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17 Pennsylvania counties again fail to tally any write-ins

December 15th, 2008 · 32 Comments

Ballot Access News reports:
Pennsylvania has 67 counties. In Pennsylvania, all write-ins are legal (there is no procedure for write-in candidates to file in advance) and under the law, all should be tallied. However, once more, 17 counties have failed to include any write-ins from last month’s election, including the populous counties Cumberland, Lehigh, Luzerne, Montgomery, [...]

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Tags: Independents · Third parties, general

Video: LPNY chair Eric Sundwall challenges Wayne Root

December 15th, 2008 · 55 Comments

Posted on the Tennesee LP website. H/T J.R. Enfield

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Tags: Libertarian Party

The Tipping Point profiles Maine Green gubernatorial candidate Lynne Williams

December 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Posted by Mike Tipping at The Tipping Point
On Tuesday, the 2010 race for the Blaine House began with the official announcement of the first gubernatorial candidate, Green Independent Party chair Lynne Williams. Other candidates such as outgoing Attorney General Steve Rowe have made their intentions to run clear, but Williams is the first to [...]

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Tags: Green Party

Wayne Root speaks in Indiana

December 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Posted at Stop Taking Soma!
Tonight, Nicole and I attended our first Libertarian Party event here in Indianapolis. We saw LP VP candidate, Wayne Allyn Root, speak at a dinner at the Rathskeller, a great German restaurant and bar downtown. Mr. Root gave a pretty good speech discussing libertarianism, the Libertarian Party, Barack Obama, and bailouts. [...]

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Georgia Libertarians condemn botched raid In Gwinnett County

December 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Press release posted at GA.LP.org
Atlanta Georgia: Over the past year Gwinnett County, Georgia has seen an increase in crime and armed home invasions. But this time it wasn’t armed thugs looking to steal from residents… or was it?
This week’s botched “no-knock” raid on the wrong home by Gwinnett County Police is another example of the [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

An introduction to Students For Liberty

December 15th, 2008 · 21 Comments

Posted at http://www.studentsforliberty.org/news/sfl-video/ by Alexander McCobin
SFL has just released its first video: An Introduction to Students For Liberty. The video highlights SFL’s mission and activities. Its purpose is to spread the word about SFL, so please start sending this clip to all your friends and families! To lean about SFL’s new [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Joe Tauke on the Libertarian Party’s ‘clueless outsiders’ problem

December 15th, 2008 · 15 Comments

Posted at the Melting Pot Project by Joe Tauke:
Many moons ago, I wrote a little post about the difference between the textures of Ron Paul and Bob Barr. The lovely, apparently sleepless folks over at Independent Political Report mentioned my highly scientific analysis, and a flurry of comments ensued – most of them, like everything [...]

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Next Free Voice: Green-Libertarian Exchange

December 15th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Posted at Next Free Voice
Exchange between me (Paulie Cannoli) and Dave Schwab originally started at GreenChange.
Subject: Libertarian Greens?
Hi Paulie,
I just read the commentary you posted about the Libertarian Party turning into a free-market conservative vehicle. Very interesting. I’ve noticed that you post both Green and Libertarian [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Libertarian Party

Wayne Root comments on Blagojevich corruption scandal

December 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Posted at Root for America
America wanted change and we sure got it. We elected a politician who looked and sounded fresh and new and different (and don’t forget “clean” as Senator Biden once remarked), and promised that magic word “change.” Aren’t we lucky? It appears that the change we got is that we’ve moved Chicago [...]

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Green activists find new ally in US unions

December 15th, 2008 · 8 Comments

AP article linked at On The Wilder Side. While it does not deal with the Green Party directly, it certainly explores an area they might be interested in pursuing.
By VANESSA GERA
POZNAN, Poland (AP) — Some U.S. labor groups that have long feared environmental campaigns as a threat to American jobs are starting to see [...]

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Tags: Green Party