Thank you for taking the time to explain your reasons for your vote on TrumpCare, and for being one of the few congressmen who communicates directly with his constituents. Although we are from different parties, I have often presented you as an example of a member of GOP that could be trusted to fight for […]
Kankakee County Board Representative Jim Byrne of Illinois, and Ed Zielinski, an elected councilman of Elsmere, Delaware, have joined the Libertarian Party. Byrne announced in December that he has officially joined the Illinois LP, and now serves as vice chairman of the new Kankakee County Libertarian Party central committee that was formed last fall. Byrne […]
Libertarian National Committee chair Nicholas Sarwark was interviewed on March 15 on the podcast A Civil Assessment on the Independent Voter Network (IVN). Sarwark and show host T. J. O’Hara discuss the Libertarian Party’s core principles; where the party stands in relation to Trump’s economic policies, healthcare, the Dakota Access Pipeline, the U.S. military, and immigrant vetting; […]
For immediate release February 28, 2017 The unexpected resignation of Ann Ravel from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) offers an ideal opportunity for President Trump to “drain the swamp” by appointing a Libertarian commissioner. And because he is considering filling the entire commission with new blood, he could appoint a Libertarian to any of its […]
From the New York Times on February 24: “Jerome Tuccille, who wrote one of the first manifestoes of the American libertarian movement and the first biography of Donald J. Trump, died on Feb. 16 at his home in Severna Park, Md. He was 79.” “In 1974, two years after the founding of the Free Libertarian […]
For Immediate Release February 8, 2017 Yesterday, at a meeting with sheriffs, President Trump commented about ruining the career of a Texas legislator that proposed a bill to reform civil asset forfeiture. “We’ll destroy his career,” the President said. The legislator was unnamed and there are several Texas legislators currently proposing bills to reform civil […]
Seven Libertarians in Montana are vying to be the LP nominee for an anticipated special election for the state’s at-large congressional seat this spring: Rick Breckenridge, Josiah Loven, Rufus Peace, James White, Mark Wicks, Chris Colvin, and Brad Molnar. The winner will replace Republican Ryan Zinke, whom President Donald Trump nominated to be secretary of the Department […]
The Libertarian Party warns U.S. senators to quickly reject the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for the position of attorney general. “Jeff Sessions is preposterously unfit for the highest law-enforcement position in the land,” said Nicholas Sarwark, chair of the Libertarian National Committee. “For one, he’s an unyielding Drug Warrior in a war that the […]
From Nick Gillespie of Reason Magazine on January 3: Before we completely flush 2016 down the memory hole, let us pause to remember Gary Johnson, the former two-term governor of New Mexico who generated a record number of votes as the Libertarian Party’s candidate for president. If there was anything good that happened in 2016—a […]
From Jim Bacon, author of the blog Bacon’s Rebellion: Unless you read the LP News, you probably didn’t realize that 2016 was a record-breaking year for the Libertarian Party. The national news media tuned out Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson after he suffered his “Aleppo moment,” and his poll numbers fell in the last weeks […]
Did 2016 election polls provide reliable information about who American voters wanted to be President of the United States? The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), which is a bipartisan organization staffed entirely by Republicans and Democrats, decided to use polling to determine who gets to be included in the general election debates. That’s probably a […]
Breaking through an invisible barrier for Libertarian presidential candidates, Gov. Gary Johnson in 2016 won the party its first-ever endorsement from a newspaper of record. But this wasn’t just one editorial board flouting tradition. Across the country, nine major newspapers endorsed 2016’s arguably most qualified ticket of Libertarian Govs. Johnson and William Weld — more than wound […]
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