The number of independent candidates running for various races in the state of Rhode Island has been increasing despite being a Democrat stronghold. Currently it is the only state to have an independent serving as governor, and the number of independent candidates have reached a record high of 37.…
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Libertarians Get Involved in Texas’ Republican Primaries
By Trent Hill on May 28, 2012 4:29 PM
Sheriff Richard Mack is the former Sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, and was a Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona in 2006, recording almost 50,000 votes for 3.16%.…
Jill Stein Has Secured Nearly 75% of Allocated Delegates to Green Party National Convention
By Trent Hill on May 9, 2012 5:31 AM
Jill Stein is one of several Green Party presidential candidates vying for the party’s nomination. The nomination is mostly determined by pre-allocated delegates awarded for winning primaries in various states.…
Reason’s Coverage: The Libertarian Party Convention Has Begun
By Trent Hill on May 2, 2012 5:27 PM
Garrett Quinn has written over at Reason about the beginning of the Libertarian Party National Convention. Hopefully there will be more coverage to come from Reason.…
Libertarian State Representative Dan Gordon Happy Being A “Caucus of One”
By Trent Hill on April 28, 2012 2:09 AM
Dan Gordon was interviewed recently by Uncovered Politics and revealed that he is very happy being a “caucus of one” within the Rhode Island legislature.
State Representative Dan Gordon made the high profile switch from the Republican to the Libertarian Party in the Fall of 2011.
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Lincoln Chafee Defends “Holiday Tree” Comments
By Trent Hill on December 7, 2011 4:50 AM
Lincoln Chafee is the Independent Governor of Rhode Island and has been at the center of a controversy this past week because of the label he applied to that holiday tradition known as the “Christmas Tree”.…
Libertarian vision: Peace, Freedom and Rep. Gordon?
By Joseph Buchman, PhD on October 2, 2011 3:41 AM
Ed Fitzpatrick in the Providence Journal:
The Libertarian Party of Rhode Island wants to grow. But if the tiny party is going to take state Rep.
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Root: The Strike – As Ayn Rand Predicted
By Bruce Cohen on June 29, 2011 10:00 AM
As Ayn Rand Predicted, the Wealthy are Going on Strike Against Obama.
By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and creator of ROOTforAmerica.com
The U.S.…
RI Moderate Party: “Rhode Island’s broken budgeting process”
By Marc Montoni on June 22, 2011 7:45 PM
From a media release sent to IPR by the Moderate Party of RI:
It is very unlikely that Rhode Island can turn our ship of state around while the steering of the ship is a bit like the SS Minnow caught in a storm on the TV show Gilligan’s Island.
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