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Sam Seder v. Libertarian Prof. Walter Block: Freedom, Slavery, Civil Rights Act
PART 2: Professor Walter Block proposed that laissez faire free market exchanges are the best way to organize society, how Block thinks the United States limits freedom, debating the minimum...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio The Libertarian Party of Ohio immediately appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday after a lower court denied its attempt to get a gubernatorial candidate on Tuesdays primary ballot.

Their candidate, Charlie Earl, was disqualified by Secretary of State Jon Husted after his nominating petitions were challenged. Husted agreed with a hearing officer who found two Earl petitioners failed to properly disclose their employers.

Libertarians sought to reinstate Earls ballot status, arguing that Husteds ruling violated petition circulators First Amendment rights and conflicted with previous state rulings allowing them to submit signatures without declaring an employer.

With five days until the election, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said Thursday the party was too unlikely to succeed in a First Amendment challenge to Husteds ruling to proceed.

The three-judge panel acknowledged the decision could present severe and irreparable harm on the party and likely undermine its status as a ballot-qualified party in the state.

We note that the LPO has struggled to become and remain a ballot-qualified party in Ohio, and we acknowledge that this decision entails that their efforts must continue still, the opinion said. But we also note that we decide one case at a time, on the record before us. In so doing, we preserve the First Amendments primary place in our democracy over the long run.

Husteds office praised the ruling.

Todays ruling is more validation that we are following the law and properly administering elections in Ohio, spokesman Matt McClellan said.

Aaron Keith Harris, who chairs the partys state central committee, called the ruling disappointing and said the party had asked for a stay in order to file its appeal.

Whatever the outcome, the Libertarian Party of Ohio is looking forward to taking our unique message of fiscal responsibility and social tolerance to Ohio voters in the May 6 primary where we expect thousands of voters to choose the Libertarian ballot and in the general election with more than 20 candidates across the state, he said.

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Reid Pushes Republicans to Take Up Minimum Wage Bill
Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday called on Republicans to allow the Senate to advance a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, saying...

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Republicans Wrong on the Minimum Wage
Republicans in Congress seem dead set against giving hardworking Americans earning the minimum wage a small raise to $10.10/hour. But Congressional Republica...

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If Obama is a huge buzzword for Republicans this election cycle, a close second in Colorado must be "unity."

The Grand Old Party in the state is departing from past practice and trying to avoid the fractious primaries that have hobbled it for years.

State Rep. Mark Waller was the latest Republican to use the word, when he dropped out of the attorney general's race Monday and backed his one-time primary rival. In his news release, Waller said he was promoting "unity behind the Republican ticket."

Ryan Call, director of the Colorado Republican Party, thanked Waller for his work to "unite the party" behind Cynthia Coffman, the chief deputy attorney general.

"Unity" was the theme when a Republican recently withdrew from his legislative race.

And the unity motif made national news earlier this year when the three top contenders in the GOP race for U.S. Senate bowed out and threw their support to Congressman Cory Gardner, believing he had a better chance of defeating Democrat Mark Udall in November.

"We're recognizing we can't spend all of our energy and resources fighting each other," said state Sen. Owen Hill of Colorado Springs, who dropped out of the U.S. Senate race. "We are genuinely moving toward unity."

Call said he can't remember another election where so many GOP candidates cited unity as they withdrew from their races and supported the front-runner.

"The stakes are so high we just can't afford to be divided," Call said in an interview this week. "The old way of doing things is not a recipe for success. Republicans are finally realizing that."

Rick Palacio, chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party, countered that "unity means absolutely nothing when you have bad candidates and bad ideas."

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