Release... LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF UTAH OFFICIALLY ENDORSES GARY JOHNSON The leadership of the Libertarian Party of Utah is excited to announce our official endorsement of Gary Johnson for the LP presidential candidacy. We believe that Governor Johnson's experience sets him apart, and that he will best carry the torch of liberty in the 2012 election. We wish him much luck at the upcoming convention. Libertarian Party of Utah Jake Shannon, Utah LP Chairman January 31, 2012 Editor's note - The...Read Full Story
by Eric Dondero I've known Brian Doherty (photo) for over 25 years. Brian was a young punk (literally), back in the early days of the University of Florida College Libertarians in Gainesville, circa 1986 - early 1990s. He hung around with Phil Blumel (now President of US Term Limits and Vice-Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus), Libertarian Republican blog writer Tom Walls, and Ivan Osorio (now with the Competitive Enterprise Institute.) During that time I was the leader of sorts, of...Read Full Story
HOT RUMOR!! From Eric Dondero: Various sources are reporting that former Republican Congressman Bob Barr and 2008 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Bob Barr, may return to the GOP and make a run for Congress in north Georgia. He is eyeing the newly redistricted 14th District, which contains some parts of Barr's former 7th District. If so, he'd face a primary with incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Graves. Barr was a staunch conservative during his 4 terms in congress, even leading the...Read Full Story
by Eric Dondero Many have credited Libertarian Bob Barr's candidacy with the selection of libertarian-leaning Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin by John McCain. Barr had been polling 6% in Zogby mid-Summer, as high as 11% in New Hampshire and 10% in Nevada. Sources inside the McCain Campaign have confirmed that a large reason Palin was selected was because of her libertarian appeal. This, of course, could be viewed as a huge victory for the Libertarian Party. Never before has the LP...Read Full Story
Libertarian Republican blog is pleased to be the very first news source to proclaim that Bob Barr, Libertarian Presidential candidate, along with his running mate Wayne Allyn Root, have achieved an important goal. As of Sunday, the Libertarian ticket for 2008 has officially busted 500,000 votes total. With 99% of all precincts reporting, Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr appeared well on his way to breaking the ever important barrier of Half a Million votes. CNN reported this...Read Full Story
Lee Wrights participated in a debate with five other candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination Saturday, Feb. 11 at the Libertarian Party of Florida convention in Orlando. Watch the full debate on UStream and judge for yourself which ...
On February 11, the Florida Libertarian convention included a debate among several candidates seeking the Libertarian Party nomination, and also a straw poll afterwards. This MSNBC story covers the event. As the article notes, Gary Johnson won the straw poll. The article has a factual error. It says the Libertarian Party has never exceeded 1% [...]
... theme, liberty "We are activist trying to get together and arrive at a consensus,' Kathy Glass with the Libertarian party said. And with hopeful Presidential candidate Ron Paul aiming to get on the 2012 ballot, organizers say the Libertarian Party ...
On February 10, the Libertarian Party submitted approximately 12,000 signatures to become a qualified party in South Dakota. The legal requirement is 7,928. This is the first petition that the Libertarian Party has submitted in any state since June 2011, when it turned in its Arkansas petition. However, recently the party has been turning in [...]
The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the US, and is influential in both the Tea Party and Occupy movements due to their strong fiscal conservative positions and socially liberal views. Polling data indicates ...
With little fanfare Saturday in Orlando, six candidates vying to be the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party — a growing third party advocating "more freedom, less government" — championed ideas that would make most politicians quake.
South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant announced recently that a representative ... party’s bid to be a recognized political party in South Dakota. “Samuel Saunders of Martin delivered petitions with roughly 12,000 signatures to my ...
February 10, 2012. Orlando. The Libertarian Party of Florida has scheduled a Presidential debate tomorrow, Saturday, February 11 in Orlando, Florida. It is expected to be the first debate featuring all six official Libertarian Party Presidential candidates.
... probably come fairly quickly. On February 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, heard arguments in Libertarian Party v D.C. Board of Elections, over whether the U.S. Constitution requires the Board to count valid write-in votes for president ...
Here is the 32-page rebuttal brief of the Ohio legislature, in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, 11-4066, now pending in the 6th circuit. The Ohio legislature is trying to persuade the 6th circuit that U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley’s September 7, 2011 order was improper. That order put the Libertarian Party on the [...]
Welcome to our Wikizine about Bob Barr. Bob Barr is a former republican State Representative from Georgia and gained fame for his involvement in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Bob Barr will be running for president in the 2008 elections as a Libertarian. Best of luck Bob.
WASHINGTON - Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr has announced that he's running for president as a Libertarian. His candidacy would be a wild card in the White House race and many believe it would hu