On the heels of the controversy about the Libertarian Party poll about troop levels in Afghanistan, the party conducted a second, much less publicized poll on the same issue, giving responders more options. Both polls have now been closed.

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No, not this one, but the original one after which it is named.
The political party salutes the event after which it was named thus:
Happy 235th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On this day in 1773, the Sons of Liberty destroyed 90,000 pounds of tea to prevent any tax being collected on it. As [...]

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Matthew Reichbach writes in The New Mexico Independent:

In an interview with Martin Heinrich less than an hour after his acceptance speech on election night, the congressman-elect told the New Mexico Independent, “The campaign’s never over.”
Sunday, a third-party candidate announced his intention to run in 2010 against Heinrich and whatever Republican steps up to challenge the [...]

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From the desk of George Phillies
December 5th — I flew off to San Diego to listen to the Libertarian National Committee meeting.
A long description follows. If you have the impression they did almost nothing at great expense, well, I agree with you. However, the LNC goes through over a million a year of [...]

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Following up on Sean Haugh’s article, Sexual Harassment at National? (discussed at IPR: Libertarian Party employee Sean Haugh: ‘Open season on women’ as long as Bill Redpath is LP national chair; Libertarian Party Transparency Caucus debate), Liberty For All has been publishing a number of followup articles.
In Sexual harassment at National: What to do [...]

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From the Associated Press. Thanks to IPR reader “ATM” for contacting us with the news.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin lawmaker was arrested on charges of drunken driving and marijuana possession after smashing his car into a highway sign and a snowbank, according to a report released Monday.
State Rep. Jeffrey Wood apologized Monday for [...]

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Found at rauterkus.blogspot.com
Commonwealth Court holds that state indictments of illegal activity are not grounds for overturning earlier judgment against Ralph Nader
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania (LPPA) http://www.lppa.org
Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA)

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Sunday’s Hartford Courant had a feature on Connecticut’s Working Families Party, writing that while the Green and Libertarian parties “portrayed themselves in federal court last week as victims of Connecticut’s campaign-finance law,” the WFP “refused to join the two other minor parties in claiming that qualifying for public financing is too difficult for their candidates. [...]

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The Libertarian Party of New York “is denouncing the 2009-2010 budget proposal by Governor David Paterson,” the party said in a news release. “Citing the myopic proposal of increased entitlements and more tax increases, Chairman Eric Sundwall is asking that Albany not panic like Washington did earlier this year.” Sundwall said, “It’s clear [...]

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By 2008 Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin. Found at ChuckBaldwinLive.com and at Blog.TNfarmgirl.com
My good friend, Tom DeWeese, chairman of the American Policy Center, recently issued an urgent alert regarding a revived effort to assemble a modern Constitutional Convention. Mind you, the United States has not assembled such a Convention since 1787, when a [...]

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At California Greening:
The nomination of Steven Chu as Energy Secretary became official today. It has been rumored, written about, etc. for weeks. There are several items worth noting.
To begin with, every scientist I know, including one who works in DOE, are elated with Chu’s nomination. It will be the first time [...]

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Reported in Time:
In September, the state’s police minister, Matt Brown, resigned after claims that he cavorted in his underwear and straddled the chest of a female MP during a parliamentary office party. Premier Nathan Rees said Brown had told him “there was substance to the assertions around drunkenness, dancing and music.” In a public apology, [...]

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