The Virginia Elections office has determined that independent gubernatorial candidate Princess Blanding submitted enough valid signatures to be on the November 2021 ballot. The other two petitions, for Constitution Party nominee T. C. Phipps and independent Frankie Bowers, did not have enough.
Therefore, only three candidates will be on the November ballot, the Democratic and Republican nominees, and Blanding.
As someone pointed out earlier on another thread, the Princess will probably get a lot of votes from folks thinking that she is the Libertarian Party candidate. I am next door in West Virginia so am unfamiliar with Virginia ballot listings. But over here, every candidate gets a 3-letter party designation and Libertarians are identified as LIB. Even if fully spelled out, it is easy to misread “Liberation” as having an extra “r” and the “o” as an “a.” Could be another Sarvis moment.
LOL! Funny that this oddball made the ballot, yet more established minor parties, and better funded independents, did not. Being the only alternative candidate to the D and R, she may do surprisingly well.
I don’t think she qualified to have her party label on the ballot. To do that, the Liberation Party would have needed to show that it had a district chairperson in every US House district, by March 2021.
Any news on the petitions for the other Constitution Party candidates for Lt. Governor and AG?
My guess would be that they also failed to qualify for the ballot.
This woman sounds like a communist.
I knew the LP was in terrible shape, but this pathetic even for them not to run a candidate.
It is especially pathetic given that this year had the lowest petition signature requirement to get on the ballot for Governor that Virginia has had in many, many years.
Maybe if national had a real libertarian instead of Sarwark’s puppet, they might actually get some things done.
Before 1970, Virginia only required 250 signatures for statewide non-presidential independent candidates.
I think the Virginia Constitution Party has a new federal lawsuit against the 2,000-signature requirement.
2000 signatures shouldn’t be hard in a state as populated as Virginia. Perhaps they didn’t really try, or are that bad of a candidate.
@Gene…. National isn’t responsible for getting state candidates on the ballot… National is only concerned with, and has only ever been concerned with, getting president on the ballot. State positions are for the state to deal with…. But nationalist think a centralized national force should manage everything after all. It’s fucking pathetic how many neo-nazi nationalists think they’re libertarians. I don’t know what it is…. Could be statically proven lower IQs, coupled with the complete inability to comprehend anything they read…
Libertarians are individualists who don’t really believe in coordinated efforts, especially not in a forceable manner. We don’t really even believe in nation-states, nor hierarchical structures. Leave people alone to do whatever they want, and don’t take their stuff.
Curious to know if maybe LP VA had a vote at their convention and NOTA won?
LP National often provides help for getting candidates on the ballot in non-presidential years. The state party has to do something though, like actually come up with some candidates.
This post maybe getting at something…. It’s not enough information though…. They should make more of a formal statement, if this was an electronic petitioning problem thing.
https://www.twitter.com/lpva/status/1397751671611084802
Im actually curious on why the LP doesnt have VA gubernational candidate and for anybody wondering there are several libertarians running for the house of delegates but no one is running for gov which makes me curious
EQUAL NOM PETS
NONPARTISAN EXECS/JUDICS
APPV
It’s laziness, pure and simple. I 2010 when Robert C. Byrd died, I petitioned to get on the ballot and collected twice that many signatures in less than two months for the special election.
in. Richard, you really need to add an edit feature to this forum.
Some interesting theories, and then Demo Rep posts his retardedness about eating pets. Why isn’t he banned by now?
Electronic petitioning? That’s their excuse? So lame, no wonder why the LP had become a joke. Get a clipboard and gather some signatures! National is in Virginia, so how about they get out an help? Why isn’t Sarwark’s puppet out there getting signatures?
@Eddie…. Which Sarawak are we talking about? Nick, or Valerie (Nick’s wife) who is a LNC At-Large representative? Maybe the problem is you just have a bug up your ass that the LP is actually composed of libertarians (aka classical liberals, minarchists, and anarcho-capitalists) and not the paleo-conservative neo-nationalists that you have a hard on for? You want paleo-con head for the Constitution Party. The Mises caucus should really had for the Constitution Party; you basically have a shell of a party that can be taken over with little effort, then you have your own party to work with, instead of fighting Libertarians.
Why are you so vulgar?
@Egyptian God…. This directed at me? Don’t like the words I use, just ignore me. It’s called free speech…. “bug up your ass” is a common idiom, get over it. I guess I triggered you?
@Jeff Becker….. It’s WordPress, it unfortunately doesn’t include an edit option for comments by default. There might be an “plug-in” that adds an edit option, or something can probably custom coded…. I’d have to look at the WP code base again, I used to do mods myself. Maybe a suggestion you can submit to Automattic (the developer of WordPress) so it gets included in the actual code base.
The LP tends to run as independents with a custom ballot label in Virginia… as such, each candidate petitions separately. The state still had COVID restrictions that made in person petitioning difficult. Delegate candidates only need 125 signatures…. Governor needs 2000.
Aiden, Murray Rothbard was among the early members of the Libertarian Party, and he is the one who coined the term anarcho-capitalist. Can you explain to us how the general views of members of the Mises Caucus are far removed from those of Murray Rothbard?
@Egyptian God…. Just realized you probably meant the “hard on” part….. also an idiom, also one of the least vulgar ways to say it. Do you want me to say it like “that you constantly bow down and worship” to give a religious Puritan slant instead?…. Never really crossed my mind, I’m atheist… Even though I’m literally the “Sexton” at a church…. Pretty sure not a single member of the church actually knows that.
Petitioning in Virginia was not so difficult that the Libertarian Party, or anyone else for that matter, could not have gotten 2,000 valid petition signatures, especially considering that they can legally start collecting signatures in January. Anyone who did not make it only has themselves to blame.
I’d have to more thoroughly review the social positions of Rothbard but the Mises Caucus constantly espouses social conservative positions completely at odds with individual liberty…. Members have frequently said they’d rather live next to a Muslim then an atheist because “at least the Muslim has religion as their basis for morality” (also implying, by saying “at least”, that Muslims are somehow less moral than Juedo-Christians)… where as the atheist, implicitly, cannot be inherently moral good by following something as simple as the NAP. Thereby inferring religion is the basis for morality, and as such you can legitimize any hate filled position of modern Christianity….. Xenophobia, homophobia, restrictions on women, self-expression and free association at odds with what religious people perceive as morally good and righteous (prostitution, gambling, drug use, etc.)
You must not be very well informed 8f you don’t already know the positions of Murray Rothbard, or at least have a pretty good idea of them.
Speaking as somebody who is involved with, and who regularly communicates with members of the Mises Caucus, I have never heard or read anyone in the Mises Caucus say that they would rather live next to someone who believes in any religion than an atheist. Even if one did say this, they would merely be expressing a CULTURAL PREFERENCE, and this does not violate any libertarian principle.
Speaking for myself, while the state exists and has a monopoly on borders and immigration policy, I would prefer that the state not take in any Muslim migrants as immigrants. Why? Because they come from a culture which is generally hostile to liberty, and it is in their religion that it is OK to lie to people outside their group. While there are certainly exceptions within every group, a lot of them tend to commit more crime (like rape). They also tend to not fit in with the existing population of this country, or of any European based country, and a disturbing percentage are outright hostile to the existing cultures.
I do not believe that everyone who wants to immigrate here should be able to do it. I support a selective immigration policy.
If we lived in an anarcho-capitalist society, property owners could all set their own entrance policies, but we are far from living in a society like that.
I am not speaking for the Mises Caucus, as other members of it may or may not agree with me here, to one degree or another.
Commies and Muslims still trying to conquer the world ???
Both regimes created by the Devil ???
Murray Rothbard was not one of the “early members of the Libertarian Party” if you mean the first convention. Between 1968 and 1973 he was involved in the Peace and Freedom Party until they made it clear that they only wanted socialists involved. Around that time he ended his involvement in P & F as well as his half decade or so of trying to build an alliance with revolutionary Marxists. Some time after that he got involved with the Libertarians, crapped all over everyone for maybe a decade and a half, and left in a huff.
After that point he was involved in the Republican Party. He ended his life politically where he started – in 1948 he supported Strom Thurmond, which was very unusual for a Jew in NYC. At the end he supported people like David Duke and Pat Buchanan. Somewhere in the middle he also managed to support Richard Nixon. I’m not sure when that was, though.
Since his death, his small but rabid cult of followers have generally denigrated the Libertarian Party, urging people to not vote, vote Republican, or vote for the Constitution Party. In just the last few years a faction of Rothbard-Rockwell cult wackjobs have started another attempt to infiltrate and take over the Libertarians. Mind you they have spent 30 years pissing all over the Libertarians, and many of them continue to do so. They have continued to conflate Libertarians with the fascist alt right and claim they are the only “true libertarians.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
The “Mises Caucus” is the faction of Rothbard-Rockwell nuts currently trying to take over the Libertarians, while at the same time continuing to besmirch them, using their usual venomous Leninist Vanguard tactics, lies and propaganda.
Anyone else think ” Neil” may be Paul?
What year did Murray Rothbard join the Libertarian Party? I know it was in the 1970’s, so considering the party formed in 1971, this would make him an early member.
He was influential in the libertarian movement prior to joining the Libertarian Party.
He is also the person who coined the term anarcho-capitalist.
“Maybe the problem is you just have a bug up your ass that the LP is actually composed of libertarians (aka classical liberals, minarchists, and anarcho-capitalists) and not the paleo-conservative neo-nationalists that you have a hard on for? You want paleo-con head for the Constitution Party. The Mises caucus should really had for the Constitution Party; you basically have a shell of a party that can be taken over with little effort, then you have your own party to work with, instead of fighting Libertarians.”
Aiden was right. It’s false to ask him whether the Mises Caucus is in line with Rothbard. For one thing, Rothbard did not get involved with the Libertarians until several years after they started. For another, he was never representative of the LP – he led a relatively small faction that was always at odds with party leadership and the majority of the party, much as his followers do now. He also did not end his life as a Libertarian. For almost 30 years from when Rothbard and his cult exited the Libertarians in 1989 until the start of the “Mises Caucus” his rabid followers had less than zero use for the Libertarians. Even now, many of them hold the party in extreme low regard, while others are trying to stage a very nasty hostile takeover.
For another thing, during the years when Rothbard was involved with the Libertarians, his views included support for open immigration and freedom of choice on abortion (in fact, he even defended infanticide). Those views later changed as he attempted to create an alliance with nationalists, theocrats, right wing authoritarian populists, and the fascist far right. His supporters followed his party line on these changes. Today’s “Mises Caucus” generally holds “late Rothbard” far right views, not the views Rothbard held while he was a Libertarian.
Mises Caucus is really a misnomer. Rockwell Caucus would be more accurate. Mises was a Jew and a refugee from fascism, an immigrant, and a proponent of what he called liberalism. He did not espouse right-authoritarian nationalism or populism, theocracy, bigotry, illiberal propertarianism, or the rest of the hot mess that Rockwellites are bringing to Libertarians.
I don’t care who you think I am, and I am not Paul. I also don’t know which Paul you are talking about, and I don’t care. It’s probably an exaggeration to say Rothbard was influential in the libertarian movement. He was influential among a cult-like group of followers which was relatively small even in comparison to the then small movement. He did not support the Libertarians when they first started. He did get involved a couple of years later, but exited the party several years before he died, and led his cult to deride it stridently for decades, which many of them still do.
“He is also the person who coined the term anarcho-capitalist.”
Most libertarians are not anarcho-capitalists. Also, at that time Rothbard was not pushing a lot of the social authoritarian positions he did after he left the Libertarians and which his most rabid fans have taken to a whole new level in recent years.
Wow, “Neil” is sounding even more like Paul. Did you go back and copy some of his old posts?
Hey Aiden, do you agree with Nicholas Sarwark that Bill Weld is a libertarian? Note that Nicholas Sarwark continued to say that Bill Weld is a libertarian after he went back to the Republican Party, and he even endorsed and voted for Bill Weld in the Republican presidential primary.
I don’t know who you’re talking about. Is that how you deal with your inability to win with facts and logic?
I don’t know about Aiden, but I do agree Bill Weld is a libertarian. He was well known for being a small l libertarian even when he was governor. Moderate and left leaning libertarians are libertarian. The idea that socially and culturally right wing extremists are the only “real” libertarians is bullshit.
Andy=Paul=”fact checker”ed=lots of other troll characters.
Andy says lots of people have met him. Who all here has met him?
Richard Winger for one.
I have been to 8 Libertarian National Conventions, and to 6 Libertarian Party state conventions.
“Neil,” you just destroyed whatever credibility you might have had by saying that Bill Weld is a libertarian. I am astounded that anyone would still cling to this after Bill Weld stabbed the LP in the back for a second time, and after he endorsed Joe Biden for President, and offered to be part of his administration.
CORRECTION: I have been to 7 Libertarian Party state conventions.
So right now the grand total number of people vouching for “Andy” is one (Andy) or zero (people who are not Andy). Can you prove your claim about these conventions you have supposedly been to? Pretty hard to do when you repeatedly refuse to so much as post a last name.
Who else here thinks “Andy” is “Paul” and/or “fact checker”/”egyptian god” etc?
“Anyone else think ” Neil” may be Paul?”
A better question may be “anyone here who did not get kicked off a crappy, now mostly defunct website for trolling think ______________ is Paul?” (whoever Paul is).
Spoiler alert: trolls who got kicked off that site (or it may all be one troll under multiple names) always think it’s Paul, whoever it is, and whoever Paul is.
“Bill Weld stabbed the LP in the back”
He changed to a different party, like a lot of people do. You don’t seem to hold it against Murray Rothbard that he left the Libertarians and became a Republican. It’s a separate question from whether he holds mostly libertarian views.
“destroyed whatever credibility you might have had…”
Andy destroyed whatever credibility he might have had a long time ago.
“and after he endorsed Joe Biden for President, and offered to be part of his administration.”
He considered Trump to be worse. So do a lot of people, including a lot of libertarians. So what? He probably offered to be a part of the administration to help make its policies at least somewhat better. He’s old and he doesn’t need the money.
Andy sounds exactly like “fact checker”/”Egyptian god.” I have not seen actual posts from Paul, he may be the same person or someone else.
Neil may be Paul for all I know, but I don’t know either one of them, so I can not tell you.
I never trolled on IPR or anywhere else. I never violated any IPR policy. I got the boot for daring to point out the hypocritical immigration stance held by many Jews of supporting unlimited, unrestricted immigration into Israel, while at the same time supporting a walled ethno-state with a DNA test backed Jews only immigration policy for Israel. Paul is Jewish, then IPR owner Warren Solomon Redlich (who I actually endorsed when he ran for Governor of New York) is Jewish, and some obnoxious poster who was given writer privileges who goes by dL is Jewish. I did point out that a smaller percentage of Jews such as Brother Nathanael Kappner, and the late Murray Rothbard, oppose(d) this policy. So for daring to point out the hypocrisy of the Jewish lobby, I was banned, even though I violated ZERO IPR policies.
IPR has since changed ownership, and is back in the hands of Austin Cassidy, and IPR writer William Saturn has written me to invite me back to IPR, but I have not bothered to return, at least not yet anyway. I do not know if I will return there or not.
Bill Weld changed parties, but he never changed his views. The guy was never a libertarian.
So my credibility is being questioned by a guy who posts as “Fap Fap Fap”??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Should read, “the hypocritical immigration stance held by many Jews of supporting unlimited, unrestricted immigration in the USA (and other European based countries), while at the same time supporting a walled ethno-state with a DNA test backed Jews only immigration policy for Israel,” above.
Sarwark pushed gun grabbing fake libertarian Bill Weld hard. Sarwark has said he doesn’t care who joins the party. He even supported communists like the guy from Michigan who ran for chair.
The new chair was endorsed by Sarwark. He’s just a puppet.
Gathering signatures is protected under the first amendment. Courts have ruled on that, even during a “crisis”. Again, no excuses for not gathering 2000 signatures in a high population state.
Did Andy just change names to Tim?
Claiming you don’t troll isn’t proof you don’t troll. You could be lying, and probably are. Many people would take the antisemitic drivel alone to be trolling. I don’t know what “ipr policies” were or what you allegedly violated.
Weld changed parties, but he never changed views. He was always a libertarian.
I took “fap fap fap” to be ironic commentary on your posts. It seems fitting.
Andy is posting “Jews will not replace us” horseshit and citing the same self hating Jews frequently cited by antisemites. Fap fap fap indeed.
FAP stands for Factcheckered/Andy/Paul because they are the same person.
Fap fap fap is the sound of F/A/P typing.
The vulgar, disgusting, rude, cyberbullying comments from the tag team of the cyberpig and Will Klatt are designed to disrupt discussion on this site.
The vulgar, disgusting, rude, cyberbullying, bigoted comments from the self-created tag team of the cyberpig, Andy and fact challenged/egyptian dud are what is actually designed to disrupt discussion on this site. I’m just cutting through the bullshit and fighting fire with fire, since nothing else works.
Leave Will Klatt alone. He has nothing to do with this.
Will Klatt rejected your sexual advances, and you used his email address to post the gravatar which you then used to frame him for your stupid repetitive jokes and rude, vulgar, cyberbullying comments about the great Demo Rep. Much as you tried to frame Cody Quirk earlier with a similar lack of success.
Cody was trolling here. I defeated him and he left.
When do you think was the last time Cody trolled here?
I think he stopped after he made the obscure reference to the planet of ALF and I pointed out he is a fan of ALF.
The conversation between Andy and fact chucker, who are both Paul, is real cute. He knows he us the troll, not Cody or Will, and he’s just trying to frame them.
How can anyone in their right mind believe Bill Weld is a libertarian?
Of course. Can anyone in their right mind believe he’s not? No.
FAP = Freaks And Perverts ???
aka troll MORONS
Fap = fact chucker, Andy, Paul
One troll moron, multiple names.
Demo Rep is talking about himself again. He’s a troll MORON himself.
No he’s not, but you are.
I know you are, but what am I?
I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.
Contrary to Andy’s claim on June 11th, Israel isn’t an “ethno-state” nor does it require DNA tests for admission as citizens. Its citizens include many Arabs, Druze, Circassians, Russians, and Armenians of various non-Jewish religions as well as Ethiopian Jews who have no Israelite DNA and recent converts to Judaism with little or no Israelite ancestry.
Israel’s other Jewish populations (Ashkenazic Jewish, Sephardic Jewish, Cochin Jewish, Yemenite Jewish, and others) have a wide array of distant genetic ancestries including Israelite, Arab, Amazigh, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Szekely, Assyrian, Indian, and more. The only people in Israel who are close to being purely Israelite are Samaritans and Egyptian Karaites.
Israel is a “Jewish state” by religion but not a state that demands racial or ethnic purity of anyone.
Don’t try to confuse Andy with the facts.