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Posts published in April 2009

Austin Petersen named Libertarian Party Director of Outreach and Affiliate Relations

By on April 2, 2009 11:38 PM

Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP blog:

Statement by Admiral Michael Colley (Board member and Chair of the Employment Policy and Compensation Committee) and Robert Kraus (Acting ED) naming Volunteer Coordinator Austin Petersen the new “Director of Outreach and Affiliate Relations:

“For your excellent work in growing our volunteer base, helping with affiliates, expanding our first rate internship program and organizing outreach events throughout the US, you are hereby named as our Director of Outreach & Affiliate Relations on this Thursday, April 2, 2009.…

Oklahoma Ballot Access Bill Improves and Advances

By Morgan Brykein on April 2, 2009 10:29 PM

Yesterday, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee passed HB 1072, a bill that would reduce the amount of signatures a new or previously unqualified party would need to get.…

Illinois Greens Slam “Protect Incumbents Act”

By Morgan Brykein on April 2, 2009 10:09 PM

In Illinois, House Bill 723 would make it so that, according to the article on Green Party Watch (since I can’t figure out how to put it in my own words), “when no candidate of an established party runs in a primary for a particular office, that party can only fill the vacancy in nomination if the candidate they “slate” collects a large number of signatures.”…

Greens place 3rd in lottery

By Gregg Jocoy on April 2, 2009 9:45 PM

The News Gazette reports that the Green Party’s mayoral nominee will be third on the ballot in the Urbana race for mayor. As reported earlier at Green Party Watch, the city clerk had not followed state law in deciding on ballot placement by lottery, instead deciding placement based on when each candidate filed.…