Dr. Tom Stevens, the former vice-chair of the Boston Tea Party who abused his position of power to unilaterally delete a motion put forward by Tom Knapp, is on the ballot in Colorado as the presidential nominee of the Objectivist Party.…
Posts published in July 2008
New Hampshire could have two Libertarian presidential choices
By PJO on July 13, 2008 3:53 AM
New Hampshire’s Nashua Telegraph has a story this morning about how there may be two Libertarian options — Bob Barr and George Phillies — on the state’s presidential ballot.…
Boston Tea Party’s Charles Jay slams Bob Barr over Jesse Helms press release
By Editorial Team on July 13, 2008 2:57 AM
“Recently, ultra-right wing moral conservative presidential candidate Bob Barr wrote a statement in effusive praise of ultra-right wing moral conservative racist former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms,” says Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Charles Jay at his campaign Web site.…
IPR’s Green correspondent ‘banned for life’ from Sean Hannity’s blog
By Editorial Team on July 12, 2008 11:59 PM
Gregg Jocoy, who writes for both IPR and Green Party Watch, has been “banned for life” after four posts at Sean Hannity’s blog.
The Hannity blog linked to Green Party Watch, along with some inaccurate information about the Green Party.…
Ugandan writer meets Imperato in Washington, D.C.
By PJO on July 12, 2008 11:35 PM
A very strange article on independent presidential candidate Daniel Imperato appears in the Sunday Monitor of Kampala, Uganda, of all places. Writer Andrew Agaba says he met “the unknown candidate running for President of the United States of America” about two weeks ago at Union Station in Washington, D.C.,…
Nader campaigns in Richmond, Virginia
By PJO on July 12, 2008 11:28 PM
The AP reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader “made a campaign stop at the Virginia Holocaust Museum” in Richmond om Saturday, where he “encouraged supporters to raise money and gather signatures to gain him a place on Virginia’s ballot in November.”…
Libertarian takes part in Wyoming U.S. House debate
By PJO on July 12, 2008 11:25 PM
Wyoming’s Rapid City Journal reports that all six candidates in the race for Wyoming’s open at-large U.S. House seat took part in a debate on energy policy Thursday.…
Lew Rockwell: Jesse vs. the Neocons
By Editorial Team on July 12, 2008 9:12 PM
Says Lew:
The Minessota Senate race this year was a Weekly Standard dream: Republican neocon incumbent Norm Coleman vs. Democratic neocon challenger Al Franken. The war party couldn’t lose.…
Alan Augustson’s in-absentia speech to Green convention-goers
By Editorial Team on July 12, 2008 9:01 PM
Former Green Party presidential candidate now running for Congress, Alan Augustson, says he couldn’t afford to attend the Green Party’s national convention. Augustson, an economist, lives in Illinois, and the convention is taking place in Chicago.…