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Libertarian Party response to 2014 State of the Union address
For Immediate Release Tuesday, January 28, 2014 WASHINGTON -- Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict issued the following statement today in response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address: Thanks to unprecedented levels of government...

LP response to President Barack Obama's announced plan for minor reforms of NSA mass surveillance
For Immediate Release Friday, January 17, 2014 Statement from Geoffrey J. Neale, chair, Libertarian National Committee, in response to President Barack Obama's announced plan for minor reforms of NSA mass surveillance: "Whenever any form of government becomes...

Latest federal budget deal screams, 'Vote Libertarian'
For Immediate Release Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced a budget deal on Dec. 10 that keeps spending high. Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) President Barack Obama and the Democrats and Republicans in Congress, reeling from low...

Libertarian Party Chair Neale forges ties with European counterparts
For Immediate Release Thursday, December 5, 2013 Libertarian Party Chair Geoffrey Neale speaks to Spain's Individual Freedom Party (P-LIB). Libertarian Party Chair Geoffrey Neale made an historic trip in November to forge ties with emerging Libertarian Parties in...

Virginia Libertarian for governor vote total shows LP rising
For Immediate Release Wednesday, November 6, 2013 Rob Sarvis, LP Virginia Candidate for Governor Robert Sarvis won 6.5 percent of the vote in a hotly contested three-way race for governor of Virginia, easily surpassing the previous high won by a Libertarian for...

Libertarians give voters option to shrink Big Government, advance liberty on Nov. 5
For Immediate Release Monday, November 4, 2013 On Tuesday, voters in Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and five other states will have an alternative to voting for a Big Government Democrat or a Big Government Republican. They can...

LP Chair Geoffrey J. Neale to speak at Adam Smith Forum in Russia
For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Visit the Adam Smith Forum website Libertarian Party Chair Geoffrey J. Neale will be an honored guest at the Fifth Annual Adam Smith Forum in Moscow, being held at the National Research University Higher School of...

There's only one way to stop Republican and Democratic reckless overspending: Vote Libertarian
For Immediate Release Thursday, October 17, 2013 Statement by Carla Howell, political director for the Libertarian Party, on the Democratic-Republican passage of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014: 'They did it again. 'With overwhelming majorities, Democrats and...

LP Chair Geoffrey Neale to address European libertarians in Spain
For Immediate Release Wednesday, October 16, 2013 As part of a European tour, U.S. Libertarian Party Chair Geoffrey J. Neale will be the featured speaker at a conference hosted by the Individual Freedom Party (P-LIB), the Spanish equivalent of the U.S. Libertarian...

Libertarian Party calls for permanent government spending slowdown, defunding Obamacare
For Immediate Release Thursday, September 26, 2013 There is no impending government shutdown -- only a government slowdown . The threat of a "shutdown" is designed to scare voters while avoiding scrutiny of reckless government overspending. If federal lawmakers do not...