Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: NEW PALTZ – The One Community Party announced a full slate of candidates for the Village of New Paltz election. Pete Healey is running for Mayor, and Trustee candidates Sally M. Rhoads and Martin Sherow are seeking four-year terms. Trustee candidate Stewart P. Glenn is seeking a two-year term, filling [...]

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GP of NY press release from March 10 (h/t TPID): The Green Party of New York said today that state Democratic and Republican Parties have become an organized crime family at the State Capitol. “Rather than starting the legislation session with the pledge of allegiance, state legislators and the Governor should submit to a lie [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: The San Fernando Green Party launched a campaign to use St. Patrick’s Day as an opportunity to register new Greens and donate to the Green Party. The facebook page here says: Wear Green, tell your friends about the Green Party, encourage citizens to register with the Green Party, do [...]

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Green Party US (via Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch): Watch GreenStream Wednesday March 16 Nuclear Power in Japan & the US By US Green Party on LIVESTREAM Watch GreenStream Wednesday tomorrow night, March 16 at 6pm PT, 9pm ET. We’ll be discussing Japan’s nuclear disaster, US nuclear power plants and the 32rd anniversary of [...]

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Dr. Tom Stevens on his blog (as with all opinionated articles on intra-party controversies, IPR is open to publishing a response should we receive one): On March 10, 2011, the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of Queens County unanimously adopted the following resolution, which contains a “strong recommendation” to LPQC members NOT TO ATTEND the [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org US Greens send a message of sympathy and solidarity to the Japanese Green Party, urge monitoring of radiation in the US and availability of potassium iodide pills [...]

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Bob Barr at the Barr Code: Recent activities conducted by various law enforcement agencies under the direction of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), illustrate once again that the agency has a decidedly tin ear when it comes to concern for how its actions upset and disrupt the travelling public, or how it is perceived by [...]

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Boston Tea Party national chair Darryl Perry via Free Patriot Press and IPR email: Gary Chartier has raised the bar in his new book The Conscience of An Anarchist: Why It’s Time to Say Good-Bye to the State and Build a Free Society. Chartier begins by asking the (non-anarchist) reader to “open your mind to [...]

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H/T Kevin Knedler: Doug Caruso at the Columbus Dispatch: Republicans and Libertarians reached a deal today that cancels the need for a Columbus City Council primary and ensures that two candidates from each of those parties are on the ballot in November. [...] The city charter requires a primary only if there are more than [...]

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David Colborne in IPR comments: Regarding parliamentary rules, I find it absolutely amazing how, at every Libertarian event (and this is a personal observation, not an official one), the probability that an LP meeting will devolve into rules lawyering approaches 1 given enough time. I don’t know if it’s a personality situation or a design [...]

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from the Texas LP via LP.org blog and IPR email: HB 418 withdrawn by bill author Berman AUSTIN- In a victory for The Libertarian Party of Texas, State Representative Leo Berman (R -District 6) withdrew HB 418 on Monday. The bill would have imposed filing fees on third-party and independent candidates, resulting in an intimidating [...]

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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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