Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: In 2009, Green candidates won 35% of municipal elections that they entered. Given this figure, it’s not hard to see that with more Greens running in more local elections around the country, the Green Party could become America’s third major party in the course of a few election cycles. [...]

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From the Illinois Green Party website via Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Illinois Green Party is calling for candidates to come forward for the 2012 election cycle. Voter discontent with the two entrenched parties continues to grow, and here in Illinois the Green Party remains the only viable alternative for most voters! Now [...]

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Staff at Libertarian Party blog: Dr. Stephen Davies of the Institute for Humane Studies has made a couple of videos encouraging liberals and conservatives to become libertarians: For liberals: For conservatives:

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Email from Wayne Root: Gary Johnson is a friend of mine. We’re fans of each other’s politics. We’ve spoken often over the past few years. He is a constant guest on my radio shows. I was honored to speak back to back with Gary at the Conservative Leadership Conference held in Nevada this past July. [...]

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Brian Holtz in reply to Michael H. Wislon: Health care is subject to a superfecta of market failures: asymmetric information between doctors and patients, adverse selection of insurers by insurees, moral hazard tempting insurees, and  free-riding of potential donors leading to the underfinancing of charity healthcare. However, health care is also subject to massive government [...]

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Libertarian Party Monday Message: Dear Friend of Liberty, Several Libertarian candidates and groups have made extraordinary efforts lately that I want to point out. Brendan Kelly, who is already an elected official in New Hampshire (Seabrook Selectman), recently ran for a special election to an open seat in the New Hampshire legislature. He was in [...]

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An anonymous source has informed me (Paulie) that the LNC will now have a mail ballot vote to disaffiliate the Oregon LP, which has been mired in in-fighting with two different groups claiming to be the state party, one recognized by the state government and one by the Libertarian National Committee. For its part, the [...]

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Ballot Access News: On September 12, the challenge to the Kentucky Libertarian petition to put Ken Moellman on the ballot for State Treasurer was dropped. See this story in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Moellman was sued by Republicans in a futile attempt to remove him from the ballot after he climbed to 16% in the polls [...]

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Excerpt from J Clifford at Irregular Times: What we need is a strong liberal alternative to the Republicans and Democrats, in electoral politics. In order to get to electoral success, of course, a voice is what every candidate starts with. Democrats and Republicans have corporate-sponsored megaphones for their voices. A Green Party presidential candidate won’t. [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: West Virginia Mountain Party gubernatorial candidate Bob Henry Baber participated in a 3-way televised debate on September 7th with his Democratic and Republican opponents. Baber is running in a special election for WV Governor to be held October 4th. WBOY ABC-12 reported on the debate: Baber, though, said it’s [...]

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Emailed to IPR: Good grief! Have I stumbled into a lousy re-make of “Groundhog Day?” As I view the GOP debates and listen to the “informed” pundits, I recall that I’ve heard all this garbage before. This movie should be titled “The Lesser Evil Again.” For more than 150 years the two old parties have [...]

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According to George Phillies in IPR comments: Oregon has appealed Hinkle’s bizarre claims to the Judicial Committee, requesting a further interpretation of the JudComm findings. Most recently, Hinkle proposed that if the State Chair is not a member of the National Party, the Chair might not be able to make a valid appeal to the [...]

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Posted on the front page of the national Constitution Party Website: I support the Constitution Party (CP) because it is the only political party that promises to stay loyal to the United States Constitution. The Democrats and Republicans sway with public opinion. The CP is anti-abortion. It is in their platform. Their platform is solid, [...]

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Emailed to IPR by Boston Tea Party national committee chair Darryl Perry: For many years, and especially in the past 10 years, many so called “Christians” have been supporting the military actions of the United States government. Some do so because of belief that “those guys over there (wherever there happens to be) want to [...]

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Press release from the Moderate Party of Rhode Island emailed to IPR: Warwick– The Rhode Island Board of Elections will meet on Tuesday, September 13 at 3:30pm in a public hearing. Among the issues to be considered is the current design of the Voter Registration Form. In 2010 the Voter Registration Form was redesigned to [...]

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The 24 Sep meeting of the Alabama CP has been postponed. Ricardo Davis sent along the message below. Friends, Due to unfortunate circumstances the CP of Alabama meeting on September 24 has been postponed.  The new date will be announced soon.   -Ricardo Davis

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(SAN ANTONIO) Roger V. Gary, a candidate for the 2012 Libertarian nomination for President, has issued the following statement on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks: “I join my fellow Texans and my fellow Americans in mourning the deaths and injuries suffered by so many Americans on September 11th of 2001. [...]

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Daniel Wiener at LP blog: As with most people, the events of September 11, 2001 are permanently etched into my memory. A small group of religious zealots were so consumed with hatred for our country and our civilization that they were willing to commit suicide in the course of murdering thousands of people. What defense [...]

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Posted by LPHQ Executive Director Wes Benedict at LP.org blog: September 11, 2011 marks the ten year anniversary of the 9-11 tragedy. I am deeply sorry for those killed or hurt. I’ve lived lots of places around the U.S. and overseas. In 1999, I spent about four months working on a project that had me [...]

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by Mike Seebeck on Saturday, September 10, 2011 Ten years after 9/11, 521 and 5 days, we memorialize those innocent people that lost their lives that day. I’m fine with that. We should do that, and we should commemorate those victims and heroes. (Sidebar: One of the victims in WTC2 that day was…Michael Seebeck. See [...]

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