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 [...]

Faith and freedom were the themes of interviews with two Constitution Party candidates recorded at the party’s national convention in Kansas City.

Dr. Gregory Thompson, a former public school superintendent, says the system is failing children, parents and the state and needs reformed. In the interview, he claims “…ninety percent of our children, after going through [...]

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 [...]

From Salt Lake City’s Fox 13: “Most Utahns know Dell Schanze as “Super Dell,” the guy in those crazy computer ads. But Schanze has another title, Gubernational candidate for the Libertarian party. Last month Schanze filed for governor and Saturday he found a party to back him. Fox 13’s Arikka Von has the story.”

Here’s the [...]

I’d like to make a personal request and ask that everybody who visits this site take a couple of minutes of your time to contact one or more legislators in Alabama and urge them to support HB738, which is a bill that will significantly decrease the signature requirement for independents in Alabama.

The committee meets [...]

Dr. Michael Munger was nominated as the Libertarian candidate for North Carolina Governor today at the party’s state convention in Burlington. Dr. Munger is a professor and chair of the Duke University political science, economics, and public policy departments.

“We have have planted the tree of liberty, now it’s time to pick the fruit,” Dr. Munger [...]

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 [...]

Here’s a release I received in my e-mail:

Friday and Saturday Night we will broadcasting live from the Heartland Libertarian Convention in Kansas City, MO.

Friday night show is from 6:30 Pm till 8:30 Pm. We will be interviewing Local, State,and National Libertarian Candidates. Saturday 10:00 AM till 12:00 PM we will be broadcasting live the Libertarian [...]

From my e-mail:

My name is Teddy Fleck and am the Libertarian Candidate for Lt. Governor in Missouri. I have only been a Libertarian for a little over a year.A friend of mine turned me onto your site.Your site is the best third party place for up to date information I have seen. GREAT JOB.

Thank [...]

As recently reported here at TPW, “Super Dell” Schanze, a colorful Salt Lake City personality, has filed paperwork with the state to run as the Libertarian Party’s candidate for governor. Apparently, however, Schanze is not universally popular with the party. From Salt Lake City Weekly:

Jim Dexter, a former Libertarian Party of Utah chairman … [...]

Here’s the general storyline from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

I don’t know how we missed this earlier, but the state’s “chief” marijuana advocate has signed up for the governor’s race – and he’s got competition.

Ozark pot supporter Joseph Bickell has entered the race for the state’s highest office, and even if his position doesn’t earn many [...]

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 [...]

From the candidate’s personal blog:

About Me
Dell Schanze
The one that stands out. Anywhere.

Here’s the Salt Lake City Tribune’s synopsis of the story:

The former owner of Totally Awesome Computers has yanked his name from Salt [...]

I’ve noticed several comments about Michael Munger’s hair on this site. Munger is the current Libertarian Party candidate for Governor in North Carolina.

There’s a noble explanation for his hair, as the News & Observer explains:

The Libertarian candidate for governor may not have gotten a $400 haircut, but he did get a doozy of a [...]

Anthony Pollina appeared on The Mark Johnson Show recently talking about his campaign for Governor in 2008. Rep. Chris Pearson (P-Burlington) also spoke with Johnson about the 2008 legislative priorities for the Progressive House caucus.
Pollina is a former Radio Show Host himself and a former Policy Advisor to Bernie Sanders. The Progressive Party has [...]

Ballot Access News

The New York Independence Party is already somewhat famous for its on-going dispute between the New York state officers and the New York city branches of the party. However, an entirely different intra-party dispute has cost the party an opportunity to nominate a candidate in the special State Senate election set for February [...]

Historical Online Election, Significant Taxpayer Dollars Saved

The Arizona Libertarian Party is one of three fully ballot qualified political parties in the state and therefore legally entitled to participate in the presidential preference primary election proceedings on Super Tuesday. Unlike the Democratic and Republican parties, Arizona Libertarians aren’t conducting their election process in the traditional [...]

Ben Ferguson, AKA Bennie Lee “Ben” Ferguson is running for two offices: President of the United States and a state House of Representatives seat in Kansas District 104. From reading Ferguson’s state rep campaign site, I’d have never guessed that the candidate was also running for president as a transgender independent presidential candidate.

TrannyWeb [...]

From the Riverfront Times blog:

With a campaign slogan like “Dubie vs. Blunt ’08” and a moniker like Chief Wana Dubie, you’d think Joseph Bickell is trying to put the party in the 2008 Missouri governor’s race.

But when Bickell (who has been calling himself Chief Wana Dubie since 1990), officially announced his candidacy for governor late [...]

This is a good problem to have: the Libertarian Party of Texas not only has a full slate of candidates at every level, but there are quite a few contested match-ups that will see two, three, even four Libertarians vying for the right to appear under the LP banner in November.

Even Executive Director Wes Benedict [...]