W. James Antle III of the American Spectator writes in the Boston Globe this morning that Bob Barr “has performed better in national polls than any Libertarian Party presidential candidate in history,” and in Massachusetts, “polls have showed Barr winning as much as 5 percent of the vote — 2 points more than Libertarians need [...]
Antle says Barr, not Phillies, should be on Massachusetts ballot
August 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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Latest Boston Tea Party endorsements, organizational news
August 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Latest affiliates and endorsements from the Boston Tea Party
New news at the top 12 August 2008 The Boston Tea Party’s national committee has voted to endorse Tom Knapp for Congress in Missouri. Tom represents the Libertarian Party in that race. Our Indiana affiliate has voted to endorse Rex Bell in Indiana.
10 August 2008 Our ranks [...]
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Barr misses Maine deadline
August 12th, 2008 · 27 Comments
Hot on the heels of the failure in West Virginia (additional discussion at Ballot Access News and Last Free Voice), Ballot Access News reports:
On the deadline date of August 8, Bob Barr submitted a total of 3,200 signatures to various town and city clerks in Maine. State law requires 4,000 valid signatures to get on [...]
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Natural Law Party puts Ralph Nader on Michigan ballot
August 5th, 2008 · 11 Comments
Close on the heels of his victory in California, where the Peace and Freedom Party just put Nader on the ballot, the Natural Law Party of Michigan just did the same. Ballot Access News reports:
On July 30, 2008, the Michigan Natural Law Party nominated Ralph Nader for president, and submitted the needed paperwork. Nader is [...]
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Barr polls double digits in NH, closing in on getting ballot access
July 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Reported in the Manchester, NH Union Leader newspaper:
Although he’s yet to secure a spot on the New Hampshire presidential ballot, Republican-turned-Libertarian Bob Barr visited Manchester yesterday, drawing attention and, possibly votes, away from Republican John McCain.
Barr visited Murphy’s Tap Room in downtown Manchester, where about 90 people listened to his calls for small government [...]
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Sean Haugh under fire for giving instructions to burn petitions
July 2nd, 2008 · 40 Comments
It has been confirmed by multiple sources that Libertarian Party Political Director Sean Haugh, in violation of Massachusetts electoral law, ordered petitions with valid signatures to be burned — “quite literally.”
Haugh objected to reports that Gary Fincher, a professional petition circulator on Mr. Haugh’s black list, was collecting signatures in Massachusetts. Mr. Fincher was [...]
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George Phillies’ statement to Massachusetts State Committee
June 30th, 2008 · 26 Comments
I first received this several weeks ago. At that time George asked me to hold off on posting it. I note it has now been published at Last Free Voice.
Phillies Statement to the Massachusetts State Committee
(Edited from the May LPMass Minutes)
Last week I spent eight days in scenic Denver at our libertarian party national convention. [...]
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Phillies continues presidential campaign
June 21st, 2008 · 13 Comments
Correction: It appears that Lew Rockwell got this one wrong. George Phillies is “continuing” his presidential campaign, but only out of necessity. In some states in which petitioners worked to get the LP presidential ticket on the ballot, a candidate’s name had to be listed. George Phillies was so listed in New Hampshire, but the [...]
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Mass. Libertarian leaves LP and starts new party
June 13th, 2008 · 12 Comments
According to a source on the LNC, Jim Casarjian-Perry has left the Libertarian Party and filed paper work to create the Freedom Party (correction: Liberty Party) of Massachusetts.
Mr. Casarjian-Perry had been active in collecting signatures to get the Barr/Root ticket on the ballot, as late as June 8. (This was a misread on the author’s [...]
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Mass. LP elector won’t vote for Barr; speaks out
June 4th, 2008 · 32 Comments
From Arthur Torrey, Libertarian Party of Massachusetts Operations Facilitator:
As perhaps the only potential elector who has clearly and distinctly stated that he could not cast an electoral vote for Barr in the admittedly unlikely event that I was called on to serve, I’m finding that a certain amount of heat has been falling [...]
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