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• 1 Jan. 2013 Open Thread for Other Stuff | Independent Political Report: Third Party News // Jan 1, 2013 at 5:09 pm

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• 2 Reed E // Jan 4, 2013 at 1:00 am

  Not sure if this is news or not but the Libertarian Party of Louisiana is hearing up for 2013 elections. We have over 100+ offices up for election in April, mostly small town offices.

• 3 Peter J. Orvetti // Jan 4, 2013 at 4:47 am

  NBC interviews independent Sen. Angus King:

  http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/50358451/

• 4 Peter J. Orvetti // Jan 4, 2013 at 4:48 am

  Virginia LG Bolling considers independent gubernatorial run:

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/bolling-testing-waters-for-independent-run/2013/01/02/302ce002-5550-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html

• 5 George Phillies // Jan 5, 2013 at 6:50 am

  Liberty for America has called for impeaching the LNC Secretary for cause.

  Readable now on ThirdPartyReport.com and the Radicals Facebook group

  THE PROBLEM:

  LNC Paralyzed!
  Secretary Blocks All Business!
  Since early December, our Libertarian National Committee has been totally paralyzed, unable to transact business or vote on motions because the National Secretary has been inactive.

  THE SOLUTION (from the forthcoming January 2013 Liberty for America)

  —Editorial—
  It’s Time for Impeachment
  Since 2000. this newspaper and its predecessor, Let Freedom Ring!, have covered Libertarian National Committee activities in great detail. Indeed, we have given the LNC more extensive investigatory coverage than has any other news source.

  The current situation on the National Committee is utterly unacceptable. Motions cannot be brought to a vote. Motions that may have passed cannot be acted upon, because the official results are unknown. Meeting Minutes reach draft format, but are perpetually in need of correction. When vote totals are reported, they are frequently found to be incorrect.

  You can’t run a serious political party this way. Party members should demand immediate change. To contact the LNC: http://www.lp.org/lnc-leadership for email addresses.

  There is only one solution. National Secretary Ruth Bennett must forthwith for cause be impeached (“suspended” is the term of art in the Party Bylaws) and removed from office. The cause, of course, is failure to discharge the duties of the office. The process is complex. First the LNC must vote to suspend. Then the vote must survive the suspended officer’s appeal to the Judicial Committee.

  Fortunately, the National Party has at hand an excellent replacement. Chuck Moulton is an attorney and former Vice Chair. He is willing to serve.

  Former National Convention delegates may recall charts and graphs of LNC votes — those were Chuck’s work. Moulton delivers. Those, by the way, were the charts and graphs that Bennett had removed from delegate tables at the 2012 NatCon before they could be read. Readers may also recall that Bennett nominated M Carling for Judicial Committee and gave the 2012 NatCon its floor fees.

• 6 paulie // Jan 5, 2013 at 9:40 am

  Thanks for the tip, George!

  I hope someone puts it up as an article. I hesitate to do it myself because I’m currently on the LNC.

• 7 Jill Pyeatt // Jan 5, 2013 at 5:07 pm

  http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/03/the-libertarian-connection-between-gay-r

  Here’s an interesting article I think is worth reading.

• 8 Jill Pyeatt // Jan 5, 2013 at 5:09 pm

  Maybe our new, young and enthusiastic new writer can post George’s article.

• 9 Richard Winger // Jan 8, 2013 at 5:46 pm

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/08/rocky-anderson-to-be-interviewed-on-tv-evening-of-january-8-tuesday-for-30-minutes/

• 10 Darryl W. Perry // Jan 8, 2013 at 5:51 pm

  Petition for Redress of Grievances to the NH State House requesting the censure and/or impeachment of Cynthia Chase

  https://www.change.org/petitions/nh-state-house-censure-and-or-impeach-cynthia-chase

• 11 Andy // Jan 8, 2013 at 7:38 pm

  “Darryl W. Perry // Jan 8, 2013 at 5:51 pm

  Petition for Redress of Grievances to the NH State House requesting the censure and/or impeachment of Cynthia Chase

  https://www.change.org/petitions/nh-state-house-censure-and-or-impeach-cynthia-chase ”

  It’s a shame that New Hampshire does not have a citizens initiative, referendum. and recall process. If it did, I would suggest launching a petition to recall Cynthia Chase from office.

  I think that New Hampshire does have an initiative process in a few of its cities (like Manchester which is the largest city in the state), but they do not have the process at the statewide level.

  Lack of a statewide initiative, referendum, and recall process is one of the reasons why I was disappointed when New Hampshire was chosen as the target state for the Free State Project, and it is also one of the reasons that I have not gotten involved with the Free State Project. If the Free State Project had selected a state with an initiative, referendum, and recall process it could be a hotbed for pro-liberty petitions.

  The only things you can do in New Hampshire are run for office, lobby government officials, or engage in non-political activism like protesting, jury nullification, etc… I’m all in favor of pro-liberty people running for office, lobbying elected officials, and engaging in non-political activism like protesting, jury nullification, or whatever else, but not having an initiative, referendum, and recall process means that you are missing a very big tool in your tool box (so to speak).

• 12 Richard Winger // Jan 9, 2013 at 12:02 am

  Maybe the New Hampshire Free State People could organize a campaign to defeat every New Hampshire legislator who won’t promise to support a constitutional amendment to establish the initiative process. Or run against anti-initiative legislators in their own party’s primary in 2014. Massachusetts and Maine, New Hampshire’s only two neighbors, both have the initiative process, and that ought to be a good selling point to the NH public.

• 13 Richard Winger // Jan 9, 2013 at 12:03 am

  Oops, I forgot Vermont is also a neighbor state.

• 14 Andy // Jan 9, 2013 at 12:47 am

  “12 Richard Winger // Jan 9, 2013 at 12:02 am

  Maybe the New Hampshire Free State People could organize a campaign to defeat every New Hampshire legislator who won’t promise to support a constitutional amendment to establish the initiative process. Or run against anti-initiative legislators in their own party’s primary in 2014. Massachusetts and Maine, New Hampshire’s only two neighbors, both have the initiative process, and that ought to be a good selling point to the NH public.”

  Yeah, they could do all of this, but it would have been a heck of a lot easier if they had picked a state that already had an initiative, referendum, and recall process.

  I think the fact that New Hampshire does not have a statewide initiative, referendum, and recall process is a real weakness in the Free State Project. There are pro-liberty organizations around the country that look for people in states that do have this process so they can run pro-liberty petitions in those states. Just imagine if New Hampshire had this process, Free State Project supports could run initiatives to legalize marijuana, require judges to inform jurors about jury nullification, put spending limits on state government, etc… I think that if there was a process like this in New Hampshire and Free State Project members had been running pro-liberty petitions since New Hampshire became the target state, that the Free State Project would be more successful right now, and that more people would have moved to New Hampshire to take part in the Free State Project.

• 15 Tom Blanton // Jan 9, 2013 at 11:55 am

  LIBERTARIANISM GOES MAINSTREAM?

  Here’s a story that should bring orgasms to those who belong to the Boortzed big-tent cult of Rootists and/or the Netanyahu-Libertarians faction:

  Glenn Beck Relaunching The Blaze As Global Libertarian News Network

  http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/glenn-beck-relaunching-the-blaze-as-global-liberta

  Maybe this would be a good time for libertarians and Libertarians to rethink about who they associate with, or start calling themselves something else.

  I think I’ll just drop all attempts at appearing to be acceptable to statists. No more “libertarian”, “anarcho-libertarian”, “left-libertarian”. Anarcho-Capitalist – don’t even go there.

  From now on, I’m a radical absolutist anarchist with no hyphens. No apologies. Offended? So what? Join the club!

  Don’t like it? Take it and your beloved government and shove it up your statist ass.

  Ten years from now, your moderate statist-lite politics and $15 will buy you a cup of coffee from Starbucks.

  Go tune in to Glenn Beck now and listen to him say the word “libertarian” over and over and over. Feel free to masturbate as he talks – it may end up being the last freedom you will enjoy in America.

  Maybe the LP can recruit Allen West in 2016 with Glenn Beck’s backing. Maybe Wayne Root will even come back and run as VP.

• 16 NewFederalist // Jan 9, 2013 at 12:10 pm

  Many people cringe when G.W. Bush calls himself a conservative. Words are just words. No one can help what someone else does with them.

• 17 Jill Pyeatt // Jan 9, 2013 at 12:20 pm

  It appears Wayne allyn Root has a new book coming out:

  http://www.amazon.com/The-Ultimate-Obama-Survival-Guide/dp/1621570916/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1357573278&sr=8-15&keywords=wayne+allyn+root

• 18 Jill Pyeatt // Jan 9, 2013 at 1:00 pm

  In other news, I read on Facebook that William Sparkman of Texas, Thomas Hill of Illinois, and our very own Paulie will be taking a road trip soon. Hopefully, Paulie will fill in the details when he has some time.

• 19 George Phillies // Jan 9, 2013 at 2:13 pm

  Howell revives Project Archimedes — without calling it that. The latest fundraising letter is for direct mail prospecting to potential recruiting lists.

  Perhaps this time the recruiting effort will not be wildly imbalanced to the right over the left.

• 20 Robert Capozzi // Jan 9, 2013 at 3:01 pm

  15 tb, thanks for bringing this nugget to our attention. I can’t say I’d view Beck as “mainstream.”

  You might consider suing him to usurping and fraudulently employing the “libertarian” label to describe his political views.

• 21 Tom Blanton // Jan 9, 2013 at 7:11 pm

  You might consider suing him to usurping and fraudulently employing the “libertarian” label to describe his political views.

  But, thanks to people like Beck, Boortz, Root, the Koch boys, and the foolish supporters of these hacks, Beck’s views are probably more properly described as “libertarian” than the views of people like David Nolan or Harry Browne in this new era of neolibertarianism.

  Per AP in June 2012:

  Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck has signed a five-year, $100 million contract to continue his morning radio show with syndicator Premiere Networks.

  That’s pretty damn mainstream for a self-described rodeo clown. There are many variants of “mainstream”, for example Lady Gaga and Toby Keith are both mainstream.

  Capozzi, we might even agree that Beck is more mainstream than Wayne Root. In the world of fat white guys that advocate wars on the radio, the alcoholic Beck comes in third after pill head Rush Limbaugh and his chief imitator, Sean Hannity. Not bad in a field of many propagandists.

  When Beck starts calling himself an anarchist, maybe I’ll consider suing him – for the intentional infliction of emotional distress.

• 22 just American // Jan 10, 2013 at 12:07 am

  Former Reform Party activist Donald Trump has responded to noted Obamunist Bill Maher’s challenge to prove Trump is not a natural born orangutan. Maher may now be obligated to donate $5 million to charity. Check recent Leno shows on hulu.com and Trump’s twitter account for more details.

• 23 Andy // Jan 10, 2013 at 1:01 am

  “Tom Blanton // Jan 9, 2013 at 11:55 am

  LIBERTARIANISM GOES MAINSTREAM?

  Here’s a story that should bring orgasms to those who belong to the Boortzed big-tent cult of Rootists and/or the Netanyahu-Libertarians faction:

  Glenn Beck Relaunching The Blaze As Global Libertarian News Network”

  I advise all libertarians and everyone else in general to be leery of Glenn Beck. He may say some good things a lot of the time, but I still do not trust the guy.

• 24 Andy // Jan 10, 2013 at 1:06 am

  “George Phillies // Jan 9, 2013 at 2:13 pm

  Howell revives Project Archimedes — without calling it that. The latest fundraising letter is for direct mail prospecting to potential recruiting lists.

  Perhaps this time the recruiting effort will not be wildly imbalanced to the right over the left.”

  I’d certainly like to see a balanced outreach/recruitment effort where the Libertarian Party reaches out to people on the left and center as well as independents and non-voters, instead of just reaching out to people on the right, but whatever the case may be, I think that this is a good thing. Project Archimedes did help grow the Libertarian Party, and the party desperately needs more dues paying members if it ever expects to get anywhere.

• 25 Thane Eichenauer // Jan 10, 2013 at 1:52 am

  “I’m a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel.” (from the article)

  I imagine that as long as Glenn Beck continues to interview Penn Jillette he is going to get more libertarian over time.

  http://www.video.theblaze.com/search/index.jsp?query=penn+jillette

• 26 Thane Eichenauer // Jan 10, 2013 at 2:18 am

  Listen to the Fox News video of Glenn Beck talking with Penn Jillette (from 2009) [2nd video on page] and you might come away with the idea that Glenn Beck is quite a bit closer to a libertarian foreign policy and on gay marriage than you might think.

  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/penn-jillette-glenn-beck-is-a-nut-but-i-like-him/

• 27 Andy // Jan 10, 2013 at 3:53 am

  “Thane Eichenauer // Jan 10, 2013 at 2:18 am

  Listen to the Fox News video of Glenn Beck talking with Penn Jillette (from 2009) [2nd video on page] and you might come away with the idea that Glenn Beck is quite a bit closer to a libertarian foreign policy and on gay marriage than you might think”

  Beck sounds good sometimes, but then after I hear him say something that makes me think that he’s come around, I hear him say something else that makes me think that he has not come around, and I heard him say something that makes me think that he has not come around yesterday. If I can find a clip of what I’m referring to I will post it here.

• 28 Tom Blanton // Jan 10, 2013 at 8:45 pm

  When Glenn Beck renounces everything he has said since 2001, apologizes for the lies he has told, and begs for people to forgive him for years of Likud war propaganda and fear mongering, it will be a sign that he may be coming around. Until then, I’ll assume he wears his anal sphincter as a head band.

• 29 paulie // Jan 10, 2013 at 8:51 pm

  We’ve received these by email as well, but I haven’t posted them yet. Hopefully I or one of the other IPR writers will get to them soon.

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-problem-with-libertarian-women-is.html

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-reform-party-looks-forward.html

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/09/washington-secretary-of-state-asks-legislature-to-more-clearly-define-major-political-party/

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/09/pennsylvania-libertarians-seek-35500-in-costs-from-2012-challengers-to-the-statewide-libertarian-petition/

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/10/groups-lobbying-for-better-ballot-access-in-alabama-and-tennessee-each-establish-facebook-pages/

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/09/wyoming-state-senate-president-opens-legislative-session-with-an-attack-on-fringe-parties/

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/08/rocky-anderson-to-be-interviewed-on-tv-evening-of-january-8-tuesday-for-30-minutes/

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/08/ballot-access-bill-introduced-in-wyoming/

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/07/vermont-presidential-write-ins-to-be-tallied-on-friday-january-11/

  http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/01/08/charlie-cook-reminds-us-that-moderate-voters-and-independent-voters-are-substantially-different-groups-of-voters/

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/libertarian-gop-sen-rand-paul-to-meet.html

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/green-party-activists-form-group-in.html

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/midterm-elections-coming-fast.html

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/peroutka-lawfirm-settles-discrimination.html

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/german-green-party-member-drops-out-of.html

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/green-party-candidate-enters-race-for.html

  http://itpn-v.blogspot.com/2013/01/libertarians-want-shot-at-95th-district.html

  http://hammeroftruth.com/2013/drone-war-cover-up-now-in-yemen-too/

• 30 paulie // Jan 10, 2013 at 8:52 pm

  http://fpp.cc/2013/01/09/giving-libertarians-a-bad-name/

• 31 Tom Blanton // Jan 10, 2013 at 11:40 pm

  Eric Dondero is busy putting up Glenn Beck pin-up photos next to the Wayne Root cheesecake pictures over the heart-shaped waterbed down in the Dondero man-cave.

  This is certainly a welcome development for the libertarian movement here in the United States and worldwide.

  He is a libertarian in the truest sense.

  Yeah, not like Harry Browne and all the other pussified Marxist infiltrators whining about peace and throwing Israel under the bus.

  http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2013/01/glenn-beck-announces-global-libertarian.html

• 32 Mark Sengels // Jan 10, 2013 at 11:49 pm

  That’s what happens what you let the Likudnik no goodniks take over your party, your media, your banks and your country! For America and for liberty they have to get the boot.

• 33 Beck-Boortz 2016! // Jan 11, 2013 at 12:08 am

  Beck-Boortz 2016!

  A ticket true libertarians can get behind!

• 34 Or Boortz - Beck! // Jan 11, 2013 at 12:10 am

  Either way would be great!

  Eric Dondero is the man BTW!

• 35 Thane Eichenauer // Jan 11, 2013 at 1:22 am

  @33 @34
  Just to be clear here the results of a few Google searches tell me that Glenn Beck is not a supporter of the so-called Fair Tax. Feel free to critique him for any other statement he has made in the past.

• 36 paulie // Jan 11, 2013 at 7:23 am

  Well, at this point it looks like breaking up open thread into news tips and other is a failed experiment, I don’t think I’ll repeat it….

• 37 NewFederalist // Jan 11, 2013 at 8:13 am

  Well Paulie… it was a nice try. Somehow the term “Open Thread” just brings out the worst in us.

• 38 George Phillies // Jan 11, 2013 at 9:19 am

  @36 Perhaps practice is needed. Massachusetts is having two special elections for state legislature, and may soon be having one for US Senate.

• 39 News tip // Jan 11, 2013 at 2:24 pm

  Here’s a tip. There’s a genocide going on, what are you going to do about it?

• 40 News tip // Jan 11, 2013 at 4:37 pm

  News tip: history repeats itself!

• 41 News tip // Jan 11, 2013 at 4:54 pm

  Some people say it’s old news but what goes around comes around…

• 42 News tippy top // Jan 11, 2013 at 5:49 pm

  Old News, New News and Future news before it happens – you saw it here first!

• 43 Andy // Jan 12, 2013 at 5:00 am

  I’ve got a new suspect in the case of the mystery poster. The initials of this person are BT.

  I don’t believe that I’ve ever met BT in person. I’m not sure if Paul has ever met BT in person either, I’m actually doubting that he knows this person.

• 44 Andy // Jan 12, 2013 at 5:03 am

  Oh, in addition to thinking that I’ve probably never met BT in person, I’d never even heard of BT until the last 24 hours.

  I’m not sure if Paul has ever heard of BT either.

• 45 paulie // Jan 12, 2013 at 5:09 am

  OK, I’ll try one more time, but only more time and after that, screw it. From this article:

  In this thread, please post only news tips, IE links to articles you would like to see posted here, your own articles you are submitting for publication having to do with alternative party or independent candidate politics in some identifiable or identified way, or news that could be made into an article.

  I should have also said: if you have any comments on other comments in this thread take them to http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2013/01/jan-2013-open-thread-for-other-stuff/

  The purpose of this thread is for IPR writers to quickly and easily locate stories we should be reporting on, without having to wade through a bunch of other comments.

• 46 paulie // Jan 12, 2013 at 5:12 am

  At least, that was the idea. It doesn’t seem to be working though.

  Also, calling something which is obviously not a news tip a news tip does not make it a news tip.

  If the thread was not already failing to achieve its purpose I would remove that stuff, and still may. If any of the other IPR editors take it down that would be fine too.

  Additionally, it’s a pain updating the time stamp on not one but two articles all the time to keep them on the front page, especially when it’s not working the way it’s supposed to.

  So, as I said, unless it starts justifying itself I’m not going to try this again.

• 47 Catholic Trotskyist // Jan 12, 2013 at 6:25 pm

  Not sure if this is worthy, but it seems there are some serious problems in the Socialist Workers Party, the main Trotskyist party in the US. Kinda goes along with the recent discussion about libertarian women, since the major problem in the SWP seems to be about gender. http://www.leninology.com/2013/01/crisis-in-swp.html

• 48 paulie // Jan 14, 2013 at 6:59 pm

  It’s worthy, but I’m not sure if I have another article positing spree in me before I hit the road on Wednesday. It’s on my list, but others are more than welcome to get to it first…thanks!

• 49 Steven Wilson // Jan 22, 2013 at 2:37 pm

  Just a heads up.

  Missouri Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson resigned today earlier than expected. Currently the LP plans to run at least one candidate in the race, but that candidate is not announcing as of yet.

  Rick Vandeven has attempted to recruit a few for this run and has also hinted that he might run again if his schedule will allow.

  I will try to update the website when I know something more concrete.

• 50 Jill Pyeatt // Jan 22, 2013 at 5:41 pm

  Definitely keep us posted, Steven. I understand the LSLA has pledged to identify the 30 most electable people to support this year. Maybe I should find a little more out about that.

• 51 Andy // Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 pm

  Here’s something that I think should be considered to be newsworthy for this site. 2004 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik recently released a new book. It is called Secret To Sovereignty. You can order copies of it from him via bartering one ounce of .999 fine silver for a book.

  I ordered a copy from him and I just got it in the mail a couple of days ago and I’m already almost finished reading it.

  I think that this deserves to be an article on IPR. Jill or Paul or somebody else ought to post this as an article.

• 52 Andy // Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 pm

  Oh, here’s a link to Michael Badnarik’s website where you can order a copy of the book.

  http://constitutionpreservation.org/

• 53 Whatever whatever // Jan 24, 2013 at 12:18 am

  DC LP US House candidate: Hillary “heinous cunt” on Benghazi

  http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/23/rand-paul-vs-hillary-clinton-on-benghazi#comment

• 54 paulie // Jan 24, 2013 at 12:19 pm

  Thanks for the news tips. If you know anyone other than me who is signed up to post for IPR, please encourage them to post these and other articles.

• 55 Jill Pyeatt // Jan 24, 2013 at 4:54 pm

  Some of the comments in the article linked to in # 53 are hilarious!

• 56 Jill Pyeatt // Jan 24, 2013 at 5:06 pm

  Here’s a video from a speech my FB friend David Andrew Gay gave re: a topic many of us third party folks love to talk about:

  http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/131140.html

• 57 LPF continues to fail // Jan 24, 2013 at 9:29 pm

  Florida Libertarian candidate Franklin Perez successfully won his lawsuit against the Libertarian Party of Florida

  http://www.seminolechronicle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2013/01/24/51014482bf775

• 58 Nick // Jan 29, 2013 at 3:01 pm

  I know the Reform Party is making a lot changes in their organization. Their could be a few good stories there.

• 59 Darryl W. Perry // Jan 30, 2013 at 10:16 am

  Update on the Petition against Cynthia Chase. The petition will be heard by the NH House today – January 30.

• 60 Harry Locke // Feb 1, 2013 at 4:48 pm

  Schedule and Location for the Libertarian Unity Election Being Announced on YouTube!

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