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Posts published in June 2011

Wes Wagner: Here’s What Happened…

By Jill Pyeatt on June 7, 2011 12:49 AM

Here is an explanation from Wes Wagner on the events in his state of Oregon. It was written June 3, 2011.

Essentially what happened is summarized as thus:

During our 2010 convention, the party having been tired of our numerous structural issues adopted a plan for reformation of the party with a 2/3rds+ majority — established a committee to draft new governing documents and schedule a special convention in November (after election day so everyone would be done with their important work)

Everything was going smoothly until Richard Burke, a paid employee of Americans For Prosperity and former executive director who was forced out of office due to financial scandal did not like that the new party would be controlled by all 13,000 libertarians in the state of oregon and not a handful of corrupt apparatchiks.…

Wayne Root: Obama’s bailout plan goes bust

By Bruce Cohen on June 6, 2011 9:30 PM

Teetering Greece demonstrates the failure of government spending

Poor President Obama. Despite all his efforts, or maybe because of them, the U.S. economy keeps crumbling.

But to be fair, government is a failure everywhere.…

MN Independence Party:”We Oppose the Proposed Minnesota Constitutional Amendment to Ban Same-Sex Marriage”

By Gene Berkman on June 6, 2011 7:49 PM

Mark Jenkins has posted this statement @ the website of the Minnesota Independence Party:

The Independence Party of Minnesota platform declares that “We support high standards of morality, family values and personal responsibility, but we oppose having the government impose state-sponsored morality or values on people of good conscience with differing views.”…

Palin Leaves the Door Open for a Third Party Run

By RedPhillips on June 4, 2011 6:21 PM

Palin was on Hannity Friday night and the issue of running third party came up. The exchange is recounted here at American Spectator.

In a stunning development, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate indicated to Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview aired Friday night that she could abandon the GOP for a third party presidential run rather than lead or participate in a Reagan-style revolution against a timid, moderate GOP Establishment.

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