BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA – Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Alex Snitker had words of congratulations — and words of warning — for tonight’s Republican and Democrat Senate primary election winners. “I’d like to congratulate both Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek for winning their respective primaries,” said Snitker. As expected, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio has apparently [...]

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On August 24, 2010 the Boston Tea Party National Committee passed a resolution opposing a national ID “or any other bill that would establish a National ID card that includes biometric scanning or tracking devices” 5-0 (with 2 not voting). Whereas governments that truly want to protect liberty have no need to track the every [...]

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INDEPENDENCE, Ky. – The Libertarian Party of Kentucky (LPKY) is outraged that the Republican Party has decided to try to sue Ed Martin, the legitimate LPKY-endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, off the ballot, contrary to their deceptive statements about welcoming Ed Martin to the race. “This tired motif rears its head again,” said [...]

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“It is a great day for Florida,” stated Tea Party Founder and Chairman Fred O’Neal upon learning of Rick Scott’s victory in the Republican primary. The Florida Tea Party (a political party with candidates on the ballot -p) made the election of Rick Scott and the defeat of Bill McCollum a top priority in the [...]

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ALBANY, NY. – Free & Equal continues its coverage of the NY gubernatorial race with Charles Barron (Freedom Party), Howie Hawkins (Green Party), Warren Redlich (Libertarian Party) and Jimmy McMillan (Rent Is 2 Damn High Party), as the New York state independent and grassroots party candidates turned in their independent nominating petitions, last week. “A [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Dear Sir/Mam I would like to announce that George Wallace, Jr. will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Prohibition National Convention to be held June 21-23 in Cullman, Alabama. Please visit the party website at www.ProhibitionParty.org for complete convention details. God Bless, Toby Davis, Chairman Prohibition National Committee

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: DeKalb, Ill. -The first U.S. senatorial candidate debate organized by Free and Equal Elections Foundation, to be hosted by Northern Illinois University at DeKalb, has been rescheduled for October and expanded into a back-to-back debate event including Free and Equal’s fourth gubernatorial candidate debate. Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity will sponsor [...]

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Posted by Libertarian National Committee Chair Mark Hinkle at Libertarian Party blog: Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said his country should legalize the production and sale of drugs in order to curb rising cartel-related violence. Legalizing narcotics would curtail funding to organized crime groups, who are using profits from the drug trade to consolidate power, [...]

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Wayne Root at LP blog: Wayne Allyn Root, former LP Vice Presidential nominee, current LNC member, and Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee continues his nonstop media success. In addition to 42 recent media appearances (see below), Wayne has been chosen by CBS radio in Las Vegas (50,000 watt news/talk superstation KXNT) to guest [...]

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posted by Kyle  As explained in our press release, the Libertarian Party is encouraging individuals to protest the decision made by Facebook to refuse advertisements that advocate for the legalization of marijuana. As noted by Wes Benedict, "We recognize Facebook’s right to control their content and censor whoever they want. But we’re also exercising our [...]

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Garland Favorito of VoterGA.org provides us with this analysis of the Secretary of State candidates in Georgia based on ballot security and ballot access issues. Here it is in PDF form if you prefer. SECRETARY OF STATE BRIAN KEMP On January 4, 2010 Gov. Perdue appointed former state senator, Brian Kemp, as Secretary of State [...]

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From the Denver Business Journal: Tom Tancredo has named a new running mate in his third-party bid for Colorado governor: former state legislator Pat Miller… The American Constitution Party had previously named Doug Campbell to run as its lieutenant governor candidate before Tancredo stepped in as its gubernatorial standard bearer…. The Erie resident served a [...]

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From the Hudson Hub Times: A Libertarian candidate running for state representative for the 42nd House District is dropping out of the Nov. 2 election and endorsing the Republican candidate.John E. Hoover, who was running on the Libertarian party, said Aug. 23 that he has withdrawn his candidacy and will endorse Kristina Daley Roegner, Republican [...]

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PPP released new polling on the Florida Senate race yesterday. From the pollster’s press release: Rubio pulls ahead 40-32 if Meek wins tonight. But Crist’s Democratic support tanks if Meek emerges victorious; Meek would get 17%, with Snitker at 3%, and only 8% undecided. Crist pulls a 48% plurality of Democrats, with a 2:1 lead [...]

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PPP released the results today of its latest poll of the Florida gubernatorial race. The poll puts Democrat Alex Sink at 41%, Republican Rick Scott at 34%, and Independent Bud Chiles at 8%. Tom Jensen comments on Chiles’ support: When Bud Chiles first got into the race for Florida Governor it seemed like just another piece [...]

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From Shushannah Walshe at the Daily Beast There’s a new wrinkle in Alaska’s hotly contested GOP Senate primary. With Senator Lisa Murkowski trailing Palin-endorsed insurgent Joe Miller, a source inside Murkowski’s campaign tells The Daily Beast the senator may abandon the GOP for a third-party run. The alleged source for this story appears not to [...]

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Jason at Peach Pundit has the story. She cites “personal family issues” as her reason for withdrawing. The LP of Georgia executive committee will pick a replacement. Update: The LP of Georgia ExCom has nominated Dan Barber as the replacement.

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From John Michael Spinelli at the Examiner: While there are likely many political issues Dan La Botz and Eric Deaton do not agree on, one timely issue they do share in common is that the anticipated debate between Republican Rob Portman and Democrat Lee Fisher, both running to replace George Voinovich in the U.S. Senate, [...]

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From the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (read the full thing here): A week ago, five third-party candidates seeking statewide office appeared to have enough signatures to make it on this fall’s ballot. But legal challenges to their petitions forced them all to abandon their bids. There were no challenges to the petitions filed by three Luzerne [...]

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Barry Hess has emerged from a crowded field as the Libertarian standard-bearer in Arizona’s gubernatorial race.

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