UPDATE: I screwed up last week and scheduled the show for 15 minutes, and Andy also was not on the call. This time I have made sure that we will have long enough for the show. It will be on today (Monday) at 8 PM Eastern time, and I will also try to make sure [...]

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Extrapolated from comments left Eddie at Green Party Watch. With a small amount of extrapolation, these ideas are also relevant to other alternative political parties. Eddie writes, in part: The California Green Party sent out emails outlining a new campaign that will help add 100,000 new members in the next two years with mostly paid [...]

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Frequent candidate and political activist Harry Davis has announced, after an interview with the party, that he is seeking the Green Party endorsement in the race for mayor of Rochester, New York.  A special election is taking place soon and only ballot qualified parties can run candidates.  Local businessman Alex White is also seeking the [...]

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Michelle at LP blog: The LP website has a new addition! In order to get to know our elected officials better, there is now an "Elected Libertarians" section that was recently added to the right side of our homepage. Many Libertarian officeholders have their name, picture and a brief biography listed for viewers to see. [...]

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Emailed by Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com. On a related subject, see Ralph Nader and Ron Paul on Freedom Watch: Alliance Against Corporatism. The Community-Organizer-in-Chief Forms Unholy Alliance Between Big Brother and Big Business Poor Obama. He just has no idea how to create a job. He’s changed strategy by 180 degrees…and he’s still grasping at [...]

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George Phillies at Gold America Group: Our usual sources provide us with information that we believe to be correct about LNC acts this past month. The LNC added LP Maryland State Chair Bob Johnston to their part-time as their Candidate and Affiliate Support Specialist. The LNC has finally noticed that it had inactive affiliates, that [...]

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Ballot Access News: Robert J. Healey, Jr., the Cool Moose Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island last year, polled 39.15% of the total vote. This was the highest share of the vote for any “other” statewide nominee in Rhode Island since 1875, when independent gubernatorial candidate Rowland Hazard received 39.19% of the vote. [...]

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Emailed by Dennis Mikolay to IPR: If you think the politicians on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” are corrupt, wait until you find out about Eminent Domain abuse in Asbury Park, New Jersey!

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Gold America Group: NJ Libertarian Party life member and former NJ Libertarian Party chairman Michael Pierone of White Township (Warren County) was appointed, as a Libertarian, to the Board of Education of the Warren County Vocational School District. His term began January 1, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2014.

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Green Party New York State via OnTheWilderSide: Image via Wikipedia The Green Party of New York State called on President Obama to commit to a massive investment in renewable energy and for the United States to go carbon-free by 2020. President Obama’s visit to GE’s Schenectady, NY plant to tour its renewable energy department reminds [...]

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From Gayle McLaughlin, Green Party Mayor of Richmond, California. Forwarded to IPR by Carey Campbell: Dear Friends, It has been a busy January so far. Thank you all for your participation in the many events that have started off the year. We had an exciting Swearing-In Ceremony on January 11, and we have held the [...]

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by Darrell Castle Constitution Party Vice-Chairman This is the week of the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s famous speech in which he warned the nation to beware of what he called “the military industrial complex.” He was talking about the military leaders joining with leaders of the arms industry for the purpose of expanding their [...]

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thejournal.ie: THE GREEN PARTY is withdrawing from Ireland’s coalition government, in the wake of Brian Cowen’s decision to step down as leader of Fianna Fáil. Speaking at the Merrion Hotel, Green Party leader John Gormley said: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and thank you for joining us. On November 22 last we said that an [...]

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Hugh Giordano – 2010 Green candidate for state representative in Philadelphia who got 23 percent of the vote in the city, union organizer, and Green Party of Philadelphia City Committee member – is sending the following two-part open letter to every union in the city of Philadelphia: … Supporting the Democrats and Republicans! LET’S RUN [...]

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Posted by Beau Cain at CA.LP.ORG. H/T Andy Jacobs. There’s no better time than now to boost California’s registered Libertarians with a voter registration drive, and you can help us reach an unprecedented level of understanding and cooperation toward liberty. Just look at this graph showing our steady growth for more than two years, and [...]

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Ballot Access News: In the 2010 election, Tea Party candidates appeared on the general election ballot under the “Tea Party” label, for federal or state office, in Florida, Nevada, and New Jersey. Even though there were 17 Tea Party nominees in races with both a Democrat and a Republican also in the race, there is [...]

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This is from Cody Quirk via a Facebook Message: Our elected office-holder, John Lampros, has been made Chairman of the White-Pine County Commission Board http://www.elynews.com/articles/2011/01/07/news/news13.txt And he’s already shaking things up for the better- http://www.elynews.com/articles/2011/01/21/news/news11.txt

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Starchild comments on a previous press release by the Libertarian Party supporting Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks: What paulie said — anti-TSA and pro-WikiLeaks! Both of these issues represent key tests of government power against civil liberties, one related to the First Amendment protections of freedom and speech and of the press, the other [...]

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From Raw Story via Poli-Tea: on Wednesday’s broadcast of Freedom Watch on the Fox Business channel, Judge Napolitano sat down for an amiable interview with Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Ralph Nader to discuss a progressive-libertarian alliance in the 112th session of respective chambers in Congress. Nader, who has recently called this coalition “the most [...]

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According to Ballot Access News: “On November 2, 2010, Pamela J. Brown, Libertarian nominee for Lieutenant Governor of California, received 5.86% of the vote. That is the highest share of the vote any candidate for that office (other than Democratic and Republican nominees) has received since 1922. The race also included nominees of the Democratic, [...]

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