Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: LP FOUNDER TAKES ON TOP REPUBLICAN IN AZ SENATE RACE After losing the 2008 race for President, Sen. John McCain returned to Arizona to seek re-election.. His record in the Senate includes support for Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bipartisan backing for President Clinton’s bombing of Yugoslavia, a vote for the [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: With the Libertarian National Convention just around the corner, I am currently printing out enough copies of my LNC attendance, LNC roll call vote, and LNC mail ballot charts for every delegate. They are now complete for this LNC term and I think the information is both useful and newsworthy. Viewing how [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Eric Sundwall: And at http://wredlich.com/ny/: Cuomo Plan Falls Short Andrew Cuomo’s “plan” for New York lacks substance. Cutting spending requires more than vague ideas. It means firing people, cutting pay and reducing benefits. Any candidate should have the decency to say who will get hurt. Warren Redlich is the only candidate [...]

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Two of the candidates for Libertarian National Committee Chair are running on platforms that include providing campaign site templates for Libertarian candidates. A third Chair candidate uses such a template for his own State Senate candidate site.  This article compares the three templates. John Jay Myers says “I also propose to create easily customizable website [...]

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Email from Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Root Libertarian Book To be Released as Paperback Edition by Publisher John Wiley & Sons in December 2010 Wayne Allyn Root’s classic Libertarian book, “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts” has been ranked as the #1 book in the [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster: General Predictions: – The final ballot will be Wayne Allyn Root vs. ??? – On all ballots prior to that final ballot, Root will place first among all contenders. – If Root isn’t within a short distance of a majority (40-45% minimum) on the first ballot, he won’t win. [...]

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Ballot Access News: Nancy Lord is one of five candidates seeking the Republican Party nomination for District Attorney of Nye County, Nevada. She and three others are opposing incumbent Bob Beckett as he seeks his fifth term. See this story. Lord was the Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee in 1992. There are also two Democrats running [...]

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Video posted at http://ernesthancock.org/. Root appeared via teleconference.

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Currently at #3 for Google News results for Libertarian (includes articles not related to the Libertarian Party as well), Richard Cooper at Ground Report: On Memorial Day weekend, the Libertarian Party in the United States www.lp.org will hold its biennial convention in St. Louis, Missouri. The principal task will be the election of the Chair [...]

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Posted by Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik. The opinions are those of the original author, and don’t imply a stance by IPR for or against any candidate. Five men will run for Libertarian Party national chair this weekend in St. Louis. I can be happy with four of them. I only hope the winner is [...]

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Gary Galles writes in The Orange County Register: Today is the anniversary of the birth in 1923 of Karl Hess – someone called the “most beloved libertarian.” Credited with the famous line from Barry Goldwater’s presidential nomination acceptance speech in 1964, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of [...]

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From the LPIN via TPID: The Libertarian Party of Indiana has just updated their 2010 Candidates site. http://lpin.org/candidates/ The party has a record 68 candidates! The Libertarian Party of Indiana has never had this many candidates at this point during election season. Look at the list. If you see that there is no Libertarian running [...]

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Posted at http://theamericanconservatives.org: One extreme is calling for limiting Miranda rights for terrorist suspects. The other claims Miranda rights should apply to anyone who runs afoul of our laws; whether in this country or on a foreign battlefield. Oddly enough, in yet another impressive display of White House Amateur Hour, the Obama administration has occupied [...]

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The most telling empirical data is the following from the Institute of Election Analysis: “In the Governor’s races, Perot’s voters cast 18% of their ballots for the Republican candidates; 56% of their ballots for Democratic candidates, 17% for independent candidates, and 8% did not bother to vote for Governor. If Perot’s voters had voted for [...]

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Posted at http://peaceandfreedom.org/: On Tuesday, May 25, President Obama is coming to the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco for a Barbara Boxer fundraiser. Marsha Feinland, Peace and Freedom candidate for U.S. Senate, will hold a $1 per person juice and cheese fundraiser in front. Obama is set to arrive at 4:30. CARA and Single Payer [...]

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h/t Shii in Comments on a previous post.

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Rev. Elston McCowan, a prominent Green Party member in St. Louis, is facing trial in the aftermath of an altercation that occurred outside a St. Louis town hall meeting in 2009. As Green Party Watch previously reported, Elston McCowan, a Baptist minister and SEIU union official who [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Ted Glick, noted climate change activist and chair of the Essex County Green Party in New Jersey, is facing possible prison time for unfurling banners calling for green jobs on Capitol Hill. Story from the Chesapeake Climate Action Network: Despite the Gulf disaster, no one from BP [...]

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Posted at US Pirate Party: I am pleased to report that New York Pirate Party is now recognized by the national committee, and is so far our second state to have an official effort to found a state party. NYPP is currently headed up by the temporary Administrator, Jay Emerson, who will be joining the [...]

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Ballot Access News: On May 24, twelve minor party and independent activists demonstrated in front a Sacramento restaurant. Inside, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared. Guests paid $5,000 each to be at the event, and the money went toward the campaign for Proposition 14, the top-two measure on the June 8 ballot. The event seemed to attract [...]

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