The Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear Presidential campaign has issued a statement on the massive financial industry bailout currently being concocted in D.C., calling out the hypocrisy inherent in the scheme:
When a worker can’t pay his or her credit card bill, that’s their problem. When a working class family can’t keep [...]

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From the desk of George Phillies:
Where Barr’s money went:
People:
James Bovard — authoring fee $15,000,
Doug Bandow — Political Consultant — $10,000,
Steve Sinton $4000, and
Robert Stuber $4000
Field Consulting cost $9161, including payments to Mike Ferguson, Andrew MacPherson, Ashley Petty, Jason Pye, and John Seewoester.
Groups of people, including Legal Fees for $11,850, not to mention Liberty Strategies Contract [...]

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Libertarian Neil Kiernan Stephenson, Green Party candidate Candace Caveny, and Democrat Robert Denison — all candidates to replace Republican incumbent and REAL ID leader Candice Miller (who didn’t show up) as Michigan’s 10th district congressional rep. — recently participated in a debate. IPR has added the audio to its YouTube channel.
Note: Neil Stephenson does not [...]

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George Phillies provides the following figures at Last Free Voice
Chuck Baldwin: Last Month $35,377. To Date $131,457.
Ralph Nader: Last month: $658,040. To date: $2,977,570.
Bob Barr: Last month: $ 221,434 To date: $859,435
The August total is somewhat better than Mike Badnarik’s $178,000 for August 2004.
LNC, Inc.: Last Month: $134,085 To date: $1,180,856
The August LNC total is [...]

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Posted at newmenu.org
You wouldn’t know it, but today is Constitution Day, the day we remember the signing of the US Constitution in 1787. In fact, when you look at America today, there’s hardly any sign of the Constitution at all.
The government in Washington
* makes war when it wants to,
* raises taxes when it wants to,
* [...]

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Press release from the Constitution Party:
Las Vegas, NV – Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin who is scheduled to address this weekend’s upcoming Conservative Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, NV, will comment on the latest government bailouts and the accelerating meltdown of the U.S. financial system.
Baldwin will speak to the annual gathering of conservative and [...]

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Posted at Bob Barr blog
Bob recently talked with the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii about the campaign. He gave an overview of why he left the GOP and explained that he has enjoyed working with the Libertarian Party and is proud to be the party’s nominee.
He was also asked if he would accept public financing. [...]

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Posted at votenader.org
This has been a busy media week for the campaign, as we kicked off our Constitution Day pledge drive and Nader’s Southern tour—traveling to Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas before heading to Tennessee. In Oklahoma, Nader addressed crowds about the state’s discriminatory ballot access laws and its refusal to allow write-in campaigns. At Tulane, [...]

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The Minnesota Independence Party’s U.S. Senate candidate Dean Barkley is polling around 14% recently, with his support on the rise as the contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken turns increasingly negative. If that level of support holds or increases, Barkley will be far and away the party’s most successful candidate for Senate… and [...]

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On its website, the Party for Socialism and Liberation says the government relief effort following Hurricane Ike “is sorely inadequate, having left millions to fend for themselves for days after the storm. … It is in times of crisis, either natural or human-made, that the character of the capitalist government is starkly revealed and [...]

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John Fund writes on the Wall Street Journal website: “The presidential race is within the margin of error in just about every poll, which makes it quite newsworthy that two alternative candidates for president, Bob Barr and Ralph Nader, have managed to stagger onto the vast majority of state ballots for this fall’s election. [...]

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The Concord Monitor reports New Hampshire’s ballot order “was set on Friday at the secretary of state’s office. The ballot will feature one column per party — Democrats, Republicans and Others — with each getting the first column in one-third of the state’s 24 state Senate districts, as drawn by Popsicle sticks. ‘Others’ [...]

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The Independence Party of New York has endorsed John McCain for president, “the first time New York’s third-largest party has backed a major-party presidential candidate,” the AP reports. The party backed Ross Perot in 1996, John Hagelin in 2000, and Ralph Nader in 2004. Chairman Frank MacKay said the party, which has about [...]

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