From the Gwinnett Daily Post, by Camie Young:
For the second time this month, the Libertarian Party of Georgia has spoken out against Gwinnett’s government.
This time, the party had issues with the county’s trash plan, a program that was thrown out by a judge the same day the party issued a press release.
In a press release, [...]

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Press release posted at GA.LP.org
Atlanta Georgia: Over the past year Gwinnett County, Georgia has seen an increase in crime and armed home invasions. But this time it wasn’t armed thugs looking to steal from residents… or was it?
This week’s botched “no-knock” raid on the wrong home by Gwinnett County Police is another example of the [...]

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Emailed by Debra Dedmon.
WHEREAS, the continued activities of the Libertarian National Committee regarding Angela Keaton, the proposed Resolution of Discipline calling for her suspension, and its blatant neglect of performing the proper and necessary duties of a major political party, are deemed to be self-destructive, humiliating, alienating, and detrimental to the Libertarian Party and [...]

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David Nalle reports at Blog Critics Magazine:
Chambliss ended up in a runoff largely because of Libertarian candidate Allen Buckley who drew 3.41 percent of the vote, more than enough to push Chambliss from 49.75 percent to well over 50 percent and victory. Chambliss sought support from the Libertarian Party of Georgia in the runoff, [...]

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Libertarian Party of Tennessee Resolution (emailed to us by the Treasurer). Georgia also passed a similar resolution, according to Mike Seebeck. Both states are in the LNC region represented by Stewart Flood, who is presenting the charges against Keaton.The other states in the region are Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas.

Adopted December [...]

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Mike Seebeck reports:
The following is a Resolution passed by the Libertarian Party of Georgia this evening, with regard to the LNC’s Resolution of Discipline regarding LNC At-Large Representative Angela Keaton:
Resolved, the Libertarian Party of Georgia expresses its deep disappointment with the Libertarian National Committee in its continued activities regarding Angela Keaton and it neglect [...]

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At Crazy for Liberty, Doug Craig writes:
Bob Barr urges us to vote for one of the worst Republicans in the country.
I am no fan of Saxby Chambliss but it looks like Bob Barr is.
I see no reason for Barr to go to bat for Saxby. He knows people were [...]

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A press release from the Constitution Party of Georgia highlights numerous instances of “lost” write-in votes in several of that state’s counties:
The Constitution Party of Georgia presented documentation today that showed the official 2008 Georgia election results failed to include more than 10% of the votes cast for Constitution Party Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin. As [...]

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Posted at Crazy for Liberty by Doug Craig. Doug is a hard working Libertarian activist from Georgia.
I did not have time to work much on campaigns this year after the Denver convention. I wish I could have worked on the John Monds (1 million votes in Georgia) campaign some. I do not [...]

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Allen Buckley, who received 127,974 votes for U.S. Senate in Georgia as the Libertarian nominee, will not make an endorsement in the December runoff, the AP reports. Buckley “scolded his opponents for supporting excessive spending he argued would worsen the nation’s economic woes.”

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From the Covington News
It has been a while since I had a column appear here in The Covington News. I spent the spent the last five months working for Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee and former United States Representative. It was a great experience and I will miss it.
A lot has happened over [...]

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The Senate Guru blog at Huffington Post has the following:
Allen Buckley was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2008. On Election Day, Buckley took 3.4% of the vote. Buckley’s 128,000 votes would have put either Democrat Jim Martin or Republican Saxby Chambliss over the 50% mark, avoiding a run-off.
Of course, [...]

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Via Ballot Access News

Georgia voters vote on December 2 in two partisan run-off elections, for U.S. Senate and for Public Service Commission. In the Public Service Commission race, neither the Democrat nor the Republican had polled 50% because of the presence of the Libertarian nominee, Brandon Givens. On November 17, Givens endorsed Jim Powell, the [...]

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Original article here.
By JIM THARPE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Libertarians have never won statewide office in Georgia, but suddenly their votes have become valuable currency in the extended U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin.
No sooner had the sun peeked over the horizon on Nov. 5 than Martin [...]

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In a comment at Green Party Watch, Richard Winger of Ballot Access News writes:
The months of November and December of any even-numbered year are the PRIME months to ask state legislators to introduce bills to improve ballot access (and to introduce bills on any subject). If people wait, the legislators will say, “Sorry; I can [...]

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