Jerry Wilson at Viva La Revolucion: How embarrassing, the Oregon Progressive Party bosses who invited me to run ten months ago suddenly changed their minds at the filing deadline. Or somebody changed their minds for them – somebody whose name starts with a big D I suspect. There is no question I would have given [...]

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From Gary Ruskin to contact.ipr@gmail.com: California gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman are planning a “green debate” on October 12 – without the Green candidate for governor, Laura Wells. “What’s a “green debate” without a Green? It’s a fraud,” said Gary Ruskin, co-founder of Green Change, a national political organization based in San Rafael, [...]

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Ballot Access News: On August 23, Bill Redpath, Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. House, Virginia’s 10th district, debated his Democratic Party opponent, Jeff Barnett. See this story. The third candidate in the race, incumbent Republican Frank Wolf, did not participate. Thanks to Melinda Moore for the link. Redpath is somewhat well known nationally because he [...]

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Posted by Mary Ruwart at Libertarian Party blog:   I just posted the following article at LibertyforAll.net.  You can read it in its entirety at  at http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4752.  Enjoy!     “Since the FDA only has jurisdiction over compounds involved in ‘interstate commerce,’ they have no jurisdiction over our kitchens—yet.  Should my client lose this case, however, [...]

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LP blog: LP News, which is arriving at homes now, announced door hangers would be available for sale online. They’re not quite ready, but may be on Friday 8/27/10. Will keep you posted. –Wes Benedict Attachment Size libertarian_door_hanger_fan4_100x177.jpg 9.11 KB libertarian_door_hanger_fan4_253x448.jpg 43.19 KB libertarian_door_hanger_front&back.pdf 188.22 KB libertarian_door_hanger_front_360x792.jpg 84.59 KB libertarian_door_hanger_back_360x792.jpg 96.39 KB libertarian_door_hanger_front_100x259.jpg 13.96 KB [...]

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From the Duke University student newspaper, the Chronicle. Forwarded in email by Chris Cole. Candidates gear up for tough fight over Senate seat By Ciaran OConnor (except): A third candidate Although they are the favorites to win the seat, Burr and Marshall are not the only candidates Duke students can choose from to represent them [...]

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BAN via TPID: This year, the ballot-qualified Arizona Green Party, which is required under state law to nominate by primary, has in influx of candidates who are apparently not bona fide Greens, and who have refused to meet with Green Party activists and leaders. There is evidence that political consultants who are associated with Republicans [...]

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From Stockholm News via TPID: The Green party in Stockholm is however the big winner. Compared with the 2006 elections the Greens have doubled their support, this means an increase with 100 percent.. In this survey they got 18.2 percent which means that they are almost as big as the Social Democrats’ 20.2 percent. – [...]

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Associated Press: NEWARK, Ohio — The elephant and the donkey are going into hiding at an Ohio voting board. A Libertarian candidate saw ceramic figurines of the Republican and Democratic symbols on the counter at the Licking County Board of Elections when he filed paperwork to run for county commissioner. James Snedden Jr. says the [...]

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Illinois Treasurer and US Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias’s campaign posted a press release titled “Anti-Establishment Wave Should Have Washington Insider Kirk Afraid, Very Afraid” on wednesday. The release warns Republican Congressman Mark Kirk that he faces a “legitimate challenge from the right with Libertarian candidate Mike Labno officially on the Illinois ballot.” As with Republican Senator [...]

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Australia’s ‘greenslide’ is a result of Proportional Representation — a reform promoted by Greens for fair elections in the US “Hung Parliament” will give Australian Greens unprecedented power Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on international issues, electoral reform, related topics: http://www.gp.org/speakers/subjects.php WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States congratulates [...]

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From City Biz List by way of TPID: Despite the odds, there are 23 people running for Maryland’s U.S. Senate seat this fall, including candidates from the Constitution Party, the Green Party and the Libertarian Party, as well as Republicans and Democrats.

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By Chuck Baldwin, 2008 Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of [...]

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Daniel McCarthy of The American Conservative thinks it might be. He is responding to this story by Dave Weigel which reports on the departure of Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson from the Cato Institute.

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Here is the letter from Tom Tancredo referred to in the Sheriff Joe Arpaio post below. I didn’t post it initially because it had a lot of “donate here” buttons embedded in it, but I’ll post it now since it is referred to below. Dear Conservative, You are literally paying foreign nationals to sneak over [...]

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Press release from LPHQ: WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party (LP) is protesting the decision by Facebook to refuse advertisements that advocate for the legalization of marijuana. The LP had been running a highly successful Facebook ad to express its support of marijuana legalization, but Facebook banned the ad about a week after accepting it. A [...]

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Irregular Times: You may be wondering whether the Americans Elect corporation is serious in its ambition to get its own candidates for President and Vice President elected in 2012. I’ve been wondering too. But then I did a bit of checking and found out that within the past three weeks Americans Elect (or the similarly-named [...]

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I received the following e-mail from Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Conservative, The federal government has failed to protect our borders. Across the country, illegal immigration is bankrupting our states and costing taxpayers thousands of dollars. In Arizona, we stood up to the open border policy of the Obama Administration and passed legislation to enforce the rule [...]

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By Phil Maymin, 2006 Libertarian candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut’s 4th congressional district. Forwarded by Marc Montoni via email. When it comes to the mosque to be built near Ground Zero in New York City, everyone is pretending to be something they’re not. Perhaps for the first time since Grover Cleveland, a [...]

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From the Michigan Messenger by way of TPID: With the Republican and Democratic candidates already decided by the party primaries earlier this month, a third party — the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan — has announced its list of candidates for various offices in the state. Among them is a physician from Fremont who advocates [...]

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