Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Atlanta, Georgia, May 20, 2010 — As many of you may have heard, it has recently come to light that the candidate for National Chair I supported, George Phillies, filed a secret criminal complaint with the Federal Election Commission concerning an alleged irregular transaction between the Libertarian National Committee [...]

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The NY Post reports on a probe into funds given from Mayor Bloomberg of New York City to the NY State Independence Party. A grand jury is investigating whether the funds were mishandled by John Haggerty, Jr, a top campaign adviser to the Mayor.

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In this Yakima-Herald article the Constitution Party of Washington state is profiled. The party is set to have the state convention in Moxee, Washington and is expecting around 50 attendees. Constitution Party spokeswoman Karen Murray of Quincy said interest in the organization has grown steadily since the tea party movement got rolling in reaction to [...]

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Richard Winger reports that the Green Party of Texas is likely to make it onto the ballot: Texas Greens are optimistic that their petition drive for 2010 will succeed. The deadline is Monday, May 24. Here is the link to the party’s web page electronic petition. However, the party is depending almost entirely on old-fashioned [...]

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From Ballot Access News comes news that even through the Arizona Green Party was off of the registration form, they gained registered members. The Arizona Secretary of State has again started tracking how many registered Green Party members there are in Arizona. The Secretary of State last posted any data for registered Greens in November [...]

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Independent candidate for Governor Tim Cahill, the sitting State Treasurer of Massachusetts, vowed to fight back after a series of brutal attack ads from the GOP. However, Cahill promises this won’t become a two-person race. The million-dollar ad barrage was paid for by the Republican Governors Association, but Cahill argued that Baker was in cahoots [...]

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Carl Paladino is a gubernatorial candidate for the Republican Party and Conservative Party in New York. He claims that if he does not receive the nomination of the Conservative Party, he will petition to form a Tea Party of New York ballot-line. It appears Paladino’s statewide tour is going to occur via water. Paladino, who [...]

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Ballot Access News reports that a group of ten Spanish/English language newspapers called Eastern Group Publications has come out against Proposition 14 in California. The statement on Prop 14 is as follows: Proposition 14: Elections. Increases Right to Participate in Primary Elections. This initiative’s stated aim is to encourage increased participation in elections for congressional, [...]

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The former Communication Director of the Constitution Party, Mary Starrett, has been running for Yamhill County Commissioner in Yamhill County, Oregon. Her race took place on Tuesday, May 18th. Early results indicate that out of over 20,000 votes, Mary Starrett is behind by a mere 13 votes. There will be a recount. The majority of [...]

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Todd Pritsky, who is running for VT House as an independent this fall, has decried the state’s ballot access regime as “election Calvinball.”  As Pritsky wrote last Friday in a post under that title: the Legislature very bravely changed this year’s election rules very late in the game, so the Secretary of State has moved [...]

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Richmond, California is the largest city in the United States with a Green mayor, with a population of over 100,000.  That mayor is Gayle McLaughlin, and she’s running for reelection.  Here’s her first campaign update sent to supporters: This is the 1st campaign update of my re-election campaign, and I am pleased to announce that [...]

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Email from Wayne Allyn Root: “I fear the LP is running out of time. The irrational want to keep the party small so they may appear to be ‘big fish’. Between now and 2012, the LP can gain power. People want smaller government and those governing they know they can trust. This is why I [...]

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Yes, folks, two full years of anti-establishment political party and candidate news, views and commentary. During that time, according to sitemeter, we have had over 1.1 million visitors with over 3.1 million pageviews, and close to 89,000 comments on almost 5,500 posts. In other news, your faithful correspondent, Paulie, am turning two for the nineteenth [...]

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Likely delegates to the Libertarian Party’s 2010 national convention are, around this time, receiving a “snail mail” letter from Christopher Barber, a Georgia LP activist and member of the national LP’s platform committee.* Excerpt: When you and I joined the Libertarian Party we proudly signed this statement: “I certify that I oppose the initiation of [...]

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Email from Debbie Tharp: Prop 14 in California in incumbent protection and access prevention. Loss of ballot access in California is a loss for the nation as a whole. Prop 14 (the top two initiative) allows voters to vote for any party they want in the primary elections, and it is being sold as a [...]

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Via email and LP blog: Dear Libertarian, I hope you will attend our National Convention in St. Louis. If you haven’t decided whether to attend yet, it’s still not too late — you can even show up unannounced. However, there are some risks you need to be aware of if you show up to the [...]

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SF Weekly: San Franciscans are understandably proud of their quirky liberal heritage, but our town’s lovable eccentrics aren’t confined to the political left. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine another city where a doctrinaire Libertarian who moonlights as a bisexual escort and exotic dancer could become a permanent fixture in the political firmament. This has been [...]

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Posted at Third Party and Independent Daily: From Newsday: Steve Levy’s twice having run on the left-ish, since-submerged Green Party line for state Assembly in 2000 and 2002, as described here earlier today, didn’t surprise state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long, who backs Levy’s GOP rival, Rick Lazio. Also from Newsday: For major-party candidates, ties [...]

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Posted at Liberty For All by George Phillies, candidate for LNC chair: Recently — hey, I’m a candidate, did you expect my opponents to say nice things about me? — a number of bizarre rumors have arisen about Massachusetts Libertarian ballot access. Please note that I am one member of the state committee, our chair [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Goodwell – Stephen Skacall, independent candidate for State House District 61, issued a call today for the Legislature to enact an immediate pay cut. “With more budget cuts looming around the corner, you’d think that our legislators would be doing everything in their power to make those cuts as small as possible. [...]

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