Members of the Constitution Party of Idaho selected Joel Skousen as the party’s presidential nominee over the weekend. Skousen was one of three candidates actively seeking the party’s presidential nomination at its recent state convention.…
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The Constitution Party of Idaho will hold its state convention this upcoming Saturday, August 3, at the Karlfeldt Center in Meridian, Idaho. Convention delegates will elect new party officers and select a presidential ticket to place on the ballot for this year.…
A situation described as an “improper mass removal” of Libertarian Party of Idaho board officers was shared on the Libertarian National Committee’s public business list on Tuesday, prompting a motion by the national committee to recognize one of the two cohorts.…
Three Pacific Coast state counties voted earlier this month to support leaving their respective states in a sign of recent local support for secessionist efforts. Residents in Morrow and Wheeler Counties in Oregon and San Bernardino County in California have voted to leave and either join a pre-existing state or create a new one entirely.…
Submission from Kyle Markley:
I sent the following message to the Libertarian National Committee in my personal capacity as a life member of the national party, and not as a statement from the Libertarian Party of Oregon Board and without review by any other person on that Board. …
Note that this is a draft. The LNC might be interested in suggestions for improvements.
Whereas, The Libertarian National Committee has found no convincing evidence that the regularly scheduled annual convention of the Libertarian Party of Idaho (LPID) which took place on April 2, 2022 was invalid;
Whereas, The delegates at the April 2, 2022 LPID annual convention interpreted their own Bylaws and recognized the convention and its business as valid;
Whereas, Idaho state party leadership elections were conducted at the April 2, 2022 LPID annual convention; and
Whereas, The Judicial Committee of the LPID determined that “The convention held on April 2, 2022 was a legitimate, valid, and effective Convention of the Libertarian Party of Idaho,” and that the officers and their successors, including Jayson Sorensen as the interim Chair, are the legitimate officers of the LPID;
Resolved, That the Libertarian National Committee recognizes the leadership elected at the April 2, 2022 Libertarian Party of Idaho annual convention and their successors in the ordinary course of business as the legitimate representatives of the recognized Idaho affiliate, including interim Chair Jayson Sorensen who was elected pursuant to the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party of Idaho.…
The meeting will be liveblogged at http://ThirdPartyWatch.com
The live blog is now complete on ThirdPartyWatch.com…
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.…
Assemblyman Chad Mayes, the only independent in the California legislature, has decided not to seek re-election after 8 years in office and is publicly pondering a bid for the U.S.…
Paul Sand is running for governor of Idaho on what he describes as a “common-sense progressive Libertarian platform.”
Sand is a semi-retired computer software engineer who has served 4 terms on the White Bird city council. …
Ammond Bundy is best known for his part in a 2014 standoff with the Federal government over cattle grazing rights. Bundy’s father, Cliven, successfully stared down the Bureau of Land Management which had attempted to confiscate his cattle for grazing on public land for years without a permit.…
An Idaho state representative who helped steer the state into ditching the lucrative Powerball lottery because of (unfounded) fears that it would lead to gun restrictions recently took a shot at the Libertarian Party’s platform as part of an attempt to proclaim his conservative bona fides. …