Ben Schmitz of Sun Prairie, a software developer who serves in the National Guard, has filed more than 400 signatures to successfully qualify for a spot on the ballot in an upcoming Wisconsin special election. The contest to fill a vacancy in the District 13 seat of Wisconsin’s State Senate will include 4 Republicans, a Democrat, and 2 minor party candidates.… Read more ...
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.… Read more ...
Press Release from Andy Craig for Congress:
Wisconsin’s 4th Congressional District will feature a two-party race, but unlike most of the state, the two parties involved will be the incumbent Democrats and the state’s Libertarians.
Andy Craig has secured a place on the ballot, in an election the Republicans left uncontested.… Read more ...
Press Release from Andy Craig for Congress:
… Read more ...Craig for Congress: Gwen Moore demonstrates partisan hypocrisy on war and peace
From her election in 2005 until Bush left office in 2008, Gwen Moore was an outspoken supporter of ending America’s war in Iraq. She joined with other anti-war Democrats in the Out of Iraq Caucus to propose and vote for a variety of bills that would mandate the withdrawal of American forces.
Press Release:
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Statement on Gwen Moore’s Endorsement of Hillary Clinton
(MILWAUKEE) Andy Craig, Libertarian candidate for Wisconsin’s 4th congressional district, issued the following statement in response to incumbent Rep. Gwen Moore’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton for President of the United States:
Gwen Moore, the professed champion of criminal justice reform, believes we should have a President whose tough-on-crime pandering in the 1990s helped bring us today’s moral crisis of mass incarceration.
Phil Anderson, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, spoke on Sunday to the assembled crowds at the 45th Annual Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival near the state capitol in Madison. The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin also had a successful outreach booth at the two-day event.
Video c/of Miles Kristan.
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Press Release:
Members and leaders of the state’s third-largest political party Monday applauded the result of last week’s vote of the members of the Menominee tribe to legalize cannabis for both medicinal and recreational use.
“LPWI has called for the end of victimless crimes since our founding in 1973, and we are very pleased that this vote will represent the first step in reforming Wisconsin’s outdated and irrational drug laws,” explained Andy Craig, Libertarian candidate for U.S.… Read more ...
via Facebook.
Phil Anderson of Fitchburg, WI has announced his formation of an exploratory committee to possibly run for Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate seat in 2016, in an election currently expected to feature a rematch between incumbent first-term Republican Ron Johnson and Democratic former Senator Russ Feingold.
Anderson is a realtor and the general manager of Green Cab of Madison, a company which offers environmentally-friendly hybrid cabs. … Read more ...
Via the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Politifact Wisconsin:
… Read more ...Ballot laws mean only half of Assembly races are contested, Libertarian says
By Dave Umhoefer on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 at 5:00 a.m.
When state Assembly seats are on the ballot, Wisconsin voters have far fewer candidates to choose from than residents of neighboring Minnesota and Michigan, a group called Competitive Elections Wisconsin claims.
Competitive Elections Wisconsin has compiled the following list of forty-seven state representatives who were elected without an opponent on Nov. 4, 2014, out of the ninety-nine members of the Assembly elected every two years. The group’s motto says it all about their motive: only one name on the ballot isn’t an election at all.… Read more ...
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.… Read more ...