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Lee Wrights: On the Road to ‘Stop All War’

February 8th, 2012 · 6 Comments

BURNET, Texas (Feb.  8) – R. Lee Wrights will take part in the first debate scheduled to include all six of the major candidates for the Libertarian presidential nomination. The debate is set for Saturday, February 11, at 3 p.m. during the Florida LP State Convention in Orlando. Expected participants are former Texas LP chair Roger Gary, Kiowa Nation [...]

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Video From Texas Presidential ‘Job Interview’

December 21st, 2011 · 13 Comments

“I want to be your next president so I can leave you alone.” – R. Lee Wrights Kudos to the Harris County (Texas) Libertarian Party and Guy McClendon for organizing the latest Libertarian presidential debate, or as Lee Wrights likes to describes these events, the Libertarian presidential job interview. Here is the video.

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Jeremy Young analyzes Illinois Libertarian presidential debate

October 29th, 2011 · 71 Comments

By Jeremy Young From comments on a prior IPR post. The debate can be viewed at http://rjharris2012.com/: Instead of finishing what I was supposed to be doing tonight, I went ahead and watched this entire debate. Here are my thoughts on what I saw and heard. Interested readers should know that I’m a supporter of [...]

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Wrights to participate in first Libertarian presidential debate

June 17th, 2011 · 76 Comments

BURNET, Texas (June 17) – Lee Wrights will participate in the first Libertarian presidential debate scheduled during the Future of the Libertarian Movement Conference in Manchester, N.H. June 19. The one-day conference is sponsored by the Libertarian Parties of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Three candidates will participate in the debate, Wrights, Roger Gary of Texas [...]

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Wayne Root Profiled by AOL News today as 2012 Presidential Contender

November 5th, 2010 · 38 Comments

Email from Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Wayne Root Profiled by AOL News today as 2012 Presidential Contender Excerpt: Sports Handicapper Gambles on Becoming President Now that the Democrats have suffered a historic defeat on election day, a sports handicapper is doubling down on his goal of becoming President in 2012. Wayne Allyn Root is a [...]

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Christina Tobin: ‘Third Party debates: what happened’

December 5th, 2008 · 19 Comments

THIRD PARTY DEBATES: WHAT HAPPENED an editorial by Christina Tobin Throughout the 2008 Presidential Campaign, the four major independent and third-party candidates called for the Commission on Presidential Debates to include on stage all candidates who appeared on enough state ballots to at least theoretically attain the 270 electoral votes required to become president. As [...]

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Video: Cynthia McKinney talks about Ralph Nader

November 5th, 2008 · 28 Comments

Found at Gail’s Tails

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Video: Alternative Presidential debates

November 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Via They Will Be Heard October 30th, 2008 – Presidential Debate TheyWillBeHeard.com provides live video restream of the debate held by The City Club of Cleveland: October 23rd, 2008 – Presidential Debate TheyWillBeHeard.com partners with Free And Equal to broadcast a presidential debate, with support from: Restore the Republic Radio Revolution Broadcasting Revolution March 2009 [...]

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Liveblogging the alternative Presidential Debate

October 30th, 2008 · 110 Comments

The comments of this post will be an opportunity for readers to liveblog the The City Club of Cleveland debate between Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin and Ralph Nader, moderated by Dan Moulthrop of Cleveland’s PBS radio and television stations, which will be streamed live by ideastream (http://www.wviz.org/ and http://www.cityclub.org/homepage.asp). The candidates will debate between 4:30 [...]

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Live streaming and moderator set for debate between Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin and Ralph Nader

October 29th, 2008 · 13 Comments

According to an email from the Baldwin campaign, The City Club of Cleveland debate, moderated by Dan Moulthrop of Cleveland’s PBS radio and television stations, will be streamed live by ideastream (http://www.wviz.org/). CSPAN will tape the debate for later showing, and it will also be live on public access cable in Cleveland. IPR’s previous coverage [...]

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Time and place set for debate between Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin and Ralph Nader

October 29th, 2008 · 14 Comments

As IPR already reported, there will be another debate between the alternative Presidential candidates who are listed on enough state ballots to win the election, to take place tomorrow. On October 30, Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin will debate each other at the Cleveland (Ohio) City Club, between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm. [...]

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Free and Equal debate between Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin covered on Russia Today

October 25th, 2008 · No Comments

The segment on the alternative debate is about 4 minutes into the clip. IPR’s previous coverage of the debate included reporting on David Weigel’s piece in The Nation, as well as video of the debate (with links to several prior articles).

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Dave Weigel covers last nights debate between Chuck Baldwin and Ralph Nader in The Nation

October 24th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Dave Weigel writes regularly for Reason Magazine, and emailed contact.ipr@gmail.com about this article, published in The Nation. Here’s an excerpt: It’s one of the paradoxes of election 2008. If no one is happy with Congress, no one is happy with the president, and voters grumble to pollsters about the two parties, it should be a [...]

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Video of last night’s Presidential debate between Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin

October 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Posted at CSPAN Junkie

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Independent Political Report will liveblog the Free and Equal debate tonight between Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin

October 23rd, 2008 · 226 Comments

Tune in at 9 PM Eastern time (8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, 5 PM Alaska, 4 PM Hawai’i) in the comments on this post, and add your own. IPR has previously covered the debate: Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr react to tonight’s Free and Equal debate between Ralph Nader and Chuck [...]

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Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr react to tonight’s Free and Equal debate between Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin

October 23rd, 2008 · 21 Comments

posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch Cynthia McKinney released a video statement (below) regarding the “Third Party” Debate scheduled for tonight. In an accompanying statement, further details emerge: LOS ANGELES – Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney released a statement this morning regarding the hastily scheduled debate announced for this evening in Washington [...]

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Rock the Debates tentatively plans conference in 2009 to work on more inclusive general election presidential debates

October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

According to Richard Winger at Ballot Access News, RocktheDebates leaders are tentatively planning a national conference early in 2009, on the thorny problem of how to get more inclusive general election presidential debates. Rock the Debates, Inc. is a non-partisan 527 focused on opening up the debate process. The idea is to get the Democrat [...]

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Two Presidential candidates confirmed for debate in DC on Thursday, October 23

October 21st, 2008 · 20 Comments

Free and Equal, the group that originally planned to have an alternative Presidential debate in New York City on October 19, has now confirmed Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin for a debate on October 23 in DC. Contact: Christina Tobin, 312-320-4101 This morning, Christina Tobin, Director of Free and Equal, announced an Independent/Third Party Presidential [...]

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Another update on third party Presidential debate proposals

October 18th, 2008 · 22 Comments

The following press release was sent to IPR from Free and Equal Free & Equal Elections Coalition 230 E. Ohio St., Ste. 212 Chicago, IL 60611 Attn: Politics Editors, Campaign 2008 Editors, National Editor Third Party Presidential Debate to Take Place on Thursday, October 23rd Contact: Christina Tobin, 312-320-4101 The Independent/Third Party Presidential Debate to [...]

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Update on third party Presidential debate proposals

October 17th, 2008 · 20 Comments

UPDATE @ 1706 Central Time We received another call from Christopher Thrasher, quoted in the story below. There will not be a debate at Columbia University, and he is no longer with Free and Equal. He will be releasing a statement and providing details later. An NY Times article quoted at Free and Equal indicates [...]

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