A slate consisting of five Libertarian Party candidates running for various offices this November in Anderson, Indiana were removed from the ballot this week by the Madison County Elections Board.…
Posts published in August 2015
LP.org blog, August 11:
We’re just $3,330 away from our $10,000 online goal for Oklahoma ballot access.
If you donate exactly $49.99, we’ll send you a copy of Mary Dr.
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BAN:
Wyatt Scott, independent candidate for Canada’s House of Commons from British Columbia, is getting much attention for his tv and internet ad.
BAN then links to Vancouver Metro News which calls it the “best election campaign video ever” and says “Wyatt Scott, who is running in the newly-created federal riding of Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon, is fast becoming a social media sensation for his epic, offbeat YouTube campaign ad video.”…
via The HIll:
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura suggested Tuesday that he’d be glad to be Donald Trump’s running mate.
“Do you think Donald would ever think of asking me?”…
Amber Phillips at WaPo (h/t Carla Howell):
Once upon a time, an ostentatious, outspoken, oft-offensive New York celebrity threatened to get into politics. Few believed him, even after he announced his candidacy.
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The Franklin County Green Party local of the Ohio Green Party is working with Black Lives Matter activists in circulating an initiative petition that will establish a community review board of the Columbus Police Department to investigate all citizen complaints involving excessive use of force.…
Steven Rodriguez at Outright Libertarians:
This month we are shining the spotlight on another candidate seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination for President: Cecil Ince. We offered Cecil our very own questionnaire designed to assess Libertarian candidates on LGBTQ issues.
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Earlier this year, independent candidate Paul Panepinto submitted a petition to be on the November 3, 2015 ballot for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, a statewide partisan office.
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This is old news, but it has just come to my attention. In 2000 Ralph Nader won a federal lawsuit against South Dakota’s June petition deadline for independent presidential candidates.…