October 11, 2010 Dear Friend of Liberty, This week I’m forwarding you a message from Nick Youngers, founder of the Libertarian Donors Club: Date: Sunday, October 10 My Fellow Excited Libertarians, In my first two letters I promised I’d be back with an updated list of exciting, important, Libertarian races for 2010. We have found […]
Press Releases and Party News
Cleveland’s main newspaper endorses Libertarian candidate Matthew Cantrell
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has endorsed Libertarian Matthew Cantrell for Ohio treasurer. The paper sums up its endorsement by writing, "[Democrat] Boyce and [Republican] Mandel have proven to have feet of clay. Cantrell, by contrast, has a spring in his step and the credentials to do the job. He’s worthy of your vote on Nov. […]
Libertarians in Massachusetts show their colors
Freedom Fighters in the “Live Free or Die” state
NRA PAC suppresses third-party candidates
The NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) claims on its website that "The NRA-PVF ranks political candidates – irrespective of party affiliation – based on voting records, public statements and their responses to an NRA-PVF questionnaire." However, Libertarian candidate Lon Cecil reports: NRA has released their 2010 Voter Guide to the web (http://nrapvf.org/grades-endorsements.aspx) to support election […]
Libertarian candidates team up to propose balanced federal budget
from the Mark Grannis (MD) and Travis Irvine (OH) congressional campaigns: In an effort to give voters a real alternative to the big-spending politics of the Democratic and Republican parties, two Libertarian candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives have developed a federal budget that completely eliminates the federal budget deficit in one year. Travis […]
Project Vote Smart offers “VoteEasy”
Project Vote Smart, a voter education organization that publishes candidate answers to its position questionnaires, has a new feature called "VoteEasy" that allows voters to see which candidates have expressed positions most similar to their own views. VoteEasy A number of Libertarian candidates are included. VoteEasy currently appears to include only candidates for Congress. (Project […]
Libertarian Party Chair endorses California Prop 19
For Immediate Release Thursday, October 7, 2010 WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle has endorsed Proposition 19 on the November ballot in California. The measure would legalize marijuana in California. Hinkle said, “I urge Californians to vote for Proposition 19. The War on Drugs has created tremendous damage in California and throughout America, and […]
John & Ken endorse Libertarian Dale Ogden for CA Governor
The John & Ken talk radio show on KFI-AM 640 in the Los Angeles area has endorsed Dale Ogden, the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor, over Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman. For those who are not familiar with John & Ken, they are an enormously influential team which dominates the afternoon rush hour […]
Anti-war liberals can vote Libertarian
For Immediate Release Wednesday, October 6, 2010 WASHINGTON – In the violent wake of President Obama’s military surge in Afghanistan, and his failure to withdraw the U.S. military from Iraq, the Libertarian Party (LP) says anti-war liberals can vote Libertarian with a clear conscience. Sadly, President Obama is spending an even larger percentage of America’s […]
LP Monday Message: help reach a million
October 4, 2010 Dear Friend of Liberty, We’re entering the peak month of election activity. The time to act is now! So far we’ve bought 700,000 Quiz Across America door hangers, shipped almost 400,000 to volunteers, and used a bunch as samples in a snail-mail letter that is reaching many homes right now and generating […]
Opinion: Tahoe needs to have more control, TRPA less by Steve Kubby
www.laketahoenews.net/2010/10/opinion-tahoe-needs-to-have-more-control-trpa-less/ Steve Kubby, former Libertarian Party candidate for Governor in California, and contender for the LP’s 2008 presidential nomination is running for South Lake Tahoe City council. Recent poles show him in the lead.