According to Joey Dauben (email sent to [email protected]), former narcotics officer Barry Cooper is considering running for Governor of Texas as a Libertarian. According to Dauben, no final decision has been made.…
Posts tagged as “Texas”
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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LP.org: candidates who guaranteed ballot retention for their state parties
By paulie on November 8, 2008 10:17 AM
From the election results page at LP.org, here is a list of candidates who kept their state parties on the ballot and how many votes they got:
David Herbert Wyoming US House 11,028 4.9%
Nathan Santucci Nevada State Assembly District 22 14,930 22.3%
Stan Jones Montana Governor 8,698 3.1%
William Bryan Strange, III Texas Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 9 1,041,499 18.1%
Robert Underwood Massachusetts United States Senate 94,745 3.2%
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Two Libertarians each get over one million votes
By paulie on November 5, 2008 1:18 PM
Posted at Ballot Access News
The last time any minor party or independent candidate (for office other than president) received as many as 1,000,000 votes was in New York in 1970, when James Buckley received 2,179,640 votes on the Conservative Party line.
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Boston Tea Party adopts Campaign for Liberty four point program, elects new officers
By paulie on October 26, 2008 1:01 AM
The Boston Tea Party is having its convention, as IPR previously reported. In the interest of disclosure, two of the at-large candidates (Tom Knapp and Neil Stephenson) also write for IPR.…
University of Texas at Dallas student runs for office as a Libertarian
By Ross Levin on October 23, 2008 3:58 PM
Reposted from here:
Grad student’s candidacy keeps third party on District 112 ballot
Eric Nicholson
Philip White is not running a conventional political campaign.
The 22-year-old UTD graduate student has not knocked on any doors or given any speeches.…
Libertarian Yvonne Shick in Texas US Senate debate
By paulie on October 22, 2008 6:52 PM
H/T Michelle Shinghal…
Postal fire delays Brian Moore’s Presidential candidacy papers seven weeks
By VTV on October 1, 2008 1:44 PM
Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, September 30, 2008: Sarah G. Reisetter, Elections director of the the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office, emailed Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore today indicating that his original statement of candidacy, postmarked August 11, 2008, arrived in the Iowa Secretary of State’s office seven weeks later, on September 29th, 2008.…
Bob Barr removed from Louisiana ballot
By paulie on September 26, 2008 7:47 PM
Posted at Ballot Access News
On September 26, the 5th Circuit removed Bob Barr from the Louisiana ballot. The three judges were Carolyn King (a Carter appointee from Texas), James Dennis (a Clinton appointee from Louisiana), and Priscilla Owen (a Bush Jr.
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