The Peoria Journal Star of Illinois reports Constitution Party candidate Brad Carter filed this week to run for Congress in the state’s 18th District, an open-seat race where GOP Rep. Ray LaHood is retiring. But Carter “did not fulfill the signature requirement for the office and if his candidacy is contested by 5 p.m. Monday, [...]

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The Saturday New York Times has a largely favorable, and fairly long, profile of Libertarian Bob Barr’s presidential campaign on its front page. The piece says talk that Barr is a “spoiler” and “would-be Ralph Nader” does not bother the candidate, “who gleefully recounted what he says a group of Republicans told him at a [...]

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This Bob Barr YouTube video is circulating on MySpace. It is not clear whether it comes from the campaign or a private supporter, but it is very well done.
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David Weigel recently interviewed Bob Barr for Reason Magazine and posted some of the various questions ans responses on the Reason Hit & Run blog. When Weigel asked about Chuck Baldwin, Barr had a mouthful to say. I also asked Barr about Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin, who’s making a naked appeal for Ron Paul [...]

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The Bob Barr for President campaign has posted a trio of job openings on their website. Click here to see the listings. All three posts are for web designers and it says the campaign will offer all of them “competitive salary with full benefits.” The website has certainly improved a signficiant amount in the last [...]

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Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr is scheduled to appear on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” this coming Sunday. Barr will be discussing his goals, the progress of his campaign, and his platform. He will also probably be hammered a bit on the spoiler effect and the possibility that he might throw the election to [...]

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Oregon Constitution Party candidate for U.S. Senate, Dave Brownlow, says of the recent Supreme Court decision overturning a D.C. gun ban, “The Supreme Court finally gets one right — sort of.” The 2nd Amendment does not bestow some special new right to us. It merely affirms our inalienable right to self-defense, and guarantees access to [...]

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In an editorial this morning, the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes, “The Independence Party has only one big success to credit — the election 10 years ago of Gov. Jesse Ventura. To justify its continued existence, it is going to have to find a meaningful role in some winning campaigns — and if you can’t be [...]

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California’s Riverside Press-Enterprise reports Constitution Party presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin “stopped in the Inland area Thursday, albeit without the usual trappings of a national campaign: no motorcade, traveling press or Secret Service.” His appearance at a Riverside restaurant “was so low-key that diners probably had no idea there was a presidential candidate in their midst.” [...]

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on its website Thursday afternoon that Libertarian Bob Barr “is now officially a presidential candidate in Georgia.” While the LP “gets automatic ballot access here, just like the Democrats and Republicans, the law requires an official statement of candidacy to be filed. Barr completed that task surrounded by about two dozen [...]

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Recently, Chuck Baldwin opened his national headquarters in western Michigan. A local TV station covered the event, and even included a video over on the right-hand side. Also, here is a video by a grassroots supporter in Michigan who filmed Dr. Baldwin’s speech to the crowd. Baldwin’s campaign also released a statement on the Supreme [...]

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According to a Bob Barr fundraising e-mail sent out by campaign manager Russ Verney, the Barr campaign spent $19,000 to install air conditioning at its campaign HQ, which will only be in use through the November election. This, and other expenses that the campaign candidly disclosed in the e-mail, have been called into question by [...]

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Immediately following this morning’s Supreme Court decision on the case of DC v. Heller, where the court ruled that the second amendment protects an individual right to own weapons for self-defense, the Libertarian Party issued a release in which spokesperson Andrew Davis praised the ruling as a “landmark victory for the preservation of liberty in [...]

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Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr’s recent “secure the borders”-themed fundraising letter was viewed as “borderline racist” and “extremely unlibertarian” by some Libertarians. Those are opinions. But the fact is that the letter was just plain wrong about at least one thing: John McCain will not be “the first Republican” to address an annual La Raza [...]

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Constitutionalists and Libertarians have always been opposed to the Federal Reserve System. However, in the wake of Ron Paul’s unprecedented exposure of the issue — and the public’s surprising enthusiasm for his anti-Fed rhetoric — CP and LP candidates are giving the issue more prominence in their campaign platforms. Here are what two leading third-party [...]

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Wisconsin Libertarian for Congress, Kevin Barrett, has been run through the mud for his views on 9/11, and his support for Social Security and other Libertarian heterodoxies. But now he’s apparently been called a supporter of holocaust deniers, too, by LP political director Sean Haugh. In what’s being called a “verified email” sent by Haugh [...]

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Wisconsin’s La Crosse Tribune reports Ben Olson III will challenge Kevin Barrett for the Libertarian nomination in the state’s Third U.S. House District because “he doesn’t want people to get the wrong idea about Libertarians.” The newspaper calls Barrett “a Sept. 11, 2001, skeptic,” and quotes Olson saying, “I don’t like the idea of him [...]

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Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Bob Barr, “running for president on the Libertarian line, could play a crucial role in winning Obama the presidency,” The Politico reports. Plouffe said Barr “could play a particularly large role in two states: Alaska and Georgia.” He said he thinks Barr could get up to eight percent [...]

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In a story that is getting picked up by many newspapers and websites, the AP reports Sonny Landham, who “played Billy Bear in ’48 Hours’ and was killed by an alien in ‘Predator,’” is running for U.S. Senate in Kentucky as a Libertarian. Landham, “known for his powerful physique, booming voice and his American Indian [...]

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The Libertarian Party’s national ticket of Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root has qualified for the Nebraska ballot, the AP reports. LP activists needed “about 6,000 signatures from voters and say they gathered nearly 10,000. The Secretary of State’s office confirms the Party is recognized.”

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