Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Dr. Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, announces that anti-war activist Adam Kokesh will be the keynote speaker at his election season kick-off event, to be held on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 7:30pm at the Greensboro Airport Marriott. The Greensboro Airport Mariott was the location of the press [...]

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by Brian Irving Raleigh Libertarian Examiner The North Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what could be a landmark ballot access case for the state. The hearing culminated a five-year legal battle by the Libertarian and Green parties to reform the state’s restrictive ballot access laws. Five of the seven justices grilled the attorneys [...]

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Several press releases in one post, since I did not have time to post them as they came in -p Monday, September 13, 2010 Beitler express disappointment at NCAB Debate Snub On Friday September 10, an Associated Press article confirmed that North Carolina Association of Broadcasters would not be inviting Libertarian Michael Beitler to their [...]

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(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States, http://www.gp.org) North Carolina Green Party For immediate release Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Contact: Theresa El-Amin Phone Number: 919-824-0659 E-mail: teagreenparty@aol.com Web site: http://www.ncgreenparty.org Press conference, 9 am in front of the courthouse in Raleigh on Sept. 9 On September 9, 2010 , the North Carolina Supreme [...]

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From the Duke University student newspaper, the Chronicle. Forwarded in email by Chris Cole. Candidates gear up for tough fight over Senate seat By Ciaran OConnor (except): A third candidate Although they are the favorites to win the seat, Burr and Marshall are not the only candidates Duke students can choose from to represent them [...]

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by Brian Irving Raleigh Libertarian Examiner 919.538.4548 Examiner.com The state Libertarian Party has scored a minor victory in its struggle to reform North Carolina’s restrictive election laws. The party is now legally entitled to participate in the state’s political parties financing fund as equals with the Democratic and Republican parties. The program allows taxpayers to [...]

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by Brian Irving Raleigh Libertarian Examiner Examiner.com The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Libertarian Party et al vs. The State of North Carolina, et al Thursday, September 9 at 9:30 a.m. This is the party’s challenge to the constitutionality of North Carolina’s ballot access laws. The lawsuit filed in September [...]

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LP blog: SurveyUSA has published another poll of the U.S. Senate race in North Carolina. Libertarian Michael Beitler polled 6%. Politically, his strongest support came from independents (12%) and liberals (15%). View the poll results.

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The North Carolina First Party, which failed to qualify for the ballot in 2010, is going to attempt to qualify for the ballot in 2012. The union-backed group first attempted to collect enough signatures to form a third political party but fell short. It then collected signatures to put a candidate on the ballot as [...]

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Richard Winger reports that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) collected over 35,000 signatures to put Wendell Fant on the North Carolina ballot as an Independent The independent candidate petition to place Wendell Fant on the November 2010 ballot in North Carolina’s U.S. House district 8 does have enough valid signatures.  The law required 16,929 [...]

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In what may be a first for North Carolina politics, the first debate of the 2010 U.S. Senate election will include all ballot qualified candidates. The N.C. Bar Association is sponsoring a debate in Wilmington tomorrow which will include Libertarian Mike Beitler, incumbent Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Elaine Marshall.

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Ballot Access News: On June 10, Wendell Fant submitted approximately 30,000 signatures to be on the North Carolina ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. House, 8th district. Approximately 17,000 signatures are required in that district. The formula requires 4% of the registered voters of the district to sign. See this story. If the petition [...]

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TPID: From the Constitution Party discussion forum: The Castle Doctrine (Senate Bill 928) . . . Eminent Domain (House Bill 1659) . . . Protect Health Care Freedom (House Joint Res. 1674) . . . HOUSE BILL 2032 – UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT . . . HOUSE BILL 1963 – SPEAK, READ & WRITE [...]

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It was announced earlier this week that the effort to form a North Carolina First Party by labor unions had failed to gain enough signatures. It was previously unknown whether the organizers would still try to petition their candidates onto the ballots as Independents or whether the organizers knew that they could use their 85,000+ [...]

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by Brian Irving Raleigh Libertarian Examiner Examiner.com (Also emailed by Brian Irving to contact.ipr@gmail.com): North Carolina Libertarians have taken the unusual step of repudiating a candidate. The state executive committee passed a resolution repudiating the candidacy of Jack Stratton for Mecklenburg County Commission. The resolution adopted May 8 alleges Stratton is using his campaign “to [...]

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Posted at http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/libertarians-in-the-news p>Here is some recent coverage of Libertarians around the U.S. The Colorado Statesman covers Libertarians and other parties: The Libertarian Party emerged from its state convention on March 20 with the most candidates it has ever fielded in federal races, according to state party chair David Williams Jr. The party will hold [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Brian Irving; also posted at examiner.com: There is a disease spreading in North Carolina and the country and health care reform is not the cure but one of the symptoms, the chair of the North Carolina Libertarian Party told delegates gathered for the party’s annual state convention in Burlington April 10. [...]

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Apparently inspired by certain Democrats voting against the health insurance reform, the Service Employees International Union – a union representing over 2 million workers – is surprisingly planning to work against Democrats this election season. Perhaps the strongest challenge to Democrats, if not the Democratic establishment itself, will be in North Carolina.  The national SEIU [...]

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Posted at Poli-Tea: In North Carolina’s Statesville Record and Landmark, Jim McNally reports on a meeting of the Constitution Party of North Carolina: The CPNC leaders who spoke at the Golden Corral . . . [pointed out] the folly in supporting either of the two major political parties that have had a stranglehold on the [...]

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The North Carolina Supreme Court will soon be hearing Libertarian Party of North Carolina v State Board of Elections, a challenge to the state’s ballot access laws for minor parties.The Court wants all amicus curiae briefs in by December 23, 2009. There are many groups that hope to file on the side of the minor parties.

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