In a letter sent to Libertarian Party chairman Bill Redpath earlier this evening, three LP presidential candidates — Steve Kubby, George Phillies and Mary Ruwart — protest the selection of fellow candidate Bob Barr’s campaign finance advisor, Richard Viguerie, as keynote speaker for the party’s 2008 national convention and suggest a substitution. The letter:
Dear Mr. [...]

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Although Free Talk Live host, Ian Bernard, reportedly quit the Libertarian Party amid Corygate, he has nonetheless issued a ringing endorsement of Mary Ruwart for the LP’s presidential nomination.
“Mary Ruwart is my hero. LP presidential races are about communicating the message of liberty, and Mary is one of the best at doing just that!”
No coverage [...]

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Max Rieske was interview by Miller Politics recently,
“I was extremely disappointed with my experience with and at the national Constitution Party convention in KS City; For one thing, Chuck Baldwin & Howard Phillips choice for Vice President was a lackluster lawyer who never ran for political office before and has absolutely no desire to build [...]

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Ballot-Access News just reported:

The ballot-qualified Minnesota Independence Party holds a primary in September. Filing is in July. Press reports from Minnesota indicate that both Jesse Ventura and Dean Barkley are considering running for U.S. Senate. Each defers to the other and says, “I won’t run unless (the other) doesn’t want to run.” The party must [...]

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Bob Bird, a longtime conservative activist from Alaska, recently entered the US Senate race against incumbent Ted Stevens. As of yet, no other alternative parties have entered the race. Bob Bird is running as the candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party and has the backing of the local Ron Paul Meetups.
Bird organized and led the [...]

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LP congressional candidate and blogosphere superstar, Thomas L. Knapp, will be running for a spot on the Libertarian Party’s Judicial Committee at the Denver convention. Mr. Knapp previously served on the committee from 2002 to 2004.
Says Knapp: “The Judicial Committee is an appellate body. It acts only when an action of the National Committee or [...]

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California Libertarian Gail Lightfoot, chair of the San Luis Obispo County LP and 2006 candidate for Secretary of State, has announced her candidacy for the LP’s vice-presidential nomination.
Lightfoot joins a field which already includes Daniel E. Williams of Florida, who gave up his presidential campaign in April in deference to Bob Barr, and Leonard [...]

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The Barr campaign is offering to bus people into Denver for the presidential vote. The chartered bus full of Barr backers will then immediately turn around and leave — “[n]o hotel fees or convention ‘extras’ needed!” Last Free Voice broke this story.
The message encourages supporters to “join the campaign be a delegate for Bob Barr.” [...]

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The Party of Socialism and Liberation’s La Riva/Puryear presidential campaign has released a statement lauding the recent California Supreme Court decision on In re Marriage Cases.
The “Vote PSL” La Riva/Puryear presidential campaign joins the LGBT community in celebrating the California Supreme Court decision that overturned the same-sex marriage ban. This is a day that all [...]

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Marc Gallagher, founder and editor of Liberty Maven, admits that Bob Barr has a “checkered past,” but says “[o]n the issues in 2008 Bob Barr and Ron Paul are twins. Not many will argue that.”
Furthermore, he dismisses Chuck Baldwin and says Bob Barr is the “next best thing” to Ron Paul, saying of Baldwin:
I have [...]

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Kat Swift, Green Party presidential candidate, made a campaign visit to a Cambridge, Mass. this past Saturday, and scored an interview the the local Chronicle.
Some highlights:
Question: Do you think the American voting system is stacked up against the Green Party and other third parties?
Answer: Duh?
Question: You used to be in newspapers, correct? How do you [...]

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The fiercely anti-immigration Web site, VDare.com, accuses “born again libertarian” Bob Barr of backsliding on his anti-immigration stance.
VDare columnist, Marcus Epstein, lauds the anti-libertarian immigration record Bob Barr established as a member of Congress, which includes the following:

Co-sponsoring legislation to cut the number of H-1B visas in half
Co-sponsoring a bill to eliminate birthright citizenship, “chain [...]

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Wayne Allyn Root will be appearing on Rocky Talk Live with Mark Wolf this morning at 10 a.m. Denver time (noon, Eastern). He will discuss his candidacy for one hour, and then participate in a live chat, scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Denver time (1 p.m. Eastern). Listeners are encouraged to email Root questions [...]

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Austin Cassidy was an unlikely father of the greatest minor-party news site in the history of the Internet. After all, he was and is a Republican, and a thoroughly moderate one at that. He even supports John McCain for president!
But maybe that’s why the old Third Party Watch site was so great. As someone without [...]

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