The Reform Party of New Jersey has formally announced its endorsement of Miriam Martinez for Mercer County Sheriff. The Reform Party of New Jersey’s executive committee has voted to endorse Trenton-native Miriam Martinez, the CEO of Martinez Security and Investigations LLC, as their candidate for Mercer County Sheriff. Martinez, who earned a place in the [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: KALW News has published an interview with Terry Baum, Green Party candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, at SFGate.com: This year’s SF mayoral election is ranked choice, meaning San Franciscans can all vote for more than one candidate. If the frontrunner doesn’t get a majority of first place votes, [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Imagine a private meeting between President Barack Obama and 25 mega barons of U.S. business at the White House Indian Treaty Room. President Obama: “Gentlemen and Lady, I’ve invited you here today to give you a preview of an address I will deliver in a month before the national convention of [...]

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Wayne Root in the Washington Times (H/T LP.org Blog): President Obama is right. It is time for “fairness.” It is time to ask some Americans to do more, contribute more, sacrifice more. But like most things Mr. Obama does, he has singled out the wrong group. The rich and business owners already pay far too [...]

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Ballot Access News: On September 25, the Green Party national steering committee will begin voting on a location for the 2012 national convention. Baltimore and Sacramento have submitted bids. Both cities propose dates for the convention of July 13-15, 2012. The Green Party 2008 convention was July 10-12. The party’s 2004 and 2000 national conventions [...]

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As I type this rant, I am sitting here in the State Board of Equalization’s office in Ventura where I just handed them a check for $5581 in sales tax. Today is a special day, a little victory for me. You see, moments before I walked in and paid my final sales tax to the [...]

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Dr. Tom Stevens at Liberty Lion (for background see here and here): The Libertarian Party Bylaws Committee has proposed the following bylaw amendment to be voted on by the delegates in attendance at the Libertarian Party’s National Convention scheduled to be held from May 3-6, 2012 at the Red Rock Hotel & Casino in Las [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The German Green Party has gained support in another state election, this time in Berlin. From BBC News coverage: The SPD – who have been in opposition nationally since 2009 – won around 29% of the vote, down from 30.8% in 2006. Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union gained just [...]

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Email via LPHQ list. For background see article posted at IPR last week by Marc Montoni and comments on that article. Dear fellow libertarian, In the months leading up to our 2010 national convention, thousands of you responded to requests for advice for how we should amend our Platform and our Bylaws. The opinions and [...]

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Emailed by Boston Tea Party chair Darryl W. Perry to IPR. Also posted at Hammer of Truth, among other places. When one hears the term wiretapping, normally one thinks of secretly recording phone calls of others; some may have thoughts of Watergate. However, under some crafty interpretations of the legal definition of wiretapping, several people [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Gazette.net reports on a bike ride held in memory of Natasha Pettigrew, the Maryland Green Party’s 2010 US Senate candidate who was killed by a motorist while riding her bike last year: Sophie Chan-Wood didn’t know Natasha Pettigrew, but when the avid cyclist heard about a Saturday morning memorial [...]

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As of the time this is being posted to IPR, this article takes up most of the space on the front page of Carl Person’s website. Person is currently seeking the Libertarian nomination for President of the US. My Qualifications in Biographic Form – JOBS JOBS JOBS Let me introduce myself. My name is Carl [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Arlington Sun Gazette reports: Green Party candidate for County Board Audrey Clement will be the featured speaker at a discussion of solar options for Arlington County on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at Northside Social Restaurant and Cafe, 3211 Wilson Blvd. For information, see the Web site [...]

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Via LPHQ email list and LP.org blog: Member recruiters: Brent Gernant, Waterloo, IA, 1 (updated 9/20/2011) September 19, 2011 Dear Friend of Liberty, I need your help recruiting new members into the LP. By many measures, such as the number of candidates and number of votes received, the Libertarian Party has been growing for the [...]

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Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch: Changeallulia!

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Matt Welch of Reason TV and Reason Magazine interviews Wayne Root at Freedom Fest.

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The New York Times did an article about the German Green Party’s growth titled “Greens Gain in Germany, and the World Takes Notice.” The article was positive about the German Green Party. Though, Green Party activist Ian Wilder notes that the Times article contains a lot of misleading information about the Green Party in the United States.

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Jack Wagner at the Free Independent-Sun: On October 4th West Virginia will hold a special election for Governor. On September 7th a 3-Way Debate was held between candidates Earl Ray Tomblin (Democrat), Bill Maloney (Republican) and Bob Henry Baber (Green-Mountain). I support the elimination of the food tax. I am opposed to new taxes on [...]

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by Randall Stufflebeam and Audrey Queckboerner MidWest Regional Chairman and Indiana State Party Chairman http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=1363: Recently a question was asked of our Party why we were not endorsing Ron Paul for his 2012 Presidential bid. The following is our response written by the State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Indiana, Audrey Queckboerner and our [...]

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James Libertarian Burns has updated his Presidential campaign website shortly after IPR reposted Jeremy Young’s critique of candidate websites. The update may or may not have been spurred by the article. I’m not sure whether the content was updated, or just the appearance. Here’s the Table of Contents (see the website for embedded links if [...]

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