HB 2981 , which earlier passed the WV House, cuts the number of signatures from to 2% to 1% of the number of voters who voted for a given office in the previous election to get someone on the ballot for that office in an upcoming election. The State Senate passed an equivalent bill today, [...]

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Press release posted at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. WASHINGTON – Libertarian National Committee (LNC) Chair William Redpath released the following statement Friday concerning the passage of a $3.5 trillion budget by Congress last night: “Yesterday’s passage of a $3.5 trillion budget, stuffed full of wasteful and unconstitutional spending and funded by prosperity-killing tax [...]

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Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Libertarian National Committee Chairman Bill Redpath is — once again — one of several Washington leaders quoted in today’s installation of The Hill blog’s "The Big Question."  Today’s "Big Question" was "Politically, was it a good move or a blunder for House Republicans to [...]

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Phillies, in group email: “…my state chair (Dave Blau) had a phone call from the LNC Acting Director, and in one of the early sentences the first two words form Mr. Krauss’s [sic] lips were, I am told, “please” and “disaffiliate”.” The Massachusetts LP has passed resolutions at odds with the national LP leadership: Libertarian [...]

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Ballot Access News: On January 14, West Virginia Libertarian Party state chair Matt Harris, and national chair Bill Redpath, spent the day lobbying key West Virginia legislators for better ballot access. Currently, for president, West Virginia is tied with North Carolina for having the 2nd most restrictive requirement. West Virginia requirements for office other than [...]

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by Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/is-obama-a-centrist-lp-says-no In today’s political arena, it’s sometimes hard to tell left from right, and right from left. This makes finding the political “center” that much more difficult. So, is president-elect Barack Obama actually a centrist? While Obama currently appears to be not as extreme as his campaign rhetoric [...]

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Letter from the LP Watergate headquarters in DC, signed by national chair Bill Redpath: Posted by Brian Miller at Delaware Libertarian

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Libertarian Party national chair Bill Redpath interviewed in the Loudoun Extra section of the Washington Post. H/T Ballot Access News. Q: How long have you been involved with the Libertarian Party and what inspired you to join? A: I joined the Libertarian Party on April 30, 1984. I joined because – while I thought the [...]

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Press release posted at LP.org Party Says Obama Following Missteps of Bush Administration America’s largest third-party is accusing Barack Obama of pursuing the same “hawkish” foreign policy of his predecessor George Bush. “What we hoped to see with the incoming Obama administration were plans for a total withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq,” says William Redpath, [...]

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http://www.lp.org/staff no longer lists Sean Haugh. Thanks to Susan Hogarth for this news. The budget approved at the recent LNC meeting in San Diego contains significantly less money for staff salaries than the previous budget, and Haugh has been writing articles at Liberty For All which have been highly critical of LP national chair Bill [...]

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There has been no shortage of reaction among libertarians to Bill Redpath’s list of Libertarian Party promises which he issued upon the occasion of the party’s 37th birthday last week. Earlier, we covered the reaction by Classically Liberal blog. At Delaware Libertarian, Brian Miller writes Introducing The New and Improved NeoConTarian Party ™: The list [...]

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Following up on Sean Haugh’s article, Sexual Harassment at National? (discussed at IPR: Libertarian Party employee Sean Haugh: ‘Open season on women’ as long as Bill Redpath is LP national chair; Libertarian Party Transparency Caucus debate), Liberty For All has been publishing a number of followup articles. In Sexual harassment at National: What to do [...]

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Classically liberal explains The (formerly) Libertarian Party has had a birthday. It is now 37 years old. In my view the LP is a zombie — the living dead. It walks and moves about but it is a corpse for all practical purposes. LP National Chairman Bill Redpath has issued a list of promises that [...]

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Members of the Libertarian Party Transparency Caucus are debating the controversy between chair Bill Redpath and Political Director Sean Haugh. West Virginia LP chair Matt Harris writes, I think we need to issue a release in support of Bill Redpath. A big part of Haugh’s assault was that Redpath chose to deal with the Keaton [...]

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Posted at LP.org Libertarian Party founded on Dec. 11, 1971 The Libertarian Party, America’s third-largest political party, is celebrating its 37th birthday. “Since we began in 1971, we’ve elected hundreds of Libertarians to public office across the country,” says Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath. “These Libertarians make a significant impact on their community, and [...]

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In remarks published in Liberty for All, LP Political Director Sean Haugh details allegations of sexual harassment against former LNC member M Carling, and says that they led to the current sexual harassment policy in the LNC manual, which he quotes in his article. Haugh goes on to say, The Resolution of Discipline against Angela [...]

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From the desk of George Phillies as has crossed my email: I don’t know if it will be submitted. There is a corresponding resolution against Starr. I believe it’s meant as a ‘this is a two way street which we might prefer not to travel’. The resolution reads: Whereas, William Redpath has engaged in conduct [...]

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Posted at LP.org As I recover from Election Day and my US Senate campaign that preceded it, it is time to take stock of where the Libertarian Party stands and what we accomplished in the election season just passed. While I know that we are disappointed that more of our candidates did not win, and [...]

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Posted at LP.org The Libertarian Party wishes to express its condolences to the friends and family of Libertarian activist Marshall Fritz, who passed away on Nov. 4 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. “When I think of Marshall Fritz, I immediately think of other people, because I met so many other Libertarians through Marshall, including [...]

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From Miller Politics, by way of contact.ipr@gmail.com Gail “for rail” Parker is running as the Independent Green Party candidate for US Senate in Virginia.  In the 2006 US Senate election Parker was the only third party candidate and received 1% of the vote against Jim Webb and George Allen.  An October 24 poll found her [...]

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