April 13, 2026
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A press release from the Libertarian Party of North Carolina
Restaurant owners choked by own second-hand smoke
RALEIGH (April 3) — Restaurant owners and their lobbyists are choking on the second-hand smoke wafting from the back rooms of the North Carolina General Assembly, said a Libertarian Party of North Carolina spokesman.…
Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is sponsor of the “Pay for Performance Act,” a bill that gives the Treasury Secretary absolute power to confiscate “obscene salaries” from every employee of a private company that accepted bailout funds.…
Press release at LP.org. Posted to IPR by Paulie.
NDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Senator Luke Kenley (R) and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard (R) presented the State’s plan to bail out the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board (CIB) today.…
Sponsored by the Green Party of Colorado,, Resolution 383 would provide for the election of party co-chairs by an online voting system during the annual national meeting.…
The Green National Committee is voting on a resolution opposing the death penalty. The proposal was sponsored by the California Green Party.
Resolution 382 would put the Green Party of the United States on record opposing the death penalty.…
Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned an audience at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri that the election of 2012 would see a strong third-party movement unless the GOP “shapes up,” and ceases to be the “right wing party of big government.”…
California Green nominee for Comptroller General Laura Wells appeared recently on Fox News’s program “Your World” addressing the question of tax fairness. The interview is below the fold.…
Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP blog:
Statement by Admiral Michael Colley (Board member and Chair of the Employment Policy and Compensation Committee) and Robert Kraus (Acting ED) naming Volunteer Coordinator Austin Petersen the new “Director of Outreach and Affiliate Relations:
“For your excellent work in growing our volunteer base, helping with affiliates, expanding our first rate internship program and organizing outreach events throughout the US, you are hereby named as our Director of Outreach & Affiliate Relations on this Thursday, April 2, 2009.…
Yesterday, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee passed HB 1072, a bill that would reduce the amount of signatures a new or previously unqualified party would need to get.…