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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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 on Nov. 5 than Martin [...]

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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 Veteran because [...]

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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 the [...]

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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 companies absorb [...]

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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 sworn [...]

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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
Gloria LaRiva (PSL) is in New [...]

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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 [...]

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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 made.”
In [...]

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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 for [...]

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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 the [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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“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 Libertarian [...]

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