From Ballot Access News: The Pennsylvania Green Party held a state nominating convention February 20-21 near Pittsburgh, and nominated a candidate for U.S. Senate, one for U.S. House, and four state house candidates. The party will attempt to place all its nominees on the 2010 ballot. The U.S. Senate candidate, Mel Packer, needs 19,056 valid [...]

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First on the agenda for today’s meeting of the Libertarian National Committee is the matter of charging a convention registration fee as a requirement for delegate floor access and voting rights. This thread is for live-blogging, discussing and debating that issue as it unfolds.

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I(PR), with help from David Nolan who printed up the ballots and gave me the idea, and help from David Nolan, Mark Bodenhausen, Anna Alldredge, Dan Karlan, Alicia Mattson and Aaron Starr in counting (my apologies if I forgot anyone) conducted a poll of the attendees at the Libertarian State Leadership Alliance/National Committee dinner and [...]

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We haven’t been able to get the live broadcast to work, but we are recording video of the debate (as well as the LNC meeting) and will hopefully upload it soon. In the meantime, one or more people will be liveblogging tonight’s debate between Mark Hinkle, Wayne Root, George Phillies and Ernest Hancock, candidates for [...]

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Independent and third party activists find themselves on opposite sides of the debate over California’s Top Two Primaries Act. Ballotpedia describes the proposition thusly: The California Top Two Primaries Act ballot proposition is on the June 8, 2010 ballot in California as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment. If approved by voters, the proposal will require that [...]

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LP blog: from CNN: A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll. Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to this story, Kristin Davis will announce her candidacy as an independent candidate for Governor of New York on March 1. Earlier, Davis had said she would seek the Libertarian Party nomination. And posted at ManhattanMadam.com: Contact: Andrew Miller miller@kristindavis2010.com (636) 697-6858 MEDIA ADVISORY KRISTIN DAVIS, MANHATTAN MADAM TO FORMALLY ANNOUNCE [...]

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http://newpathforthelp.org/ From the site: Our Candidates George Phillies – Chair Carolyn Marbry – Vice Chair James Oaksun – Treasurer Rob Power – Secretary Joe Kennedy – At-Large Jim Remmert – At Large Rachel Hawkridge – Regional Representative Jake Porter – Regional Representative Scott Williamson – Regional Representative Charles Wilhoit – Regional Alternate Additional information about [...]

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Posted by Scott Williamson at LPTN.org: Take a look at our Party’s web page. At the top, like a bright marquee, we proudly announce our philosophy to all those who visit our site. It is simple. It is easy to remember. It is easy to understand. Smaller government. More freedom. We believe that when you [...]

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In a post at Kn@ppster, Tom Knapp explains why he is no longer interested in seeking the presidential nomination of the Libertarian and Boston Tea parties. I’m sure you’ve heard the analogy of third party electoral politics to a hamster on a wheel — it runs and runs and runs, but never gets anywhwere. It’s [...]

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A group calling itself the Coffee Party has begun to make waves in the political blogopshere following an article on the new organization published in the Washington Post yesterday.  Independent progressive blogger Liberal Arts Dude looked into the group and has written up a post describing the organization and its aims, its relation to the [...]

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Counterpunch publishes an article by Don Santina, suggesting that rank-and-file Democrats break with the Democrats-In-Charge and join the Green Party. Includes comments on the myth that Nader cost Gore the election in 2000.

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National Green Party press release asserts that many Tea Party activists may be in the wrong party, and urges Tea Partiers to consider the Green Party.

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Transmitted by George Phillies in comments on a previous post; confirmed in email forwarded by Tom Knapp from LPNC chair Barbara Howe: To the members of the Libertarian National Committee: The Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina offers the following resolution passed in an electronic vote over February 22-24, 2010 with a [...]

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Posted at LPTN.org http://www.lptn.org/blog/?p=1522 Whereas the bylaws of the Libertarian Party of Tennessee set forth requirements for delegate representation at Libertarian Party National Conventions; Whereas the Libertarian Party of Tennessee is a dues free organization; Whereas the Libertarian Party of Tennessee is funded solely on the voluntary generosity of its members; Be it therefore resolved [...]

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Readers are invited to use this article’s comment section to post live updates and commentary about this weekend’s meetings in Austin of the Libertarian Party’s Bylaws Committee, National Committee, and State Leadership Alliance.

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Free & Equal Elections Foundation has made a financial commitment to a lobbying effort in Oklahoma aimed at easing the nation’s highest petition requirement for unqualified political parties. The foundation has given an initial grant to Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR) a coalition of the state’s third parties to help [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: U.S. Senate candidate John Mertens will be a guest on the television show “The Real Story” hosted by Laurie Perez on Sunday, February 28th. “The Real Story” is broadcast in Connecticut on Sundays at 10:30am on FOX 61, 11:00am on WTXX, and 8:30pm on CTN. Dr. Mertens is a Professor of Engineering [...]

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One of the founders of the Minnesota Reform Party, Dean Barkley, has reached out to tea party activists with an open letter at Minnesota Tea Party Patriots entitled: “Don’t start your own party! Take over mine!” Barkley writes: Hello, my name is Dean Barkley. I have spent the last twenty years trying to change the [...]

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At the Feb. 14 meeting of the Libertarian Party of California Executive Committee meeting, there was discussion of whether to pass a resolution opposing any registration fee at the 2010 Libertarian Party national convention.  The topic was deferred to give ExCom members time to read a brief in defense of the fee by Libertarian National [...]

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