Posted by 2008 Constitution Party Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: The Tea Party in Utah flexed its muscle over the weekend and booted longtime establishment Republican senator, Bob Bennett, from office. Hooray! (Now, Arizona, please do America a favor and show John McCain the door!) Unfortunately, Tea Party activists were unsuccessful in Indiana, as [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Mike Feinstein, the former mayor of Santa Monica and well-known Green activist, has an opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury-News opposing Proposition 14, the “Top Two Primaries Act”. Proposition 14 would stifle diversity and competition within the major parties, limit the choices of independent voters and [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: On May 15, the Maine Libertarian Party held a party meeting, and voted to attempt a petition to qualify the party for the 2012 ballot. See this story. The full party petition in Maine has only existed since 1976, and has only been used successfully once, by the Reform Party in [...]

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Ten days ago IPR reported on criticism of the CEO record of 2008 LP Vice Presidential nominee Wayne Root, who is running for Chair of the Libertarian National Committee.  Today Root responded with a detailed look at his career and finances: During my run for Chairman of the Libertarian National Committee, perhaps the strangest criticism [...]

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Press release from the Green Party national HQ emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: US Greens congratulate Caroline Lucas, the UK’s first Green Party member of Parliament, on her election victory • Colombian Green presidential candidate Antanas Mockus holds a strong lead in polls, may become the first Green Party head of a national government • Green Party [...]

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Via email from George Phillies. New Path for the LP is a slate of candidates for the Libertarian National Committee, and George Phillies is their candidate for Chair. This is Step 4 of Part Three of the 63-page New Path plan for the LP. IPR is not endorsing any LNC candidates, and is interested in [...]

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In comments on a previous post, California Libertarian Party Southern Vice Chair Michael Seebeck writes Judge Gray is running for LNC At-Large…It was rumored (single-source) during the week when I heard it, so I sat on it until I got separate confirmation yesterday at the LPCA Executive Committee meeting. According to wikipedia, James “Jim” P. [...]

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From the Windy Citizen: In the category of ‘Expected, but still Very Upsetting’ is the Daily Kos poll for Illinois Governor. They include Scott Lee Cohen (who is not yet on the ballot–but would like to be) and do not include established Green party candidate, Rich Whitney (who is definitely on the ballot). http://www.dailykos.com/statepoll/2010/5/5/IL/489 One [...]

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At-large LNC representative R. Lee Wrights questions Wayne Allyn Root’s “Reagan Libertarian” self-designation at Liberty For All: Ronald Reagan is [Wayne Allyn Root]’s hero. He loves the man. So much so in fact, he named his youngest son after the former Republican president. He idolizes Mr. Reagan even though he admits that once he gained [...]

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Submitted by Scott Lieberman to contact.ipr@gmail.com *********************************************** Date: Monday, May 17, 2010 Time: 1am-5am Eastern Time (ie:10pm,Pacific Time on SUNDAY night,May 16) Radio Show: Coast to Coast AM www.coasttocoastam.com Host: George Knapp Description: Changing Drug Laws – George Knapp welcomes Judge Jim Gray for discussion on the possibility of change in the way we handle [...]

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Emailed by Libertarian National Committee Chair candidate John Jay Myers to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Some of these videos have been posted at IPR previously, but most have not. John Jay Myers Campaign Video: John Jay Myers answers Eric Sundwalls questions about LNC chair: John Jay Myers @ LNC debate in Austin: John Jay Myers on Running against [...]

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This post is an open forum, encouraging all our readers to submit questions for all Libertarian National Committee candidates for all offices – not just chair – and all candidates to provide questions as well as debate each other. To kick things off, one of our readers writes to contact.ipr@gmail.com: I am not a Libertarian [...]

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From the Green Party of Canada by way of Green party Watch: OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson yesterday confirmed that marijuana activist Marc Emery will be extradited to the United States, a move that the Green Party of Canada condemns. The decision was made shortly after Marc Emery turned himself in to the [...]

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From WhitneyForGov.org: Green Party candidate Rich Whitney will be traveling across the state by bike and train. He’ll be joined at points by local candidates and other green supporters. Please contact lynne@whitneyforgov.org if you want to join or help promote the events. (pre-tour) May 19th: Rich will join the Chicago Ride of Silence at 6:30 [...]

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Posted at Green Party Watch by Dave Schwab: From Jill Stein for Governor of Massachusetts: COME TO A COMMUNITY SPEAK-OUT & OFFICE OPENING PARTY FOR THE JILL STEIN FOR GOVERNOR CAMPAIGN! MAY 15th Join Jill, Councilman Chuck Turner, and the campaign staff to hear members of the community speaking out for peace in the streets, [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at GreenPartyWatch.org: Pam Adams of the Peoria Journal-Star has an article featuring LeAlan Jones, the Illinois Green Party’s candidate for US Senate: Close to 20 years ago, a young producer for National Public Radio gave two young boys recording equipment, some basic lessons and sent them out to tell a story [...]

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Ernest Hancock is a candidate for chair of the Libertarian National Committee. His LNC chair campaign website is at http://ernesthancock.org/. The top three items on the front page of that website right now are 1) The “Meltup” video seen below, 2) Aphorisms from libertarian author L. Neil Smith, and 3) Questions and Answers with Ernie [...]

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Via email from George Phillies. New Path for the LP is a slate of candidates for the Libertarian National Committee, and George Phillies is their candidate for Chair. This is Step 3 of Part Three of the 63-page New Path plan for the LP. IPR is not endorsing any LNC candidates, and is interested in [...]

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Below are the 43 proposals of the 2010 Libertarian Party Bylaws Committee, as shown in the survey it conducted at http://www.lp.org/bylawssurvey after its February meeting in Austin.  Note that at the 2008 bylaws debate in Denver, the convention was in the alloted time only able to consider about 18 out of some 30 Bylaws Committee [...]

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by Brian Irving Raleigh Libertarian Examiner Examiner.com (Also emailed by Brian Irving to contact.ipr@gmail.com): North Carolina Libertarians have taken the unusual step of repudiating a candidate. The state executive committee passed a resolution repudiating the candidacy of Jack Stratton for Mecklenburg County Commission. The resolution adopted May 8 alleges Stratton is using his campaign “to [...]

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