National Public Radio has this interview with Evan McMullin, who ran for president as an independent last year. At the end, he says he will probably run for some office in 2018.…
Posts published in August 2017
The Jack News: ‘Libertarian Investor Peter Schiff Would Be An Interesting 2020 Presidential Candidate’
Excerpt from The Jack News:

Day Nine of the Jack News Guide to the Libertarian Party Presidential Race in 2020.
Editor’s Note: The introduction to this series includes links to each of the nine profiles.…
LPHQ comments on Libertarian voter registration nationwide surpassing 500,000
LP.org; see also prior IPR story.
Libertarian Party registration has grown by nearly 25 percent in the past year while Republican and Democratic registration continues to shrink, according to a report in Ballot Access News.…
LNC hires radio and publishing veteran Richard Fields as press secretary

Richard Fields
The Libertarian National Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Fields as LNC press secretary.
“More than 40 people applied for the position,” said LNC Executive Director Wes Benedict.…
LP.org blog: ‘Libertarian mayoral candidate Gary St. Fleur scores major win for Scranton taxpayers’

Gary St. Fleur is running for mayor of Scranton, Penn., as a Libertarian.
Aug. 4 marked a major victory for tax-cutters, and especially taxpayers, when Judge James Gibbons sided with Libertarian mayoral candidate Gary St.…
The Jack News series of articles on potential 2020 Libertarian Presidential candidates covers Mary Ruwart
Excerpt from The Jack News as part of their series on possible candidates for the LP 2020 Presidential nomination:
While not widely known outside the Libertarian Party, Mary Ruwart has been a familiar presence to party insiders for decades.…
Tom Woods: Glenn Jacobs, WWE’s Kane, Runs for Mayor
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Nationwide Libertarian voter registration now above 500,000

The new national registration totals for the United States, in the 32 jurisdictions in which the voter registration form asks the applicant to choose a party, are:
Democratic 44,706,349 (40.30%)
Republican 32,807,417 (29.57%)
independent & misc.
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The Jack News: ‘Adam Kokesh’s Presidential Campaign Promise Is That He’ll Abolish The Federal Government’

Excerpt from an article at The Jack News which is part of a series on possible 2020 LP Presidential candidates. The other would be candidates profiled so far are Tom Campbell, Mary Ruwart, Bill Weld, Justin Amash, Steve Kerbel, Jeffrey Miron and Larry Sharpe, with one more as yet unnamed person to be added tomorrow.…



