Bob Barr recently distributed this e-mail to supporters:
Dear Friend:
I’m in Denver, it’s late, and I am just re-reading Russ Verney’s memo sent to you the day before yesterday. While I’ve been traveling, in long strategy meetings, and talking with Libertarian Party delegates, Russ and his team of professionals have been working hard.
That work has already [...]

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Chuck Baldwin has taken it upon himself to make a few comments on the coming Memorial Day. It is believed by many Constitution Party members that the addition of Darrell Castle, a veteran of the vietnam war, will lead to significant outreach amongst veterans.
As we approach Memorial Day, we can anticipate the usual speeches and [...]

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James Leroy Wilson of Downsize DC thinks he knows what it is. From Wilson’s personal blog, Independent Country:
The Libertarian Party’s problem is that it focuses most where voters focus least: ideology and economics. The challenge is to nominate someone (and they’ll be nominating someone this weekend, in Denver) whose positions are right and do make [...]

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Third Party Watch founder Austin Cassidy has agreed to join Independent Political Report as Publisher and Managing Partner. Says Mr. Cassidy:
I started Third Party Watch because I thought there was a need for a largely objective news source that covered the so called “periphery” of American politics. The site was successful, but I think [...]

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The former fundraising director of the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee, Jonathan Bydlak, says that Richard Viguerie sought to sell his services to Paul in exchange for a “huge cut” of Paul’s prodigious campaign cash.
While I was not involved directly in the discussions and don’t remember the exact terms of the deal, Richard Viguerie offered [...]

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The Libertarian National Convention kicks off tomorrow in Denver, and by the end of the day Sunday, the LP will have its nominee. LewRockwell.com columnist James Ostrowski hopes that nominee will be Ron Paul.
I understand perfectly why Ron decided not go third party but enough facts have changed since then that he should rethink that [...]

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Yesterday, we reported that Wayne Allyn Root would be participating in a live chat on Rocky Mountain News. Apparently, his appearance garnered so much attention that he temporarily crashed the site’s server. Here is a partial transcript of the chat. Read the rest by clicking here.
Mark Wolf: You were a longtime Republican. Why did you [...]

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Media Release: Nader Asks McCain - Are You Still Good on Your Promises from 2000?
Ralph Nader wants to know.
If John McCain becomes President, will he hold weekly press conferences and British style “question time”?
In 2000, McCain told Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter that if he were to be elected president, he would hold one press conference a [...]

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The Maine Green Party is perhaps the strongest state affiliate of any national third party in America. It has elected and re-elected a state legislator, and its most recent gubernatorial candidate, Pat LaMarche, polled double digits in 2006. Saturday, the party held its state convention. The party is running 13 candidates for state house [...]

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This local story seems to be a bit of a smear piece.
Selectman Brendan Kelly has been rounding up signatures for Libertarian candidates in the November elections and apparently gathering unwanted hacker attention on his Web site, www.brendankellylpnh.com.
Kelly is chairman of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire and is running on the party ticket for state [...]

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Yesterday, Wayne Allyn Root, Mike Gravel, and Bob Barr participated in a forum moderated by Dave Weigel, associate editor of Reason. The American Spectator reports.
Some highlights:
Barr: We are poised for a new birth of freedom. Inside the heart of every American beats the heart of a libertarian, and what we need to do is show [...]

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From today’s Wall Street Journal:
A factotum, if you don’t know (I didn’t), is “an employee who does all kinds of work.”
Consider the poor Washington libertarian. Everywhere else in America his type is an exotic species, a coffee-shop heretic who quotes from “Atlas Shrugged” and steers every conversation toward Ron Paul or gold. Take him or [...]

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Libertarian Party founder David Nolan has written a short article connecting several of the recent controversies in the LP. A list of topics covered would spoil the entire piece (hint: check the tags), so here’s the gist in Nolan’s own words:
Clearly, Barr and Viguerie are attempting to gain control of the LP so that [...]

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Bob Barr’s Leadership PAC is facing a great deal of scrutiny, especially from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. They reported on the low rate at which his PAC contributes to the “Conservative” candidates the PAC claims to help raise funds.
In the last five years the fund has given $125,200 —- about three cents of every dollar raised [...]

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