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Shawn Felty Schuylkill County chair The Libertarian Party of Schuylkill County, PA will have ten candidates on the ballot this November. “We want to give the voters in the county another option”, said Schuylkill County LP chair Shawn Felty in a recent interview with The Republican Herald newspaper. Mr. Felty is also a councilman in […]

Lorenzo Gaztanaga Below is a statement on last week’s riots in Baltimore, MD, from Lorenzo Gaztanaga, former LNC regional representative and Maryland LP candidate: I came to Baltimore in June of 1963. I graduated from Cardinal Gibbons High School in 1968, left Baltimore in 1970 and returned with my wife, Susan, in 1984 and settled […]

Doug Ducey Arizona Governor Doug Ducey today signed bill HB 2608, which makes it much harder for Libertarian candidates to get on the primary ballot. All party candidates much participate in primary elections in Arizona, but before today a candidate only needed signatures equal to 1/2 of 1% of the party’s registered voters in the […]

Dave Pfeifer Dave Pfeifer, a former Waukegan Township Republican chair who joined the Libertarian Party in 2014, was elected to the Waukegan school board last Tuesday. Mr. Pfeifer finished second out of nine candidates on the ballot. The top three were elected. He raised and spent approximately $6,000 on the race. “This may seem like […]

Dave Pfeifer   Dave Pfeifer, a former Waukegan Township Republican chair who joined the Libertarian Party in 2014, was elected to the Waukegan, Illinois school board last Tuesday. Mr. Pfeifer finished second out of nine candidates on the ballot. The top three were elected. He raised and spent approximately $6,000 on the race. “This may seem […]

“Agree or disagree with its positions, the Libertarian Party has a real impact on the American political environment. Each vote matters far beyond the simple math.”   Read the full article.  

Nicholas Sarwark LNC chair From the Libertarian National Committee chair Nicholas Sarwark: “This last weekend, the Libertarian National Committee met in Phoenix. After a lovely reception Friday evening, organized by the Libertarian Party of Arizona, the national committee members met on Saturday and Sunday.  During the meeting, appointments for the Platform, Bylaws, and Credentials Committees […]

The US District Court yesterday upheld the current Ohio ballot access law, which requires newly-qualifying parties to collect signatures equal to 1% of the gubernatorial vote in the previous general election. To get on the ballot for the 2016 elections, the Ohio LP would have to submit 30,560 signatures by July 6, 2016. To stay […]

Shawn Levasseur Shawn Levasseur, the current Maine LP treasurer and former state party chair, is running in a special election for the state legislature next Tuesday. He is running for the state House of Representatives 93rd district seat, which was vacated by former officeholder Elizabeth Dickerson. Shawn is also on the Knox County Budget Committee, […]

Henry Herford Constable Henry Herford of Franklin Parish in Louisiana was elected to the Executive Board of the Louisiana Justice of the Peace and Constable Association yesterday. There are over 700 elected Justice of the Peace Officers and Constables and 10 districts in Louisiana. Mr Herford will represent District 4. He is the first Libertarian […]

Wisconsin Libertarian congressional candidate Andy Craig released the following statement regarding FDA delay of life-saving medical technology: How the FDA is killing me: a personal perspective on diabetes and government Since I was diagnosed at age thirteen, I have struggled with type I (“juvenile”) diabetes and its complications. Like many, I don’t always do the […]

2012 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson spoke at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Committee convention, last Thursday and Friday. Johnson, who also is the head of Our America Initiative, participated in a debate on marijuana legalization. He was also panelist for a session entitled “Lowering the Boom: When to Stand Up to Rogue Nations.”, […]