Lee Wrights at Liberty for All: from Wrights 2012 staff BURNET, Texas (March 14) – When former President George W. Bush canceled a trip to Geneva for a charity fundraiser because he feared being arrested for war crimes, it was a shame and a blot on our nation, potential Libertarian presidential candidate R. Lee Wrights [...]

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Gold America Group: Following a state convention of the LP Oregon, State Chair Jeff Weston resigned, handing the chairmanship of the State Party over to State Vice Chair Wes Wagner. Wagner proposed that there should be an effort to negotiate differences rather than to seek power through enhanced supporter counts. The following discussion did not [...]

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Photos from St. Patrick’s Day Parade from John Jay Myers and the Dallas Libertarian Party: For more about the parade, see Dallas Libertarians participate in parade with 100,000 attendees, offer customizable video to other local LPs

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Ballot Access News: The Tennessee Senate State and Local Government Committee will hear SB 935 on Tuesday, March 15, at 10:30 a.m., in room 12. SB 935 makes some very small improvements in the law on how groups qualify as political parties in Tennessee. The bill improves the filing deadline for new party petitions slightly. [...]

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Ralph Nader releases some statistics on the Public Broadcasting Service [PBS] and National Public Radio [NPR]. Nader asserts, “The tumultuous managerial shakeup at National Public Radio headquarters for trivial verbal miscues once again has highlighted the ludicrous corporatist right-wing charge that public radio and public TV are replete with left-leaning or leftist programming.”

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Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch: Daisy Deadhead, a Green Party member in Greenville SC, has posted a number of photos of a Green Party endorsed “Rally for a Moral Budget” at her blog, Daisy’s Dead Air. The hour long demonstration was held at the State House in Columbia, SC. To see them, please click [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Arkansas Libertarian Party will launch a petition drive in April to qualify for the 2012 ballot as a full-fledged party. The party has virtually met its goal of raising $30,000 to pay for the petition drive, which needs 10,000 valid signatures, to be collected in any three months of the party’s [...]

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IPR Note: The original headline of the Monday message is “Wall of Shame ad is live,” but since we already reported that, and there had been questions about whether the ad had actually been placed in the Post, I thought this headline would do a better job of keeping our readers up with the news. [...]

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An e-mail from Tancredo’s Team America PAC: Dear Conservative, One of the biggest obstacles to stopping illegal immigration is silence. Ever since we shut down the Bush-McCain Amnesty in 2007, Republicans usually oppose amnesty and support border security if prompted, but they try to avoid the topic all together. Once in awhile, like when Obama [...]

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Press release from LPHQ: WASHINGTON – The mainstream press is falsely crediting Republicans for proposing "deep cuts" in federal spending. To fight back, the Libertarian Party is promoting its "Republican Wall of Shame" with an online ad in the Washington Post. Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle said, "I can’t believe the press is saying Republicans [...]

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Joe Trippi was the consultant who built Howard Dean’s internet fund-raising operation during the 2004 Democrat primary campaign. Politico.com reports that Trippi raised the possibility of a third party challenge based on internet fund-raising at the South by Southwest interactive conference. “This will be one of the big frontier breakthroughs for politics, either in 2012 [...]

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Via email: At our last meeting of the Texas State Executive Committee, there was extensive discussion concerning candidates and candidate recruitment. At that time I informed my fellow Libertarians that I was running for our Party’s nomination for the office of President of the United States. I have been a Life Member of both the [...]

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