See here for Stephen Gordon’s account of the Tennessee Libertarian convention speeches by Bob Barr and by various presidential candidates.
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Here is a story about Ralph Nader’s talk at Princeton University on March 8.
See this article about Ashley Casey, who is a strong independent candidate for U.S. House in Louisiana’s 6th district. The special election will be in either April or May, depending on whether there must be a run-off primary to follow the March 8 primary.
The special election is to fill the vacancy caused when Congressman Richard Baker, a Republican, resigned in the middle of his term. Thanks to Steve Rankin.
On March 7, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court heard challenges to the petitions of both Jennifer Mann, and Dennis Morrison-Wesley. Both are running in the Democratic primary for State Treasurer. Two other Democrats are running for the post as well. Both of them had challenged Mann, but one of the two challenges against Mann has since been dropped.
Pennsylvania requires major party members running for Treasurer to submit 1,000 signatures. Also each petition must have at least 100 signatures from each of five counties. The two challenged candidates are charged with failing to meet the county distribution requirement.
If the Commonwealth Court disqualifies either Mann or Morrison-Wesley, then whichever one of those candidates has been eliminated from the ballot is likely to then file a federal lawsuit, challenging the county distribution requirement.
On January 25, the Alabama Libertarian Party asked Ed Packard (an official in the Alabama Secretary of State’s office) whether the party can list a stand-in presidential candidate on its petition. According to Packard, as of March 6, he is still waiting for the office’s legal counsel to answer the question.
Most states agreed to such substitution, back in the years 1993-1996. But since the Alabama Libertarian Party was a ballot-qualified party in all presidential years prior to 2004, the party had not asked Alabama that question previously.