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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Press release from Libertarian Party national HQ: WASHINGTON – Mark Hinkle, Chair of the Libertarian Party, issued a statement condemning the shooting of Congressional Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and others in Tucson, Arizona. According to reports, federal Judge John Roll and five others were killed in the shooting, and several others were seriously wounded. “The Libertarian [...]

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Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: This list was put together by Brent McMillan, consisting of Green Party campaigns for State House (or Assembly) seats. It includes all of the races that finished with over 15% of the vote in 2010: Mark Miller for State Representative 3rd Berkshire District, MA 4,459 votes 45.0% Jeremy [...]

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TPID: From Gordon Weil at Maine’s Morning Sentinel: Since 1974, when Maine began to see credible independent candidates for governor, there have been 10 gubernatorial elections in Maine. Independents ran in nine of them. Only two were won by candidates who captured a majority of the vote. In other words, eight of the last 10 [...]

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By: Frank Levine at PSLweb.org: Private prison corporations sought increased profits for jailing allegedly undocumented immigrants Arizona’s barbaric anti-immigration law SB 1070, now facing federal court challenges, was created to not only scapegoat immigrants, but also feed the boundless greed of capitalists. Private prison corporations and politicians worked hand in hand in the law’s creation [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Green Party national office has released a list of party members who were elected or re-elected last week. As noted at this site earlier, Ben Chipman was elected to the Maine legislature [p: as an independent], and the party won three important elections in California: in Richmond; Mendocino County; and Hollister. [...]

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Jim Cook reports at Irregular Times that Americans Elect is now listed as a political party with the Nevada Secretary of State. They are currently gathering signatures in Arizona and Nevada through Arno Political Consultants. Americans Elect is registered as a corporation in every US state, and Kellen Arno is listed as the Secretary of [...]

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Libertarian Party HQ Monday Message: Dear Friend of Liberty, First of all I want to thank our over 800 candidates again for taking the time to run for office. Now that we’ve all had a little time to catch our breaths after election day, we’re working to compile and analyze the results of our efforts. [...]

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Liberty Point: Libertarian candidates consider election defeats a learning experience, prepare for the next election. Although the results of the 2010 election were a disappointment for North Carolina’s Libertarian candidates because they were not elected, several consider it a very good learning experience and preparation for future campaigns. Dr. Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch The eleven Green Party candidates on the ballot this year for US Senate netted a combined half million votes. The 510,000 votes is the highest combined total for Green Party Senate candidates since 2000, when Medea Benjamin won 326,000 votes for US Senate in California and Vance Hansen picked [...]

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David Nolan at Libertarian Party blog: As Wes Benedict pointed out in a recent message, we had two U.S. Senate campaigns this year that were unusually successful, in terms of vote percentages. Rebecca Sink-Burris received 5.3% of the vote in Indiana, while yours truly got 4.7% in Arizona. This is the first time in ten [...]

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From the Libertarian Party blog analysis of the elections: Currently we have 15 Libertarians for U.S. House who received over 5% of the vote. (That only counts races where a Republican and a Democrat both appeared on the ballot.) That’s a big increase from past years. In 2008, three Libertarians for U.S. House got more [...]

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David Nolan at Libertarian Party blog: FOX-11 in Tucson ran this three-minute statement on Sunday; they offered every candidate for a major office the opportunity to do this, but surprisingly few took advantage of it! The media in Arizona give Libertarians better coverage than in most states, partly because we’ve earned it! While you’re on [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: There are 58 candidates running for the United States House of Representatives on November 2. This is the second of three posts on Green Party House candidates, continuing with the Western portion of the United States. There are candidates running in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas [...]

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I received the following e-mail from Ian Gilyeat, Independent Senate Candidate in Arizona: I’d like to invite you to cover my campaign and report on the traction and support occurring all across the state of Arizona.   There is enough momentum in the campaign that media coverage interviews have occurred on the following shows and [...]

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Email from Barry Hess: Dear Friends, Family and Supporters; A MAJOR shift has occurred in the thinking of Arizonans in the final weeks of the campaign. 35% of the voters remain undecided and their hesitation seems to stem from their obvious displeasure with BOTH the Republicans and the Democrats. I predict that it will only [...]

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The denverpost.com asked Tom Tancredo if he supports an Arizona style immigration law for Colorado. This is his answer. Yes, I strongly support Arizona-style laws to deal with a problem created by the federal government’s lack of enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws. Colorado has an estimated 200,000 or more illegal immigrants who drain over [...]

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Press release at LP.org: WASHINGTON – Amid controversy over U.S. immigration policy, Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle says the proper way to end illegal immigration is to re-legalize immigration. Hinkle released the following statement today: "In debate after debate, Democratic and Republican politicians have decried the problem of illegal immigration, called for more border security [...]

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A press release from the Angel Torres campaign (H/T to Chris Robinson): Phoenix, AZ-Angel Torres, the Green Party candidate for State Representative in Legislative District 16, has received the endorsement of the Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 104.  Mr. Torres has worked in the airline industry for 23 years, and has [...]

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