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National vice chair among liberty luminaries set to speak at state Libertarian Party convention
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The vice chair of the National Libertarian Committee and a frequent candidate for federal office in Maryland, Arvin Vohra, headlines a diverse group of speakers including past presidential candidates this weekend at the Colorado Libertarian Party convention in Westminster, the party announced. The party’s convention runs Friday-Sunday, March 24-26, at the Westin Hotel in Westminster…
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Letter: Debate commission should suspend arbitrary rules, include everyone
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Editor: Why do American voters have to choose between the two most unpopular presidential candidates in the last ten presidential election cycles? Because the Commission on Presidential Debates says so. The Commission on Presidential Debates sounds like an important public entity, but is, in fact, a private corporation hired by the Democratic and Republican parties.…
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Johnson races around U.S. to qualify for presidential debates
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Most presidential hopefuls spend their Septembers in places like Ohio and Florida, hoping to win over a handful of swing voters in battleground states. But Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is crisscrossing the country in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to boost his national poll numbers and qualify for the presidential debates. Johnson needs to reach…
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Colorado Libertarian Party reaffirms support of self-defense with gun rights resolution
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Tired of hearing from major party presidential candidates who they say are soft on gun rights, members of the Colorado Libertarian Party have passed a resolution reaffirming the group’s opposition to any law regulating firearms and ammunition. The resolution, which the state party’s nine-member board passed in August, says Colorado Libertarians oppose any law that…
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Libertarian candidate Williams qualifies for Club 20’s U.S. Senate debate
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Colorado Libertarian candidate Lily Tang Williams will share the stage at the first U.S. Senate debate on Saturday in Grand Junction between Michael Bennet, the incumbent Democrat, and El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, his Republican challenger. It’ll be the first time in memory that a third-party or independent candidate has appeared at a debate sponsored…
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Green Party appealing to growing number of Colorado voters
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A social justice advocate and self-proclaimed radical, Arn Menconi said he spent 20 years working within the political system, trying to affect change through the Democratic Party, serving locally as an Eagle County Commissioner for eight years and campaigning for numerous party candidates, among them Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. But after watching Democrats like Bennet…
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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson seeks home-state support
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Back in his home state Saturday, Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson deemed his third party the one that truly represents most Americans. “I do think we represent the majority of Americans in this country – the majority of Americans in this country that are fiscally conservative, that are socially inclusive,”…
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Nicolais: Court kicks third parties to the curb
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Trump or Clinton. Clinton or Trump. Our country’s two-party dichotomy dominates the presidential race and leaves little alternative for many Americans who view this year’s election as a choice between evils. With two dramatically flawed candidates securing the nominations of the Republican and Democratic parties, a morose pall cloaks the election. The very structure of…
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Bill Clinton in Vegas: Hillary’s email server ‘a mistake’
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Bill Clinton said it was a mistake for Hillary Clinton to maintain a personal email server even though her predecessors and her successor at the State Department did it, adding that she should’ve known a different set of rules would apply to her if she ever ran for president. Bill Clinton’s acknowledgement came during a question and answer period on Friday…
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Coffman calls Trump remarks ‘reckless,’ but most state GOP officials stay mum
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The Republican incumbent in Colorado’s most competitive congressional race scolded Donald Trump for remarks the GOP presidential nominee made Tuesday about the Second Amendment and its supporters, although nearly every other prominent Republican in the state kept quiet as the controversy raged on. As politicians, pundits and law enforcement officials nationwide argued over whether Trump…
