ATLANTA (February 8, 2010) – The Libertarian Party of Georgia renews its call for passage of Senate Bill 1, the Budget Act, which would require appropriators to review a quarter of the state budget every year to remove waste and ineffective programs (also know as zero-based budgeting).
This much needed legislation unanimously passed the State [...]

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According to a comment by Chuck Moulton, quoting a blog post by Tom Stevens:
The threat allegedly made at a LPNY meeting is interesting… read it for yourself, but it looks like the gist is: if your state opposes the floor fee, it won’t get ballot access money.
http://drtomstevens.blogspot.com/2010/02/lpny-risks-retribution-for-expressing.html
From the blog entry:
M Carling, who serves as [...]

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LP.org:
Dear Friend of Liberty,
Last week we offered a great deal on bumper stickers. As of 11:00 this morning, over 300 people have responded and ordered 30,458 stickers!
Wow!
The offer expires this Thursday, February 11, so I’m repeating the original message below for your benefit. I hope you’ll go order 100 or 1,000 bumper stickers right away!
On [...]

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Former Democratic Senator and candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination Mike Gravel will be speaking at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana on February 15.  Afterward, he will be interviewed on a radio program in the area that is also broadcast live worldwide on the internet.  More from the Muncie Free Press:
Currently he backs the [...]

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Andrew Seder
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
Tim Mullen, a registered nurse and retired Army reservist, is making it a three-way race for the state 120th Legislative District seat held by Rep. Phyllis Mundy for two decades.
The Kingston Township man on Thursday announced his candidacy on the Libertarian ticket, a party he has been a registered member of since [...]

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Scott Wong
Arizona Republic
A group of Valley libertarians took its first step Friday to repeal the food tax adopted this week by the Phoenix City Council.
Don’t Tax Our Food filed paperwork with the City Clerk’s Office to begin fundraising and collecting signatures to put a ballot measure before voters that would overturn the 2 percent sales [...]

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Metro.US reports:
Forget David Paterson, Andrew Cuomo and Rick Lazio.
Kristin Davis, the “Manhattan Madam” who allegedly set up the love connections between disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer and call girls, is running for the top seat in Albany with the backing of Roger Stone, a GOP operative with a reputation for outlandish behavior and dirty [...]

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Lessons Obama Should Have Learned From Watching the Super Bowl
The Difference Between Las Vegas and Washington D.C.
By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee
I am probably the only politician in America whose day job is Las Vegas oddsmaker. I’ve learned many valuable lessons from sports and sports betting. On Sunday I made a fortune [...]

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Excerpted from an IPR comment by Joe Buchman:
A public THANK YOU to Wayne Allyn Root.
Last Saturday the Libertarian Party of Utah held a “How to run for public office 101″ meeting for potential Libertarian candidates for public office.
At the same time one of the other 2008 candidates for Vice President, Sarah Palin, was spewing kindergarden [...]

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At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
DNA database bill should be deep-sixed
6:00 am February 8, 2010, by Bob Barr
A few years back, I hosted a nationally-syndicated radio program, modestly called “Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe.” One of the laws most frequently cited during the three years I hosted the weekly show, was Law Number Three: [...]

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From the comments on a previous post:

Phillies sends the following [..]….
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“Root threatens Benedict with ‘If this isn’t news worthy…then we need a new Exec Director who can see that it is.’ ”
1) ROOT THREATENS BENEDICT
Subject: ROOT for Wes
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:04:00 -0800
From: rootintl
To: wes benedict LP HQ , aaron AA Starr
CC: robert.kraus@lp.org LPHQ
Wes,
Here [...]

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Due to multiple requests, including the statement of the original author that the article does not belong at IPR, I am deleting the body of the article. I’m leaving this up for now so the comments don’t disappear as well.
-p

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On March 2, there will be a statewide primary in Texas.  On Thursday, February 18 at 6:30 PM there will be a candidates forum for all candidates running for the Texas State Board of Education in the 10th District.  Although the Libertarian and Green candidates face no opposition from within their own parties, they will [...]

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Email from Marc Montoni to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
Readers with any curiosity about libertarianism on the international scene may be interested in the current elections in Costa Rica. Otto Guevara is the founder of the Partido Movimiento Libertario (Libertarian Movement Party). He served in the Costa Rican legislature from 1998-2006. Guevara is currently the president [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster:
Captain Joan E. Darrah (USN, Ret.) served as a naval intelligence officer for nearly 30 years.
Prior to her retirement, Captain Darrah served as chief of staff and deputy commander at the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Captain Darrah is a lesbian.
She describes the effect of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in an op-ed [...]

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