June 9, 2026
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Dear Friend of Liberty,
I think you’ll enjoy this video of the LP in action at CPAC (pronounced "see-pack"), the Conservative Political Action Conference.
LP Headquarters staff and volunteers hosted a booth last Thursday through Saturday here in Washington, D.C.,…
Press release from the Libertarian Party:
WASHINGTON – At their booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the Libertarian Party is displaying a "Republican Wall of Shame."…
West Virginia State Senator Clark Barnes (R-Beverly) has introduced SB 417, to ease the definition of “political party.” The existing law, ever since 1916, has defined a political party as a group that polled at least 1% of the vote for Governor in the last gubernatorial election.…
According to this story in the New York Daily News, Thomas Golisano is one of the major financial backers of the movement to pass the National Popular Vote Plan bills.…
From manhattanmadam.com, the blog of 2010 Anti-Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of New York Kristin Davis:
Kristin Davis, better known as The Manhattan Madam who supplied call-girls for Eliot Spitzer and after prison ran for Governor of New York on a libertarian platform announced she would found HOPE HO– USE, a non-profit created to expose and eradicate sex trafficking.…
Green Party of NY State via On The Wilder Side:
Hawkins Opposes Cuomo’s Proposals for Tax Cuts to the Rich, Job Cuts
Says Single Payer Health Care is the Solution to Medicaid
Howie Hawkins, the former Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that Cuomo’s proposals to resolve the state’s alleged $9 billion state budget deficit by giving a $5 billion tax cut for the wealthy and laying off more than 10,000 state workers was doomed to failure and would be rejected by state lawmakers.…
Kentucky holds its gubernatorial election on November 8, 2011. So far, it appears there are no minor party candidates running in this race.…
From the Flathead Beacon via Third Party and Independent Daily:
Chuck Baldwin hasn’t stated outright that he plans to run for governor of Montana. But in a speech to a packed room at the Outlaw Inn in Kalispell last week, he all but declared his candidacy, describing the prospect as, “so thrilling I just get goose bumps.”…