When Jake Digman votes on Tuesday, he won’t cast a ballot for Democrats or Republicans. He’ll vote for Libertarians. ”I think it’s about time,” said Digman, 27, of Cuyahoga Falls. ”We are a country founded on picking the best person for the job. People need to know they have other options.” Ohio voters will have [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: May Day 2010 In honor of immigrant workers and the miners of Cananea, Mexico The U.S. Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) sends greetings to working people and their champions on the 120th anniversary of the first global celebration of this unique international workers’ holiday. This is a time to celebrate the struggles and [...]

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Rep. Dee Richard (No Party – Thibodaux) wants to freeze per diem payments to legislators for the next two years. That is to say, Rep. Richard does not want to eliminate the payments, but suspend the growth of those payments by putting a pay-ceiling on them. The House and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the measure [...]

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In an unsigned editorial in The Daily Advertiser, a Lafayette, Louisiana, based newspaper, yesterday comments onthe current movement back towards “open primaries” or “top two primaries” in Louisiana. The first and loudest objection will be the one we cited earlier: Open primaries let everyone vote for anyone they want. But it’s important to remember that [...]

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From The Ledger: Polk County Commissioner Randy Wilkinson made it a three-party race Friday for the U.S. House of Representatives District 12 seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Bartow. Wilkinson, elected to the commission as a Republican, is running for Congress as a member of the Tea Party. On his campaign documents, the [...]

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Posted by Brian Holtz at LibertarianIntelligence.com. Reproduced here for discussion. IPR as a blog takes no position on the LNC races, and my position does not necessarily coincide with Brian’s. -Paulie. Libertarian National Committee Chair candidate Ernest Hancock responded to 10 questions posted on IPR for him by saying they will be answered by videos [...]

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Via email from George Phillies, candidate for LNC chair: How do we find an answer? Step one is to turn over a new page, a blank page that we will fill in. Then ask what the LNC should be doing. That’s ‘what’, not the ‘how should we do it?’ There are activities every party group [...]

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Email from Scott Williamson: Scott Williamson, New Path candidate for the LNC Region 4 seat, announced today that New Path has gained additional candidates. Brad Ploeger of Georgia is now running for Regional 4 Alternate Representative. Charles Wilhoit is now running for At-Large candidate. Scott said of the changes “Charles’ experience and wisdom will better [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: A few weeks ago, Florida Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio looked like he would be sailing into Washington with the political winds of talk radio and the tea parties at his back. But today, it seems like Marco is slightly adrift with this once-solid base. With an embarrassing GOP [...]

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Eric Sundwall writes to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Having observed a recent inquiry by former Vice Chair of the LNC, Chuck Moulton to Wayne Root, I’d like to extend the franchise to at least a half hour of thinking towards all the candidates. Having served on the LNC and being a former state chair of New York, I [...]

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April 30, 2010 WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict issued the following statement today, regarding the financial regulation legislation in Congress: “The Libertarian Party opposes the legislation currently in Congress. Instead of removing harmful regulations that reduce competition, create winners and losers, and stifle the choices of consumers and financial firms, this legislation [...]

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By Wayne Allyn Root – 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Homeschool Dad This is the story the teachers unions wish never happened. This is the story that proves all their hysterical demands for more money are nothing but a sham. This is the story that makes the unions and education bureaucrats sick to their [...]

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Eleven oil rig workers have died in the April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, there are dire consequences for the ecosystem as crude oil gushes into the Gulf. The Green Party of Florida has called on President Obama and Florida Governor Crist to declare an immediate State of Emergency for the Gulf Coast in response to the oil rig disaster. The Green Party of Florida believes that all available federal and state resources must be mobilized to protect threatened communities and wildlife habitats in four states.

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Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado appeared on the Colbert Report, a popular news show on Comedy Central, to discuss Proposition 14 in California tonight. Prop 14 is referred to as the “Top Two Primary” because only the top two vote getters move on to the general election ballot. Colbert introduced it as a Proposition which was [...]

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Ballot Access News has the latest from Louisiana’s re-imposition of their jungle primary. On April 28, the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee passed HB 292. It moves congressional elections back to the pattern used between 1998 and 2006. There are no congressional elections until November. All voters use the same ballot, and that ballot [...]

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Jeremy Davis, a columnist for University of Cincinnati’s newspaper, The News Record, writes an article in favor of third parties yesterday. The article is written for the explicit purpose of encouraging readers to vote for third parties. We need to get someone else in there to diversify the debate a little more. Of course there [...]

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