By Dr. Eric Ostermeier “Eric Ostermeier, Ph.D., J.D., is a Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and author of the nonpartisan Smart Politics blog https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu.”…
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The Libertarian National Committee reports! More Libertarians have been elected to public office across America:
Deborah Brandon – John Swett Unified School District Board – Contra Costa County, CA
Thomas Laehn – County Attorney – Greene County, IA
Nathan Madden – School Board – Buckeye Union High School District – Buckeye, AZ
Aron Lam – Mayor – Keenesburg, CO
Scott Boman – Detroit Community Advisory Council, District 4 – Detroit, MI
Brandon McGlone – City Council – Lancaster, KY
Bill Schult – City Council – Crescent Springs, KY
Lex Hannan – Magistrate / Justice of the Peace – Boone County, KY
Shannon Denniston – Magistrate / Justice of the Peace – Montgomery County, KY
David Harryman – Magistrate / Justice of the Peace – Montgomery County, KY
Chad Finkenbiner – City Council – Orchard Grass Hills, KY
Brandon Wright – City Council – Cave City, KY
Jeremy Dick – Board of Education – Bennington, NE
Brad Sherman – City Council – Sidney, NE
Alex Vlach – Lower Loup Natural Resources District (Subdistrict 8) – Ord, NE
Cole Brodine – School Board – Elm Creek, NE
Jeremy Westengaard – City Council Ward 4 – Gretna, NE
Stephen Coffman – Township Trustee, Liberty, ID
Terry Coffman – Township Board – Liberty, ID
Luke Jackson – School Board District 5 – Martinsville, ID
**Grant Miller – City Council – Tulsa, OK – Oklahoma requires “mathematical certainty” in order to avoid a new election.…
For the 2022 election cycle, Green Parties across America are running 134 candidates for elective office. This list may be incomplete. Some races have already happened. …
As seen previously in Massachusetts, Delaware, and New Mexico, and decades back in Arizona and Oregon, the LNC is being encouraged to involve itself in the internal affairs of a state party.…
Long-time Libertarian activist George Phillies has purchased Independent Political Report. The purchase includes the current web site, the URLs IndependentPoliticalReport.com, IPRnews.com, IPR.tv, and ThirdPartyWatch.com, two Twitter sites, and two FaceBook groups.…
NOT SO UNIVERSAL: Supporting direct cash payments for families and individuals is a founding principle of Minnesota’s newest political party. But Cory Hepola, the first Minnesota candidate endorsed by Andrew Yang’s Forward Party, has questioned the idea in the past and isn’t sold on implementing the policy on the state level.…
CUTLER FALLOUT: Eliot Cutler, a former two-time independent candidate for Maine governor, was arrested last month for possession of child pornography.
Numerous politicians have now publicly donated political contributions from Cutler to the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault.…
ROCKY ROAD FOR COLORADO GREENS: Fighting within the Green Party of Colorado has resulted in yet another cycle without candidates.
According to Gary Swing, who joined the Green Party in the 1990s, the party’s last legitimate assembly was in 2016, before Mérida’s complete takeover.…
HEPOLA HITS THE TRAIL: Forward Party gubernatorial candidate Cory Hepola “revealed his three main campaign ‘pillars’ during a meeting of the Perham Noon Rotary on Thursday, March 24.”…