From the desk of George Phillies:
I do not believe there is a unique legitimate process in the Bylaws for ejecting an At-large Member from a meeting, and that is a motion that passes to expel the At-Large from the LNC.
Angela, I strongly urge you to write a letter to the Judicial Committee claiming that the [...]
Phillies update: LSLA, Angela Keaton, etc.
September 7th, 2008 · 31 Comments
Tags: Libertarian Party
Barr campaign responds to threat; requests Keaton be kept on LNC
September 7th, 2008 · 22 Comments
To thwart efforts by a cabal within the LNC to remove at-large rep. Angela Keaton from her duly elected post, renegade Massachusetts Barr-elector Arthur Torrey, who has already stated publicly he will not vote for Barr “should he win the state of Massachusetts,” said he would not support the substitution of Barr’s name for Phillies’s [...]
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Angela Keaton, Day 2: LNC gang continues efforts to cloak operations in secrecy
September 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Once again, IPR will be publishing e-mails from embattled LNC rep Angela Keaton, unedited, as they come in:
Day 2/LNC meeting/live blog, 8:24 a.m.
Same disclaimer applies as yesterday. If you want a goddamn transcription, make it yourself.
These are my words and mine alone. –Keaton
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8:10am Agenda
Carling on Audit
Boring monotone. Explains the audit co purpose. They [...]
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Eric Schansberg, Libertarian for Congress in Indiana, will host townhall meeting on Tuesday
September 7th, 2008 · No Comments
A press release from the Schansberg campaign:
Dr. Eric Schansberg, the Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Congress in Indiana’s 9th District, will hold a town-hall meeting in Bloomington on Tuesday, September 9th, from 6:00-7:30 PM. (The meeting will be held in Room #1C of the Monroe County Library, located at 303 E. Kirkwood Ave. in downtown [...]
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Recognized ‘minor parties’ in the District of Columbia
September 7th, 2008 · 20 Comments
I stumbled upon this list of officially recognized “minor parties” in the District of Columbia. I really wish some of these folks had websites!
AIDS Cure Party
American Independent Party
American Peoples Party
Black Peoples Party
Black Political Party
Children’s Worldwide Party
Citizens Party
Cocktail Party
Communist Party USA
DC Anti-Statehood Party
District of Columbia Independents for Citizen Control Party
Ethiopian Federal Democratic Party
Federalist Party
Independent Husband [...]
Tags: Third parties, general
LP touts free registration to Conservative Leadership Conference
September 7th, 2008 · 7 Comments
In an email sent to its membership, the Libertarian Party is promoting free registration to the Conservative Leadership Conference to be held September 18-21 in Las Vegas. Saying the overriding question of the conference will be “Should conservatives and libertarians vote for the presidential candidate most ideologically similar to themselves…or for the candidate polling [...]
Tags: Constitution Party · Libertarian Party · Right-wing minor parties
PSL House candidate talks Iran policy at peace conference
September 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Iraq War veteran and Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate for US House from Florida’s 22nd District Michael Prysner gave a speech discussing the United States’ policy towards Iran over the course of the last half century. Speaking as a representative of the ANSWER Coalition, of which the PSL is part, Prysner remarked:
The ANSWER Coalition [...]
Tags: Socialist/left parties
PFP condemns police violence against Committeeman/activist
September 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Calling the police actions both brutal and unprovoked, the Peace and Freedom Party has condemned the beating of Contra Costa, California Central Committee member Barry Burgess at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota:
“Barry Burgess was handing out literature for Peace and Freedom presidential candidate Ralph Nader (and) was the subject of an unprovoked attack by [...]
Tags: Independents · Socialist/left parties
Genetics blog notes Root’s ‘Million-Dollar Challenge’
September 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments
The genetics blog Gene Expression uses “Wayne Allyn Root’s Million-Dollar Challenge” to Barack Obama as a jumping-off point for a discussion about the relative intelligence of the major party candidates for president and vice president.
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SWP Senate candidate calls for unity against ICE raids
September 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Drop the Charges, Free All Those Detained! Stop the Raids! Legalization for All Immigrants Now!
All charges of identity theft and of using false Social Security cards against the 595 immigrant workers at Howard Industries Inc. in Laurel, Mississippi, should be dropped immediately.
With these words, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Georgia Senator Eleanor GarcÃa commences a [...]
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Keyes on Palin: ‘Unequally yoked’
September 7th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Alan Keyes, America’s Independent Party nominee for President, has written a commentary for WorldNetDaily which takes a concerned tone towards Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s soul. In reply to commentators he says claim guidance from the Bible, Keyes cites 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 (chastising believers not to be “unequally yoked with unbelievers”) and argues that [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Gordon Clark, MD 8th Dist. on Green Party Watch Radio
September 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Gordon Clark will be the guest on a special edition of Green Party Watch Radio at 8 PM East Coast time, Sunday, September 7th. Those who want to do so can call in live by dialing (646) 478-3778. Clark is focusing his Maryland 8th District seat on Stopping Global Warming, Ending the War in [...]
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Natural Law Party nominates Moore in Miss., Nader in Mich.
September 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Ballot Access News is reporting that the Natural Law Party of Mississippi has given their ballot line to Socialist Party USA candidate Brian Moore.
The Natural Law Party of Mississippi is one of only two remaining state affiliates of the once formidable, by third-party standards anyhow, Natural Law Party. The other affiliate is in Michigan, where [...]
