Ballot Access News: Filing for the Hawaii primaries closed on July 20. The Libertarian Party will have candidates for US Senate, US House 2nd district, and state house 5th district. The Green Party has a candidate for US Senate. The Free Energy Party has candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The Free Energy Party also [...]

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Ballot Access News: On July 21, a Circuit Court in Cook County ruled that Kenneth Williams should remain on the November ballot as a candidate for State Representative, 29th district. Williams was nominated by the Green Party after the February 2010 primary. No one had run for the office in the Green Party primary. Illinois [...]

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Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik: The Libertarian Party’s “Vote Getter” faction (for lack of a better term) has long advised that the LP “is a political party” and so we must be wary of “scaring voters” with “purist rhetoric.” Consider Wayne Allyn Root, who says that the LP should steer clear of non-economic issues. Root [...]

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LP blog: A recent poll from Public Policy Polling says that Libertarian Alex Snitker, running for U.S. Senate in Florida, is viewed favorably by 24% of liberals, 24% of moderates, and 4% of conservatives. Snitker polls at 3% or 4% overall, depending on which Democratic Party candidate is included. He is supported by 2% of [...]

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Wayne Allyn Root, the Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee (LNCC) announced today the addition of Phil Gordon, one of the great poker professionals in the world, to the Board of the LNCC. Gordon is a World Poker Tour champion, has seven final table finishes at the World Series of Poker, and close to [...]

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Cross-posted from Poli-Tea: Independents are the largest bloc of registered voters in Connecticut. According to Pollster.com, independents account for 42.5% of registered voters in the state, with only 36.8% registered Democrat and 20% registered Republican. In 2008, there were 24 active political parties in the state. Last year, another party joined that list: the Independent [...]

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Posted by Wayne Allyn Root at Libertarian Party blog: Libertarian National Committee (LNC) member and Libertarian National Congressional Committee (LNCC) Chairman Wayne Allyn Root has kept up quite a pace of media appearances. He is a guest on 20 (or more) TV or radio shows per week…as well as guest hosting last week in primetime [...]

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PublicPolicyPolling has released a poll putting Lawton “Bud” Chiles at 14% in the race for Florida Governor.

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: U.S. Senate Candidate John Mertens charged the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute with misleading voters and misrepresenting the results in their recent survey. In the most recent Q-Poll, voters were asked “If the 2010 election for United States Senator were being held today, and the candidates were Richard Blumenthal the Democrat and Linda [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Chicago, IL-The Matt Reichel for Congress campaign announced last week that it will team up with Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney for a joint fundraiser Wednesday July 28th at the Celtic Crown. The event, which starts at 7pm, will feature speeches by Green candidates and other progressive leaders in the community. [...]

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As posted at http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/: Peace and Freedom Party Candidates All of the Peace and Freedom candidates have pages on our campaign website. Most also have their own campaign websites (and more will have them soon). Links to both are provided here. Statewide Offices Governor: Carlos Alvarez — Website — Campaign page Lt. Governor: C.T. Weber [...]

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Via TPID: A press release from Dan La Botz, the Socialist Party candidate for US Senate in Ohio: OHIO SENATE DEBATE: MINOR PARTIES MUST BE INCLUDED – LA BOTZ Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Lee Fisher are reported by the press to be preparing to hold a series of debates in several Ohio cities, debates [...]

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WICK ALLISON OF D MAGAZINE SUPPORTS JOHN JAY MYERS FOR CONGRESS Dallas, TX – Wick Allison, former publisher of the National Review and owner of D Magazine, is throwing his support to John Jay Myers, the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Representative in the 32nd district. In a post on the FrontBurner blog, Allison describes a [...]

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By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Best-Selling Author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian” I was Barack Obama’s college classmate at Columbia University, Class of ’83. We were both Pre Law and Political Science majors (although strangely, I never met him, saw him, or even heard of him). That gives me [...]

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Posted at cpnys.org: With no budget in sight it is time to revist the Conservative Party Plan to Halt the Demise of NYS CP_Plan_to_Save_NY.pdf According to wikipedia: The Conservative Party of New York State is an American political party active in the state of New York. It is not part of any nationwide party, nor [...]

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Associated Press: Three Libertarian candidates for the North Dakota Legislature plan to sue to get on the November ballot. Libertarian Party Chairman Richard Ames of Wahpeton says the lawsuit should be filed this week in federal court in Fargo. Ames was a Libertarian candidate for the North Dakota Senate in last month’s primary election. Libertarians [...]

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Ballot Access News: Wisconsin elects its Governor and Lieutenant Governor as a team in November, but they run separately in the September primary. This year, no Libertarian submitted enough signatures to be on the Libertarian primary ballot for Governor, but a Libertarian did submit enough signatures to be on the primary ballot for Lieutenant Governor. [...]

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Ballot Access News: On July 20, a Delaware Superior Court Judge ruled that the Democratic and Republican Parties may exclude members of minor parties from running in major party primaries. See this story. The case had been filed by two Libertarian Party members, who are also running in November for public office as Libertarian Party [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Palmer, Texas Tea Party has issued Endorsements for 2010. We are happy to Announce that Kathie Glass has received our Endorsement for governor. I do believe this is the First endorsement from a Tea Party for her Campaign? Palmer Tea Party endorsements JON BOX & DICK AUSTIN Palmer Tea Party jonbox@thepalmerpost.com [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Dear President Obama: It is time for you to give taxpayers, consumers, and investors a reason to believe that you are truly interested in consumer protection by nominating Professor Elizabeth Warren to be the Director of the much-anticipated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Professor Warren combines rigorous scholarship, a superb sense [...]

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