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Update on 2013 NYC Mayoral Race

March 22nd, 2013 · 35 Comments

IPR has received information that Carl Person has sought and received the endorsement of the Reform Party for Mayor of NYC in 2013. Person, who sought the Libertarian Presidential nomination in 2012 and was the Libertarian nominee for New York State Attorney General in 2010, allegedly sent the following proposed press release to the Reform [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Liberty/Free Market Parties · Non-left/right parties

ObjectivistParty.US: Dr. Tom Stevens – 2008 & 2012 Objectivist Party Candidate for President

March 22nd, 2013 · 56 Comments

Objectivistparty.us has the following biography of Dr. Tom Stevens, currently the State Chair of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania and the subject of a great deal of controversy on IPR and similar sites in recent months: Dr. Tom Stevens – 2008 & 2012 Objectivist Party Candidate for President Dr. Tom Stevens is an educator, attorney [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Liberty/Free Market Parties

New York Officials React to Liberty Candidates

March 17th, 2013 · 10 Comments

I found this important bit of video on Facebook.

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Tags: Independents · Libertarian Party · Liberty/Free Market Parties

Liberty Candidates: Liberty Inspiration Award

November 30th, 2012 · 1 Comment

From Gigi Bowman of Liberty Candidates: In honor of our 3rd Anniversary we are introducing the Liberty Inspiration Award. This is an award that will be given yearly to 5 people who showed positive effort and energy throughout the year in spreading the message of liberty. They did not have to run for office but [...]

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New Mexico Senate: Independent Jon Barrie Scores 9% in Competing Polls

September 29th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Independent surveys this week by the Democrat and Republican U.S. Senate candidates show independent Jon Barrie scoring 9 percent in the three way contest to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman. According to GOP pollster Glen Bolger, former U.S. Representative Heather Wilson is holding down 42 percent of the vote to Democratic Representative Martin Heinrich’s [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Independents · Libertarian Party · Liberty/Free Market Parties · Right-wing minor parties

Darryl Perry Resigns as BTP Chairman; Party ‘Effectively Disbands’

July 22nd, 2012 · 110 Comments

Darryl Perry, who had served as chairman of the Boston Tea Party (BTP) since 2010, announced his resignation from the chairmanship earlier today, leaving only two active members of the party’s national committee. As a result, according to the following statement from Perry, the decision “effectively disbands the BTP” as an entity: I first joined [...]

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Pro-Marijuana Grassroots Party Nominates Presidential Ticket and Achieves Ballot Access

July 7th, 2012 · 10 Comments

Richard Winger reports at Ballot Access News that the pro-marijuana Grassroots Party is on the ballot in Minnesota and has nominated Jim Carlson for president and George McMahon for vice president. Carlson is the owner of  Duluth’s “The Last Place on Earth”, which sells synthetic drugs, bongs, paraphernalia, and sex toys.  This article from the Star Tribune chronicles Carlson and [...]

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Tags: Liberty/Free Market Parties · Non-left/right parties

Daryl Perry: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: Supreme Court Style

July 1st, 2012 · No Comments

Email from Boston Tea Party national chair Darryl Perry: During the last week of June, the Supreme Court issued two major rulings, one regarding Arizona’s tough immigration law and the other the much awaited verdict of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called “Obamacare.” The court rightly ruled 3 provisions of Arizona’s SB [...]

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Darryl W. Perry: I Ran Away From Sanctions

June 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment

The following editorial is posted in full with permission from Darryl W. Perry. The US Congress has been considering tougher sanctions against Iran in “response” to Iran’s nuclear program; a nuclear program designed to produce energy, not to produce bombs. Though even IF Iran were attempting to build a nuclear weapon, do they have a [...]

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Darryl W. Perry: In Defense of my Pro-Peace Message

June 19th, 2012 · 6 Comments

This was published in full by permission from Darryl W. Perry. The link to the audio can be heard here. On June 16 the Keene Sentinel published a letter to the editor regarding my participation in the local Memorial Day Parade. The letter reads,“I was angered and saddened to have to bear witness to the [...]

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Objectivist Party Nominates Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates

June 7th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Richard Winger reports on the Objectivist Party’s presidential and vice presidential nominations in 2012. Sometime in 2010, at an event in St. Louis, the Objectivist Party nominated Thomas Stevens for President for the 2012 election. The 2012 vice-presidential nominee is Alden Link. The same pair ran in 2008, and received 755 votes in the entire [...]

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Darryl W. Perry: The Conviction of Hosni Mubarak

June 6th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Email from Darryl W. Perry, Chair, Boston Tea Party National Committee to IPR: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was recently sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the killing of unarmed demonstrators during the first six days of protests that ended his rule last February. Reuters reports, “There were celebrations in the streets when [...]

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