Attached is the convention minutes draft of the controversial and contentious Libertarian Party of Nevada 2011 Convention, courtesy of Debra Dedmon. There were 60 delegates credentialed. The votes for officer positions: Chair Joe Silvestri won 27-26 over Sandra Darby. Wayne Root won Vice Chair over David Colborne, 30-25. Kris McKinster won Secretary over David Colborne, [...]

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Ballot Access News: Senator Cam Ward (R-Alabaster) has introduced SB 17. It lowers the number of signatures for statewide independent candidates from 3% of the last gubernatorial vote, to 1.5% of the last gubernatorial vote. It makes no change to the procedures for new or previously unqualified parties. Also, it has no effect on the [...]

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Ballot Access News: West Virginia State Senator Clark Barnes (R-Beverly) has introduced SB 417, to ease the definition of “political party.” The existing law, ever since 1916, has defined a political party as a group that polled at least 1% of the vote for Governor in the last gubernatorial election. SB 417 would define “political [...]

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Ballot Access News: Here is the text of HR 453, the bill introduced on January 26 by North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler to require the states to use bipartisan redistricting commissions to draw boundaries for U.S. House boundaries. The bill has a special procedure for Nebraska, which has a nonpartisan state legislature. At the close [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to this story in the New York Daily News, Thomas Golisano is one of the major financial backers of the movement to pass the National Popular Vote Plan bills. Golisano was the Independence Party’s gubernatorial candidate in New York in 1994, 1998, and 2002. Each time he ran, he received a [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Several of the speakers have Libertarian and Constitution Party connections: Tom Tancredo was the 2010 Constitution Party candidate for Governor of Colorado, although he has since then returned to the Republican Party. Gary Johnson was previously a dues paying member of the Libertarian Party. Sheriff Richard Mack was the The Libertarian Party [...]

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Bob Barr in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 2: On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson issued a 78-page ruling finding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – more commonly known as “ObamaCare” – to be unconstitutional. His ruling goes beyond even that issued in December by Judge Henry Hudson in another suit challenging [...]

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From manhattanmadam.com, the blog of 2010 Anti-Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of New York Kristin Davis: Kristin Davis, better known as The Manhattan Madam who supplied call-girls for Eliot Spitzer and after prison ran for Governor of New York on a libertarian platform announced she would found HOPE HOUSE, a non-profit created to expose and [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Nashville/Davidson County Libertarian Party has set up this web page to help Tennessee activists lobby for a new, better ballot access law for minor parties. As the page explains, the old law was declared unconstitutional last year. The page also features an ideal new law. The wording for the new law [...]

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via contact.ipr@gmail.com: CHARLOTTE (Feb. 2) – Free the Vote North Carolina announced yesterday the formation of the Free the Vote Coalition, an alliance of the state’s alternative political parties and several electoral reform groups, who have banded together to enact major ballot access reform this year. Rep. Stephen LaRoque will file the Electoral Freedom Act [...]

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Darryl W. Perry, Chair, Boston Tea Party National Committee: It is once again the time of year that Congress votes on extending the PATRIOT Act. Once again, it is expected to pass with little or no debate or opposition. This monstrosity was originally passed shortly after the attacks on September 11, 2001. The Uniting and [...]

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LP.org: Dear Friend of Liberty, Thanks to the generous support of our contributors, we raised around $2,000 last week when we asked for help to buy a teleprompter. We’ll be ordering an affordable model shortly, along with lighting, a podium, and a few other things needed to help us generate good-quality videos. We really appreciate [...]

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Press release: PALM HARBOR – For decades, the Libertarian Party of Florida has sat on the political sidelines watching the Republicans and Democrats run up the score. But Adrian Wyllie thinks that the LPF has the right philosophy to get in the game, and he has the right plan to level the field. Wyllie, a [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Those politically savvy people who thought strongman, Hosni Mubarak would be out before the end of the first week of the Egyptian uprising better rethink the odds. For thirty years Mubarak has developed what can be called a deeply rooted dictatorial regime with regular White House access and annual largesse of [...]

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On The Wilder Side: The Green Party of Suffolk invites all enrolled Green Party members to come to their annual membership meeting to celebrate regaining their ballot line. The meeting will be held on Saturday, March 26, 2011. It will start at 12pm at the Stony Brook Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 380 Nicolls Road, E. [...]

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At Green Party Watch, there is a poll about potential Green Party Presidential candidates for 2012. The list includes Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate for President in 2008.

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Doug Caruso in the Columbus Dispatch, by way of Steve Linnabary in IPR comments, writing about candidates working to get on the ballot in technically nonpartisan Columbus, Ohio city council races (excerpt): On Saturday morning, Mark Noble, who is leading a slate of three Libertarian Party candidates that includes Bob Bridges and Andrew Ullman, set [...]

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George Phillies’ Liberty for America has come out with a February 2011 issue, which can be read in full at the second link. The headlines, some of which have been already posted as IPR stories, and others which may or may not in the coming days: LSLA Meeting Cancelled LP Oregon Sets State Convention New [...]

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by R. Lee Wrights “They who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.” (Hosea 8:7) BURNET, Texas (Feb. 7) –During the Cold War the United States supported a host of corrupt dictators who oppressed, brutalized, imprisoned, tortured, and murdered their own citizens. In the name of protecting us from the monster in the closet, monolithic [...]

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