week for the Democracy Unplugged Declaration of the Independents forum on July 3. Kingery says he has campaigned “in nearly 28 states,” spending “less than $15,000″ so far. Kingery says his campaign has about $261 on hand.

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Independent presidential candidate Donald K. Allen campaigned in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last week, where he says he “found many people interested in discussing topics from America’s continuing loss of our manufacturing base to the need for further education of all our citizens to enable this country to not only lead the world, but survive as a [...]

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BTP presidential candidate Charles Jay has published an essay on his blog, in honor of Independence Day, about declaring independence from the Libertarian Party, for those who feel that party is increasingly libertarian in name only. It was brought to my attention by Darcy Richardson. Here is a taste…
Since I am in one of those [...]

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IPR has received reports from reliable sources that Libertarian Party Chairman Bill Redpath is “highly upset” with Sean Haugh over the Massachusetts petition burning scandal, and has taken “appropriate steps” to ensure something of that nature won’t happen again. Well, according to a well-known petition gatherer — who admittedly has bad blood with Mr. Haugh [...]

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Originally posted in Ballot Access News
The incumbent Republican Congressman in New York’s 13th district, Vito Fossella, is not running for re-election. Last month, the Republican Party leadership choice for the seat, Francis H. Powers, died unexpectedly. Republican leaders are still not settled on a new nominee. However, some Republican leaders in the Brooklyn part of [...]

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First, it was claimed that Mahatma Gandhi endorsed 2004 LP VPOTUS Richard Campagna.
Now, John Lennon is allegedly endorsing Libertarian WI-3 (US House) challenger Kevin Barrett?
We report. You decide.

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IPR has been contacted by the Baldwin campaign. Do any of our readers have specific questions they would like to ask Chuck Baldwin? According to Roman Schroeder, who wrote us on behalf of the Baldwin campaign,
“Mr. Baldwin has some time this coming Monday morning before noon (central time.)”

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This item is a couple of months old, but I just read it yesterday. Apparently, San Francisco Mayor (and Democratic gubernatorial candidate) Gavin Newsom’s girlfriend recently tried to change her registration from Republican to “No Party” or Unaffiliated. But she wound up registered as a member of the American Independent Party instead.
From the [...]

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Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr was among the Georgia dignitaries who “rode in the parade and spoke during the dedication ceremony” for Atlanta’s new Millennium Gate on Friday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The city’s “own Arc de Triomphe opened eight years into the new millennium with a flourish of balloons, a barrage of fireworks [...]

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Gannett News Service reports that Commission on Presidential Debates co-chairs Frank Fahrenkopf and Paul Kirk say that “with former Rep. Bob Barr and Ralph Nader mounting independent challenges from the right and left,” they are “bracing for legal challenges about who will be allowed to debate. Under the commission’s guidelines, debaters must get their [...]

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A significantly redesigned homepage for AlanKeyes.com appears to have launched today, giving supporters an early look at a long-promised redesign of the campaign’s website. The new page doesn’t have very much information at this point, but that is supposed to change when the full version goes online.
The site calls Keyes an indpendent candidate for [...]

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The Washington Post has a Style section feature on the 1892 Populist presidential campaign of James B. Weaver, who that year became the first U.S. presidential candidate to mount a modern-style campaign tour of the nation rather than a limited or “front porch” campaign.
The Post says Weaver’s “campaign proved stunningly successful; for the first time [...]

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