Just to let everyone know, there may have been some glitches on IPR in the past two days. I moved the site to a new hosting setup. It was supposed to go smoothly but didn’t, so some comments may have been lost and the site may have seemed odd, and may still be odd for another day.… Read more ...
This is an editorial by the owner of IPR.
While Democrats and Greens are wrong on gun control, Republicans and most gun rights supporters rarely use the right facts. They fail to engage the Left on its own turf. Here are seven key facts that this libertarian consistently uses to crush gun control arguments.… Read more ...
Libertarian NY Governor candidate Larry Sharpe broke the 50K vote barrier in New York State handily. At this writing he has nearly 86,000 votes with 95% of precincts reporting so he could break 90K. He’s running about 1.6% of the vote, not far behind Howie Hawkins of the Green Party who is at 1.66% with 90,000 votes at this writing.… Read more ...
Larry Sharpe’s campaign has filed their 11-day pre-general campaign finance report. In the first three weeks of October the campaign raised another $73,000 and spent $65,000, closing with $32,000 in cash on hand.
The largest sums were spent on consultants and lawn signs, with campaign manager Brian Waddell receiving nearly $7000.… Read more ...
The Larry Sharpe campaign reported raising nearly $140,000 in its 32-day pre-general campaign finance filing. The report covers a period of a little over two months. Sharpe is the Libertarian candidate for Governor of New York.
The campaign spent roughly the same amount during the period and reported $24,000 on hand for the final month of the campaign.… Read more ...
Larry Sharpe, Libertarian candidate for Governor of New York, did well in a late September poll conducted by Siena College Research Institute. Poll numbers showed Sharpe getting 2% of the vote from likely voters. This is better than the numbers for Howie Hawkins, who usually does well enough to maintain ballot access for the Green Party.… Read more ...
As the NY Governor’s general election race begins to heat up, the news media has started covering Republican candidate Marc Molinaro. The big question is why.
Molinaro has raised a tiny amount of money for a GOP candidate, barely over $1 million. He has zero chance of winning the election.
What’s most interesting is that Molinaro is losing on a variety of measures to Libertarian candidate Larry Sharpe.… Read more ...
Update: As of October 28th, Sharpe continues to be competitive with Molinaro on Google Trends. The Republican did see a large increase thanks to his inclusion (and Sharpe’s exclusion) in the October 23 debate and with typical mainstream media press coverage surging for him. But Sharpe is still doing well, especially for a third party candidate.… Read more ...
NY Libertarian Governor candidate Larry Sharpe released this new TV ad on Facebook today.
NY Libertarian Governor candidate was interviewed Thursday on the very popular Joe Rogan podcast. On YouTube the video already has over 400,000 views. The interview is over two hours long.
Warren Redlich was the 2010 Libertarian candidate for Governor of New York. He occasionally drops in with articles like this that don’t really fit with IPR’s usual approach but he gets away with it because he owns IPR.
A recent article in Newsday mentioned NY Libertarian Governor candidate Larry Sharpe:
… Read more ...Sharpe, a businessman, consultant and former Marine who lives in New York City, points to fundraising (he’s raised more than $100,000) and the 2016 election, in which Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson got 176,000 votes in New York, as reasons for optimism.
Editorial by IPR owner Warren Redlich. While some other IPR writers agree others may not.
In the wake of the Parkland school shooting the gun control leadership is going all out to ban modern rifles like the AR-15. It might seem completely irrational if you pay attention to facts, logic and public policy.… Read more ...