Boston Tea Party chair Darryl Perry writes: Ben Bernanke,It has come to my attention that you will be compiling a list of people that post derogatory/negative comments about the Federal Reserve. I’d like to ask the following questions: What keywords are you looking for? What do you intend to do with the information you receive? [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Masters of the repeated lying sound byte, the craven Congressional Republicans are feasting on the health and safety of the American people with gleeful greed while making the corporate and trade association media swoon. “Job-killing regulations,” exudes daily from the mouths of Speak John Boehner, his Wall Street-licking side-kick Eric Cantor [...]

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IPR note from Paulie: Independent Marla Ingles and America’s Third Position Party candidate Harry Bertram are also in the race. See Poli-Tea for some details on that. Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: West Virginia is holding a special election for governor today, October 4, and one of the candidates is the Mountain Party’s Bob [...]

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WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: "Associated Press reports today that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress they must not cut federal spending sharply. Chairman Bernanke, you’re wrong. "The federal government is currently spending somewhere around 24% of America’s total economic output — even more if you ignore [...]

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From an e-mail from Ian Gilyeat, independent Candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona: This past Saturday, in Dewey at the Patriots Country Fair, I had opportunity to speak with ranchers, engineers, students and government leaders to name a few. I listened to a wide range of complaints touching on things like: – the tough job [...]

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The following is Starchild’s analysis of the proposals put forth by the LP national bylaws committee. See previous IPR posts and comments here, here, here, here and this post from the York County, PA LP for additional perspective on these proposals. For those who haven’t heard, the handpicked national LP Bylaws Committee, filled with many [...]

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Following the national Libertarian Party Judicial Committee decision that the group led by Wes Wagner is the legitimate LP affiliate in Oregon, and that LPHQ is to restore effective recognition to that affiliate through web linking and sharing of membership data for their state, the LNC is now allegedly voting whether or not to follow [...]

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The Peace and Freedom Party issued the following statement on September 24, 2011. To download this statement as a flyer to print and distribute click here. Peace and Freedom Party of California, the only working class, feminist-socialist party on the ballot in California, expresses our solidarity with the activists participating in the Occupation of Wall [...]

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Ed Fitzpatrick in the Providence Journal: The Libertarian Party of Rhode Island wants to grow. But if the tiny party is going to take state Rep. Daniel P. Gordon Jr. aboard, it better make room for his baggage. In an e-mail, the Libertarian Party cited a report (on independentpoliticalreport.com) saying that Gordon, who was recently [...]

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On The Wilder Side: This is the News 12 debate with Cesar Malaga, the Green Party candidate running for the 14th legislative District in Suffolk County. He is the only Green Party candidate running on Long Island. Suffolk Legislative District 14…, posted with vodpod

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H/T Jim Cook at Irregular Times: Scott Moore at progressive advocacy group Our Oregon has a series of articles about Americans Elect. There are five articles in the series at this time; I don’t know if more are coming. As you can see from the titles, the tone of the articles is hostile towards Americans [...]

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Recent updates from RJ Harris, a candidate for the LP presidential nomination: * RJ Harris Liberty Team collected nearly 400 signatures on an afternoon at a Oklahoma Sooner football game. RJ Harris and his team had a great time tailgating with fans of the #1 Ranked NCAA Football Team in the Nation. * Recent donors [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The New York Green Party has published a list of Green candidates running in this year’s general election on November 8th. The 18 candidates on the list are running for a range of local offices, including town/city council, school board, and county legislature, in locations from Syracuse and Rochester [...]

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Ballot Access News: John Avlon has this article on CNN, detailing how presidential candidates may qualify for the Americans Elect on-line presidential primary. The article says candidates nominated by the Americans Elect leadership need 10,000 “clicks” from the ranks of people who have signed up to be voters in the Americans Elect primary. Those not [...]

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St. Croix, WI, October 1, 2011. Carl Person, Candidate for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for President, made the following statement today as part of solving the unemployment and economic problems existing in Wisconsin and most if not all other states: Background – My background – business owner at age 9 (newspaper route in North Platte, [...]

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Consumerist.com via Ballot Access News: Going into its 14th day, the Occupy Wall Street protest is not only not fading out, it’s about to get a big injection of support, and bodies. The established New York City labor and community groups who normally organize local marches, rallies and sit-ins, have announced they plan to join [...]

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