From the Wall Street Journal: The new ethics law being touted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo parcels equal roles to Democrats and Republicans in investigating lawmakers of both parties suspected of questionable conduct. What about independents? “They don’t exist,” Mr. Cuomo said at a recent news conference, at which point he and legislative leaders standing beside [...]

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Bylaws Purportedly Enacted by State Committee Invalid State Committee Not Authorized to Cancel Convention The conversation below was extracted from another thread in IPR. It is compiled here in this order to improve readability. Redundant language was removed. The controversy surrounds an attempted coup by the former officers of the Libertarian Party of Oregon, lead [...]

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Sarah Palin’s flirtation with third party politics has inspired Jeffery Lord to write this article at American Spectatoron the history of third parties in general. Describing the “third party paradox” Lord says: It is always an abysmal failure. While being a spectacular success. It has never elected a President of the United States. It has [...]

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“Have you seen the movie Dinner for Schmucks? Now we have a sequel, Twitter for Schmucks starring Congressman Anthony Weiner. I’m a Libertarian. I don’t want government in my bedroom, or my boardroom, so I’m generally hands-off (excuse the pun) about what politicians do in their private time. But this is different. Weiner must resign.”

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The letter of endorsement, as posted on the campaign website of Cheri Honkala for Sheriff of Philadelphia: Dear Fellow Green Party members, Remember the excitement of the Nader/LaDuke 2000 campaign?  How about the enthusiasm generated when Matt Gonzalez ran for Mayor of San Francisco as a Green and damned near won? I am writing to [...]

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CHARLOTTE (June 7) – In a bipartisan 67-50 vote, the state House of Representatives approved a bill to dramatically lower the threshold for a new political party to gain and maintain ballot access in North Carolina. The bill lowers the number of signatures a new party must obtain to 0.25 percent of registered voters. That [...]

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As reported at Ballot Access News: On June 7, the North Carolina House passed HB 32, which –if ultimately passed — would lower the number of signatures for previously unqualified parties, and independent candidates. The bill includes lowering some signature requirements from 85,000 currently, to 18,000 for 2012.

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Here is the latest video for the California marijuana initiative:

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From an email sent to IPR by Ken Block : Governor Chafee says tax payer silence means silent approval of his tax plan Tell him otherwise! An article in the Providence Journal on 6/2/2011 ‘Governor Chafee pushes for sales-tax overhaul at public forum’ drives home the importance of getting and staying involved in the political [...]

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From an email sent to IPR by Darryl Perry, chair of the Boston Tea Party: I was recently asked if Sarah Palin was a member of the BTP. This question arose from the fact that the former Alaska Governor has recently, one more than one occasion, quoted the BTP slogan, “party like it’s 1773!” Unlike [...]

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From an email sent to IPR by Darryl Perry, chair of the Boston Tea Party: Texas could become the first State to pass a bill criminalizing invasive pat-downs by agents of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Near the end of the regular session HB 1937 passed the State House unanimously yet stalled in the State [...]

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In North Carolina, H.B. 32, the Electoral Freedom Act of 2011, will be on the NC House legislative calendar on Tuesday, June 7. Free The Vote North Carolina has put out an action alert for people to call their representatives to support the bill, and the alert was posted on the North Carolina Libertarian list-serve.

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View this message at LP.org Dear Friend of Liberty, John Edwards was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2004, and he was a leading contender for the presidential nomination in 2008. We all now know he cheated on his wife and lied to America about it throughout much of that time. Now he’s facing potential [...]

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Posted in the Dallas Monthly News, June 2011 John Jay Myers, the Membership Director of the Libertarian Party talks about the Republican, Democratic and Libertarian Parties By Betsy Turner & Job Eliazer john myersQ: What is the Libertarian Party? A: The Libertarian Party is the 3rd largest political party in the United States. One of [...]

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Here is an explanation from Wes Wagner on the events in his state of Oregon. It was written June 3, 2011. Essentially what happened is summarized as thus: During our 2010 convention, the party having been tired of our numerous structural issues adopted a plan for reformation of the party with a 2/3rds+ majority — [...]

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Teetering Greece demonstrates the failure of government spending Poor President Obama. Despite all his efforts, or maybe because of them, the U.S. economy keeps crumbling. But to be fair, government is a failure everywhere. Exhibit A is the big fat Greek bankruptcy. Have you heard? A Greek tragedy is unfolding – again. Greece is bankrupt [...]

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From Arkansas News: Two Saline County elected officials, a Democrat and a member of the Green Party, announced their switch to the Republican Party today. Sheriff Bruce Pennington, a Democrat serving his second term, and first-term County Collector Joy Ballard, who ran on the Green Party ticket in 2010, announced their decision jointly in what [...]

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Mark Jenkins has posted this statement @ the website of the Minnesota Independence Party: The Independence Party of Minnesota platform declares that “We support high standards of morality, family values and personal responsibility, but we oppose having the government impose state-sponsored morality or values on people of good conscience with differing views.” With this principle [...]

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Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer told Fox News that the Tea Party will back whoever receives the Republican nomination even if it is Mitt Romney. Of course, no one speaks for the whole Tea Party and several other Tea Party leaders objected. The Tea Party will support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination – [...]

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Palin was on Hannity Friday night and the issue of running third party came up. The exchange is recounted here at American Spectator. In a stunning development, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate indicated to Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview aired Friday night that she could abandon the [...]

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