Email from Pat Dixon to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Judge Jim Gray has been added to the ACHIEVE slate of candidates for the Libertarian Party National Committee. Judge Gray will be running for an at-large position on the committee. Judge Gray was a Libertarian candidate for US Senate in California in 2004. He has been a trial judge [...]

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Rich Whitney, the gubernatorial candidate for the Green Party of Illinois in 2010, is conducting a statewide tour of Illinois spanning nine days and 19 cities and towns. Rich Whitney says his unofficial slogan is “Vote for the recumbent, not the incumbent.”The Green Party candidate for governor was in McHenry County on Friday as part [...]

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The Alaskan Independence Party was mired in controversy and placed on the fringe when it was discovered Sarah Palin’s husband was registered into the party for many years. The Alaskan Independence Party is, though, at the center of a very mainstream debate currently regarding a gas pipeline. The Alaskan Independence Party, often found on the [...]

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The Reform Party of Kansas is one of the few remaining active state chapters of the Reform Party, which has fallen into disarray and broken into many factions. The Kansas affiliate is one of the chapters that was closely aligned with Pat Buchanan. In 2008 they gave their presidential nomination to Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution [...]

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In Oregon’s governor’s race there Constitution Party in 2006 scored around 50,000 votes, or 3.6%, with Mary Starrett at the helm. In the US Senate race in 2008, the Constitution Party candidate–Dave Brownlow–racked up over 92,000 votes for a total of 5.24%. This track record has lead some prognosticators to suggest that the Constitution Party [...]

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Mary Starrett is the former Communications Director of the national Constitution Party, as well as the gubernatorial candidate of the Oregon Constitution Party in 2006–a race in which she netted over 50,000 votes, or 3.6%. She is running for a seat on the Yamhill County Commission a non-partisan position. The election for this seat took [...]

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Posted at The Party for Socialism and Liberation website: By: Seize BP Campaign Long Beach, Calif. This is a report from SeizeBP.org. Photo:Jessica Bardales  In Long Beach, Calif., activists from the Seize BP campaign held a giant, 50-foot-long banner that read “Seize BP!” from an overpass over Interstate 405 during rush-hour traffic. The May 20 [...]

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Jeffrey A. Clark is a local tea party activist in Virginia’s 5th District, and he’s threatening to run for Congress in a swing district as an Independent candidate–but only on one condition. If a particular candidate wins the crowded GOP primary, he’ll run, and that candidate is state Senator Robert Hurt, whom many local tea [...]

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Posted by Soloflex Founder/CEO, Jerry Wilson, Progressive for Governor of Oregon, at Viva La Revolucion: I’ve thought for years that the borders of the Americas are not to keep people out but to keep people in – so they can be taxed to death. Whatever their purpose, I don’t like ‘em. We’re all Americans so [...]

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The latest poll in the US Senate race in Florida put Independent candidate, and sitting Governor, Charlie Crist ahead. The three way poll, conducted by the St. Petersburg Times, Miami Herald, and Bay News 9, puts Crist ahead with 30%, above the Republican candidate, Marco Rubio, with 27%. The Democratic nominee, Kendrick Meeks, scores only [...]

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For Immediate Release ROOT TO GUEST HOST ON LAS VEGAS POWERHOUSE NEWS & TALK STATION KXNT THIS WEEK Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, best-selling author, and Fox News regular, will guest host this week in afternoon drive-time on the talk and news powerhouse station in Las Vegas KXNT 840-AM. Root joins a [...]

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The Mississippi Personhood Amendment has turned in 130,000 signatures and made it onto the ballot. The Constitutional Amendment process in Mississippi is one of the most difficult in the nation. The initiative will be on the ballot in 2011. Les Riley, the organizer of the campaign to get the personhood amendment on the ballot in [...]

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The Green Party of Texas today submitted 90,000 signatures to get on the ballot as a qualified party. The requirement for ballot access in Texas this year was 43,991, meaning the Green Party of Texas submitted more than double the number of needed signatures. Assuming they get on the ballot, the list of candidates who [...]

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Wayne & Dakota Root on FOX News Channel on Sunday May 23, 2010 discussing their remarkable education story: “Homeschool to Harvard.” New endorsements (see others here): “I support Wayne Root for chairman, because he can make the Libertarian Party into a serious political force. If we are not trying to cost the Democrats and Republicans [...]

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Email from John Jay Myers to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Myers is running for both Libertarian National Committee Chair and US Congress (TX 32). He is currently the chairman of the Dallas County, Texas LP. John Jay Myers gives a speech entitled “Government Sucks” Saturday at a BBQ at his home, with highlights like “80% of the people [...]

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Originally posted at Libertarian Intelligence. Although Brian Holtz also writes for IPR, the views expressed are his own. IPR is not endorsing or unendorsing any candidates. [I sent this letter to 1500 delegates of the current and recent Libertarian national conventions. It invites delegates to view the following videos.] Dear fellow Libertarian delegate, I’m writing [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at c4ss.org. In addition to writing for IPR and numerous other places, Knapp is: Chair, St. Louis County (Missouri) Libertarian Central Committee; Appointed Libertarian federal officeholder (Selective Service System); Five-time Missouri Libertarian candidate for Congress, state legislature and local office. The views expressed are his own, not IPR’s. “The [Libertarian Party],” [...]

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Via email and LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, In just a few days, Libertarians from around the country will converge on St. Louis to help set the direction for our party. Delegates to the convention will vote on such things as our bylaws, platform language, and Libertarian National Committee members. In the spirit of [...]

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Email from Mark Hinkle: Dear Libertarian allies, My friend June Genis, a long long time Libertarian, is mounting a grassroots effort to buy TV ADS to expose the lies behind Prop 14 on the June 8th primary ballot. The Libertarian Party of California is a conducting a tele-marketing campaign to reach registered libertarians, but we [...]

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Email from Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: “It’s time the Libertarian Party had a horse in the media race. After almost 30 years in the LP, I’m ready to stop talking to ourselves and start talking to the world. That’s why I’m endorsing Wayne Root for LNC Chair and Mark Rutherford for Vice Chair.” -Emily Salvette [...]

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