President Donald Trump tweeted yesterday about Independent Congressman Justin Amash’s announcement that he would launch an exploratory committee to determine whether to seek the Libertarian Party’s 2020 presidential nomination.…
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IPR received the following statement from Scotty Boman, chair of the Libertarian Party of Wayne County in Michigan, concerning some of the efforts of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in response to the coronavirus pandemic. …
Green Party nominee Jill Stein has been engaged in a post-election fundraising drive in order to pay for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. She does not dispute her own vote totals in those states, but is basing her claim on alleged irregularities, the possibility that voting machines were hacked, and how “unexpected” the results were.…
The Libertarian Party of Michigan joins New Mexico, Colorado, Jefferson Parish (Louisiana), and the Libertarian National Committee in issuing the following resolution:
WHEREAS, the Platforms of the National Libertarian Party and the Libertarian Party of Michigan affirm the right of due process, and deny the legitimacy of “victimless crimes”; and
WHEREAS, the government has steadily encroached upon these rights by illegitimately regulating and restricting access for firearms and ammunition, and may further seek to deprive people, who have been convicted of no crime, of their inherent right to full self-defense by denying their civil and inherent rights to obtain firearms and ammunition; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the Libertarian Party of Michigan opposes any policy which would deny access to any firearms or ammunition to any person solely for being placed on any government watch or no-fly list, and reaffirms its call to repeal and oppose any existing or proposed firearm and ammunition regulations.…
Contact:
Kimberly McCurry, Chair
Libertarian Party of Michigan
888.FREE.NOW [email protected]
Over the past several weeks the government building and land occupation in Oregon has made the national news.…
From a posting on the Libertarian Party of Livingston County and the Libertarian Party of Genesee County Facebook pages:
Yesterday [December 13, 2015] State Chairwoman Kimberly McCurry unilaterally removed LPLC Media Director Justin Burns from his position as editor of the LPM’s Facebook page.
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The IPR writers haven’t been able to keep up with all the news in the third-party/Independent world over the past month or so. In an effort to catch up on some of the activity and news of Libertarian candidates, this article will list many of the pieces I have found on Facebook and other sources.…
Posted to the Gay Star News
Written by Andrew Potts
April 30, 2014
Lorence Wenke, who spent six years in the Michigan state House of Representatives as a Republican, has announced that he has switched political affiliations to the Libertarian Party and that he intends to run against his former party to try to win a state senate seat.…