Sal Peralta, the Secretary of the Independent Party of Oregon, writes in to the Massachusetts Patriot Ledger to take issue with an editorial from earlier in the month, in which the paper mocked the very idea of an “independent” political party. “Where’s the independence in an independents party?” they asked:
it’s a mystery why Marshfield businessman [...]

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Ballot Access News
On March 15, the 5th circuit refused to rehear Libertarian Party v Dardenne, 09-30307. Earlier the 5th circuit had ruled that the dispute is moot. Oddly, though, another panel of the 5th circuit had ruled a few weeks earlier that a similar lawsuit from Mississippi is not moot. The Mississippi case involved Brian [...]

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Posted at pirate-party.us:
The United States wishes to increase its enforcement of current copyright laws and is asking for your input. We have included a handy email tool that will allow you to send an email from this site.
(read the full document here)
The Federal Government is currently undertaking a landmark effort to develop an [...]

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Posted at Libertarian Blue:
Currently among the two major parties the selection of pro liberty candidates is pretty slim. Both Andrew Cuomo and Rick Lazio are well known gun grabbers and at this time I can’t find any information on potential Democrat candidate Steve Levy in regards to gun rights. Other candidates with unknown gun rights [...]

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Posted at http://www.modernwhig.org/ :
Updates

MAR 7, 2010
The Executive
Committee is pleased to confirm the appointment of Robert Shelley
as State Chairman for California. Andy Trinidad has decided to
spearhead the movement of the Modern Whigs in the Los Angeles
County area. Robert Shelley is a retired Navyman, who has extensive
experience in the aerospace industry. Robert has successfully
organized the Modern Whig [...]

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Yahoo News/Sports Front Page Story on Oregon’s Libertarian Candidate for US Senate, Marc Delphine

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Posted by inDglass at http://www.bostontea.us/node/776:
Get Involved!
The Boston Tea Party National Convention will be held at www.bostontea.us from Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 7:00 PM ET to Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 7:00 PM ET. Live events at times and places to be determined may also be held in St. Louis, MO, where the Libertarian Party’s [...]

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Ballot Access News:
Kristin Davis, who is running for Governor of New York outside the five ballot-qualified parties, says her ballot label will be “Personal Freedom Party.” She will need 15,000 valid signatures, to be collected between June and August 2010. See this story. If she gets 50,000 or more votes for Governor, the Personal Freedom [...]

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Posted at ModernWhig.org:
Established in 1833, the Whigs are one of America’s oldest mainstream political parties. We were the original party of Abraham Lincoln and four other U.S. Presidents.
Revived by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the grassroots movement has quickly new members. We represent the moderate voters from all walks of life who cherry-pick between traditional Republican [...]

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In a post at Kn@ppster, Tom Knapp explains why he is no longer interested in seeking the presidential nomination of the Libertarian and Boston Tea parties.
I’m sure you’ve heard the analogy of third party electoral politics to a hamster on a wheel — it runs and runs and runs, but never gets anywhwere. It’s [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
U.S. Senate candidate John Mertens will be a guest on the television show “The Real Story” hosted by Laurie Perez on Sunday, February 28th. “The Real Story” is broadcast in Connecticut on Sundays at 10:30am on FOX 61, 11:00am on WTXX, and 8:30pm on CTN.

Dr. Mertens is a Professor of Engineering at Trinity [...]

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One of the founders of the Minnesota Reform Party, Dean Barkley, has reached out to tea party activists with an open letter at Minnesota Tea Party Patriots entitled: “Don’t start your own party! Take over mine!” Barkley writes:
Hello, my name is Dean Barkley. I have spent the last twenty years trying to change the ways [...]

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Posted at BostonTea.US:
Two days after the Indiana State Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would only recognize marriage between one man and one woman, the Boston Tea Party of Indiana responded with a statement supporting equal rights, privileges, and immunities under the law to all people in Indiana. The party’s state committee called for [...]

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In the Providence Journal, Edward Fitzpatrick profiles Robert Clark Corrente, who is the new chair of the Moderate Party of Rhode Island:
Corrente, Rhode Island’s U.S. Attorney from 2004 to 2009, is taking over as chairman of the Moderate Party of Rhode Island, aiming to turn a new party (which won official recognition in August) into [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Ken Block
http://wrni.org/blog/ian-donnis/former-patrick-aide-manage-blocks-campaign
State House News Service reports that Byrd, after working for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, has contributed to Patrick’s current Republican rival, Charlie Baker. And liberal labor activist Patrick Crowley see Byrd’s affiliation with some conservative campaigns as a sign that the Moderate Party is less than moderate.

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Kahlil Byrd, who served [...]

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