Posted by Staff at LP blog: According to the Texas Tribune, six Texas Libertarian candidates are polling at least 5%. Kathie Glass, running for Governor, 5% Scott Jameson, running for Lt. Governor, 5% Jon Roland, running for Attorney General, 5% James Holdar, running for Land Commissioner, 7% Rick Donaldson, running for Agriculture Commissioner, 8% Roger [...]

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Press release from the campaign of Adrian Galysh, Libertarian candidate: California State Senator Alex Padilla’s priorities are clearly misplaced. He’s not addressing California’s unbalanced budget, $600 Billion dollar debt, and the flood of businesses and desperately needed jobs that are leaving the state. Senator Alex Padilla has introduced a bill that would raise the tax [...]

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Via email from Jim Burns, who is seeking the Libertarian Party 2012 Presidential nomination: Dear Paul, There will be a giant leap forward toward libertarianism when individual libertarians accept and practice these words of wisdom from the Englishman, Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797): “No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com, Sept. 20: In a video released today on YouTube.com, Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Alex Snitker accuses Republican challenger Marco Rubio of being afraid to face him. Included in the video is footage of Rubio leaving a tea party event immediately after being asked, “What do you think of Alex Snitker being excluded [...]

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From Cain and Table, earlier this month via TPID: Last week I spoke to Andrew Evans, Chairman of the Modern Whig Party. The Modern Whig Party is a centrist political party that hopes to focus on each issue individually – without any tie to ideology – and to “find solutions that work.” But I worry, [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Boston Tea Party National Committee is pleased to announce the endorsement of 82 candidates. In 2008, the BTP Presidential nominee Charles Jay was on the ballot in 3 States and received 2,422 votes, putting him 14th of 24 ballot listed candidates to appear on at least one State ballot. The BTP [...]

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Press release was sent to us this morning prior to the event, but I was only able to get to this now. Tobin is the Libertarian candidate for California Secretary of State. -p MILL VALLEY, Calif. – Christina Tobin, founder and chair of The Free and Equal Elections Foundation, today announced she will host a [...]

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by Brian Irving After participating in the first two U.S. Senate candidate debates, Libertarian Mike Beitler is being snubbed by the N.C. Association of Broadcasters for the debates they are sponsoring in October 11 and 23. The Beitler campaign first learned about the debates in late August from media reports. A campaign spokesman said that [...]

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• New candidate, nominated through write-ins, on the ballot for DC Council Ward One • Many party members report being given Democratic ballots at the polls WASHINGTON, DC — The DC Statehood Green Party candidates have begun aggressive campaigns after the September 14 primary elections in Washington, DC. The DC Statehood Green Party gained a [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Libertarian campaign for John Jay Myers is releasing a very professional TV ad next week, which highlights the need to end the two party mindset. The video was actually created in the spare time of two Republicans, (one a Precinct Chair) furthering the idea that it is principle over party. “I [...]

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The debates will also include independent Tim Cahill.  From the Stein campaign: Watch Green-Rainbow Party candidate for governor, Dr. Jill Stein, join her 3 opponents in the Boston Media Consortium’s first major debate. The media consortium, made up of The Boston Globe, WCVB-TV, WHDH-TV, WGBH-TV, NECN, and WBUR, has re-invited Dr. Stein after a lot [...]

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From Ocala.com via TPID: The U.S. Senate candidate from the Constitution Party [Bernie DeCastro] had hoped to speak to a bunch of people who swear fealty to the U.S. Constitution and who will gather today in St. Augustine to celebrate the nation’s founding charter at an event held under the headline “Forward With the Constitution.” [...]

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The Maryland Green Party’s US Senate candidate, Natasha Pettigrew, has tragically passed away after being struck by an SUV while riding her bike Sunday morning. Salon: Accident kills Maryland Green Party Senate candidate AP: SUV hits, kills Md. Green Party Senate candidate Maryland Politics: MD Green Party candidate dies after struck by SUV

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Over the weekend, I completed what will probably be my final update of Poli-Tea’s list of third party and independent candidates, 2010.  The page now lists over 600 third party and independent candidates for governor, US House and Senate in all 50 states, and links to about 500 campaign websites.  Though the list is not [...]

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The Texas Libertarian Party hopes to reach out to Hispanic voters through the creation of a new PAC. (Note: the title means “Texas: The Libertarians Have Arrived.”

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From the Capital Times, via Green Party Watch: “People are probably telling him they like him and they like his ideas,” says Palmeri, who ran as a Green Party candidate in 2004 for a state Assembly seat in Oshkosh, earning 9 percent of the vote. “But once voters get inside the voting booth, it becomes [...]

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Submit any questions you might have in the comments or call into the live show at 646-200-0264 (you can also listen that way).  Listen at IPR’s blogtalkradio channel. Here is the announcement for this show. The show will be archived so you can listen to it after the live broadcast, as well.

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The state chair of the Illinois Green Party – which has a handful of local elected officials to its name and has received over 10 percent of the gubernatorial vote – Phil Huckelberry will be appearing on IPR’s blogtalkradio show next Monday, the 27th, at 8:30 PM EST.  If you have any questions you’d like [...]

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The Constitution Party website has the following news. Anemic fundraising, ongoing problems with campaign-finance violations and loss of support from key party members continue to plague Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes. Maes this week reported that he raised $50,201 in August. While it was the campaign’s best fundraising month to date, third-party candidate Tom Tancredo [...]

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Sorry, this article from the Constitution Party website is a bit delinquent. Mr. Boyce addressed the group last Friday. House of Representatives hopeful Peter Boyce will be the keynote speaker at a Constitution Day celebration on Friday, Sept. 17. Boyce, who is running for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District in November’s midterm elections against [...]

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