Since he’s a libertarian, he decided not to run as an independent either.

Also, Cooper was arrested today for “filing a false police report” in 2 jurisdictions, which carries a max sentence of 1 year in Williamson Co., and 6 months in Odessa. Of course, in the one case where his undercover sting exonerated the police department’s actions (the one case where the policeman did not simply pocket money made to look like drug money), he was commended for being a citizen watchdog, and not charged with any crime. …LOL!

So, Barry is in jail now, possibly for just one day, possibly for up to 10 days (although it doesn’t look like that will be the case).
http://trueslant.com/stephenwebster/2010/07/02/barry-cooper-arrested-on-steps-of-texas-state-capitol-building/

I’m looking forward to working for the Texas Libertarian Party again. They are a great bunch of people!

I am starting to believe that the key factor in our success is positive, not negative. As in:
1) It matters more that we have a very good bunch of libertarians who are all on approximately the same page strategically.
2) It doesn’t matter so much what the prevailing attitudes of the public are, except that they not be totally statist. (ie: People in the USA are all basically uninformed libertarians.)

I think Barry is going to do a great job, and win more votes than a Libertarian has ever won in a statewide race in Texas.

-Jake

I’m looking forward to working for the Texas Libertarian Party again. They are a great bunch of people!

I am starting to believe that the key factor in our success is positive, not negative. As in:
1) It matters more that we have a very good bunch of libertarians who are all on approximately the same page strategically.
2) It doesn’t matter so much what the prevailing attitudes of the public are, except that they not be totally statist. (ie: People in the USA are all basically uninformed libertarians.)

I think Barry is going to do a great job, and perhaps win more votes than a libertarian has ever won in Texas.

-Jake

nooooot gunna happen.

By here I mean offline, not here at IPR.

Are there any Greens or Socialists who have expressed an interest in writing here? I’ve gone out of my way to cover Nader and the Greens, and occasionally some of the Socialist sect parties. We had one Green here, Gregg, but he has not been posting lately. He hasn’t been posting at Green Party Watch either, so I’m guessing he’s still busy with offline stuff.

We asked Ron Hardy and Kimberly Wilder to write here, and issued open calls.

Fred Church was covering the socialist/hard left parties but seems to have stopped posting articles also.

If Don knows writers who would like to cover the Green and Left parties more here, by all means please put them in touch with Trent instead of bitching.

contact.ipr@gmail.com

They should be aware that we are looking for people to post news items, not editorials, with possible rare exceptions, and that there is no pay.

Even aside from just Greens and leftists, if anyone wants to write here they should talk to Trent ASAP. I’ve been doing the overwhelming majority of articles the last few months, but that is because I have been ill and unable to do paying work.

That will hopefully change soon. I already have several jobs waiting on me, and I will probably take one of them if my breathing does not get worse again after the pills end in a week or two.

If our fundraising is successful enough, I may start working here part time even before that.

After I get back to work, I will have little or no time to post articles here. I’ll still do what I can, but it might not be much, and certainly nothing like I have been.

So y’all please get on that before IPR goes the way of TPW.

My views do not align with Cody Quirk’s.

“Pullllllllllllllllease do, the non Lib, non Lib Lite, non theocrat, non paleocon, non neocon voices have been complaining on [so called] IPR and [so called] TPW for months ago. ”

We dont skew towards any single party or set of parties Lake. Nonetheless, you are welcome to start your own third party blog–though im quite sure it’d be unreadable.

The real sad issue is that you did not call TPW poorly. You called it properly: Libertarian Party Watch! That is the real shame!

To Joey Dauben That’s unbelievable. Truly unbelievable. I missid the FACT that the LIBERTIAN Party Watch was mis named the Third Party Watch and that fair minded folks, as with the mis named INDENPENDENT Political Report were trying to, BUT NOT fooling foks on the broader spectrum.

Altertnate activists, groups, candidates constantly criticize the Democan and Republicrat establishment duopoly, and then rush out to out do them!

As much as the Dems and GOP should be ashamed of themselves, we make it sooooooo easy for them! Income tax rates, Federal Reserve Notes, automotive mileage, built it flaws through out the system. And then there is TPW and IPR!

Stalin, 1936 “He whom votes decides nothing!
He whom counts the votes………”.

[b] Cody Quirk is NOT A NICE GUY! His political and or religious views may mirror Trent Hill’s, but is that the bench mark for integrity? He lies, and then hides in the shadows! He literally steals intellectual property and posts it/ them as his own.

He makes a big deal out of net to nothing. On big deal items he is strangely quiet. He is much of what is wrong with non Democrats and non GOP.

And the church stuff, pullllllllllllease! Just be cause you like the guy personally does not mean he does not have the ethics of a Democrat or the honesty of a Republican!

Shame on you Trent, shame, shame, shame!

[c] Joey Dauben: Pullllllllllllllllease do not call it some fakey dakey general name to hide the agenda a priori!

So I just avoid it altogether. Not that there is anything to find there.

PEACE

Tell the other LP TX folks that I will look into all of the questions that were submitted and then post those publicly.

PS: I’m working with the Web site guy to design a new site for launching soon, so people’s concerns will be addressed that way.

See comments in this thread

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/01/israeli-high-court-restores-ballot-access-to-two-arab-parties/

But, despite that—they havent had a post in about 10 days.