Joe Kennedy, a member of the Libertarian Party, is running to fill the unexpired Senate term of the deceased Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. The special election will be held on January 19, 2010. David Blau, chair of the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts, says, "While [Mr. Kennedy] will appear on the ballot as an Independent due […]
November 9, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, I want you to run for office.
From Virginia Libertarian candidate Matt Cholko: Friends, As you probably know by now, our campaign received 3.14% of the vote yesterday. I tried hard not to set any specific goal for electoral performance, but I can safely say that we did better than I was thinking that we would. Of course, no matter […]
These are partial results for Libertarians who were candidates in the November 3, 2009 elections. We will post more results as we learn them. In Georgia: Karen Richardson was re-elected to the John’s Creek City Council. Chris Neill, running for Mayor of Marietta, got 14%. Richard Segal, running for City Council in Douglasville, got 41%. […]
November 2, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, The Republicans had control of the federal government for years, and they used their power to greatly increase the size, scope, and burden of government. Now the Democrats are in charge and they’re doing it too. Their health care plan currently in the works is a serious threat […]
I can’t believe Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wants to hand out billions more bailout money to GMAC! And who knows if we’ll be able to stop the Obama government health care takeover? We couldn’t stop Bush and the Republican Congress from passing the $400 billion (later $1.2 trillion!) Medicare drug plan. Are you mad enough […]
October 26, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, This coming November 3 is Election Day in many places throughout the U.S. Since it’s an odd-numbered year, there are relatively few races. Nevertheless, dozens of Libertarians are on the ballot for various positions.
Libertarian Matt Drew is running for city council in Durham, North Carolina. He placed second in a five-way primary on October 6, and will appear on the November ballot. According to the Durham Herald-Sun:
By: Ivy Wisner and Ashley O’Donnell On October 11, 2009, Libertarian Party interns joined over 150,000protesters at the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. The marchwas organized to show support for the LGBT community and came in responseto the Obama administration’s negligent attitude towards gay rights. Afternine months of serving as president, Obama failed to […]
The Libertarian Party has a new addition to our social networking sphere. In order to allow members to submit their own photos of LP meetups, meetings, and other events, we decided to use the popular photo sharing site Flickr. Please feel free to view our Flickr page ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/lpnational ), and submit photos to lpnflickr@yahoo.com […]
For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 20, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party (LP) today expressed its approval of the Obama administration’s new, more laissez-faire policy toward medical marijuana. The policy appears to end the practice of federal prosecution of medical marijuana patients and providers in states where medical marijuana is legal. Wes Benedict, LP executive […]
October 19, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, First, I wanted to send a big thank you to the new Monthly Pledgers who signed up for recurring monthly donations online. We added this very convenient feature about a week ago and sent an announcement last Friday. So far, over 20 people have signed up for recurring […]
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