Albany, NY — Green Party of New York officers said Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State preview was short on everything except Andrew Cuomo’s positioning for the 2020 Presidential election.…
Posts published in December 2018
Portland, ME – This holiday season, many of us are celebrating our communities and all that we have to be thankful for. We would like to take this opportunity to give our thanks to our candidates for state representative.…
Posted at https://www.lp.org/2020ballotaccess/:
Ballot access is one of the most critical functions of the national party. “Ballot access” is political speak for “getting our candidates on ballots.”…
Press release from the Libertarian Party of Maine
The Libertarian Party of Maine is taking action to retain the party’s full legal status in Maine and to protect thousands of registered Maine voters from an effort by the Secretary of State to forcibly unenroll them from their party affiliation.…
All states have finished their official vote tallies except for West Virginia. The national totals for U.S. House by party (using the unofficial West Virginia returns, which will probably be almost exactly like the official ones) are:
Democratic 60,447,537; Republican 50,751,049; Libertarian 768,015; Green 224,919; Working Families 217,172; Conservative 207,094; Independent Parties (of Connecticut, Louisiana and Oregon) 74,672; Reform 66,579; Constitution 59,972; Independence Parties (of Minnesota and New York) 57,463; Working Class 53,102; Women’s Equality 41,317; United Utah 36,177; Legal Marijuana Now 15,791; American 15,011; Progressive 10,758; Independent American of Utah 6,686; Liberty Union 3,924; and Socialist Equality 2,213.
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2018 Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Chris Powell in the Daily Oklahoman by way of Ballot Access News (excerpt):
As separate elections, runoffs are an additional cost to the taxpayer.…
Steven Greenhut in the Press-Enterprise:
Many of my Republican friends chide me for being a “Losertarian,” a member of a party, the Libertarian Party, that is far better known for its sometimes-bizarre candidates, bitter internal disputes and unrealistic policy positions then it is for winning elections.…
Members of the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) were saddened by the recently released U.S. Census Bureau report showing persistent poverty across Pennsylvania. The data indicate that there were more than 1.5 million Pennsylvania citizens living in poverty over the past year.…