Source: Green Party Watch

From the Twin Cities Daily Planet (read the full thing here, there is a lot more information in the article itself):

The Green Party of St. Paul began a new effort to recruit candidates for upcoming 2011 local elections June 16, as candidates and around 40 supporters gathered to launch the effort dubbed Green St. Paul.The campaign is an attempt to change the party’s sporadic track record in local elections by recruiting candidates to run for local office, said Green St. Paul co-chair Roger Meyer… Read more »

Source: Libertarian Party (LP.org)

Libertarian National Congressional Committee Chairman Wayne Allyn Root’s commentary on Obama vs. Texas is published in Tuesday’s Washington Times- again:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/20/from-chosen-to-chumps

Source: Libertarian Party (LP.org)

A new CNN poll is making libertarian waves, as election expert and political analyst Nate Silver reports on his FiveThirtyEight Blog in the New York Times: Americans are becoming more libertarian in their basic attitudes. The story has also been picked up by The Daily Caller and The Atlantic Wire. Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

The June 20 Washington Post has this op-ed by Theresa Amato, making the point that inclusive debates can dramatically alter the fortunes of candidates who do substantially better than expected. Amato was campaign manager for Ralph Nader in both 2000 and 2004. Nader, of course, was never permitted to participate in general election presidential debates with his major party opponents. Read more »

Source: Liberty Lion (drtomstevens.blogspot.com)

On June 16, 2011, Carl Person, who is seeking the Libertarian Party’s Presidential Nomination, published on his website (http://www.carlperson.org/) the first draft of his Campaign Platform, which is the following: Read more »