Allen Buckley, who received 127,974 votes for U.S. Senate in Georgia as the Libertarian nominee, will not make an endorsement in the December runoff, the AP reports.…
Posts tagged as “Georgia”
Barr blogger Jason Pye: Saxby Chambliss is not fiscally fit
By paulie on November 20, 2008 10:39 PM
From the Covington News
It has been a while since I had a column appear here in The Covington News. I spent the spent the last five months working for Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee and former United States Representative.
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Georgia Libertarian Allen Buckley expresses possible preference for Democrat Jim Martin in US Senate runoff
By paulie on November 19, 2008 3:11 PM
The Senate Guru blog at Huffington Post has the following:
Allen Buckley was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2008. On Election Day, Buckley took 3.4% of the vote.
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Georgia Libertarian endorses Democrat in Public Service Commissioner runoff
By paulie on November 18, 2008 10:24 PM
Georgia voters vote on December 2 in two partisan run-off elections, for U.S. Senate and for Public Service Commission. In the Public Service Commission race, neither the Democrat nor the Republican had polled 50% because of the presence of the Libertarian nominee, Brandon Givens.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: How will Libertarians affect Georgia runoff?
By paulie on November 14, 2008 11:30 PM
Original article here.
By JIM THARPE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Libertarians have never won statewide office in Georgia, but suddenly their votes have become valuable currency in the extended U.S.
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Richard Winger advises Greens to target Indiana, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, and Oklahoma for ballot access reform
By paulie on November 10, 2008 4:21 PM
In a comment at Green Party Watch, Richard Winger of Ballot Access News writes:
The months of November and December of any even-numbered year are the PRIME months to ask state legislators to introduce bills to improve ballot access (and to introduce bills on any subject).
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Reason’s Weigel covers Barr-Root election party
By PJO on November 9, 2008 5:49 AM
“Tuesday night Libertarians were a sideshow in a historical event on par with the moon landing,” Dave Weigel writes at Reason.com. At presidential candidate Bob Barr’s election party, “party operators like Stewart Flood and Daniel Adams were checking the progress of John Monds, a black businessman who’d run on the ticket for Georgia Public Services Commissioner.…
December elections
By paulie on November 9, 2008 12:06 AM
Most of the elections wrapped up on Tuesday, with only a few close contests still up in the air as votes are being tallied. However, a few will take place next month.…
Georgia Libertarian Allen Buckley plays kingmaker in US Senate runoff
By paulie on November 6, 2008 11:53 PM
Posted at Delaware Libertarian
Since Allen Buckley’s 3.4% take in the Georgia Senatorial race kept either Saxby Chambliss or Jim Martin from scoring 50%, there will be a December run-off.
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