PolitickerVT informs us that independent Vermont Gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina may have found himself facing a major campaign finance obstacle he was not expecting:
Independent gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina’s campaign will review a hard copy of the Vermont pre-campaign finance reform law from 1997 tonight after learning several days ago from the secretary of state’s office [...]

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Hosted by No Lies Radio, the program features Green congressional candidate Carol Brouillet, California Green and McKinney team member Bruno Bruhwiler, Jason King of 911 Truth, and is moderated by Paul Deslauriers, grassroots organizer for the same group.

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George Phillies, who sought the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination and will be on the ballot as a Libertarian in New Hampshire, says Wes Benedict, who recently applied for the LP’s vacant executive directorship, is “totally unfit for the position.”
Says Dr. Phillies:
While a member of the LNC, Mr. Benedict actively funded the Presidential campaign of a [...]

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Reason’s Dave Weigel recently asked Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr if he would debate other third-party candidates. He said no, and reasoned that the Libertarian Party — unlike the Greens or Constitution Party — is a truly “national” party.
Because of that, because we are far ahead of the other third parties in Zogby’s very legitimate, [...]

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Rhodes Cook, a senior columnist for Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball ‘08, takes a detailed look at the role of, and potential impact of, third party candidates in this year’s presidential election. The 850-word piece, which contains several tables of historical data, is worth reading in full. Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Cynthia McKinney, and [...]

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The AP reports three presidential candidates — Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, Libertarian Bob Barr, and America’s Independent Party candidate Alan Keyes — will speak at a rally organized by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver later this month. All three will be on [...]

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Louisiana’s Baton Rouge Advocate reported Tuesday that the Socialist Workers Party “became the first party Monday to get a presidential candidate on Louisiana’s Nov. 4 ballot. Alyson Kennedy of New Jersey, the running mate to presidential candidate Roger Calero of New York, personally qualified her party and its nine state electors in Baton Rouge, [...]

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Virginia’s Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star has a favorable editorial about Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr this morning, saying that while Barr is not going to win the presidency, he “may influence the profligate Republican Party, which he says ‘left me,’ to readopt the small-government principles of Ronald Reagan, who made him proud to be in the [...]

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The AP reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader “plans a rally in Minneapolis on the final day of the Republican National Convention. Nader’s campaign said the rally will be a call to action for opening the presidential debates to candidates like him. The rally is planned for the night of Sept. 4th at [...]

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Wisconsin’s La Crosse Tribune reports Libertarian U.S. House hopeful Kevin Barrett “plans to join a group of peace activists when they visit Ron Kind’s La Crosse office this afternoon.” Barrett is seeking the Libertarian nomination to challenge Kind in a September 9 primary. Barrett said he “would join the peace activists, who are [...]

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IPR’s interview with Bob Bird, Alaska Independence Party candidate for U.S. Senate, reveals the pro-life leader and school teacher to be an unusually consistent and principled politician, less concerned with “looking good” than being right. Bird holds very “un-PC” views of the Bill of Rights and says he would probably have voted against ratification of [...]

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Brian Schweitzer, the Democratic governor of Montana, suggested that 2nd Amendment voters may choose to support Bob Barr over either John McCain or Barack Obama.
Obviously, Schweitzer is making a political calculation that assumes gun owners absolutely won’t support Obama, but may support McCain. So why not suggest they support Barr instead, as [...]

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Chuck Baldwin, the presidential candidate of the Constitution Party, was endorsed today by Jerome Corsi. Corsi is the author of New York Times best-sellers Unfit for Command and The Late Great USA. He just published his newest book Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, which is highly critical of Barack Obama’s presidential [...]

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