Debbie Schum resides in Colorado, and gave IPR permission to publish her article, below, which was originally sent to the LP-CT discussion list. Progressives are Lost to the LP By Debbie Schum Just to prove how effective educating the masses is, my husband just registered Libertarian today. It only took me 16 years to persuade [...]

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  C Michael Pickens is currently the Northern Vice-Charmain for the California Libertarian Executive Committee.

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This was published in OpEdNews May 11, 2012   This past weekend, the Libertarian Party celebrated its 40th birthday by choosing its candidates for President and Vice President. The Libertarians selected former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson for President, and retired judge James Gray of California for Vice President. The convention was broadcast nationally on [...]

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by R. Lee Wrights Hearing my name placed into consideration for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for President of the United States was the proudest moment of my life. It was a privilege and an honor for me to be considered for that august office by my family — the Libertarian Party. When I started my [...]

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Lee Wrights Nomination Speech at the Libertarian National Convention Gary Johnson Nomination Speech at the Libertarian National Convention The 2012 Libertarian Nominating Presidential Debate (full video) George Phillies interviews Mark Rutherford Note from Paulie: Not sure if we should post each one as a separate post, as we did with the last one. Other IPR [...]

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From IPR comments on a previous post zapper wrote: Dear Wes Wagner, The Oregon LP has been wrongly attacked by many in the LP leadership culminating recently with your delegation’s exclusion from being seated at the Libertarian National Convention in Las Vegas. This was a disgraceful act. Now I’m asking you to make a really [...]

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Press release from Gary Johnson, Libertarian for President: May 10, 2012, New York, NY – Libertarian nominee for President and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson today said he’s “disappointed” with President Obama’s position on gay marriage. Obama told ABC Wednesday he would let each individual state decide the gay marriage question instead of seeking [...]

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A New Dawn for the Libertarian Party And the obstacles that are still in the way Mike Riggs & Garrett Quinn | May 9, 2012 Four-page article summarizing this past week’s Libertarian National Convention. Excerpt: The Libertarian Party has struggled with its identity since its founding in 1971. Technically America’s third largest political party, the [...]

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From LPHQ: Voting has ended for the Libertarian Video Contest. Elizabeth Brierly of San Jose, California is the WINNER with 28% of the vote for her video on "Your Right of Self Defense." Ms. Brierly wins the $500 cash prize! Stewart Flood came in Second Place with his short, to-the-point video "Why Vote Libertarian." Andrew [...]

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Elected to JudCom: Bill Hall 207 Nicholas Sarwark 192 Rodger Paxton 165 Brian Holtz 141 Rob Latham 129 Lou Jasikoff 127 Rob Power 122 Not elected: M Carling 117 Steve Linnabary 87 Dan Lewis 80 Joe Hauptmann 65 Kenneth Kaplan 60 Shawn LeVasseur 53 Carolyn McMahan 47 Travis Nicks 16 write-in 12 NOTA 2 The [...]

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Posted at http://www.lp.org/lnc-leadership: LNC Leadership LNC Chair – Geoffrey Neale Vice Chair – Lee Wrights Treasurer – Tim Hagan Secretary – Ruth Bennett Libertarian Party Regions 2012-2014 Region 1 – AK,AZ,CO,HI,ID,KS,MT,UT,WA,WY Regional Rep – Norm Olsen Alternate – Tony Ryan Region 2 – AR,CA,NV,NM,NY Regional Rep – Dan Wiener Alternate – Scott Lieberman Regional Rep [...]

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By LNC Region 5 Rep John Jay Myers; sent to IPR by LNC Region 2 Alternate Scott Lieberman: To: the LNC Subject: Possible agenda items in the future This morning I sat down and tried to come up with a quick list of some things I believe are important. I will try to present them [...]

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In what is arguably his first “debate” with another Alternative Party’s presidential candidate, Gary Johnson is interviewed in the above clip by Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Jim Duensing and a co-host for Freedomizer Radio. Johnson is the presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, which has been on the ballot since 1972, on enough ballots [...]

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Posted on Chris Spangle’s blog: Hoosier Mark Rutherford sought the Chairmanship on the Libertarian National Committee over the past weekend. He was anywhere from 1 to 7 votes shy on 6 ballots of getting 50% plus 1… Eventually, Texan Geoff Neale, who was only a declared candidate for the position starting Sunday morning when nominations [...]

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Harry Heyoka at Allvoices.com: snubbed Oregon delegates incite NOTA sweep Las Vegas, Sunday May 6. After nominating two-term New Mexico governor Gary Johnson for President and Judge Jim Gray as his running mate on Saturday, delegates at the Libertarian Party’s national convention ousted all of their national officers. A fervent “None Of The Above” campaign [...]

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New Gary Johnson ad on youtube: at 1:45, I don’t think it’s the right length for TV broadcast, but it’s possible it could be repackaged for TV.

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The New American magazine, published by The John Birch Society, has a profile of former Governor Gary Johnson on its website @ www.thenewamerican.com. Jack Kenny writes that “The man known as “Governor Veto” will take his case for smaller, less intrusive, constitutional government to the voters as the U.S. Libertarian Party nominee for President of [...]

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Antiwar is the Health of the Anti-State Movement   This was a nomination speech for R. Lee Wrights at the Libertarian National Convention this past weekend.   Less Antman is a long-time activist for the Libewrtarian party and for the cause of peace.  He lives in San Diego County, California, and is a CPA.

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Bob Barr penned an article for The Daily Caller recently which lauds the Libertarian Party for selecting former two-term Governor Gary Johnson as its nominee. At its national convention in Las Vegas over the weekend, the Libertarian Party chose its standard bearers for the upcoming presidential election. The selection of former Republican New Mexico Gov. [...]

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