Excerpt from a Fox News story aout Joe Kennedy. This story made it to #1 on all of Google News, and as of this writing is still #1 for search term “Libertarian.” Kennedy has come under pressure — he said he’s received five death threats — to withdraw because of his potential spoiler role. But [...]

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By Arkady Kamenetsky RightCondition.com Scott Brown, Republican extraordinaire can make political history and shake 200 years of politics to their core. He can overnight transform his name and become truly the man of the people immortalized as the most selfless, thoughtful and generous man in political history. He can do all this literally in one [...]

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Ballot Access News: On January 15, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton granted injunctive relief to the Arizona Green Party on two issues. The order permits the party to use out-of-state circulators for its petition to get itself on the ballot. Also, the order extends the deadline from February 25 to March 11. The party [...]

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At Green Mass Group, GreenDem writes, “If the Green Party became a dominant party here in Massachusetts it would not only force the Democratic Party more to the left but maybe even the Republicans.”  The blogger talks about focusing on state legislative races rather than statewide races, because it is easy to make the ballot [...]

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Gold Mass Group has a poll (registration required): – Martha Coakley should withdraw and endorse Joe – Scott Brown should withdraw and endorse Joe – Martha and Scott both withdraw to endorse Joe – All three should keep their words and run hard – What is wrong that you need to ask this question? Other [...]

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Ballot Access News: Several blogs that cover politics and election law have linked to this New York Times story about Joseph Kennedy, the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate in the January 19, 2010 special election in Massachusetts. In my memory, the New York Times has never before devoted so much space to any Libertarian [...]

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LP.org blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, I hope you’ll show your support for Libertarian Party member Joe Kennedy by voting in our website poll. Joe Kennedy is running for U.S. Senator in the special election on Tuesday, January 19, in Massachusetts. By running for office, Joe Kennedy has caused the press and his opponents to [...]

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Press release from LPHQ: WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party (LP) today expressed its support for independent Libertarian Joe Kennedy’s determination not to drop out of the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senator. The New York Times recently published an article that considered Kennedy’s effect on the January 19 election. While some claim that Kennedy will [...]

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“I hope you’ll show your support for Libertarian Party member Joe Kennedy by voting in our website poll. Joe Kennedy is running for U.S. Senator in the special election on Tuesday, January 19, in Massachusetts.” LP National Office

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RightCondition: Will Scott Brown stop ObamaCare?: by Arkady Kamenetsky An important question to consider seeing that his entire campaign has now been focused on this one issue.  Although the legislative technicalities have already been discussed, I decided that a picture might convey the idea better.  For all the out-of-state supporters clamoring for a Scott Brown [...]

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Part III (the actual endorsement, not yet posted on the website, sent out by email): “A Vote for Ross Perot for President is a Vote for Bill Clinton,” said the 1992 Republican whisper campaign and robo-phone calls (launched by Bush (Sr.) Presidential Campaign operatives in 1992.) “A vote for Ron Paul for President is a [...]

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The Christian Science Monitor has invited all three Senate candidates in MA to explain why they are running for Senate.  Kennedy’s article appeared in the publication today: I’m running for US Senate because I am tired of politicians in Washington turning their back on the American public. We have a crisis in this country and [...]

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Posted by Thomas Knapp at Kn@ppster: “Scott Brown is the only person who can stop ObamaCare by being the 41st vote against cloture.” That, or some variant of it, is the latest excuse I’m hearing from the usual suspects who come up with a MOST IMPORTANT REASON EVAH! to vote for “the lesser evil” just [...]

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By MICHAEL COOPER http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/us/politics/15massachusetts.html SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In most elections, a politician calling himself the Tea Party candidate would cheer Democrats, raising hopes that he would siphon votes from Republicans by attracting some of the disaffected anti-Washington, anti-Obama electorate. But when the election is being held to fill a seat that was left vacant by [...]

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H/T Aaron Biterman on Joe Kennedy’s facebook fan page: http://libertyslate.com/candidates/candidates-by-rank/ LibertySlate 2010 Endorses Joe Kennedy for Senate; only non-Republican included in the Slate LibertySlate 2010 ranks non-incumbent candidates based on five fundamental issues in regards to spending, debt/economy, foreign policy, civil liberties, and entitlement programs. Additionally, we consider both website quality and chance of winning [...]

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The San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote earlier this week that Green Party membership in San Francisco and California has been on a “steady downward slide” since 2003.  However, the results of the recent special election in California’s 72nd Assembly District reveal that support for the Green Party candidate outpaced membership percentages by a wide margin.  [...]

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Posted at MikeCann.net (by way of UniversalHub.com): Some Scott Brown supporters on facebook are obnoxiously asking Joe Kennedy to give up his MA Senate campaign. The funny thing about that request, polls show that Kennedy’s campaign is taking votes from the Democrat, Martha Coakley. I guess that news didn’t trickle down to Brown’s supporters. Not [...]

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Ballot Access News: A group in Vermont has formed the Vermont Independence Day Party, which believes that Vermont should secede from the United States. It plans to place nominees on the 2010 ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and 7 State Senate seats. See this AP story. Thanks to Carter Momberger for the link. The group [...]

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Obama Will Choose to Save Unions, and Destroy Small Business. Obama: The First President Owned by Unions. Obama Models USA after Michigan and California- Government Employee Unions Gone Wild. By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee There was never going to be a heavy tax on high value “Cadillac” health insurance policies. That [...]

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John Mertens gained the ballot line of the Connecticut for Lieberman party in his bid to represent Connecticut in the US Senate.  He sent the following press release to contact.ipr@gmail.com: John Mertens became the first candidate in the country to earn a 2010 ballot line for U.S. Senate at the Connecticut for Lieberman Party statewide [...]

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