LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, Nationwide, there are 149 Libertarians holding elected public office. 36 of them are partisan offices, and 113 are non-partisan offices. You can view the entire list here. If you know of an elected Libertarian who is not on this list, please email us at info@lp.org. Please include the words [...]

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LP blog: Oklahoma is known for having some of the most difficult ballot access laws in the U.S. Angelia O’Dell, chair of the Oklahoma Libertarian Party, also chairs Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR), a coalition trying to lower Oklahoma’s extremely high ballot access hurdles. Below, Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV covered several Libertarians at a recent [...]

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Moderate Party of Rhode Island chairman Kenneth J. Block will be running for governor on his party’s ballot line.  He will be replaced as chairman by former US attorney Robert Corrente.  According to Ballot Access News, the party needs to poll at least five percent in the governor’s race in order to retain its spot [...]

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Mayor John Gray of Greenland, Arkansas is running as a Green Party candidate for US Senate in Arkansas.  He was recently featured on the television station KTHV-TV’s news show. U.S. Senate hopeful, John Gray, and mayor of Greenland hopes to bring his views to Washington, D.C. Mayor John Gray, of Greenland, says his main campaign focus [...]

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Independence Party member Steven Wilson has announced his candidacy for Congress in Minnesota’s first congressional district: ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC-DT) — Another candidate is throwing his hat into the ring for U.S. Congress. Seven Wilson is with the Independence Party of Minnesota and hopes to someday represent the First Congressional District. Wilson says he’s a conservative Independent [...]

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From an article today at CalFreedom.net: 2008 LP Vice Presidential Candidate Wayne Root opened and closed his LPCA convention lunchtime banquet remarks on Sunday with this message:  “What this Party is missing, what it needs is a chief salesman, a chief spokesman, a chief rainmaker, and that’s why I’ve announced I’m running for national chairman [...]

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The Salt Lake Tribune reports on a recently launched campaign by a group called The People’s Right, that aims to run petition drives in order to help independent candidates for office achieve ballot access across the state: One grassroots group took advantage of Presidents Day as the opportune time to launch its own brand of [...]

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From an article today on CalFreedom.net: A dark shadow was cast on this weekend’s California Libertarian convention by Prop 14, the “top-two primary” initiative on the June ballot.  Keynote speaker and Ballot Access News editor Richard Winger called it the greatest threat to independent and third-party politics in America in the last 50 years.  He [...]

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Watch Mike Gravel being interviewed from Muncie, IN via webstream: Live Broadcasting by Ustream

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From Ballot Access News: Illinois held its 2010 primary on February 2. Although the State Board of Elections hasn’t released the official election returns yet, Green Party activists have collected data from the various counties and have calculated that over 5,501 voters chose a Green Party primary ballot. See the county-by-county breakdown here. In 2008, [...]

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Ross Mirkarimi, a Green San Francisco Supervisor and one of the more successful Green Party politicians in the nation, was recently elected to chair the San Francisco Transportation Authority.  From the San Francisco Examiner: During Tuesday morning’s Transportation Authority meeting a new chair was elected to the post, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi. The political maneuvering puts [...]

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Chicago Sun-Times columnist writes (you can read the full column here): Huckelberry, 33, chairs the Illinois Green Party, and he sees a tide slowly turning its way.You might think that sounds ridiculous but hang on. Illinois has had only a short courtship with the Greens since they fielded their first slate of statewide candidates in [...]

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2008 Green Party candidate for US President, Cynthia McKinney comments on the snow she encountered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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From their national website: FEB 10, 2010 The Whig Party revival began as a series of political discussions among deployed American service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. When these men and women returned home, they realized that there is a substantial need for a mainstream, non-fringe political movement that caters to individuals that are [...]

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LP blog: from the Libertarian Party of Texas: Libertarian Leaders from Around the US will Gather in Austin on Feb 26th-28th The Libertarian State Leadership Alliance (LSLA) is an organization of the Libertarian Party state leaders. The LSLA is organized exclusively for educational purposes, more specifically to coordinate activities and share knowledge among Libertarian Party [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin ChuckBaldwinLive.com As far as grassroots activism goes, the surge in Tea Parties across America is one of the more encouraging developments to recently take place. It reminds me of the “Conservative Revolution” of 1994, when the GOP reclaimed both the US Senate and House of Representatives. At that time, it had been [...]

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In a blog post at bostontea.us, recently removed IPR writer VTV writes, I was recently asked to do a news report at Independent Political Report, a decent outlet for third parties to get their news published. The report was in reference to Alex Jones making an ass of himself at a recent event in Texas [...]

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Miles Bennett BallerStatus.com Infamous madam Kristin Davis, known for hooking up former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with prostitutes, announced recently that she plans to run for Spitzer’s old seat in the next election, and she’s getting some big help from a player in the hip-hop world. According to TheBoomBox.com, Davis made the announcement over [...]

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Town board member Warren Redlich seeks GOP, Libertarian support By RICK KARLIN, Capitol bureau http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=895934&category=STATE#ixzz0fL8cDhhP ALBANY — It may be a leap from Guilderland town board member to the governor’s office, but Warren Redlich thinks he has a shot. If, that is, he can muster some help from the Libertarian Party and “tea party” activists [...]

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Posted by Bruce Cohen bat GetBruce.com; by way of comments on his previous IPR post: 2010 LPCA Convention Here’s the schedule of business and presentations for this weekend’s Libertarian Party of California convention in Long Beach. Ccheduled items can be rescheduled by the body of delegates. At-the-door prices are as follows: DELEGATE PACKAGES $308 Business [...]

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