Sunshine State News: Gary Johnson and other presidential hopefuls will participate in a Libertarian Party debate Saturday afternoon in Orlando. Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, who dropped his bid for the Republican nomination last month, will be joined on the debate stage by party activist Lee Wrights, Kiowa Nation member and Afghan war veteran [...]
Libertarian Presidential Debate at Florida LP Convention, Saturday 2/11/12
February 6th, 2012 · 11 Comments
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Scott Keller Seeks LP Nod
January 19th, 2012 · 26 Comments
From a media release by the Scott Keller campaign: Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012 12:00am Scott Keller officially announces that he is seeking the 2012 Libertarian Party Presidential nomination with a liberty and solution-oriented platform, which promises to turn the economy around in 6-12 months, while paring down the size of the Federal government and returning [...]
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Florida LP Chair Adrian Wyllie: Prosecution Caught Unprepared, “Huge” REAL ID Court Challenge Rescheduled
October 4th, 2011 · 4 Comments
Emailed to IPR: CLEARWATER, FLORIDA – The State of Florida is facing a legal challenge to the new driver’s license requirements as mandated by the Department of Homeland Security under the REAL ID Act. Libertarian Party of Florida Chairman and syndicated radio talk host Adrian Wyllie was cited for driving without a license, and will [...]
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Former Florida Republican State Legislator Will be Independent Party Candidate for Congress Next Year
September 17th, 2011 · No Comments
Ballot Access News: According to this story, former Florida State Senator Nancy Argenziano will run for Congress in 2012 as the nominee of the Independent Party. Earlier, Argenziano had expressed a desire to be a Democratic Party nominee in 2012, but the new election law passed this year forbids anyone from running in a party [...]
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Libertarians Call On Florida Sheriffs To Arrest TSA Agents
July 5th, 2011 · 29 Comments
PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA – In a strongly-worded email sent today to all of Florida’s 67 county sheriffs, the Libertarian Party of Florida demanded the arrest of TSA agents for violations of the U.S. and Florida Constitutions, and accused TSA agents of committing sexual battery. The letter reads as follows: July 4, 2011 Dear Sheriff, On [...]
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Root: The Strike – As Ayn Rand Predicted
June 29th, 2011 · 61 Comments
“…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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FL: Libertarians to hold rally Saturday in support of jailed whistleblower
June 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment
From a Jun 23, 2011 media release sent to IPR by the Libertarian Party of Florida: LIVE OAK, FLORIDA – The Libertarian Party of Florida, in conjunction with the 1787 Network, is staging a rally to support whistleblower Bob Burton at the office of State Attorney Skip Jarvis on Saturday, June 25, 2011. The rally [...]
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UPDATE: FL Libertarian Party Chairman Surrenders Driver’s License in Real ID Protest, Notifies Police
May 21st, 2011 · 8 Comments
From an email sent to IPR by the Libertarian Party of Florida VIDEO UPDATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOTOenwxsQI PRIOR RELEASE: Fla. Libertarian Party Chairman to Surrender Driver’s License in Real ID Protest CLEARWATER – Libertarian Party of Florida Chairman Adrian Wyllie will surrender his driver’s license in protest of Florida’s implementation of the Real ID Act at noon [...]
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FL Whigs: Truesdell US Senate Campaign
May 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments
From a release by Paul Truesdell, chairman of the Florida Whig Party: “I understand that mine is but one voice, but perhaps when united in a national chorus of discontent against those who would willingly deny you and I as Americans, access to our natural public resources, foundations to governmental entities and asserted councils can [...]
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FL election bill would increase signatures needed for new party presidential candidate from zero to over 335,000
April 20th, 2011 · 5 Comments
From Ballot Access News: On April 18, the Florida Secretary of State’s omnibus election law bill was amended to require new political parties who wish to place a presidential nominee on the ballot to submit a petition signed by a number of voters, equal to 4% of the last presidential vote. For 2012, this would [...]
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Florida Green Party calls for state to shut down and phase out nuclear power plants
March 31st, 2011 · 6 Comments
From the Daily Loaf: In Florida, there are currently five nuclear reactors in operation in Florida, with two at Turkey Point on Biscayne Bay, two in Port St. Lucie, and one at Crystal River. The Crystal River reactor (CR-3) has been shut down for repairs since September 2009, when a large crack was discovered in [...]
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Liberty Underground: Libertarian Party of Florida Chair Questions
March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments
Alex Snitker’s Liberty Underground show has a list of questions, eight of which will be asked of the four candidates for Libertarian Party of Florida state chair on the show on the 25th of March at 9AM Eastern. According to a previous IPR post, The debate will be moderated by 2010 Libertarian senatorial candidate Alex [...]
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Boca Raton’s ‘No weapons allowed’ sign under fire from Libertarians
March 22nd, 2011 · 4 Comments
By Rebekah Monson at the Sun-Sentinel: A sign banning weapons at Boca Raton’s City Hall is under fire from the county’s Libertarian Party. The Libertarian Party of Palm Beach County sent a letter Tuesday to city officials stating that the “No weapons allowed” sign at the entrance to City Hall violated state law and asking [...]
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Limbaugh: disgruntled tea partiers could bolt the GOP to form a third party
March 20th, 2011 · 16 Comments
Kenric Ward in Sunshine State News, by way of the Florida TEA Party: …Limbaugh… tweaked establishment Republicans by predicting that disgruntled tea partiers could bolt the GOP to form a third party. “They know they’re a majority in the country. If they conclude that they have no influence with the current crop of Republicans, they’ll [...]
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Miami-Dade Green Party: Keep racist Arizona-style immigration laws out of Florida
March 20th, 2011 · 4 Comments
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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Florida Tea Party responds to State of the State address
March 10th, 2011 · 4 Comments
Press release emailed to IPR: “I was pleased with the tone and subjects covered by the Governor. We strongly support Governor Scott’s efforts to bring the state budget under control and be on the side of the taxpayers of Florida.” “Governor Scott will have a tough fight on his hands to overcome the forces of [...]
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Florida Libertarians join statewide protest against red light cameras
February 24th, 2011 · 5 Comments
Karl Dickey at the Examiner: The Libertarian Party of Florida (LPF), the National Motorists Association (NMA) and the Florida Civil Rights Association are jointly participating in a statewide protest this Saturday to raise awareness of the negative effects of red light cameras on driver’s safety and to support State Seantor Rene Garcia’s bill SB672 and [...]
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Palm Beach, Florida Libertarians support the decriminalization of Cannabis
February 20th, 2011 · 22 Comments
Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: February 18, 2011 Libertarians Urge Lake Worth to Be “NORML” Palm Beach Libertarians support the decriminalization of Cannabis Boca Raton, FL – The Libertarian Party of Palm Beach County (LPPBC) has moved to support the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) in the campaign to decriminalize Cannabis in the [...]
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Mary Ruwart: Open letter to the Florida and Idaho Libertarian Party State Executive Committees
February 10th, 2011 · 128 Comments
By Mary Ruwart at Liberty for All. Republished with permission from Liberty for All publisher Lee Wrights. by Mary J. Ruwart, LNC At-large Dear Colleagues, I am writing to you in my capacity as an At-Large Representative of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), which is in receipt of your resolutions concerning Mr. Root. As you [...]
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Adrian Wyllie Seeks Florida Libertarian Party State Chairmanship
February 7th, 2011 · 14 Comments
Press release: PALM HARBOR – For decades, the Libertarian Party of Florida has sat on the political sidelines watching the Republicans and Democrats run up the score. But Adrian Wyllie thinks that the LPF has the right philosophy to get in the game, and he has the right plan to level the field. Wyllie, a [...]
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