http://www.akip.org/convention2010.html: To all Alaskans, AIP Members, IOU’s, State Committee Officers and voting Delegates of the AIP, we are at this time updating our notice of the bi-annual 2010 Statewide Convention of the AIP State Committee. Within the AIP By-Laws, located at the Akip.org site, Chapter V and Chapter Vll is the structure used to conduct [...]

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via http://thirdpartydaily.blogspot.com/ by N.J. Beachum benzinga.com In a statement that surprises absolutely no one who has any kind of grasp at all of what socialism actually means, the director of the Democratic Socialists of America stated that Obama, contrary to popular belief, is not a socialist – and that Sarah Palin is far more representative [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Vaughn Stull: Fire Dog Lake ponders endorsing Dennis Spisak (OH Governor, Green) http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/40556 FDL, Please Support Dennis Spisak for Ohio Governor By: El Duderino I am asking FDL to formally endorse Green Party candidate Dennis Spisak for governor of Ohio. This is not something I write lightly. I am deadly serious [...]

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Via http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/lp-monday-message-convention-tea-parties-and-boortz and email. IPR Note from Paulie: although this reposting is late as far the April 15 tea parties go, the rest is still relevant, and IMO it is relevant as far as providing a comment-accepting forum regarding what goes out over LP.org and the LP email list. Dear Friend of Liberty, Radio host [...]

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Posted at http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/libertarians-in-the-news p>Here is some recent coverage of Libertarians around the U.S. The Colorado Statesman covers Libertarians and other parties: The Libertarian Party emerged from its state convention on March 20 with the most candidates it has ever fielded in federal races, according to state party chair David Williams Jr. The party will hold [...]

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Posted at http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/libertarian-party-makes-the-ballot-in-north-dakota Several North Dakota outlets have published this April 12 AP story: The Libertarian Party will have its own column on North Dakota’s June primary ballot. Secretary of State Al Jaeger on Monday approved petitions from Libertarian backers asking for a separate column on the ballot. Jaeger says the petitions had more than [...]

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Excerpted from an editorial in the Jacksonville, Florida Observer by former IPR editor Austin Cassidy: Charlie Crist made a difficult decision earlier today when he vetoed Senate Bill 6, the Republican-backed measure that would have tied student performance to teacher pay. The driving force behind the bill was State Senator John Trasher, who serves double-duty [...]

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Emailed by Steve H. to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Libertarian candidate for Iowa governor, Dr. Eric Cooper, has been confirmed as a speaker at Iowa Taxpayer’s Day, an annual event hosted by Iowans for Tax Relief on April 17. (http://www.taxrelief.org/articles/show/51) Dr. Cooper will participate in a candidate forum along with Republicans Terry Branstad, a former governor seeking [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Brian Irving; also posted at examiner.com: There is a disease spreading in North Carolina and the country and health care reform is not the cure but one of the symptoms, the chair of the North Carolina Libertarian Party told delegates gathered for the party’s annual state convention in Burlington April 10. [...]

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Email from Newsmax.com to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Sen. Joe Lieberman tells Newsmax that he will probably seek re-election in 2012 and will likely run again as an independent. Newsmax chief Washington correspondent Ronald Kessler asked the senator, who lost the Democratic primary in 2006 and was elected as an independent in the general election, if he could [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Do petition signers have a constitutional right to keep their names undisclosed? Or should their support of various initiatives be made public? Without a doubt, keep the names private. Currently before the U.S. Supreme Court is a case named Doe v. Reed. At issue is whether or not the names of people [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com Ocala, Florida (Thursday April 15, 2009) – Craig Porter of Miami made history on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by becoming the first Whig to be qualified as a candidate for federal office since the 1800s. Mr. Porter is a contractor, lifetime resident of Miami, 49 years old, married, and the [...]

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Posted by Jim at Irregular Times http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2010/04/15/meet-the-new-leaders-of-the-unity12-task-force/ As I noted yesterday, the political group Unity08 has reformed for the 2012 presidential election season as a Section 527 corporation named the Unity12 Task Force. The stated goal of this new corporation is to arrange for the nomination of its own presidential ticket. This ticket is to [...]

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Emailed by Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com:

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From Politico: A Nevada judge ruled Thursday that Scott Ashjian’s name will remain on November’s ballot as a Tea Party candidate for Senate. The Independent American Party, which is running a candidate of its own in the Nevada Senate race, had argued that Ashjian was registered as a Republican and not Tea Party when he [...]

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CNN is running a story currently in which the Socialist Party Co-Chair shares his thoughts about the Obama administration thus far. The resounding answer from the card-carrying Socialist Party members is, he isn’t one of them. But Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA, sees no reason to celebrate. He’s seen people with bumper stickers [...]

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Kristin Davis and Warren Redlich are both running for the Libertarian Party of New York’s nomination for Governor in 2010. Davis is the former businesswoman who provided prostitutes to former Governor Elliot Spitzer. Redlich is an elected Guilderland Town Board member and Lawyer in Albany, New York. Eric Dondero’s site, Libertarian Republican, provides some interesting [...]

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Kristin Davis, the former call-girl business owner from New York whose clients included former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, is currently running for Governor of New York. She is currently attempting to capture the nomination of the Libertarian Party of New York. The Daily Caller, a conservative and libertarian news site run by Tucker Carlson, [...]

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Press release: GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA http://www.gpofpa.org LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA http://www.lppa.org The Green Party of Pennsylvania and the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania condemned a decision by federal Judge Lawrence Stengel last week.  Stengel concluded that the lawsuit, brought by the Green, Constitution, and Libertarian Parties of Pennsylvania, targeted the wrong plaintiffs, and thus threw [...]

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Bob Barr, the former Libertarian Presidential candidate in 2008 and former Congressman from Georgia, is scheduled to come on Neil Cavuto’s show any minute now. He is present at the Atlanta Tea Party and will be speaking. He is going to be interviewed on the subject of the political makeup of the teaparties. UPDATE: Barr [...]

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