“Free republics are not known to have long life expectancies,” says Constitution Party presidential hopeful Chuck Baldwin. “At the ripe old age of two hundred and thirty-two, America is definitely showing her age.…
Posts published in July 2008
Columnist praises N.C. Libertarian gubernatorial candidate
By PJO on July 20, 2008 4:48 AM
In his Greensboro News-Record column, Edward Cone offers “an update on Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger, described last year in this column as ‘maybe too sane for high office’: North Carolinians put the Libertarian Party on the ballot for November, but Munger still is excluded from the gubernatorial debates.…
Arkansas Green seems headed for victory
By Gregg Jocoy on July 19, 2008 8:41 PM
According to a post at Ballot Access News, Green Party State Representative candidate Richard Carroll faces only write-in opposition as the Democratic Party in Arkansas has changed internal party rules designed to bar Dwayne Dobbins from running for re-election.…
MS Magazine covers McKinney/Clemente
By Gregg Jocoy on July 19, 2008 12:59 PM
Roger Snyder of The Green Party of New York State is credited by MS Magazine in an online piece at the magazine’s website about Cynthia McKinney’s nomination.…
San Francisco LP activist Starchild instrumental in putting prostitution decriminalization on the ballot
By paulie on July 19, 2008 12:11 PM
Press release posted on the LP Radicals yahoo group. Starchild has had various offices in the San Francisco and California LP, and is one of the spokespeople for this initiative.…
Chuck Baldwin: ‘Best’ candidate for ‘pro-traditional marriage’ voters; at odds with constitutional experts
By Editorial Team on July 19, 2008 11:53 AM
“Chuck Baldwin is the best candidate for voters who cherish the institution of marriage between a man and a woman,” says the Pro-Traditional Marriage page at Chuck Baldwin’s new Web site.…
Nader now officially on the ballot in six states, more to come
By paulie on July 19, 2008 11:42 AM
Ballot Access News reports:
On July 18, the Nevada Secretary of State announced that Ralph Nader’s independent petition has enough valid signatures. He is now officially on the ballot in 5 states, a number that will sharply increase in the next few weeks, as more of his petitions are submitted and presumably verified.…
Barr to campaign for down-ballot Libertarians in the Free State?
By Editorial Team on July 19, 2008 11:18 AM
Bob Barr will be a campaign visit to New Hampshire — where he may be one of two Libertarian presidential candidates on the ballot — on Tuesday.…
LPNY chair to BTP: Drop dead
By paulie on July 19, 2008 9:57 AM
In this essay, LP radical and LPNY state chair Eric Sundwall advocates that radical libertarians avoid the BTP and stay in the LP. It is entitled Party Like It’s 1973, an apparent ironic reference to Party like it’s 1773 by BTP interim chair Jim Davidson.…