Two recent articles out of Maine and Washington D.C. highlight the independent gubernatorial campaigns of Eliot Cutler in Maine, Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island and Tim Cahill in Massachusetts. At the Portland Press Herald, Matt Wickenheiser writes: Disaffected with his longtime political party, the candidate decided to run for governor as an independent. It’s a [...]

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Posted at Beave’s Brain and emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: I want to start out by saying Mr. Green has been very gracious to be the first to answer my questions. He even did so even after seeing my exceedingly liberal Facebook page and I accidently wrote to him as Mr. Whitney (the Green Party Gubernatorial candidate). [...]

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Press release posted at LP.org: WASHINGTON – After President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan over the weekend, Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict issued the following statement today: “President Obama just called the Afghanistan War ‘absolutely essential.’ Nothing could be further from the truth. The U.S. armed forces are being used for [...]

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Posted at Kn@ppster: Julie Stone, vice-chair of the St. Louis County Libertarian Party and a candidate in the Libertarian Party’s primary for US House of Representatives, 1st District, is the coordinator of Minimum Speed for Minimum Government. The story, from KMOV: The story isn’t especially in-depth, but it’s a fairly standard case: “City wants to [...]

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By George Phillies Originally published at Liberty For All http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4056 The New Path objective is to turn the Libertarian Party into the American majority party. We will become the majority party through thoughtful, effective, hard-working leadership that spends your money effectively, that mobilizes volunteers all across America to do effective work, and that spends its [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The race for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat has been a top national news story lately. But despite all his efforts, Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Alexander Snitker has had little success in attracting the attention of the mainstream press. That may soon change thanks to new data from a respected web [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Two Georgia Libertarians qualified for the impending special elections for Senate District 42 in Decatur and Senate District 49 in Gainesville today marking the first time in the Georgia LP’s history that it placed two candidates for State Senate on the ballot at the same time. Libertarian David Montané will square off [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Phil Huckelberry Illinois Green Party Chair 309-268-9974 phil.huckelberry@ilgp.org Patrick Kelly Illinois Green Party Media Coordinator 773-203-9631 media@ilgp.org Green Party leaders sharply criticized Governor Pat Quinn and the Democratic State Central Committee for bypassing State Rep. Art Turner and other more qualified candidates in nominating Sheila Simon for Lieutenant Governor. “Pat [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Contact: Phil Huckelberry Illinois Green Party Chair 309-268-9974 phil.huckelberry@ilgp.org Patrick Kelly Illinois Green Party Media Coordinator 773-203-9631 media@ilgp.org Green Party leaders and candidates have expressed outrage at a recent State Senate vote to repeal the Illinois moratorium against new nuclear production. Senate Bill 3388 passed the Senate 40-1 on March [...]

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Posted at Johnson for America, an unofficial site supporting Gary Johnson for President: Our guest for today’s Important Voices interview is David Nolan. David was one of the people who played an integral role in founding the United States Libertarian Party. He subsequently served the party in a number of roles including National Chair, editor [...]

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Via email and LP.org: Dear Friend of Liberty, A few items of interest for you: Registrations for the 2010 Libertarian National Convention in Saint Louis are rolling in. Early bird pricing ends this Wednesday, so please take advantage of it and register now! After Wednesday, prices will be higher. The convention takes place over Memorial [...]

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Via Third Party and Independent Daily: Time Magazine has published a story on the top ten alternative political movements, which includes the Tea Party, the Modern Whig Party, the Pirate Party and the US Marijuana Party. Time’s list (not all political parties): 1. The Tea Party 2. The Anti-Masons 3. The Euroskeptics 4. The Modern [...]

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Posted at theamericanconservatives.org: Written by Butch Porter In case anyone wasn’t clear exactly why the Virginia Conservative Party only endorsed ONE candidate in the Statewide elections in November of 2009, this should help clear it up: “Although ideologically in line with McDonnell, who was also elected in November and supports Cuccinelli’s lawsuit to stop the [...]

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Posted by Ralph Nader at Nader.org: A society not alert to signs of its own decay, because its ideology is a continuing myth of progress, separates itself from reality and envelops illusion. One yardstick by which to measure the decay in our country’s political, economic, and cultural life, is the answer to this question: Do [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: To the members of the Modern Whig Party, First off, we want to congratulate all of you for sticking with this growing national movement. Your work in spreading the word about a viable, common-sense and non-ideological political option is starting to pay off. For example, TIME Magazine recently rated the Modern Whig [...]

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