LP.org Blog Coverage of State and Local Libertarian Candidates

For the last few weeks LP.org Blog has picked up its pace of posting about state and local campaigns. I usually try to put up all LP Blog posts here for comment, since there is no public comment on the site itself, but I missed a lot of those posts due to repeated IPR site outages for around a week and a half during that time. I did post some of these articles, and some of the others are virtually identical to past IPR articles, although I or other IPR writers may or may not still post them later. In the meantime, here’s an index of what they have so far:

That covers three pages of posts going back to October 5. There were some more before then, but they were being posted less often and I think we copied all the rest here previously.

12 Comments

Jill Pyeatt October 31, 2012
SF @ 11: “It has effectively eliminated the California LP.”
With all due respect, Stewart, Top-Two hasn’t really affected us yet, with the exception of not having many people running for office. The real test will be 2014, when we’ll have to have more than 10 percent of the amount of registered Libertarians as we have now.
The only reason the LP even came up with a Proposition list of recommendations is that I asked for it. As Region Chair of the Pasadena group, I’d organized a meeting with reps from 3 of the campaigns and
wanted to make recommendations to my group. I ended u[p doing my own research and made my own recommendations, 3 of which differ from theirs. Perhaps they would have made recommendations without my bugging them, but my meeting was early October, and one would think they might have done it before that.
As Region chair, after the election I plan to organize some registration events. Hopefully some other counties will join us.
Stewart Flood October 31, 2012
I wish there had been some way to fight top two. It has effectively eliminated the California LP.
just genes October 30, 2012
Jim Gray said at a recent campaign event that he supports GMO labeling.
paulie October 30, 2012
Oddly only some of these show up on the front page, but I see them in the sidebar when I click on one off the front page. A new one popped up in the sidebar once you click on a link:
http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/tn-libertarian-us-senate-candidate-and-former-republican-finds-true-fiscal-conservatism-
paulie October 30, 2012
California does have some LP members who are running for office – most, maybe all, local and non-partisan. I think some are running for re-election. It’s possible LP blog will mention some of them, or already earlier than where I went back to.
I agree that the California LP should be more proactive with its proposition recommendations, but that’s somewhat outside the scope of this post.
Stewart Flood October 30, 2012
Or it might be that it took until six days before the election for HQ to write something about the most winnable race for the LP in the entire country?
Or the weather…horribly cold out today. My iPhone says it is 59 outside and going to be as low as 46 tonight. Too cold…
But it should be back up in the 70s by the weekend.
Stewart Flood October 30, 2012
I’m not sure, New Fudlerist. I guess it is age catching up to me. The government has taken away our freedom, they’ve taxed us to near starvation, and now someone can’t even spell my name right?
Either that, or this horrible cold weather. Must be down in the 60s today.
NewFederalist October 30, 2012
Why are you so upset, Stuart? 😉
Stewart Flood October 30, 2012
—Start of Rant—
How can they possibly misspell my name? Everyone on staff knows how to spell my name.
Must be someone new writing stuff these days, but if they’re going to quote me…AT LEAST SPELL MY NAME THE RIGHT WAY!!!
—End of Rant—
Jill Pyeatt October 30, 2012
FKC @ 2: “California is bereft of candidates due to prop 14”. True, but they could and should have been vocal about several of the Propositions.
Thanks for the link to the Boulder speech. I havdn’t had time to listen to it yet.
Fun K. Chicken October 30, 2012
California is bereft of candidates due to prop 14 “88”.
Johnson said he supports labeling GMOs during his speech in Boulder last night
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2012/10/broadcast-of-johnson-colorado-appearance-live/
Jill Pyeatt October 30, 2012
I find it very telling that there aren’t any articles about California’s races, despite the fact that we have so many LP members in this state (well, at least right now we do). We have a few very contentious proposition races, 2 of which have been discussed here (30 and 34). I believe I’ll compile some of the articles written by Libertarians about Proposition 37, which is about labelling of GMOS. It’s a complicated issue which the LP will have to address sooner or later. Rumor has is that GJ said he supports labelling GMO foods yesterday, but I haven’t found any documentation of that yet.

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