Third Party Watch

The Independent American Party of Nevada just hosted a great state convention in Reno, with nationally known writer Dr. Jerome Corsi as our keynote speaker. Other speakers included, Jim Clymer our national affiliate chairman, and California Eagle Forum President and author, Orlean Koehle, who both addressed the convention and the invited public. We reconfirmed our [...]

While I don’t normally post inside information provided on the Libertarian Party State Chair’s list in a public forum, there are several reports there (plus a bit more additional information) pertaining to several LP State Conventions which would be of interest to our readers. I’m not aware of any reason for confidentially to be [...]

A meeting report by Chris Hansen:

The Convention started out with a joyous invocation by Jim Batel. This was followed by discussions of current issues that concerned those in attendance. Many issues were discussed including the dangers of the establishment of the New American Civil religion (secularism) in the U.S. A., the International Monetary Fund, the [...]

My friend Ed Thompson was just elected mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin for the second time. Here’s the news release:

Charismatic Libertarian Ed Thompson won Tuesday’s mayoral election by nearly a two-to-one margin over incumbent Chuck Ludeking.

Speaking from his Tomah supper club, the Teepee, Thompson said he found about 50 dusty yard signs in a storage [...]

From the Green Party:

The 2008 election year has begun and so far the Green Party has 3 victories and on April 1 there are 20 races in contention. We currently have 235 elected Greens in the U.S. Green Party of the United States has set a goal of running over 1000 races in 2008 and [...]

According to the Seattle Times, it probably will. Background:

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Tuesday shoved Washington politics into a strange realm where two candidates from the same party could run against each other in the November election.

The decision also means minor political parties could largely vanish from the general-election ballot. And it may help [...]

Due to recent changes in business arrangements, Libertarian Lists has been off the air (or at least off the WiFi) for a few months. For those not familiar with the e-mail service, “Libertarian Lists is a voluntary [FREE] e-mail list [now] managed by Small Government [...]

I’d been hearing plenty of consistent rumors that Ron Paul was polling poorly in his congressional district, but didn’t publish any of them because there was no way to verify the sources—and some of the reports I had heard seemed a bit suspect. Ballot Access News has just linked to data which suggests that [...]

Here is how one news source described the contenders for Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin in yesterday’s primary:

Voters in Tomah will narrow the field of mayor candidates to two Tuesday. The candidates include current three-term mayor Chuck Ludeking. He is facing a challenge from Wayne Kling, who ran unsuccessfully in 2006, and former Tomah mayor Ed [...]

Former Wisconsin LP gubernatorial candidate Ed Thompson just had knee replacement surgery. Thompson is currently campaigning for another term as mayor.

The rumor going around that Ed Thompson, state Libertarian Party co-chair and brother to Tommy Thompson, had a knee replacement surgery and refused pain killers isn’t quite true. Thompson confirms that he had his [...]

Libertarian David Schlosser is running for mayor of Flagstaff, Arizona. From what I’ve seen of his campaign so far, it seems that his goal is to actually become the Flagstaff mayor, too—as opposed to the promotion of some sort of preach the libertarian gospel campaign. From a recent e-mail:

Ballots will arrive in the [...]

Recently there was a special runoff election in California State Assembly District 55, which is in the Long Beach area. Besides AIP candidate Charlotte Sadiyah Gibson, there was Libertarian candidate Herb Peters running against a lone Democratic candidate.

With little media coverage and no attention given, Charlotte nevertheless received 15.4% of the vote compaired to Herb’s [...]

Ballot Access News

New York upstate counties are governed by a partisan county legislature and a partisan county executive. In October 2007, one Orange County legislator, Michael Amo, switched his party registration from “Republican” to “Independence”.

The results of the November 2007 election for Orange County legislature were 10 Democrats, 10 Republicans, and Amo. Amo had been [...]

I just got off the telephone with former Tomah, Wisconsin City Counselman and previous Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate Ed Thompson. Thompson confirmed the rumor I had heard that he just filed to paper work to run for mayor, a position which he’s also previously held. Here’s Thompson’s general biography, courtesy of Wikipedia:

Ed Thompson (born [...]

In my personal opinion, those who exploit children are amongst the lowest forms of life crawling upon the planet. Perhaps the second lowest form of life are those who exploit missing and exploited children for political gain. I’d like to tell you about three people who have run for office before and how [...]