This item is a couple of months old, but I just read it yesterday. Apparently, San Francisco Mayor (and Democratic gubernatorial candidate) Gavin Newsom’s girlfriend recently tried to change her registration from Republican to “No Party” or Unaffiliated.…
Posts published in July 2008
Barr rides in Atlanta Millennium Gate parade
By PJO on July 5, 2008 2:34 AM
Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr was among the Georgia dignitaries who “rode in the parade and spoke during the dedication ceremony” for Atlanta’s new Millennium Gate on Friday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.…
Commission on Presidential Debates ‘bracing for legal challenges’
By PJO on July 5, 2008 2:30 AM
Gannett News Service reports that Commission on Presidential Debates co-chairs Frank Fahrenkopf and Paul Kirk say that “with former Rep. Bob Barr and Ralph Nader mounting independent challenges from the right and left,” they are “bracing for legal challenges about who will be allowed to debate.…
Keyes campaign launching new website
By Austin Cassidy on July 5, 2008 12:44 AM
A significantly redesigned homepage for AlanKeyes.com appears to have launched today, giving supporters an early look at a long-promised redesign of the campaign’s website. The new page doesn’t have very much information at this point, but that is supposed to change when the full version goes online.…
James B. Weaver’s 1892 Populist run recounted
By PJO on July 5, 2008 12:33 AM
The Washington Post has a Style section feature on the 1892 Populist presidential campaign of James B. Weaver, who that year became the first U.S.…
New York Right To Life Party Yahoo! group
By Trent Hill on July 4, 2008 7:13 PM
With the utter lack of internet presence for the New York Right To Life party, I wanted to see if that was of-neccesity, or because of a lack of knowledge on how to utlilize the internet’s tools.…
Chuck Baldwin interviewed on KVNU in Utah
By Trent Hill on July 4, 2008 3:26 PM
Chuck Baldwin was interviewed yesterday by KVNU, “The Voice of the People”. I was able to track down the audio here.
A supporter was able to get me this portion of Chuck Baldwin’s speech to the AIP-CA convention last weekend.…
Mini-money bomb for promising LP candidates
By Administrative Team on July 4, 2008 11:52 AM
Earlier, we reported that Steve Newton posed the idea of a mini-money bomb for four promising Libertarian candidates: Michael Munger, Allen Buckley, Scotty Boman, and Jason Gatties.…
Fincher demands ‘real action’ be taken against LP Political Director Sean Haugh for ‘openly advocating a criminal act’
By Administrative Team on July 4, 2008 11:43 AM
Earlier, we reported that Sean Haugh — in violation of Massachusetts electoral law — ordered valid petitions to get the LP presidential candidate on the ballot be burned.…