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Recount: Arkansas Greens did not win Chicot County Assessor race

November 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Posted at ballot Access News On November 14, Chicot County, Arkansas recounted the votes for Assessor, a partisan race. The Green Party candidate lost by 30 votes. Apparently the recount showed the Democrat with 2,242 votes and the Green with 2,212 votes, or very similar numbers.

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: How will Libertarians affect Georgia runoff?

November 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Original article here. By JIM THARPE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Saturday, November 15, 2008 Libertarians have never won statewide office in Georgia, but suddenly their votes have become valuable currency in the extended U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin. No sooner had the sun peeked over the horizon [...]

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Cindy Sheehan’s Veterans Day message to George Bush

November 14th, 2008 · 389 Comments

From sfbg.com by way of On The Wilder Side Dear George, I am writing this to you on the fifth Veteran’s Day I have mourned the death of my son, Casey Sheehan. Casey was a soldier in the Army. You killed my oldest son with your lies and greed for Empire. Casey never became a [...]

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Case that will have bearing on judgement against Ralph Nader from 2004 to come before US Supreme Court

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

From Ballot Access News: Caperton v A.T. Massey Coal Company, 08-22. The issue is whether the U.S. Constitution protects someone who is involved in a lawsuit, when that person’s opponent in the court case had made very large campaign donations to a judge who is hearing the case. The case arose in West Virginia, where [...]

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Libertarian Party says businessmen are bad for capitalism

November 14th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Posted at LP.org CEOs and Government Assistance Stand in the Way of Economic Turnaround “CEOs and government ‘altruism’ are standing in the way of effective economic turnaround,” says Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis. “Businessmen are bad for capitalism when they use the government as life support for failing ventures,” explains Davis. “Instead of letting other [...]

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Ralph Nader on restoring the Constitution

November 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Posted on the Vote Nader blog Barack Obama is receiving lots of advice from many people these days about the collapse of Wall Street, the sinking economy and the quagmire wars he will inherit from the Bush regime. However, there is one important matter that he alone can address with his legal training and the [...]

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Cynthia McKinney: Malik Rahim needs our help!

November 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch. IPR’s previous coverage of Malik Rahim: Update on the Malik Rahim campaign Greens mobilize for Malik Rahim for Congress Green Party Congressional candidate Malik Rahim on Democracy Now! Green Party Political Director on Internet radio show December elections Green Party identifies its top state and local candidates [...]

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Barry “Never Get Busted” Cooper to run for Governor of Texas?

November 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments

According to Joey Dauben (email sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com), former narcotics officer Barry Cooper is considering running for Governor of Texas as a Libertarian. According to Dauben, no final decision has been made. Cooper, who is from East Texas, is an ex-narcotics cop who busted through the national media and talk show circuit hawking his DVDs [...]

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Ron Paul might run again in 2012; should decide by mid-2009

November 14th, 2008 · 57 Comments

Dave Weigel reports that Ron Paul’s grandson-in-law Jesse Benton says Paul “hasn’t closed out the idea of another run.” “We have some time to decide whether he runs again, or whether he gets behind somebody else,” Benton said. “But we don’t have tons of time. By the middle of 2009, the decision needs to be [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Libertarian Party

Ron Paul answers some questions about ‘third’ parties in NY Times interview

November 14th, 2008 · 11 Comments

In a long interview with Stephen Dubner, Ron Paul answered several questions about involvement with alternative parties, among many other subjects discussed. This is from part one of the interview: Q: Even before the primaries, you said you would not run in the general election. Why specifically did you not run? A: I was running [...]

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Constitution Party National Committee meeting will be in Orlando, Florida, Dec. 12-13

November 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

via contact.ipr@gmail.com Take a break, bring the family, and come to the National Committee meeting in Orlando on December 12 and 13. Meet Constitution Party leaders from around the country, listen in on strategy sessions, and hear great speakers. We’ll hear from Chuck Baldwin and Darrell Castle. Howard Phillips will speak on the state of [...]

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ACLU takes on Pinkney case

November 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The AP reports that the American Civil Liberties Union has taken the case of Edward Pinkney, “a southwestern Michigan minister who was sent to prison for warning that a judge could be tortured by God.” This year, Pinkney ran for Congress in Michigan’s Sixth District from jail, receiving 3,461 votes.

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Root to speak at Wealth Masters International conference

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Libertarian presidential hopeful Wayne Allyn Root is scheduled to speak at the Wealth Masters International Wealth Conference in Marco Island, Florida, later this month. WMI founder Kip Herriage said of Root, “According to Wayne, things will only get worse as we abandon our capitalist system and embrace socialism, as evidenced by the ongoing nationalization of [...]

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Nader speaks on automaker bailout in Canada

November 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Iowa’s Waterloo Record reports that Ralph Nader said in a Thursday speech at the University of Waterloo that federal aid to automakers “should only be provided if the senior executives are fired, the boards of directors are discharged and replaced with public trustees and only fuel-efficient automobiles are made in the future.” Nader said, “So [...]

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Arizona Libertarians sue over being excluded from counting of ballots

November 14th, 2008 · 10 Comments

“You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this —- who will count the votes, and how.” From AZcentral.com, by way of Next Free Voice: Maricopa County officials’ decision to exclude the [...]

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Self-identified socialist parties appear to be headed for the second lowest Presidential popular vote total since 1888

November 14th, 2008 · 16 Comments

Via Ballot Access News In every presidential election starting in 1888, at least one socialist party has participated. The Socialist Labor Party ran a slate of unpledged presidential electors in 1888 in New York state. If one adds together the presidential vote of all the parties with these words in their party name: “Socialist”, “Communist”, [...]

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Video: Ralph Nader on MSNBC after the election

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

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