Todd Andrew Barnett, the current vice-chairman of the Boston Tea Party, will seek re-election in October.
Earlier we reported that Jason Gatties — who, like Barnett is from Michigan — would be seeking the post.
Party chairman Jim Davidson will not be seeking re-election. Rumor has it that Chris Bennett — who has publicly stated his intention [...]

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“A vote for Bob Barr — you might as well vote for Barack Obama,” says House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio. “If you want to throw your vote away, that’s fine. But that’s what it would be.”
Boehner’s remarks — which eerily echo the Democrat smears against Henry Wallace in 1948 and Ralph Nader in [...]

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In a recent third-party update, Lew Rockwell noted that Libertarian Bob Barr and independent Ralph Nader are at just 2% each in July 22 Harris poll.
Rockwell, who served as Ron Paul’s chief of staff during the Texas congressman’s first stint in D.C., takes exception to a Barr statement saying his campaign “hired the same technology [...]

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The Barr campaign is turning up the heat on campaign donations, hitting the $500,000 mark today and aiming for $750,000 by August 1st. To compare, the Badnarik campaign just barely raised $1 million during the entire 2004 campaign.
The money has come from over 5,000 individual donors.
If the donations continue to roll in [...]

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The always-excellent Ballot Access News reports that the California Secretary of State’s office has certified Alan Keyes as the Presidential nominee of the American Independent Party. That party is, or had been, the California affiliate of the Constitution Party.
For now, Keyes is on the ballot and Baldwin is off. But it’s not over [...]

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