Libertarian Travis Irvine has come out with a movie about his run for Mayor of Bexley, Ohio in 2007. Irvine is a professional videographer. His youtube channel for his 2010 Congressional run: IrvineForCongress. Trailer for the movie, titled American Mayor (H/T Steven Linnabary in IPR comments): http://americanmayor.watchime.com/ Previous articles on Travis Irvine at IPR

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Press release from the Mark Noble campaign. The original press release headline is below. Background is here. Noble Achieves Ballot Status in May Primary This afternoon at a meeting of the Franklin County Board of Elections, Mark Noble was certified to appear on the ballot in the May 3rd City Council Primary. Mark Noble is [...]

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Doug Caruso in the Columbus Dispatch, by way of Steve Linnabary in IPR comments, writing about candidates working to get on the ballot in technically nonpartisan Columbus, Ohio city council races (excerpt): On Saturday morning, Mark Noble, who is leading a slate of three Libertarian Party candidates that includes Bob Bridges and Andrew Ullman, set [...]

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The Modern Whig Party has a new website, Modernwhig.info. From their blog: “The MWP is proud to announce new state chapters in Oklahoma, Oregon, Mississippi, Florida, and Arizona. These chapters have been organizing since November of 2010. The MWP is also currently working on new chapters in Ohio and Delaware as well. With the addition [...]

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Third Party and Independent Daily: Two stories out of Salem Ohio appear to indicate that a local independent movement is gaining steam.  From Salem News: SALEM – Republican Mayor Jerry Wolford switched to being an Independent candidate for mayor for the second time in his long political career. On Tuesday, after Councilman at-large John Berlin [...]

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Kevin Knedler in comments on the previous post: 26 LP state chairs have voted to have a “special LSLA” meeting in Columbus OHio on August 19, Friday. This is just before the LNC meeting. We have a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. More details later. But, this meeting will [...]

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Read the full thing at Socialist Webzine: Supporters of the Dan La Botz, Socialist for Senate campaign of 2010 met in Columbus, Ohio over the weekend to found a new organization and launch a campaign to fight for jobs and public services in Ohio— they also pledged to resist the policies of Republic Governor-elect John [...]

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From ToledoBlade.com: From noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the church at 2272 Collingwood Blvd., residents can step up to a microphone and air their views about the plant into a video camera. All discs or tapes containing the recorded statements will be delivered to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission prior to the Dec. 27 comment [...]

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by Gary Odom National Field Director at constitutionparty.com   2010 Election   Brings Victories and Near Misses; Highlights Progress And Reveals Challenges As The Constitution Party Looks To The Future     Congratulations To Nevada…Again!    In 2006, the Independent American Party, the Constitution Party’s state affiliate in Nevada elected two of its candidates to office.  This year it doubled up and elected four:three [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Illinois Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney led all Green Party gubernatorial candidates in 2010 in total votes and percentage of the total vote, with 99,625 votes, 2.70% of the vote. Only three times in history have Green Party gubernatorial candidates exceeded 10% of the vote. The first [...]

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Video from Ohio Libertarian Travis Irvine for Congress thanking supporters. H/T Kevin Knedler. Irvine’s campaign was notable for his use of videos. There’s a collection of them on his youtube channel.

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: LIBERTARIANS CONTINUE TO GAIN GROUND IN OHIO Republicans won the 2010 mid-term elections based primarily on a huge resurgence of public interest in Libertarian platforms of smaller government involvement and common sense fiscal conservatism. While the tidal wave of Republican enthusiasm has swept the GOP back into power, they weren’t the only [...]

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Darcy Richardson at Uncovered Politics: The Socialist Party’s Dan La Botz has surpassed the 25,000-vote mark in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race. With all but fourteen of Ohio’s 9,910 precincts reporting, the former history and Latin American studies professor and ex-journalist is unofficially garnering 25,311 votes. Read more…

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From the Libertarian Party blog analysis of the elections: Currently we have 15 Libertarians for U.S. House who received over 5% of the vote. (That only counts races where a Republican and a Democrat both appeared on the ballot.) That’s a big increase from past years. In 2008, three Libertarians for U.S. House got more [...]

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According to Austin Cassidy at Uncovered Politics, independent candidate Tammy Roesch had over 18% of the vote in Ohio’s 99th State House district, with only a fraction of a point separating the Democratic and Republican candidates. As of the time that article was published, Democrat Deborah Newcomb was narrowly leading Republican Casey Kozlowski. Uncovered Politics [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OHIO VOTERS SPEAK, GIVE LIBERTARIANS BIGGEST VOTE TOTALS EVER COLUMBUS – Ohio voters turned out during this cold, sunny day to decide the future of our state and our country. And their message couldn’t be clearer; they are starting to understand the message of the Libertarian party. “We couldn’t be more proud [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: There are 59 candidates running for the United States House of Representatives on November 2. This is the third of three posts on Green Party House candidates, continuing with the Central portion of the United States. Eastern US GP House Candidates Western US GP House Candidates GP US Senate [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: In a year that has seen the biggest upsurge of activism against marijuana prohibition in American history, Green Party candidates across the country are leading the fight for marijuana legalization while Democrats and Republicans defend the failed, destructive “war on drugs” prohibition regime. The eyes of Americans who oppose [...]

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Kyle at Libertarian Party blog: On October 30th, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert and John Stewart held an unusual rally on the National Mall. The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was a strange mixture of political comedy and commentary. While the specific goal of the rally was somewhat ambiguous in the weeks leading up to [...]

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LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF OHIO ELECTION NIGHT PARTY DETAILS The Libertarian Party of Ohio, in conjunction with the Franklin County Libertarian Party, will be hosting an election night party on November 2nd at 1038 North High Street in Columbus, Ohio. The event will begin at 7PM, and will include hor d’ourves, pizza, and soda, as well [...]

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