Bluefin tuna is one of the most endangered fish species on the planet, and yet it is the most expensive and in very high demand. With this bad combination – along with pressure from the industry and consumers – the European Union set out recently to set new quotas for each nation for how much tuna they could catch.…
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Missouri ballot access improvement bill
By paulie on December 10, 2008 8:16 PM
Posted in Ballot Access News
Missouri State Senator Joan Bray has again introduced her bill to fix the drafting error in the 1993 ballot access reform law.
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Ballot Access News: Alternative Party and Independent Candidate vote for U.S. House in 2008
By paulie on December 10, 2008 8:11 PM
Article at BAllot Access News:
Based on official election returns in 47 states and D.C., and unofficial returns in California, Ohio, and Tennessee, the combined minor party and independent candidate vote for U.S.
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Anonymous LNC member: ‘I cannot explain why Hospers’ essay on the Anarchist Temperament went into the LNC/gallery binder when other documents were refused admission’
By paulie on December 10, 2008 6:57 PM
From an anonymous source. IPR has no way of verifying the authenticity of the alleged email having been posted to the closed LNC lists. It is a fact that the essay by Hospers was in the binder distributed to the LNC and party members in attendance.…
Libertarian Party employee Sean Haugh: ‘Open season on women’ as long as Bill Redpath is LP national chair
By paulie on December 10, 2008 5:05 PM
In remarks published in Liberty for All, LP Political Director Sean Haugh details allegations of sexual harassment against former LNC member M Carling, and says that they led to the current sexual harassment policy in the LNC manual, which he quotes in his article.…
Angela Keaton thanks her friends upon resigning from the Libertarian National Committee
By paulie on December 10, 2008 2:41 PM
Letter from Angela Keaton. Posted at Ideas from Free Minds by Michelle Shinghal.
Dear friends and colleagues:
By the time you read this, I will be on a cross country flight back east.
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2008 District of Columbia Libertarian vote total was best in party’s history
By paulie on December 10, 2008 2:33 PM
Posted in Ballot Access News.
Last month, Libertarian Party nominee Damien Ober polled 5,915 votes for “Shadow” U.S. Senator. The District of Columbia holds elections for U.S.
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DC, West Virginia Libertarians analyze what went right and what went wrong with ballot access efforts
By paulie on December 10, 2008 2:25 PM
At Next Free Voice, West Virginia Libertarian Party State Chair Matt Harris writes
I’ve told bits and pieces of this story in response to comments on various threads in various places.
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Green Party offers six steps for economic recovery
By paulie on December 10, 2008 2:09 PM
Posted at Green Party Watch:
The Green Party offered up today six solutions to save the U.S. Economy.
1. Enact a massive Green Public Works program
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