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Libertarian Bill Slantz, Special Missouri Congressional Election Candidate, Releases Campaign Facebook Page

May 16th, 2013 · No Comments

On May 15th, Bill Slantz, the Libertarian Party candidate in Missouri’s 8th district special congressional election on June 4th, created a campaign Facebook page. It is below: https://www.facebook.com/BillSlantzForCongress Other candidates running in the election are Republican Jason Smith, Democrat Steve Hodges and Constitution Party candidate Doug Enyart.

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Janine Kloss of CA LP Speaks Before Assembly About Bill to Invalidate Parts of the NDAA

May 16th, 2013 · 2 Comments

On May 15, 2013, Janine Kloss of the California LP, a relative newcomer, was allowed to speak before the California Assembly about AB 351, a bill which would invalidate the portion of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which allows indefinite detention for American citizens. Her portion starts at 4:30. The vote by the Assembly [...]

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LP Attacks Rand Paul Over Latest Stance on Drug War

May 15th, 2013 · 58 Comments

LP Facebook post on May 14th: Many of you planned to support Rand Paul in 2016, hoping that he was serious about ending the wasteful and expensive War on Drugs. The bad news: he is not. (http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/rand-paul-assures-evangelicals-that-he-d) The good news: there are hundreds of Libertarian candidates who are. We are working to keep them on the [...]

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Minnesota LP State Convention Held May 4th

May 15th, 2013 · 5 Comments

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Andy Burns <andy@lpmn.org> wrote: We held our annual state convention on May 4th with a 104 paying attendees, it being the largest convention we’ve had in quite a while. We would have done better but Tom Woods was in town for a GOP sponsored event that partially [...]

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LNC Discussion: Promoting Candidates on LP Facebook Page

May 15th, 2013 · No Comments

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Arvin Vohra wrote: With multiple design teams and increasing reach, the LP national facebook page is working hard to promote local candidates. Any candidate who wants to be heavily promoted should basically give us a quote with the following: Saying something about the problem. For example: “The [...]

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Google Hangout Tuesday, May 21, 2013 with Gov. Gary Johnson

May 15th, 2013 · No Comments

From an email from Gary Johnson’s political advocacy group, Our America Initiative:

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Libertarian Party of Florida Vindicated in $70,000 Filing Penalty

May 15th, 2013 · 2 Comments

Colleagues, I know several of you have been watching the situation here in Florida where we were fined $70,000 by the state for failing to file a timely financial report.  We had maintained that we were prohibited from doing so by state law, and it was the state who was in violation the law by [...]

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Tom Stevens: Libertarian Party New York City Nominating Convention Minutes Released (April 9, 2013)

May 15th, 2013 · 25 Comments

The following was published on Dr. Tom Stevens’ blog Liberty Lion on May 15th:                                                                                    [...]

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Event: The Libertarian Party at Freedom Fest

May 15th, 2013 · No Comments

You can read the LP’s announcement here . When: Start date: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 – 2:00pm End date: Saturday, July 13, 2013 – 6:00pm Time Zone: US/Pacific Where: Caesar’s Palace 3570 South Las Vegas Boulevard Las Vegas, NV 89109 Description: LP at FreedomFest (FF) July 10th-13th We welcome you to visit our booth or [...]

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Tom Stevens: Luis Rivas Appointed President Of Objectivist Party Of California

May 14th, 2013 · 24 Comments

Published on May 14th on Dr. Tom Stevens’ blog, Liberty Lion:  On May 14, 2013, Luis Rivas was appointed to serve as President of the Objectivist Party of California. In accepting the appointment, Luis Rivas said: Objectivism came to me as a curiosity. I heard people mention the name Ayn Rand and the more I [...]

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Libertarian Party of North Carolina: NC GOP ‘Tax Fairness Act’ is not fair

May 14th, 2013 · No Comments

RALEIGH (May 14) – The tax reform plan announced by state Senate Republicans last week is just another charade designed to make people think they are actually reducing taxes, the Libertarian Party of North Carolina state chair said in a statement today. “Calling it the Tax Fairness Act and claiming it’s the largest tax cut [...]

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Libertarians Organizing Virtual National Torch Parade for Bradley Manning

May 14th, 2013 · 14 Comments

Outright Libertarians, the GLBTQ caucus of the Libertarian Party, along with libertarian activists in San Francisco and other cities, is organizing a virtual torch parade to support private first class Bradley Manning, the U.S. government soldier being prosecuted for passing hundreds of thousands of secret documents, including video evidence of war crimes being committed by [...]

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