The issue of whether or not to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Towers terrorist attack has been hijacked for political expediency, said Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in an op ed on his website. “To collectively blame every Muslim for the actions of a few is probably...
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“Legislators will legislate anything and everything in the name of safety,” Gary Johnson told a meeting of the N.C. Republican Liberty Caucus yesterday. The New Mexico Republican has considerable experience dealing with this penchant. He vetoed more than 750 bills and issued thousand of line-item vetoes in his two terms. Few of his vetoes...
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Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Mike Beitler told the North Carolina Latino Coalition Assembly yesterday that he supports amnesty for illegal immigrants and a pathway to citizenship. “I challenge my opponents to take the same stand,” he said. “The role of government is to protect us from criminals, not immigrants,” Beitler said. “Immigrants, whether classified...
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A U.S. District Court judge said he expects to rule on a North Carolina ballot access case by August 20, according to Ballot Access News. Judge Graham Mullen heard oral arguments in Greene v. Bartlett yesterday. The case challenges the number of signatures needed for an independent candidate to qualify to run for U.S....
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Democratic and Republican party officials are upset that the scandals plaguing North Carolina state government have reached into the board of elections. They are questioning the judgment and professionalism of state elections officials after media reports of private plane flights paid for with taxpayer money and the high cost of printing ballots under a...
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The state Libertarian Party has scored a minor victory in its struggle to reform North Carolina’s restrictive election laws. The party is now legally entitled to participate in the state’s political parties financing fund as equals with the Democratic and Republican parties. The program allows taxpayers to decide that $3 of their state income...
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