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For Immediate Release Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Dear Fellow Libertarians, Mark your calendar! The 2012 National Libertarian Party convention will be held on May 2-6 in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring: Nomination of our 2012 Libertarian Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates as well as our party officers. Exciting speakers and workshops on a variety of topics […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Today at 10:00 am MST, Governor Gary Johnson is expected to announce his candidacy and to join the Libertarian Party with Mark Hinkle, Chair at a press conference at the State Capitol in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event will be live streamed at the Gary Johnson for […]

For Immediate Release Thursday, December 15, 2011 WASHINGTON – Today, December 15, libertarians celebrate Bill of Rights Day. On December 15, 1791 the Bill of Rights was ratified, creating the first Ten Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The Libertarian Party platform expressly supports the Bill of Rights and calls for restoring our freedoms lost as […]

For Immediate Release Friday, December 2, 2011 WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle released the following statement today regarding the indefinite detention provisions of Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. “The Obama administration has already claimed that the president has the authority to kill Americans overseas, if he believes they […]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, November 22, 2011 WASHINGTON – Libertarian National Committee Chair Mark Hinkle released the following statement today: “I’m not sure what to laugh at more: the ‘super committee,’ or the media’s reporting of it. “We’ve already started to see one silly article after another about ‘missed opportunities’ and ‘failure,’ and an inability […]

For Immediate Release Friday, October 28, 2011 WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle released the following statement today: “President Obama is currently caught in a bit of a scandal over his pledge not to take campaign money from lobbyists. “According to the New York Times , ‘Despite a pledge not to take money from […]

For Immediate Release Friday, October 14, 2011 WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle released the following statement today: “I have been following the Occupy protesters, who call themselves the ‘99%’, with interest. “It’s true that 99% of Americans do not enjoy the special benefits of crony capitalism. Crony capitalism is very different from real […]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 4, 2011 WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: “Associated Press reports today that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress they must not cut federal spending sharply. Chairman Bernanke, you’re wrong. “The federal government is currently spending somewhere around 24% of America’s total economic […]

For Immediate Release Friday, September 23, 2011 WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today: “In the Republican candidate debate last night, I observed that not a single Republican candidate made any proposals for immediate cuts to Social Security, the single largest government program in America. “Republicans are so scared of […]

For Immediate Release Friday, September 16, 2011 WASHINGTON – In honor of Constitution Day, Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict released the following statement today: “Tomorrow, September 17, is Constitution Day: the anniversary of the agreement on the U.S. Constitution by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. “When I think about that anniversary, I […]

For Immediate Release Thursday, September 8, 2011 WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict has released a video response to President Obama’s jobs speech. The video is available here: A transcript follows: My name is Wes Benedict and I’m the Executive Director of the Libertarian National Committee in Washington, DC. I have a message […]

For Immediate Release Friday, August 19, 2011 WASHINGTON – As unemployment in the United States remains stuck above 9 percent, Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict released the following statement: “Every time politicians say they’re going to create jobs, they end up destroying more jobs than they create. “Here’s the Libertarian approach to unemployment: cut […]