“…revenues are down dramatically. Coincidence?

Everything happening today under Obama resembles the storyline of Ayn Rand’s famous book, Atlas Shrugged…”

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From an article on www.BallotAccess.org, published on June 25th, 2011: Now that the Arizona Green Party is safely on the ballot for 2012, due to successfully getting a ballot access bill through this year’s legislature, Arizona Greens are now organizing a search for volunteer members who will petition to restore the Green Party’s ballot status [...]

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The Republican candidate for mayor of Tucson, Arizona has dropped out of the race due to a signature challenge on his nominating petitions.  This is of interest to third partisans for two reasons.  First, it is rare that a major party is pushed off the ballot due to signature challenges (meaning that he didn’t collect [...]

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From the Tuscon Citizen: Mary DeCamp, who ran against Ward 3 Councilmember Karin Uhlich in 2009 has also entered the race for Mayor of Tucson… Mary got 4429 votes (6.16 % of the vote) in the Ward 3 race in 2009… Her entry into the race could lead to a Green Party primary on August [...]

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From TusconCitizen.com: [From a press release sent out by John McLane, the Green who dropped out:]  This humble number of registered Greens has to be accounted for. Not only for the sake of the members who have put their faith in our leadership, but for the two hundred thousand registered voters in the city of [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Free and Equal: Former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack and 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik are giving a joint presentation on the Constitution at the University of Kentucky on April 23. The event takes place in the W.T. Young Library Auditorium, 401 Hilltop Avenue in Lexington. Seating is limited [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: The Green Party of New Jersey is holding its 15th Annual Convention this Saturday at the Rutgers Labor Education Center from 9:30 to 4:30. The convention will hear from Sheri Honkala, social movement leader and Green Party candidate for Philadelphia Sheriff. Also featured is Ray Stever, President of the [...]

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Miami-Dade Green Party via On The Wilder Side: The Miami-Dade Green Party adds its voice to the growing coalition of groups and individuals standing in opposition to anti-immigrant bills that have been recently introduced in the Florida legislature. These bills–modeled after Arizona’s racist SB 1070 law—allow for racial profiling and if passed, will result in [...]

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“I believe the federal government has no place in the debate on marriage. If any government should be involved (and I don’t think they should be), it is a States’ Rights issue and should only be decided on the state and local level. DOMA tramples on States Rights in violation of the Constitution” – Wayne Root

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From the Arizona Daily Star via Third Party and Independent Daily: As Arizona drowns in red ink, the state Legislature appears to be more ideological than pragmatic in dealing with the myriad problems facing our state. In a state where registered independent voters are the fastest growing political bloc (recently surpassing Democratic voters in numbers), [...]

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The Modern Whig Party has a new website, Modernwhig.info. From their blog: “The MWP is proud to announce new state chapters in Oklahoma, Oregon, Mississippi, Florida, and Arizona. These chapters have been organizing since November of 2010. The MWP is also currently working on new chapters in Ohio and Delaware as well. With the addition [...]

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Posted by Paulie: In my last update on Americans Elect I wrote: Jim Cook has updates on Americans Elect activities in Arizona, Nevada and Ohio. The petitioner grapevine has it that Americans Elect petitioning has been completed in Arizona and Kansas, but Nevada is the only state that their signatures have been verified to have [...]

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PHOENIX, Ariz. (Jan. 31) – People are ready to listen to a presidential candidate who is committed to proclaiming the message to stop all war, Libertarian writer and activist R. Lee Wrights told the Arizona State Libertarian Party convention Saturday in Phoenix. “This message resonates outside the Libertarian Party,” Wrights told the Arizona libertarians. “Look [...]

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This e-mail came to me from Ian Gilyeat. Ian was an independent challenger to John McCain in the 2010 election: Last week Ken Bennett, Secretary of State announced that Independent registered voters now outnumber Democrats across the state.  This is noteworthy – and timely since I’m writing to you at this time to ask for [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: The Arizona Green Party has increased Party registration to over 5,000 voters. According to the Arizona Green Party, this is an increase of almost 500 Greens since last August. From the AZGP: 2010 marked the 20 year anniversary of the Arizona Green Party and they look forward to broadening [...]

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MEDIA ADVISORY Wrights to attend two Arizona libertarian events BURNET, Texas (Jan. 26) – R. Lee Wrights, libertarian writer, activist and potential 2012 presidential candidate, will be a guest speaker at the Arizona State Libertarian Convention and attend the Nullify Now Conference in Phoenix Saturday, January 29. The Arizona State Convention will be held from [...]

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From Socialist Party USA co-chair Billy Wharton at the Examiner via Third Party and Independent Daily: If there is a political crisis, there is an opportunity. Jared Lee Loughner’s attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona certainly created a crisis. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is now ready to cash in on the [...]

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Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: The shootings of at least 18 people (6 killed, at least 12 wounded) in Tucson, Arizona, has predictably ignited a firestorm of anti-gun, anti-right, and anti-anything not “liberal” diatribes from the typical big government talking heads in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Anti-freedom congressmen railed for more gun control, including [...]

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http://wrights2012.com/: BURNET, Texas (Jan. 13) – It will be all too easy and popular to claim that the shooting in Arizona that killed six people was caused by the vitriol prevalent in American political discourse, but as usual the easy and popular explanation of this tragedy will avoid the truth, R. Lee Wrights, libertarian writer, [...]

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TPID: Former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, Richard Mack, will be a featured speaker at the Spring 2011 Constitution Party national meeting in Pennsylvania.  In a statement by Mack reproduced at the Constitution Party discussion forum, Mack argues that “the greatest threat we face today is not terrorists; it is our own federal government.”  From [...]

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