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 Schwartz of Michigan. Chris Bennett of Illinois withdrew from the race earlier this month.
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1 Austin Cassidy // May 20, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Very interesting – a female on the ticket could certainly draw in some extra votes. I have to think that with so many heavy hitting Presidential candidates, one of them will wind up getting the VP spot. But maybe that’s a mistaken assumption.
Truthfully, from the perspective of an interested outside observer… Phillies might make a good VP candidate. There’s nothing particularly extreme or embarrassing there – and he brings along some money, a willingness to work hard, and the interest in organizing to support some down-ticket races.
This is going to be a mighty interesting weekend of C-SPAN for me.
BTW… I haven’t seen this news on TPW or BAN yet – so I’ll congratulate you on your first scoop.
2 G.E. // May 20, 2008 at 4:33 pm
It was Tom Knapp who posted this article, by the way. I can’t figure out how to credit the authors — one of the many kinks we’re trying to work out.
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