Independent Political Report‘s own Paul Frankel, known to us as Paulie, who is an Alternate At-Large Representative of the Libertarian National Committee for Region 7, reports that the Libertarian Party now has a way to offset some of the fees for Libertarians wishing to attend a National Convention.…
Posts published in October 2013
VA: Sponsor “Suggests” Including Sarvis in Gubernatorial Debate
Robert Sarvis, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Governor of Virginia, is still polling just shy of the 10% average threshold for including in the final debate before next month’s election … but the debate’s sponsor, WDBJ TV of Roanoke, has put out feelers about including him in the event:
on Friday, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post, WDBJ’s news director, Kelly Zuber, wrote to the McAuliffe and Cuccinelli campaigns, “We have received quite a bit of negative reaction to the exclusion” of Sarvis.
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Libertarian congressional candidate Henry Herford nets 0.86% of the vote in special election

Henry Herford was the Libertarian Party nominee in the special congressional election for Lousiana’s 5th district held on October 19th, 2013. The election was a jungle primary, so all candidates were included on the same ballot.…
Steve Kubby: Public Needs to Know the Government is Watching
Posted to Lake Tahoe News
October 16, 2013
Information released recently in a story by John Shiffman of Reuters explained how a secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.…
Elected Libertarians Help Local Agency Abolish Itself
From examiner.com
October 16, 2013
This morning Libertarians celebrated the shuttering of the Lee County Soil & Water Conservation Board thanks to the efforts of elected libertarians who controlled the local government agency.
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Judge Gray: The Drug War is A Failure, From My Perspective
Constitution Party on Republican Party Turmoil
From the Constitution Party Facebook page:
Shared from Bob Peck (chairman, Constitution Party of Washington): “BEST LINE IN THIS ARTICLE – It would be unfair to say that the leaders of today’s Republican Party lack the courage of their convictions; they have no convictions from which to draw courage.”…
Interview with Robert Sarvis
Late last month, I e-mailed the campaign of 2013 Virginia Libertarian Party gubernatorial nominee Robert Sarvis for a joint Wikinews/IPR interview. Within minutes, the campaign’s Communications Director J.V.…
Constitution Party Statement on Common Core
The following statement on Common Core is taken from the Constitution Party Facebook page:
The Constitution Party opposes all forms of federal government involvement in education.…




