Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: 2008 Vice Presidential Candidate Supports Rob McNealy for CD6 Aurora, CO – June 9th, 2010 – Rob McNealy, candidate for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, is proud to announce that 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate Wayne Allyn Root has officially endorsed him. In his formal announcement, Root said, “There is a new face [...]

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Naureen Khan in the Austin Statesman: The Libertarian Party of Texas is hoping to kick-start its most successful election cycle to date, beginning with the party’s convention this weekend in Austin. The state Libertarians will select their candidate for governor and other statewide offices Saturday and make revisions Sunday to the party platform, which is [...]

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Ballot Access News: North Dakota held a primary on June 8. The three qualified parties were Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian. Two Libertarians ran for statewide office. They each got enough votes in the open primary to qualify for the November ballot. North Dakota is the only state in which a ballot-qualified party cannot nominate candidates [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Los Angeles Times has this article about California’s Proposition 14, which focuses on some of the flaws in the measure. The story is a surprise, because before the election, everything in the print version of that newspaper was overwhelmingly favorable to the measure. LA Times: Politicians, analysts question new open primary [...]

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Ballot Access News: On June 10, Wendell Fant submitted approximately 30,000 signatures to be on the North Carolina ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. House, 8th district. Approximately 17,000 signatures are required in that district. The formula requires 4% of the registered voters of the district to sign. See this story. If the petition [...]

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Posted by Ralph Nader at Nader.org: When the Republican Gingrich devolution took over Congress in 1995, it stripped the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of all its funding and left it a shell with no experts to advise committees and members of Congress. Whereupon Congress was plunged into a dark age regarding decisions about [...]

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Ballot Access News: On June 8, a hearing was held in Solano County Superior Court, California, on the lawsuit over the identity of the state officers of the American Independent Party. The attorney for the faction that nominated Alan Keyes for President in 2008 asked for more time, so there will be another hearing on [...]

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Ballot Access News: On June 10, the Texas Democratic Party filed a lawsuit in state court in Austin, seeking a court order to prevent the Green Party from certifying the names of its nominees to the Secretary of State. See this story. The case is probably called Texas Democratic Party v Texas Green Party. The [...]

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Email from Moderate Party of Rhode Island Candidate for Governor Ken Block to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Ken Block at Debate: “No More Kicking the Can down the Road” on pensions, budget, job creation. Warwick, RI–At tonight’s debate, Ken Block shared his vision for a new Rhode Island. Block outlined his plan to clean up and fix the [...]

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Greens support lawsuit, consider initiative to nullify Prop. 14; Measure is a clear example of how big money buys California elections, charges Green Party gubernatorial nominee (Distributed by the Green Party of the United States, http://www.gp.org) GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE http://www.cagreens.org http://www.cagreens.org/press/pr100609.shtml For immediate release: June 9, 2010 Contacts: Erika McDonald, Spokesperson, 415.337.1499, [...]

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Posted by 2008 Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: The Roman poet Juvenal (circa 100 A.D.) wrote regarding the way latter-day Roman emperors retained power and control over the masses that were seemingly more than happy to obsess themselves with trivialities and self-indulgences while their once-great-and-powerful empire collapsed before their very eyes. He [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Alabama Constitution Party submitted approximately 10,000 signatures so that it could be on the ballot in the First District for U.S. House. The petition is very likely to be validated, because the number of signatures submitted is almost twice the requirement. The party will nominate David Walter for Congress in the [...]

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