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Chuck Baldwin: ‘Newt Gingrich? Really?’

January 28th, 2012 · 11 Comments

From an article at Chuck Baldwin Live by 2008 Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin: If one believes that the problem is out-of-control government trampling our Bill of Rights, Newt Gingrich is definitely not the solution. If one believes the problem is the lack of Christian morals among our civil magistrates, Newt Gingrich is definitely [...]

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Bob Barr Endorsed Newt Gingrich

December 13th, 2011 · 113 Comments

Bob Barr was the Presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 2008, having recently switched from the GOP. It was recently rumored that he was considering a Republican run for Congress in Georgia, but this still came as quite a shock. Bob Barr is one member of a large slate of public officials and former [...]

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Former Presidential Nominee of the LP Denounced by Conservative Groups

December 2nd, 2011 · 20 Comments

Bob Barr was the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee in 2008 and is still, to the party’s knowledge, a member. However, he has recently been connected with a run, as a Republican, for a congressional seat in Georgia. Some conservative political action committees are not too happy about the idea and have made their opinions known. [...]

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Georgia Party Condemns LNC, Seeks Removal of Flood from LNC

October 14th, 2011 · 35 Comments

As found in Liberty for America October 2011, we are told this resolution was read into the the August LNC minutes, a unanimous resolution: A RESOLUTION OF THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF GEORGIA, INC WHEREAS, the actions by the LNC appear to have exceeded its authority and is in gross violation of the guaranteed autonomy of [...]

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Green Party members speak out to stop execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, urge abolition of the death penalty

September 18th, 2011 · No Comments

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Friday, September 16, 2011 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on criminal justice and the death penalty: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-criminal.php WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United [...]

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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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Bob Barr: Edwards Prosecution Reflects Gross Overreaching By Feds

June 11th, 2011 · 6 Comments

From an article posted on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog, June 8, 2011, by Bob Barr: The definition of “overreaching” in the next edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary could be a single sentence — “Over•reaching: see June 3, 2011 indictment of former presidential candidate and United States Senator John Edwards for alleged campaign finance violations.” Every [...]

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Georgia residents given chance to voice opinion on nation’s most restrictive ballot access law

April 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment

From Ballot Access News: In one week, the Georgia Elections Advisory Council will hold its first public meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to let Georgia residents express themselves about problems with Georgia’s election laws. The first meeting is Wednesday, April 27, at 10 a.m., in room 341 of the Georgia state Capitol. Anyone [...]

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Free & Equal: Georgia election reform hearings may undo the legacy of hate

April 20th, 2011 · No Comments

From a media release by Free & Equal: In 1964, the federal government reacted to a shameful but undeniable truth, that in many places in our country the most fundamental element of American freedom, the right to vote in a fair election process, was not only failing, it was being intentionally misused. The Civil Rights [...]

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Ga. Greens: Danger from Fukushima nuclear plant damage should be a warning to Georgians

March 13th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Press release from Georgia Greens: Fukushima Radioactive Release Should Serve as Warning Greens Urge Obama to Withdraw Loan Guarantees for Nukes “We are horrified, but not at all surprised by this latest nuclear accident,” said Denice Traina, a health-care worker residing in Augusta Georgia and former co-chair of the Georgia Green Party. “Fukushima has now [...]

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Garland Favorito of VoterGa: Legislative Update

March 6th, 2011 · No Comments

VoterGa focuses on ballot access and ballot security issues: VoterGa Supporters, For the last two months I have been working with some legislators who are friendly to our cause so that we can get our good legislation from last year re-introduced. This would include bills such as the HB1215, Optical Scan Voting bill, we call [...]

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Wrights takes Stop All War message to Kentucky, Georgia

March 2nd, 2011 · 27 Comments

BURNET, Texas (March 2) – Potential Libertarian presidential candidate R. Lee Wrights will be in taking his stop all war message to the state Libertarian Party conventions in Kentucky and Georgia over the next two weekends. Wrights will be he luncheon speaker at the Kentucky LP convention in Maysville March 5. The convention will be [...]

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Libertarian Party of Georgia To Participate in Georgians for Sunday Sales Coalition Press Conference/Rally

February 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments

Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Georgia is one of only three states in the country that does not provide some option for the off-premise sale of beer, wine, or liquor on Sunday.  Because Georgia is the only state in the Southeast with a total ban on Sunday sales, we are at a distinct economic disadvantage.  For many Georgians, [...]

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Georgia Green Party to Gov. Deal: Investigate ‘ongoing pattern’ of inmate abuse

February 16th, 2011 · 3 Comments

On The Wilder Side: Image via Wikipedia In a letter sent this morning to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, officers of the Georgia Green Party urged that he suspend five Department of Corrections employees at Telfair State Prison pending the results of an investigation into the criminal assault of January 12th on Georgia inmate Shawn Whatley. [...]

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Chuck Donovan on A Real Right to Travel

February 5th, 2011 · 27 Comments

Via Bludgeon and Skewer. Chuck Donovan ran for US Senate in Georgia in 2010 as a Libertarian Party candidate. I have spoken many times on how government has forcibly intervened in nearly every aspect of our lives. Nothing represents more completely, the full control of government in our lives, than the issue of public roads. [...]

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Libertarian Party of Georgia Says Immigration Bill Will Bankrupt Georgia

January 31st, 2011 · 12 Comments

ATLANTA – Last week, State Representative Matt Ramsey (R-Peachtree City) introduced the “Illegal Immigration Reform Enforcement Act of 2011,” or HB 87. The Libertarian Party of Georgia opposes the bill, citing the huge cost to enforce it even though the General Assembly is tasked with a nearly $2 billion budget crisis. They also say that [...]

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Georgia Greens: Save taxpayer dollars by cutting jail costs

January 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Via Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch (Distributed by the Green Party of the United States) Georgia Green Party http://georgiagreenparty.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 For further information, contact: Bruce Dixon, 678-298-9463 x3 bdixon@GeorgiaGreenParty.org Press Secretary, Georgia Green Party Greens Demand Real Reductions in Incarceration Costs Reject Deal Reforms which Fail to Challenge [...]

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Libertarian Party of Georgia Welcomes Changes To Handling Drug Offenders, Favors Decriminalization Instead of Growing Government

January 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments

Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com ATLANTA – In his inaugural speech, Governor Nathan Deal addressed an issue that the Libertarian Party of Georgia has long been aware of, the unusually high number of residents currently tracked by the Department of Corrections. “One out of every 13 Georgia residents is under some form of correctional control,” said Deal, [...]

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Georgia Greens Demand Real Reductions in Incarceration’s Costs

January 21st, 2011 · No Comments

Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Greens Demand Real Reductions in Incarceration Costs Reject Deal Reforms which Fail to Challenge Racist Impact After last week praising Governor Deal’s expressed concern for the wasted lives, drained treasury and depleted workforce left in the wake of the nation’s war on drugs, Georgia Green Party leaders today [...]

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Georgia Greens welcome Governor’s Acknowledgement of Mass Incarceration’s Costs, offer to work to reverse state’s tragic course

January 20th, 2011 · No Comments

From the Green Party of Georgia, via the Green Party of the United States: “I am so encouraged to hear Governor Deal acknowledge both the stark statistics and something of the devastation which mass incarceration wreaks on Georgia communities,” said Denice Traina, past cochair of the Georgia Green Party, mother, grandmother and Augusta based physical [...]

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