Cross-posted from Poli-Tea: Earlier this month Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz began an aggressive propaganda campaign instructing voters to register with the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the state’s August 10th primary elections. Byscewicz launched the effort at a press conference flanked by leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties and political [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Darryl Perry, Boston Tea Party National Committee Chair. Barry Hess is seeking the Libertarian Party nomination for Governor of Arizona and has run for office several times as a Libertarian. By a vote of 5-1 (with 1 not voting) the Boston Tea Party National Committee endorsed Libertarian Barry Hess for Governor [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Charlie Earl, Libertarian Candidate for Ohio Secretary of State: Attached is a memo that I wrote in anticipation of the release of Tom Woods’ “Nullification.” Charlie Earl Libertarian Candidate for Ohio Secretary of State To my Libertarian, Tea Party, 912, We Surround Them, WeByFor and other affiliated and like-minded friends and [...]

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http://www.modernwhig.org/: The Executive Committee of the Modern Whig Party acting in accordance with the MWP bylaws appointed Andrew Evans interim National Chairman of the Modern Whig Party. Andrew has nearly 5 years of experience in working in national and state leadership capacity in the American Centrist Party, which united with the MWP in June. Andrew [...]

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Posted by Nat Fortune at Green Mass Group: (You need look no further than our candidate for Lt. Governor when it comes to walking the walk. Rick’s a populist in the very best sense of the word, and his devotion to both country and community is unquestionable. Yet another candidate on our slate of whom [...]

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From the Benton Courier: Joy Ballard was nominated for the collector position at a meeting July 17. Ballard said she never has claimed an affiliation with any political party and has considered herself as an independent.  However, to have her name actually appear on the ballot required her to affiliate with a political party.  Both [...]

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From Poli-Tea, on “Tea Party Tories” (via TPID): Though the tea party movement is often treated as a monolith, we should distinguish between at least three different types of groups that may be subsumed under that banner: 1) Republican Party front organizations – these make up some of the most well known tea party organizations [...]

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Posted at http://theamericanconservatives.org (to follow links see original): Conference Update: Update on the Conference: We have confirmed some more of the details on the ACP’s first National Leadership Conference to be held September 16th – 19th. Some of you have already gotten involved in Local and State Development, but whether you have or haven’t we [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Liberty for All. IPR note: Steve Kubby was the 1998 California Libertarian Party candidate for Governor and has twice been first runner up for the party’s Vice Presidential nomination (2000 and 2008). In 2008, he also ran for the Presidential nomination. Two things I learned from “Scarface,” a heckuva movie. [...]

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From a Denver Post interview with Debbie Matthews, owner of a strip club called Shotgun Willie’s, via Radley Balko at Reason Online: Matthews: I love to read. I have a Kindle, and I love it. We have a book club for the staff called Strip It Down. We meet once a week. It’s a conservative [...]

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By Gilbert Garcia – Express-News At the 2008 King William Fair, Kat Swift was easy to spot. Amidst the parade marchers, the food vendors, and the Fiesta revelers who flooded the streets, Swift was the lone person with blond cornrows wearing a Wonder Woman costume and carrying a clipboard. Swift, 37, the San Antonio-based state [...]

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Peter Orvetti writes at the Moderate Voice: Before coming to realize that mine is a moderate voice, I spent some time in the libertarian movement. Part of that was just the idealism and extremity that often is a part of youth, but part of it was my own innate sense of the importance of freedom [...]

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Ballot Access News: On July 24, the Arkansas Green Party held its state nominating convention. Jim Lendall is the party’s nominee for Governor. If he gets 3% in November 2010, the party will enjoy qualified status automatically for 2012. Lendall will be the only person on the ballot for Governor, other than the Democratic and [...]

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The Arizona Republic: Of all the offices for which Libertarian Barry Hess previously has campaigned, this race for governor, this year, would seem to be his time. National sentiments seem to be blowing strongly in the direction of Libertarian ideals. Fast-growing national debt, the prospect of higher taxes, exponentially greater federal regulatory controls over private [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Boston Tea Party National Committee by a vote of 3-0 (with 3 abstaining & 1 not voting) has endorsed Dr. Cisse Spragins for US Senate in Missouri. She is the only candidate in this race with the courage to say, “Reducing the size, scope and power of the federal government is [...]

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Top google news results for “Reform Party” related to the USA: Mississippi: PICAYUNE — Libertarian Fourth Congressional District candidate Tim Hampton, in his second visit to Picayune in a month on Thursday, said that voters are looking for “fresh faces” and are tired of the “same old professional politicians who do nothing but tax and [...]

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Networkworld.com: The Swedish Pirate Party is branching out. The campaigning organisation has decided to launch its own ISP in an attempt to offer increased privacy and as a means of increasing revenue. According to a post that it made on file-sharing site TorrentFreak, the Pirate Party is set to introduce the new service on a [...]

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Emailed by Darryl W. Perry to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Perry is Boston Tea Party National Committee Chair. I’m a proud member of the FREEDOM MOVEMENT! That group of people working throughout the grassroots across the country spreading the message of freedom; personal liberty, lower (or no) taxes, no central bank, less (or no) government, an end to [...]

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From Life News via TPID: Unable to support either Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick or Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, the statewide pro-life organization Massachusetts Citizens for Life has endorsed the campaign of independent candidate Tim Cahill, the current State Treasurer. Madeline McComish, the chair of the MCFL State Political Action Committee, told LifeNews.com that Cahill [...]

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Ballot Access News: On June 22, Wisconsin Assemblymember Bob Ziegelbauer announced he was leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent. He is running for re-election this year as an independent. He will have a Republican and a Democratic opponent this November. Ziegelbauer was first elected to the legislature in 1992. He was re-elected unanimously [...]

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