Joe Visconti, an independent candidate for Governor of Connecticut, has qualified for the ballot. See this story, which says that the Secretary of State has determined that he has at least 7,500 valid signatures.…
Posts published in August 2014
By Katherine Burgess:
“What I want to do is change the conversation and allow people to understand that we don’t need a two-party system that tells us one thing on TV or in the papers, but then on the flip side when they go to vote on issues, they vote unconstitutionally,” [Shaun] Crowell said.…
Anthony Wile sat down with the Libertarian Party’s Vice-Presidential Candidate of 2012, retired Judge Jim Gray, and has provided this interview. It begins with a fairly thorough biographical piece, which the reader can find here .…
The Libertarian Party of Illinois will have 7 candidates on the ballot in November after a challenge was met, it was anounced this past week. Counsel John Fogarty, representing the Republican Party of Illinois, challenged the almost 43,000 signatures that had been gathered in order to place the candidates on the ballot.…
Mikhail Svetov at libertarian-party.ru/blog:
I decided to write this after I noticed that western libertarians have unaccountably developed a soft spot for Russian president Vladimir Putin.…
8/20/14 – Key West, FL
Ahead of August 26th’s local elections for many non-partisan offices in Key West and Monroe County, Libertarian Party of the Florida Keys Chairman Mike Kane released the following statement:
After much discussion and review, the Libertarian Party of the Florida Keys has decided not to endorse any candidates for Augusts’ elections.…
By Darryl W. Perry:
Over the past week, eyes around the world have been on Fergson, Missouri. There have been protests and candle light vigils every night since August 9.…
As previously reported, the Alaska Libertarian primary on August 19 included a 3-way race for the U.S. Senate nomination. Thom Walker won, even though he didn’t campaign and is not known to Libertarian Party activists.
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