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Lee Wrights: Latest Million Vote March Video

April 30th, 2012 · 2 Comments

The Million Vote March, a project of the Lee Wrights for President campaign, has produced a series of videos to encourage one million Americans to vote Libertarian in November. The latest video is entitled “Stop the War on Small Businesses.”   To view the videos, visit The Million Vote March website. These, and other videos [...]

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Lee Wrights: Let’s Offer a True Libertarian Message to America

April 28th, 2012 · 6 Comments

by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (April 28) – It’s been nearly two years since I began this campaign to earn the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. From the beginning I stated my goal clearly and I’ve stuck to it. I said then that the Libertarian Party faces a critical test in 2012 and I want [...]

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Lee Wrights: Freedom Is Agreeable

April 21st, 2012 · 1 Comment

BURNET, Texas  (April 21) – Every day during this campaign I’ve become more and more convinced that it’s vitally important for the Libertarian Party to recruit and train good libertarian messengers. At every event I’ve attended, I have met eager, young (and some not-so-young) libertarian activists who are prime candidates for this mission. All they [...]

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Liberty Candidates 2012 Endorses: R. Lee Wrights

April 19th, 2012 · 28 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 April 2012 Liberty Candidates 2012 Endorses: R. Lee Wrights who is running for President of the United States Liberty-Candidates.org enthusiastically welcomes R. Lee Wrights to the growing slate of candidates championing a return to Constitutional governance in the United States! A Liberty Candidate will defend the great American principles of: Individual [...]

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Lee Wrights: on Freedom’s Phoenix Radio Thursday

April 18th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Lee Wrights, candidate for the Libertarian nomination for president, will be the guest on Ernest Hancock’s radio show Declare Your Independence Thursday, April 19 from 6-9 a.m. PST. You can listen online here.

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Mike Kane: Letter to Delegates of National Convention

April 17th, 2012 · 140 Comments

Sent to IPR by Mike Kane: Dear Delegates, I’m writing you today to express some concerns I have with some of Gary Johnson’s recent statements and policy platforms. I ask that you please read through this entire letter before making a decision on who to nominate at the Convention. In this letter, I will address [...]

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Sean Haugh: Wrights the Only Presidential Choice for the Party of Principle

April 17th, 2012 · 46 Comments

Sean Haugh writes at LibertyForAll.net: “For 2012, the top two contenders for our nomination are Lee Wrights and former Republican, Gary Johnson. Based on his campaign rhetoric, I’m concerned that if Gary Johnson is our nominee, he will say things as our standard bearer that will cause confusion about the LP brand. That happened in [...]

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Lee Wrights: America needs secure open borders

April 14th, 2012 · 7 Comments

by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (April 14)  – America has always had an “illegal immigration” problem. Just ask any Native American. During a conversation with a Cherokee chief several years ago I asked him, “What did the native tribes call America before the white settlers came here?” He looked me straight in the eyes [...]

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Lee Wrights: The Messenger Is Also The Message

April 6th, 2012 · 18 Comments

by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (April 7) – In the 1960s Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian educator and philosopher, coined the phrase “the medium is the message.” He meant that the method used to convey a message, the medium, becomes part of the message itself and affects the way the message is perceived. His ideas [...]

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If Your Vote Could Stop One War, Which One Would It Be?

March 26th, 2012 · 20 Comments

The Lee Wrights for President campaign has produced a video to support The Million Vote March, a project to achieve the historic first of one million votes for the Libertarian candidate for president.

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Lee Wrights: Jump Start The Economy With Tax Relief, Not Tax Reform

March 24th, 2012 · 18 Comments

by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (March 24) – I have heard it said by some that the “revenue-neutral” Fair Tax will “jump-start the economy for the next 100 years.” That is simply not true. No tax has ever jump started any economy. Taxes have the opposite effect. They stall the economy by stiffing incentive [...]

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Still Report #41 – Roger Stone

March 21st, 2012 · 80 Comments

From a release by the Bill Still campaign: Good evening from Washington, I’m Still reporting on the Libertarian Party Presidential race. In the Preamble to the Libertarian Party Platform of 2010, the second sentence contains a very interesting concept – a truly unique concept in all of American politics: “We believe that … force and [...]

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Lee Wrights: They’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught To Kill

March 10th, 2012 · 18 Comments

BURNET, Texas (March 10) – One point I’ve repeatedly emphasized during this campaign is that you can’t teach people that it’s wrong to kill people by killing people. I’ve said this so often that I almost forgot what it really means. A good friend of mine recently brought me back to reality. He asked simple, [...]

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Lee Wrights: Stop the Next War Before It Starts

March 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment

by R. Lee Wrights BURNET, Texas (March 3) – It is becoming increasingly clear to me that President Barack Obama is determined to add to his record as the Nobel Peace Prize winner who has bombed the greatest number of countries. He’ll probably order this action before the November presidential election. It may seem that [...]

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RJ Harris Campaign Plans Money Bomb

March 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments

From a release by the RJ Harris campaign: On Tuesday March 6, 2012, the nation will go to the polls to vote in Super Tuesday for their pick for the Republican nominee. It is likely that the winner of the GOP primary will be decided this coming Tuesday. What happens if the nation is confronted [...]

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Wrights Campaign Offers Vote Libertarian TV Ad to Libertarian Candidates and Affiliates

February 28th, 2012 · 13 Comments

BURNET, Texas (Feb. 28)  – The Lee Wrights for President campaign now has the first Vote Libertarian TV ad available for use by Libertarian candidates and local party affiliates. The 30-second spot called “War Breeds War” ends with a simple call to vote Libertarian. “This is a universal message we think will resonate with all [...]

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Lee Wrights: Join the Million Vote March and Vote Libertarian to Stop All War

February 23rd, 2012 · 14 Comments

BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – The Lee Wrights for President campaign has launched another project to help win votes for the Libertarian Party and Libertarian candidates in 2012. The Million Vote March  is an effort to achieve a historic one million votes for the Libertarian candidate for President, and to encourage people to vote for [...]

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National Committee Removes all Presidential Candidates from LP.org

February 20th, 2012 · 198 Comments

From the Libertarian Party blog: The candidates running for the Libertarian nomination for president have been removed per the vote of the Libertarian National Committee. See the only one-sentence blog entry on the LP website in recent memory here. ————————————- Interestingly, this decision is exactly the opposite of what the general membership apparently desires.  According [...]

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Lee Wrights: Why Peace? Why Not!

February 11th, 2012 · 2 Comments

by R. Lee Wrights “Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.”- Thomas Jefferson [...]

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Noted Libertarian Economist Endorses Lee Wrights for President, Joins Campaign

February 9th, 2012 · 37 Comments

BURNET, Texas (Feb. 9) – Ken Schoolland, a long-term board member of the International Society for Individual Liberty and associate professor at Hawaii Pacific University, has endorsed Lee Wrights for President and joined the campaign as economic advisor. In libertarian circles Schoolland is best known as the author of the animated video “The Philosophy of [...]

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