From an e-mail from Georgia Constitution Party Chairman Ricardo Davis: I spoke to the Conservative Republican Women’s group in Norcross yesterday. This is an explicitly Christian group that invited me after some of their members heard me speak at the Founding Fathers Tea Party Patriots meeting in March. My presentation was “A Christian View of [...]

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Robert Stark, who is my Citizens Party source, is planning to run for Congress in California’s 30th District in 2014. The 30th is currently represented by Democrat Henry Waxman and appears to leanheavily Democrat (Obama 70.4% per Wikipedia).

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The Republican candidate for mayor of Tucson, Arizona has dropped out of the race due to a signature challenge on his nominating petitions.  This is of interest to third partisans for two reasons.  First, it is rare that a major party is pushed off the ballot due to signature challenges (meaning that he didn’t collect [...]

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on June 20, 2011 A new CNN poll is making libertarian waves, as election expert and political analyst Nate Silver reports on his FiveThirtyEight Blog in the New York Times: Americans are becoming more libertarian in their basic attitudes. The story has also been picked up by The Daily Caller and The [...]

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It looks like Karen Kwiatkowski is running for Congress as a Republican in 2012. I post this here because she has been frequently suggested as a possible LP candidate for President in 2012. I guess this rules that out. Below is from an Editor’s Note preceding her opinion piece. Ed: Below is a column from Karen [...]

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Wikinews R. Lee Wrights, a candidate for the U.S. Libertarian Party‘s presidential nomination, took some time to speak with Accredited Wikinews Reporter William Saturn about his presidential campaign and positions on political issues. Wrights, a native of North Carolina, is an activist and lifetime member of the Libertarian Party who currently serves as the editor [...]

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Libertarian Party View this message at LP.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2011 Contact: Wes Benedict, Executive Director E-mail: wes.benedict@lp.org Phone: 202-333-0008 ext. 222 Libertarian Party: 40 years is enough – end the Drug War WASHINGTON – June 17, 2011 is the 40th anniversary of America’s War on Drugs. Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued [...]

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From the Twin Cities Daily Planet (read the full thing here, there is a lot more information in the article itself): The Green Party of St. Paul began a new effort to recruit candidates for upcoming 2011 local elections June 16, as candidates and around 40 supporters gathered to launch the effort dubbed Green St. [...]

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From an e-mail from Ricardo Davis, Chairman of the Constitution Party of Georgia: Friends in the Cause of Liberty, Today there will be a Multi-County Tea Party Rally this afternoon in Monticello (see below). Yesterday morning I was contacted about the possibility of the Constitution Party being represented at the event, and through the help [...]

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Here is a Citizens Party presidential poll. This is an early Citizens Party 2012 Presidential Preference Poll  of announced, expected to announce, possibly announcing candidates and draft and expected draft candidates. HT: Robert Stark

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BURNET, Texas (June 17) – Lee Wrights will participate in the first Libertarian presidential debate scheduled during the Future of the Libertarian Movement Conference in Manchester, N.H. June 19. The one-day conference is sponsored by the Libertarian Parties of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Three candidates will participate in the debate, Wrights, Roger Gary of Texas [...]

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“There are 4 lessons to be learned from Weiner-mania and the media’s obsession with Weiner’s weiner.” – Wane Root

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From a Green Party of Suffolk press release: “The Green Party of Suffolk is outraged to discover that Suffolk County has continued using Tasers against its residents…”

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The following is an excerpt of an interesting, and brief, editorial from a Finnish news site about how the political choices of their own country’s Green Party compares to those of Green Parties in neighboring nations: The core of the Green movement is concern over the environment. However, environmental questions are no longer the sole property [...]

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Ballot Access News: New Jersey elects its state legislators in odd years. This year, New Jersey’s active minor parties have more candidates for the Assembly (the lower house) than they did two years ago. Libertarians have candidates in four districts this year, whereas the party only had candidates in a single Assembly district in 2009. [...]

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From Ballot Access News: New York State held a special U.S. House election on May 24, 2011, to fill the vacant 26th district seat. The official results by party: Democratic 42.77%; Republican 32.15%; Tea Party 9.03%; Conservative 8.18%; Working Families 4.67%; Independence 2.14%; Green 1.06%. In November 2010, the results in this same seat had [...]

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BURNET, Texas (June 14) – The Lee Wrights for President Campaign announced today a special initiative to produce video commercials for Libertarian candidates and affiliates in 2012. “We want to help Libertarian candidates and local organizations spread the libertarian message in the 2012 election,” said Thomas Hill, Wrights campaign manager. Production cost for each commercial [...]

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Written by George Phillies June Liberty for America The Libertarian Future is Here and Republicans have only bad news incoming. Exciting news from the Pew Trust. They just completed their latest study of American political opinions. They do these every few years, with careful statistical analysis. You can read the whole study at people-press.org/2011/05/04/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology/ The [...]

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From an article on WorldNetDaily.com: There was a time when I considered myself something of a libertarian. I never liked the label “conservative.” Conservatives for me were … well … too conservative, for lack of a better way of saying it. I actually wanted to shrink the federal government down to a size reflecting its [...]

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SAN ANGELO, Texas — “They would suffer irreparable harm.” That is what federal Judge Fred Biery said would happen to members of the Schultz family if they attended their son’s graduation ceremony at Medina Valley ISD. What was going to happen that would cause this harm? Were they threatened with violence? Were they going to [...]

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