Former New Mexico Governor and current presidential candidate Gary Johnson will be joined Monday, January 30, by nationally-known Libertarian leader and commentator Wayne Allyn Root for a live on-line Town Hall.

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“The odds-on favorite to land the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential nomination – should former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson win the presidential nomination – is Las Vegan Wayne Allyn Root, who was the LP’s veep candidate in 2008.” – Chuck Muth

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“Early on, he threw a lot of red meat to the Libertarian crowd stating, “The LP is the Third Party!” He further pointed out 61% of Americans are willing to vote Third Party.”

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“The Corzine scandal proves the leftists running our country actually believe their own lies. They are blind, deaf, and really, really dumb.” Wayne Allyn Root

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IPR note from Paulie: Independent Marla Ingles and America’s Third Position Party candidate Harry Bertram are also in the race. See Poli-Tea for some details on that. Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: West Virginia is holding a special election for governor today, October 4, and one of the candidates is the Mountain Party’s Bob [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Over at Alternet, Jeff Biggers has published a detailed interview with Bob Henry Baber, the West Virginia Mountain Party’s candidate for governor in an October 4th special election: In a blatant genuflect to the coal industry’s stranglehold over state politics, the West Virginia Broadcasters Association blocked the participation of [...]

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Jack Wagner at the Free Independent-Sun: On October 4th West Virginia will hold a special election for Governor. On September 7th a 3-Way Debate was held between candidates Earl Ray Tomblin (Democrat), Bill Maloney (Republican) and Bob Henry Baber (Green-Mountain). I support the elimination of the food tax. I am opposed to new taxes on [...]

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This letter was sent to me by Art Olivier for the purpose of posting it here on IPR. Discussing foreign policy at Case Western University during the 2000 presidential campaign, I said, “It is not a question of if America would suffer a major terrorist attack because of our intervention in foreign affairs, but when [...]

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Phil Moffett and John T. Kemper III, Republican candidates for Governor and Auditor, respectively, had signed a petition which would allow Libertarian Party candidate for State Treasurer Ken Moellman a place on the ballot

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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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From New York LP chair Mark Axinn via LP blog: Libertarian Party Candidate Files Lawsuit against NYS Board of Elections for Failure to Count Votes Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Governor of New York in the 2010 election, today filed a lawsuit in Albany County Supreme Court against the New York State Board [...]

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Dear Friend of Liberty, I think you’ll enjoy this video of the LP in action at CPAC (pronounced "see-pack"), the Conservative Political Action Conference. LP Headquarters staff and volunteers hosted a booth last Thursday through Saturday here in Washington, D.C., featuring the World’s Smallest Political Quiz and the "Republican Wall of Shame." Our new video [...]

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Press release from the Libertarian Party: WASHINGTON – At their booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the Libertarian Party is displaying a "Republican Wall of Shame." (View low-res JPG or high-res PDF.) These are the prominent Republicans featured on the Wall of Shame: Mitt Romney, supporter of the RomneyCare socialized medicine program in Massachusetts. [...]

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Ballot Access News: West Virginia State Senator Clark Barnes (R-Beverly) has introduced SB 417, to ease the definition of “political party.” The existing law, ever since 1916, has defined a political party as a group that polled at least 1% of the vote for Governor in the last gubernatorial election. SB 417 would define “political [...]

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Ballot Access News: According to this story in the New York Daily News, Thomas Golisano is one of the major financial backers of the movement to pass the National Popular Vote Plan bills. Golisano was the Independence Party’s gubernatorial candidate in New York in 1994, 1998, and 2002. Each time he ran, he received a [...]

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From manhattanmadam.com, the blog of 2010 Anti-Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of New York Kristin Davis: Kristin Davis, better known as The Manhattan Madam who supplied call-girls for Eliot Spitzer and after prison ran for Governor of New York on a libertarian platform announced she would found HOPE HOUSE, a non-profit created to expose and [...]

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Green Party of NY State via On The Wilder Side: Hawkins Opposes Cuomo’s Proposals for Tax Cuts to the Rich, Job Cuts Says Single Payer Health Care is the Solution to Medicaid Howie Hawkins, the former Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that Cuomo’s proposals to resolve the state’s alleged $9 billion state budget [...]

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From Raw Story via Poli-Tea: on Wednesday’s broadcast of Freedom Watch on the Fox Business channel, Judge Napolitano sat down for an amiable interview with Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Ralph Nader to discuss a progressive-libertarian alliance in the 112th session of respective chambers in Congress. Nader, who has recently called this coalition “the most [...]

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Ballot Access News: Kentucky holds its gubernatorial election on November 8, 2011. So far, it appears there are no minor party candidates running in this race. However, one independent candidate, Gatewood Galbraith, is running and is already collecting signatures. Galbraith has been invited to a Kentucky Press Association forum for the gubernatorial candidates, to be [...]

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From the Flathead Beacon via Third Party and Independent Daily: Chuck Baldwin hasn’t stated outright that he plans to run for governor of Montana. But in a speech to a packed room at the Outlaw Inn in Kalispell last week, he all but declared his candidacy, describing the prospect as, “so thrilling I just get [...]

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