LP blog: Emily Salvette, chair of the Michigan LP, writes in the Detroit Free Press in opposition to the new Michigan law banning all texting while driving: Will this law increase public safety? Probably not. It is intended to deter distracted driving that is reckless. But reckless driving is already illegal. Police can already issue [...]

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LP blog: On May 11, there were Libertarian candidates in two special elections for State Senate in Georgia. David Montané ran in District 42, getting 7.5 percent of the vote against two Democrats and an independent candidate. Brandon Givens ran in District 49, getting 8.1 percent against two Republicans. View the election results.

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George Phillies, candidate for LNC Chair, responded to Eric Sundwall’s questions for all LNC Chair candidates in comments on the thread on which they were posted. His answers are below. John Jay Myers answered as well. These are short answers to sometimes complex questions. 1. Role of a Third Party – The American system as [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Dear President Obama, Senator Dodd, Senator Schumer and Senator Shelby: On the eve of the portentous Senate debate over the extent to which the financial industry is to be held accountable so as to avert future megacollapses on the backs of taxpayers, workers and consumers, a great gap has been left [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: Political science professor Michael McDonald has this short article posted at pollster.com. He finds a relationship between periods when the major parties are ideologically cohesive, and periods of relative minor party success. Then he notes that we are in a period when the Democratic and Republican Parties are quite cohesive. Ergo, [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Cynthia McKinney, the 2008 Green Party candidate for president, will lead “Bike For Peace 2010″, a bike ride across America that will take place from July to September. Details from the website: We’re bicycling from San Francisco to Washington, DC between 24-July and 22-Sept, 2010, without motorized [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Legislative Gazette has a piece reporting on Howie Hawkins, the likely nominee of the New York Green Party for governor. Green nominees for governor and other statewide offices will be decided Saturday 15 May at the party’s nominating convention in Albany. From the article: If Hawkins [...]

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Posted at Warren Redlich for New York Governor: The Republican and Libertarian candidate will Stop Wasting Money by cutting spending, eliminating unnecessary programs, and capping bureaucrat pay and pensions. Read about the issues. Watch our videos. Join us on Facebook. Volunteer. And contribute so we can tell others. Newsday called Warren the Republican Al Franken [...]

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Press release posted at Davis for Governor: DAVIS SAYS TAYLOR CASE ILLUSTRATES EVILS OF ILLEGAL PROSTITUTION Sees New York in the “Courtesan” business raking in Billions Kristin Davis, Independent candidate for Governor of New York running on a Libertarian platform said the recent charges against Former New York Giants linebacker and Pro Football Hall of [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Originally posted at CapitalTonight.com – see original for embedded links and a copy of Long’s memo. Seeking to put to rest rumors that his support of Doug Hoffman might be wavering, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long sent a memo today to NY-23 county leaders and committee members seeking to tie Hoffman’s [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: “First in the Nation” TEA PARTY Congressional nominees Peg Dunmire (TEA-Orlando) and The Honorable Randy Wilkinson (TEA-Bartow) will host a TEA PARTY TOWN HALL SOCIAL tonight-Friday, May 14 from 6-9 pm at the Perkins Restaurant made famous by the recent encounter between Congressman Alan Grayson and a group of opponents. [...]

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Posted at ErnestHancock.org:

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Posted by Brian Holtz at Libertarian Intelligence, and combined with another post there. Reproduced here for the purpose of discussion. Although Brian also writes for IPR, IPR as a blog/website takes no position on LNC races, 9/11 truth, etc. And while I (Paulie) do take positions on all of the above, they often differ from [...]

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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 2 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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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by N. Nathaniel Burdohan and posted for discussion. The views expressed are those of the original author. An earlier version of this article appears at summitlp.org. I am glad the Libertarian Party has been gaining attention lately. More and more people are familiar with our existence and some of those are familiar [...]

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Posted at Dr. Tom Stevens’ blog Liberty Lion and emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Posted for discussion. As with LNC candidates, IPR does not take a position on bylaws proposals. Dr. Tom Stevens, two-term LPUS Judicial Committee member and State Representative of the Libertarian Party of Queens County to the Libertarian Party of New York, has urged [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org There are signs that some super-rich are revolting against their “wealth fraternity.” Last fall, mega-billionaire, Warren Buffett, traveled to Washington to meet with Democratic Senators and urge them to raise taxes on the wealthy like him. He pointedly said he pays at a lower rate than his secretary. The liberal Senators [...]

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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 1 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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From Sam Stein at the Huffington Post: . . . In an interview with the Huffington Post on Thursday, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry confirmed that her union will not back Sen. Blanche Lincoln even if the Arkansas incumbent beats her primary opponent — SEIU-backed Lt. Governor Bill Halter . . . for Henry, the [...]

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Posted by Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik. The opinions expressed are those of the original author, and reproduced here for the purpose of discussion. IPR as a blog/site takes no position in Libertarian or other party internal battles, although individual authors have our own opinions. Based on recent history, delegates to the Libertarian Party’s 2010 [...]

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