Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Kira Willis has announced her intention to run for state wide office in Georgia. Details here: http://bludgeonandskewer.blogspot.com/ http://swgapolitics.com/index/2010/02/22/libertarian-enters-state-school-superintendent-race/

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Published Monday 2/22/10 at Newsmax.com *America’s #1 Conservative Web Site By: Wayne Allyn Root We are not recovering from a recession. The spin, propaganda, and wishful thinking from Obama, Congress and the Fed are wearing thin on the average American. There may be a recovery for big business, due to stimulus and bailouts, but not [...]

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Posted at LP blog by Wes Benedict:  

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The executive committees of the Massachusetts and Missouri Libertarian Parties, meeting in their respective states on Sunday, passed resolutions opposing payment of a registration fee as a condition on delegate floor access or voting rights at the party’s upcoming national convention. The Massachusetts resolution passed with unanimous support (per George Phillies, by email): Whereas, the [...]

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From the Times-Standard in Mendocino County, California: Patricia Welch, chairwoman of the Humboldt County Republican Party, said that, as of Friday, no Republican has announced their intention to challenge Chesbro. But a Green Party candidate has. William Meyers, who lives in Mendocino County near Point Arena, has announced his intention to challenge Chesbro for his [...]

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Ballot Access News: On February 18, James Hedges, a long-time activist in the Prohibition Party, declared his candidacy for the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. He is the only person who has won a partisan election as a Prohibition Party nominee in the last 50 years. He was elected Assessor of Thompson Township, Fulton County, [...]

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Dan Bilefsky NY Times: PRAGUE — A Czech court has banned the far-right Workers’ Party, the first time a political party has been outlawed since the Czech Republic was founded in 1993. In its 120-page ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Administrative Court said the Workers’ Party, established in 2003, was a threat to Czech democracy. [...]

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Ballot Access News: The February 20 issue of the Columbus Dispatch has this story about the Libertarian Party’s 2010 campaign in Ohio. This is the first year that the Libertarian Party has been on the ballot in a mid-term year in Ohio, as a party, since 1982. The story does not mention the other ballot-qualified [...]

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Posted at BostonTea.US: Two days after the Indiana State Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would only recognize marriage between one man and one woman, the Boston Tea Party of Indiana responded with a statement supporting equal rights, privileges, and immunities under the law to all people in Indiana. The party’s state committee called [...]

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Posted at Kn@ppster: Article 11, Sections 4 and 5 of the Libertarian Party’s bylaws reads as follows: 4. Affiliate Party Delegate Entitlements: Each affiliate party shall be entitled to send delegates to each Regular Convention on the following basis: a. One delegate for each 0.14 percent, or fraction thereof, of the total Party sustaining membership [...]

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In the Providence Journal, Edward Fitzpatrick profiles Robert Clark Corrente, who is the new chair of the Moderate Party of Rhode Island: Corrente, Rhode Island’s U.S. Attorney from 2004 to 2009, is taking over as chairman of the Moderate Party of Rhode Island, aiming to turn a new party (which won official recognition in August) [...]

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Posted at Poli-Tea: At the Times Daily, out of Alabama it seems, columnist Mike Goens argues that, given the structure of the two-party state and the dictatorial character of Democratic-Republican politics, third party and independent political activism may well provide the only means of arriving at real solutions to the many political problems facing the [...]

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Ballot Access News: On February 20, James Traficant said on his radio show that he is no longer a Democrat, that he is an independent, and that he may run for Congress this year. See this story. Thanks to Carter Momberger for the link. Traficant was a 9-term Democratic member of Congress from Ohio. Also [...]

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Placed literally in the middle of an op-ed piece by Senator Evan Bayh about why he is leaving the Senate, the New York Times today ran a piece by former Senator and current independent candidate for Rhode Island governor addressing the topic of a new third party emerging.  Chafee speculates on Bayh running for president [...]

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Found at OnTheWilderSide. By Cynthia McKinney. Well, I do want as many of you as possible to participate in some way in our cross-country bike for peace. Some of you will ride, some of you will support, some of you will pray/chant/meditate for us and keep the positive vibrations with us while our core group [...]

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Emailed to me in my capacity as Libertarian Party of Alabama Exec Comm member At Large by Scott Williamson, candidate for LNC region 4 rep: If Olympians trained like the LNC What if Apollo Ohno showed up on race day without his skates? The crowd yelled and screamed to him that he was not wearing [...]

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From an opinion by Libertarian National Committee counsel Gary Sinawski: It seems clear to me that the LP can safely charge registration fees for its conventions and that such fees will not run afoul of the Morse case. Unlike the state of Virginia, the Libertarian Party is not a “covered jurisdiction” within the meaning of [...]

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Michael McGuire reports in the Libertarian Examiner: Since the 1950s, the major divisions on America’s right flank have been between traditional conservatives and libertarians. Generally speaking, the libertarian wing made early strides in academic circles while conservatives tackled the electoral process with more success. Ron Paul’s Saturday victory at the Conservative Political Action Conference may [...]

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A source forwards this unconfirmed reporting about today’s convention of the Libertarian Party of Nevada: Reported by participants on site Libertarian Party of Nevada held its annual convention today at the Nugget Hotel in Sparks, Nevada. The state party will not field a candidate for US Senate against Harry Reid.  Wayne Root argued for NOTA.  [...]

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A report, complete with an Action Alert, addressing inadequate reporting of the nuclear energy controversy. The Action Alert was issued by FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.

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