Carey Campbell is the chairman of the Independent Green Party, which is actually not the state affiliate of the Green Party in Virginia.  Listen here.  Submit any questions you would like asked in the comments. Carey Campbell describes himself as: I’ve been a candidate for local office in 1999, 2007, 2009, and plan to be again [...]

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From Rasmussen: With leaners added in, Kirk picks up 41% of the vote, while Giannoulias earns 37% support. Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones, included for the first time in a Rasmussen Reports survey of the race, earns nine percent (9%). Five percent (5%) prefer another candidate in the race, and another nine percent (9%) are [...]

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Tom Tancredo sends this along. Some Republicans are trying to deny him ballot access. Notice he makes the general case for ballot access in the letter: Dear Conservative, You know you have the establishment running scared when they bring in the lawyers. My campaign has so terrified certain backroom Republican leaders that they are resorting [...]

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Here is Chuck Baldwin’s newest column. He addresses reaction to his announcement last week that he is moving to Montana. Apparently most of the reaction has been positive but not all. He addresses what seem to be mean spirited criticism of his move. I wish he would address the principled paleo objection that it is [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Letter to Members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs September 7, 2010 Members of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator, We are writing to urge you and your colleagues on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and [...]

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Tom Tancredo is a former Republican Congressman from Colorado, as well as a former Republican Presidential candidate. His stance as an immigration hawk has garnered press, votes, and money in each of his runs for office. Now Tancredo is running for Governor of Colorado as the nominee of the Constitution Party. The Tancredo campaign today [...]

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Today, Jay Sweeney officially announced his candidacy for state legislature in Pennsylvania’s 111th district as a Green.  He has run a few times before, garnering as much as 17.5 percent of the vote, and he was elected as the Auditor of Falls Township in 2009.  From the Wyoming County Press Examiner: Green Party candidate Jay [...]

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Oklahoma City, Okla. – Ralph Nader will speak in support of ballot access reform at an Oklahoma City rally on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, from 7 pm to 9 pm. The event will be hosted in the Marriott Hotel Grand Ballroom at 3233 Northwest Expressway. Representatives of Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform, the Green Party [...]

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TPID: Anthony Tolda – CP Press Release – A call to the New York State Board of Elections, today, confirmed that Constitution Party Congressional candidate, Anthony Tolda, has apparently qualified for the ballot in New York’s Second US House of Representatives race.  New York’s Second Congressional District is located in Central Long Island. A Board of [...]

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Ballot Access News: On September 7, two Republicans sued the Colorado Secretary of State, alleging that the Secretary of State should not have permitted the Constitution Party to nominate Tancredo. See this story. A hearing will be held in state court on September 13.

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Dear Friend of Liberty, It’s hard to celebrate Labor Day when unemployment is 9.6 percent. Government interference is the single biggest cause of unemployment. Minimum wage laws, OSHA, ADA, etc., etc., make it difficult both to hire and to fire workers. (And when it’s difficult to fire workers, it’s much less likely that they will [...]

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Posted by Staff at Libertarian Party blog: Rebecca Sink Burris is a member of the Libertarian National Committee and our 2010 candidate for U.S. Senate in Indiana. Today the Indianapolis Star writes about her: In November, Sink-Burris, 58, will square off against Republican political veteran Dan Coats and Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth, two major [...]

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Posted by Staff at Libertarian Party blog: Bill Yarbrough is a Libertarian running for Ohio State Senate, District 3, against Republican and Democratic Party opponents. He recently announced that he has been endorsed by the Ohio Tea Party PAC. Click here to read the announcement. And emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: From: Kevin Knedler Subject: Meet Bill [...]

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Posted by Wayne Root at Libertarian Party blog: Wayne Allyn Root, the Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee (LNCC) announced today the addition of Greg Raymer, one of the great poker professionals in the world, to the Board of the LNCC. Raymer, nicknamed “FossilMan” is best known as the champion of the 2004 World [...]

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Posted by Libertarian National Committee Chair Mark Hinkle at Libertarian Party blog: In an effort to re-establish many of the links to the broader libertarain movement that some of our older web sites use to contain, I’ve contacted many leaders to ask if we can link to their organization’s web site.  The latest addition to [...]

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Even after the party previously denied sitting Senator Lisa Murkowski a place on their ballot this November, the Senator’s campaign is still talking with the Alaska Libertarian Party and the party’s chairman says that they’re “in discussions,” although the party’s decision “will not be reversed.”  Murkowski lost the Republican primary to challenger Joe Miller, but [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: MORAGA, Calif. – Saint Mary’s College of California hosted the first U.S. senatorial candidate debate, Wednesday, September 1, which included incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, but excluded the remaining six alternative candidates. In addition, a number of high-profile gubernatorial debates, which exclude all candidates except Democrat Jerry Brown [...]

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…at 10 PM Eastern, 9 PM Central time. IPR blogtalk is http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ind-pol-report. Darcy Richardson is an author, historian and veteran alternative party and independent political activist, who is in the process of writing a comprehensive seven volume history of the American alternative party and independent political tradition, and is the co-founder of Uncovered Politics. He [...]

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From Ballot Access News: The Kansas Libertarian Party is ballot-qualified and nominates by convention.  Its original nominee for U.S. House, 4th district, David Moffett, recently dropped out of the race because of ill health.  The party has the right to choose a replacement nominee, up until September 20. According to this story, the Kansas Libertarian [...]

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From MLive.com (read the full thing here): Fred Strand thinks there’s a place in Congress for a small-town restaurant owner who knows when the price of beer jumps 10 percent and how business reacts to a 6 percent increase for Pepsi… A former Democrat who ran for Congress from Allegan in 1992, Strand is competing [...]

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