Posted at LPTexas.org and emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Arthur DiBianca:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Libertarians Announce New Executive Director
Butler takes over for Benedict
AUSTIN - January 5, 2009 - The Libertarian Party of Texas (LPT) has announced that Robert Butler is replacing Wes Benedict as its executive director.
Robert Butler comes to the Libertarian Party of Texas from a political [...]

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H/T Joey Dauben via contact.ipr@gmail.com
From an email sent by Wes Benedict to Texas Libertarians on December 31:
“Texas Friend of Liberty:
This email goes out to about 5,000 people. Our preliminary counts show 933 people have contributed a total of about $139,672.50 to the LP Texas in 2008.”
Wes goes on to say,
“Our budget for 2008 [...]

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By John Spivey at the Whited Sepulchre:

As Chair of a County Libertarian Party, I’ve seen tremendous gains in our local libertarian scene. We’ve gone from 6 members meeting every two years to affirm a handful of pre-nominated and non-contested candidates to a group whose grassroots ranks are numbering in the triple digits, alliances with philosophically [...]

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From an article in the Austin American-Statesman by Marty Toohey:
Partly out of frustration over the lack of progress on roads, Daugherty voted in October 2007 for a controversial toll-road plan that included building express lanes on five roads, among them U.S 183 and Texas 71, and charging tolls on the new lanes.
In a [...]

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Article posted by John Deeth

Only two percent of Iowa voters supported third party presidential candidates this year, but Iowa’s third party activists are more analytical than disappointed when they examine their levels of support.
“My suspicion is that there is a kind of ‘automatic’ knee-jerk third party vote which is almost always guaranteed,” said Holly Hart [...]

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Ballot Access News reports on efforts underway in Texas and Pennsylvania not to make ballot access more reasonable.
In Pennsylvania, State House member Eddie Pashinski (D-Wilkes-Barre) has agreed to introduce the Pennsylvania ballot access reform bill in next year’s legislative session. The bill already has a Senate sponsor, Mike Folmer, a Republican. The bill is [...]

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According to Joey Dauben (email sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com), former narcotics officer Barry Cooper is considering running for Governor of Texas as a Libertarian. According to Dauben, no final decision has been made. Cooper, who is from East Texas, is an ex-narcotics cop who busted through the national media and talk show circuit hawking his [...]

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In a comment at Green Party Watch, Richard Winger of Ballot Access News writes:
The months of November and December of any even-numbered year are the PRIME months to ask state legislators to introduce bills to improve ballot access (and to introduce bills on any subject). If people wait, the legislators will say, “Sorry; I can [...]

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From the election results page at LP.org, here is a list of candidates who kept their state parties on the ballot and how many votes they got:
David Herbert Wyoming US House 11,028 4.9%
Nathan Santucci Nevada State Assembly District 22 14,930 22.3%
Stan Jones Montana Governor 8,698 3.1%
William Bryan Strange, III Texas Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 9 1,041,499 18.1%
Robert Underwood Massachusetts United States Senate 94,745 3.2%
(Mass. state chair George Phillies reports that party [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News
The last time any minor party or independent candidate (for office other than president) received as many as 1,000,000 votes was in New York in 1970, when James Buckley received 2,179,640 votes on the Conservative Party line. But on November 4, 2008, two Libertarians each polled over 1,000,000 votes. They are [...]

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The Boston Tea Party is having its convention, as IPR previously reported. In the interest of disclosure, two of the at-large candidates (Tom Knapp and Neil Stephenson) also write for IPR.
Here is a press release from party founder Tom Knapp sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com on behalf of the party:
Midway into its second biennial convention — held [...]

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Reposted from here:
Grad student’s candidacy keeps third party on District 112 ballot
Eric Nicholson
Philip White is not running a conventional political campaign.
The 22-year-old UTD graduate student has not knocked on any doors or given any speeches. He has not spent or raised a single dime.
White, the Libertarian Party candidate for District 112 state representative, said he [...]

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H/T Michelle Shinghal

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Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, September 30, 2008: Sarah G. Reisetter, Elections director of the the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office, emailed Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore today indicating that his original statement of candidacy, postmarked August 11, 2008, arrived in the Iowa Secretary of State’s office seven weeks later, on September 29th, 2008.
Ms. Reisetter [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News

On September 26, the 5th Circuit removed Bob Barr from the Louisiana ballot. The three judges were Carolyn King (a Carter appointee from Texas), James Dennis (a Clinton appointee from Louisiana), and Priscilla Owen (a Bush Jr. appointee from Texas). The action was taken without any hearing. The case is [...]

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