Peter Schiff, renowned economist and rumored 2010 Senatorial candidate, spoke to the Connecticut Libertarian Party on Saturday. Here is a blog post about it featuring the video of his short speech to the convention.
This speech has quickly become controversial because in it Schiff advises that the Libertarian Party members work within the Republican Party. However, [...]

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The Peace & Freedom Party – a feminist, socialist party – is hosting a conference in San Francisco, California, on Saturday, August 1, to advance its hopes of building a nationwide political party.

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The Prohibition Party, who bill themselves as “America’s Oldest Third Party”, will hold a national committee meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 17-18.

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Free & Equal Elections is sponsoring the Chicago launch of Theresa Amato’s new book Grand Illusion. The premier will be held at the Union League Club on Thursday, June 4. Amato will also be participating in a forum on Printer’s Row this Sunday.
Amato, who was the campaign manager for Ralph Nader’s 2000 & [...]

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Former Green Party national co-chair Greg Gerritt of Rhode Island, Green Party mayor of the Village of Greenwich, NY and national party web manager David Doonan and Campaign Foundations and Georgia Green Party co-founder Hugh Esco have founded a new business to help Greens running for office win their elections.
This business, a cooperative, will focus [...]

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Today Wayne Root appeared on Fox News and briefly discussed the Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination and North Korea’s latest missile test:

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A federal judge has ruled that a law in Rhode Island requiring that new political parties wait until January 1st of an election year to collect the signatures they need to get on the statewide ballot is unconstitutional. You can read the full article here. Source: Projo.com

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According to an email received from Wayne Root, he will  be hosting “The Wayne Allyn Root Show” starting in 10 days in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
He explans his purpose for the show as “defining pragmatic Libertarianism.”

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UPDATE/CORRECTION: see below for detailed update, but in brief, Ferguson has communicated that his resume had not been updated correctly and that he did not work for Delgaudio and the LP at the same time.

Donny Ferguson, the Libertarian Party’s Director of Communications, is also working as the Campaign Manager for the Friends of Eugene Delgaudio. [...]

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The race for governor in Virginia is one of the most hotly contested elections in 2009.  In the Democratic primary, the established party figure Terry McAuliffe is facing off against a few opponents, but Theresa Amato is leveling the charge of hypocrisy against McAuliffe.  “Terry McAuliffe the candidate is not the Terry McAuliffe I knew [...]

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Below are remarks of Libertarian National Committee at-large rep Alicia Mattson, as prepared for delivery in last week’s Judicial Committee teleconference about Lee Wrights’ removal from, and reappointement to, the LNC.

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At www.nader.org, there is a new post about how corporations avoid liability. Former candidate for US President Ralph Nader writes, “These megacorporations have become Frankensteins–moving to own our genes, the pant seeds of life and taking control of computerized artificial intelligence. Their final conquest is far along–the control of government…”

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A press release from the Libertarian Party of Connecticut tells about their May 30th, 2009 convention.  Guest speakers will include Peter Schiff, Karen Kwiatkowski, and Katherine Albrecht.  Anyone who cannot attend in person will be able to watch the convention live on www.LPCT.org.
The press release:
Bridgeport, CT – On Saturday, May 30th, the Libertarian Party of [...]

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From Ballot Access News:

On May 26, Maine LD 1169 passed the legislature. Among other things, it includes these provisions to improve conditions for write-in candidates: (1) the names of all Declared write-in candidates will be posted at polling place locations; (2) voters no longer need to write-in the town or city of the candidate; (3) [...]

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Wayne Root is currently a guest on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s internet TV show run by Fox called FreedomWatch. Root was the Libertarian Party’s 2008 Vice Presidential candidate and is now a candidate for the Presidential nomination in 2012. Root is an in-studio guest along with financial guru Peter Schiff. I will post a video later, [...]

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