May
16
2012
Source: Libertarian National Campaign Committee (via e-mail from May 14)
OBAMA COMMITS AMERICANS TO AFGHAN DEFENSE UNTIL 2024
Lost in the mainstream media static over Barack Obama’s secret trip to Afgahnistan is the fact his pact with Afghan president Hamid Karzai commits the United States to a costly defense of the foreign country until 2024.
While “combat” troops will leave by 2014 “advisers” will stay, along with a steady supply Read more »
May
16
2012
Source: Green Party Watch
According to Cassandra Day and Wendy Vincent, CT Green Melissa Schlag of Haddam will have to gather 8000 signatures just to find her place on November’s ballot. Further details of Schlag’s run are found at Haddam Bulletin
Schlag is credited with playing a vital role in opposing the Haddam Land Swap.
In a letter from their lawyer, Riverhouse Properties LLC, the corporation that was to Read more »
May
16
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
The Americans Elect web page has this statement, posted the morning of May 15. It says the organization will make a more important announcement in two days, about how it plans to proceed.
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May
16
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
According to this news story, on May 14, the 3-judge U.S. District Court hearing Somers v South Carolina Election Commission orally ruled after the hearing that no relief can be granted to the candidates left off the June 12 primary ballot. Almost 200 candidates were kept off Democratic and Republican primary ballots (for state legislature and local partisan office) because of confusion over the deadline for filing a Statement of Economic Read more »
May
16
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
On May 14, the Virginia Libertarian Party filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court over Virginia’s ban on out-of-state circulators. This is the third such case to be filed against Virginia on this issue in the last six months. The new case is Libertarian Party of Virginia and Darryl Bonner v Judd. Here is the eleven-page complaint.
The first such case was filed by Texas Governor Rick Perry. The U.S. District Court said Read more »
May
16
2012
Source: Libertarian Party (LP.org)
John Robertson, who was best known for his petitioning work over many years in the Libertarian Party, died unexpectedly on Saturday, May 12, 2012, at his son’s home near Point Arena, California. He was in his seventies. Word of John’s passing came from LP Oklahoma member Robert Murphy, who was about to travel to a party with John on Saturday afternoon, when John suddenly collapsed. He was taken by helicopter to a Read more »
