From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on March 27, 2020: In a time of “social distancing” and the coronavirus, third-party candidates shouldn’t have to go door to door collecting over 20,000 signatures to get on the ballot in Georgia, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. The lawsuit by Libertarian Party and Green Party nominees for the […]
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AL.com – Civil liberties and coronavirus safety: Some say Alabama is going too far
Alabama Libertarian Party chair Laura Lane was quoted in an article on Al.com, the website of the Birmingham News, the city’s main newspaper, on March 24, 2020. Alabama businesses, employees, and consumers are scrambling to adjust to closed schools and restaurants, cancelled sports seasons, work-from-home instructions and other disruptions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. […]
LNC Chair: How to Balance Public Health and Civil Liberties in the Time of Coronavirus
Libertarian National Committee chair Nicholas Sarwark appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show on March 17, 2020, to discuss the coronavirus, and how to balance public health while protecting civil liberties. “You don’t need to have draconian measures from the government if people are accurately informed about what is going on,” said Mr. Sarwark. “We need […]
15 Days to Stop the Spread… One year later
It’s March 2021. We have been living within some sort of COVID-19 affected reality for one year. In some ways it feels like this started just a few months ago; in other ways, it’s hard to remember life before the pandemic. If we rewind just one year — before 500,000 COVID-related deaths and at least […]
LP Presidential Candidate Interviewed on Fox Channel Your World Show
Libertarian presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen was interviewed by Neil Cavuto on the Your World show on the Fox News channel on October 22, 2020: The current political system is designed to squelch truly independent voices, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen argued on “Your World” Thursday ahead of the second debate between President Trump and Joe Biden. “We keep […]
John Stossel: Jo Jorgensen Is A Different Presidential Candidate
From John Stossel of Reason Magazine on May 26, 2020: We have a choice! Next presidential election, we don’t have to decide between two big-spending candidates, neither of whom has expressed much interest in limited government. Now, we have a third serious choice. This week, Dr. Jo Jorgensen, a psychology lecturer at Clemson University, won […]
AJC: Libertarians to be first to nominate a presidential candidate via virtual convention
Jim Galloway, political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the 19th most popular news website in the country, wrote the following opinion piece on the upcoming Libertarian Party national convention on May 19, 2020: Over the weekend, U.S. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan decided that he wouldn’t make a run for president under the Libertarian Party […]
Two Minnesota Elected Libertarians Help Overturn Decision by City Government
Two elected libertarians on the Burnsville, Minnesota City Council were featured in an article on the HometownSource.com website on April 15, 2020, as they helped reverse a decision by the city government to keep open a city playground during a contentious meeting: Backlash against COVID-19 restrictions in Burnsville erupted during Tuesday’s City Council work session, […]
Ballot Access in the Corona Era
20200330_BallotAccess by Executive Director on Scribd FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE press@lp.org The Libertarian Party, America’s third party, calls on Governors across the Country to remove all petitioning requirements in 2020. The Libertarian Party, which is one of the only 3 parties in American History to have ever had 50 state +DC (50+) ballot access in consecutive […]
Libertarian Press Release on COVID-19
The Libertarian Party issued the following press release today For Immediate Release 2020.03.10 Libertarian Party Statement on COVID-19 Outbreak Across the United States, COVID-19 testing supplies are being rationed, resulting in patients being refused testing or experiencing long delays for test results. The result is that we have a diminished understanding of the extent and […]