Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: AUSTIN, TEXAS – December 15, 2009 – The Libertarian Party of Texas has accepted over 193 applications for their party’s nomination in this year’s conventions, including 5 candidates for Governor. The deadline for filing was yesterday, January 4th. “We are pleased to have so many candidates for office,” said Libertarian [...]

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Ben Bernanke is “Disaster of the Century”… NOT “Person of the Year” Ron Paul Should be Time’s “Person of the Year” By Wayne Allyn Root and Rick Williams You can usually count on Time magazine to get things backwards, and they missed in a big way with their selection of Ben Bernanke as “Person of [...]

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Posted yesterday at LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, I resolve to persevere in the struggle for freedom that many Americans have undertaken tirelessly, and in some cases have given their lives for. I resolve to vote for Libertarian candidates whenever I can. I resolve to keep reminding people that every vote for a Libertarian [...]

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A new Rasmussen survey of public opinion in Massachusetts ahead of the January 19th special election for US Senate fails to include any mention of independent libertarian candidate Joe Kennedy, who qualified for ballot access late last year.  Instead the organization prompts likely voters to choose between Democrat Martha Coakley, Republican Scott Brown and “some [...]

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A candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the Long Beach, California mayoral race could very well be the only challenger the incumbent mayor faces.  Not only that, but the socialist is only 21 years old. Merino, 21, would not formally be considered a candidate unless she returns her paperwork and 20 signatures [...]

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The City Hall Blog of the Dallas Morning News relays word that Libertarian John Jay Myers will seek to unseat Pete Sessions to represent Texas’s 23rd Congressional District. 

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Johnny Edwards has an article in the Augusta Chronicle about the special election in Georgia: On Tuesday, Augusta voters will decide which of four candidates will replace Ed Tarver as state senator for District 22, or at least pare the list down to two for a Feb. 2 runoff. Mr. Tarver was appointed U.S. attorney [...]

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Eugene Platt published in Charleston paper posted by Gregg Jocoy: Eugene Platt, a member of the South Carolina Green Party Steering Committee and candidate for State House, has had a letter to the editor published in the Charleston Post and Courier. Platt, who is often in the editorial pages with columns and letters on topics [...]

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From the Atlantic Highlands Herald: “I have seen an immediate upsurge in interest in over a dozen states that have previously been unorganized,” said  Collison. “I expect to see some states that disaffiliated or went inactive reactivate now that the threat of…vexatious lawsuits is lifted.” New Jersey is among the states in which the Reform [...]

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Tom Tresser is the Green Party’s candidate for Cook County Board President in Illinois.  Cook County encompasses part of the city of Chicago.  Mike Volpe of The Provocateur recently interviewed him on the topic of corruption in local politics: Tresser announced his candidacy for Cook County Board President back in October. With several scandals hanging [...]

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From the Wadena Pioneer Journal: WADENA — Two-time vice presidential candidate and Native American activist Winona LaDuke was a wanted woman this week in Wadena County. According to Wadena County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Bill Cross, LaDuke’s Ford pickup was pulled over on U.S. Highway 71 on Nov. 21, and she was cited for not having [...]

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From the Chicago Tribune: All but one of the seven Republican candidates call themselves “pro-life,” while the Democrats, Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes, support abortion rights. Only Hynes and Green Party candidate Rich Whitney support legalizing gay marriage. The Democrats don’t support the state’s notification law. Neither does Whitney of the Green Party. Only Hynes and the Green’s Whitney [...]

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In a detailed article at Ocala.com, Bill Thompson profiles the Florida Whig Party and its chairman, Paul Truesdell, providing background on the party’s history and current leadership, and emphasizing the steady rise in voters who are not affiliated with either of the major parties in the Sunshine State. Three is the number of viable options [...]

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Two new internet radio ads for Joe Kennedy from RightMarch PAC: http://www.rightmarch.com/media/JoeKennedy1.mp3 http://www.rightmarch.com/media/JoeKennedy2.mp3 Joe Kennedy on Israel / Palestine I am a Pro-Israel candidate and I support the Israel barrier also known as the separation or security fence as it is an effective solution in providing safety to the Israel civilian population. To end the [...]

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By way of The Whig: Excerpts from Huffington Post: We Need More Parties But what if both parties split at the same time? What if we ended up with four parties instead of two? This could avoid the zero-sum nature of attempting only a “third” party. The seeds for the splits are obvious to see, [...]

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Billy Wharton at Socialist Webzine: Call it the nightmare before Christmas or Santa’s lump of healthcare coal. Either title captures the disastrous qualities of the healthcare reform bill passed by Senate on Thursday. After months of media coverage, a summer of wild town hall meetings and all the high-sounding rhetoric one could swallow, a 2,000 [...]

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Since IPR has been covering Joe Kennedy‘s participation in the Massachusetts US Senate special election to replace Ted Kennedy a lot lately, here’s another compilation post as an easy reference to all the articles. It includes the articles in the earlier compilation post as well as the ones since then. Most recent first, with the [...]

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Sent by Scott Lieberman to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Wes Benedict and Art DiBianca have worked hard over the past few months on this project, and they just posted a list of Elected Libertarians on the LP web site. http://www.lp.org/candidates/elected-officials Mr. Benedict told me to publicize the list so he can get some feedback on how people like [...]

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An article at The New Agenda makes the case that the Democratic and Republican Parties consider women voters to be “expendable and exploitable,” and argues that women’s interests would be better served through third party activism: both parties seem to have taken all of their constituencies for granted, but women are the most expendable and [...]

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Vermont Progressive Party State Representative Sandy Haas posted the following at the Prog Blog: In his December 16 St. Albans Messenger editorial, Emerson Lynn asserted that the Vermont legislature should not “waste time” talking about health care reform. That, of course, is the position of the 40 Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who voted to [...]

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