Author Archive | Bob Johnston

Joe Buchman, who is running for the special election in November for the US House of Representatives third district in Utah, was interviewed on the Doug Wright show on KSL, the main news station in Salt Lake City. Click here to listen to the interview. Joe Buchman’s campaign website:  http://www.gotol.vote/    

Libertarian National Committee Political Director Carla Howell was quoted in a blog post in PJ Media on June 8 regarding a letter sent from several U.S. Senators to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to pare down the practice of civil asset forfeiture. “Carla Howell, political director for the National Libertarian Party, said in an interview last week that civil […]

There will be a meeting of the Libertarian National Committee’s bylaws committee on June 22, starting at 9 P.M. EDT. Please join the bylaws committee for our first hearing of the term.  We are eager to hear your ideas on our bylaws and how they can be improved. Click here for instructions on how to […]

Two New Mexico newspapers, the Los Alamos Daily Post and the Farmington Daily Times, recently ran articles on the creation of new county affiliates for the New Mexico LP. For the first time in party history, the New Mexico LP is recognized as a major party, and will nominate partisan 2018 candidates in primary elections, rather […]

In a continuing lawsuit aimed at forcing the FEC to strike prohibitive criteria for debate inclusion imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), Level the Playing Field (LPF) blasted the FEC when it filed for injunctive relief on May 26. The Libertarian Party is a co-plaintiff in the case Level the Playing Field (LPF) […]

On June 1, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 25, which repeals the straight-ticket device. The legislature passed the bill on May 20. Straight-ticket ballots list the officially qualified parties at the top, usually just “Democrat” and “Republican.” Voters can check an adjacent box to cast a vote for all of that party’s candidates on their […]

Noted Libertarian civil rights activist Gregory Creswell will be running, unopposed, in  Michigan LP’s first-ever primary election on August 8. He is running in a special election for state rep in the first district, which includes part of Detroit, and will be the first candidate of any alternative party in the state to appear in […]

From the Colorado Independent on May 30: “They came in a U-Haul. “Colorado, the birthplace of the national Libertarian Party, is now something else: host of the party’s trove of physical archives since its founding in 1971 in Colorado Springs. “Or was the party founded in Westminster? “That’s a friendly dispute among some Libertarians who […]

Libertarian National Committee chair Nicholas Sarwark was interviewed for Salon magazine on May 29. Click here to watch the interview, with a discussion of the war on drugs.

Libertarian Casey Carlisle, candidate for mayor of Seattle, was interviewed on the Todd Herman radio show on KTTH 770AM. Carlisle is running for mayor of Seattle to simplify the business license tax, do away with the other taxes, and get rid of occupational licensing. The mayoral primary election will be held August 1. Because Washington has a top two voting system, only […]

Victor Kocher will be on the ballot as the South Carolina Libertarian Party candidate for the June 20 special election to fill the U.S. House seat vacancy. The seat, the U.S. House of Representatives fifth district, was held by Republican Mike Mulvaney, until he accepted the position of White House budget chief under the Trump […]