Chuck Moulton comments on Last Free Voice:
I attended the LNC meeting as a member of the gallery.
I think it’s great that Angela has been live-blogging the meeting. I appreciate her engaging writing style and colorful language.
However, I want to point out that I’ve seen a number of factual errors in the reporting above. One such [...]

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Update: Stephen Gordon disputes some of the assertions made in this article. Please see his comment here.
Stephen Gordon, the one-time owner of Third Party Watch and prominent Barr backer while working as the LP’s political director (in dispute), has banned George Phillies from the Libertarian State Leadership Alliance mailing list for promoting his presidential campaign.
Dear [...]

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The founder of the Libertarian Party had this to say in an open e-mail:
As a member of the Judicial Committee, it would be inappropriate for me to comment on any of this. If the LNC votes to remove Angela, I assume she would appeal their action to the JC, and I wild not want to [...]

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UPDATE: IPR’s Tom Knapp received a phone call from Angela Keaton. Now the conservative faction — or the “evil bastards” as Knapp refers to them — is trying to oust her from the LNC.
ElfNinosMom reports hearing with her “own two ears (well, one ear, it was on the phone)” the LNC “bullying” Angela Keaton and [...]

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Angela Keaton is sending regular updates describing the events taking place at today’s LNC meeting. IPR will publish her e-mails, unedited.
Ms. Keaton’s disclaimer: I am not a transcriber so this is merely my perceptions and what I can type given my lack of skill.
Pre-show live drama, 8:18 a.m.
Rachel calls me. I missed my wake [...]

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Socialist Party USA vice presidential nominee Stewart Alexander is calling for a national conference on labor, he writes at Indymedia. He says he “is hoping that plans for such a conference would begin with the Socialist Party USA and the Peace and Freedom Party; he has membership with the two socialist parties. Alexander would also [...]

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Dennis Spisak, the Green candidate in Ohio’s Sixth U.S. House District, filed as a write-in candidate but is now “demanding his name be printed on the ballot due to a recent ruling regarding the Green Party,” the Salem News reports.
Spisak “cited a federal court ruling Tuesday which said Cynthia McKinney had the right to be [...]

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Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr appeared on CNN on Friday morning to discuss John McCain’s Republican nomination acceptance speech. Barr said, “There were very, very few specifics in his speech last night, and this points out the sort of dearth of ideas in the Republican Party. There’s nothing really in terms of deep [...]

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Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Andy Finkelstadt and Eighth U.S. House District candidate Branden McCullough will campaign at the Southeast Missouri District Fair in Cape Girardeau this weekend, the Southeast Missourian reports.

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The Workers World Party, in an editorial in its party newspaper, “congratulates the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the 60th anniversary of its founding. In 1948, when it defied the imperialist world by refusing to bow down before the U.S. occupation of southern Korea and declared its existence as an independent republic committed [...]

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Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr, in an op-ed in this morning’s Washington Times, writes, “America is a nation of immigrants, but the process of assimilation has broken down. Although immigration provides economic benefits, it also affects America’s cultural and national identity. Immigration reform must begin with securing the border. Our primary obligation [...]

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Alaska Division of Elections officials said Friday that the state’s Libertarian Party cannot replace David Haase as its nominee for U.S. Senate unless Haase agrees to step down himself, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. Haase “appears to have no intention of dropping out. ‘My goal is to be the next U.S. senator from [...]

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The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports Republican Sen. Norm Coleman is calling for four debates between himself, Democrat Al Franken, and the Independence Party nominee in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. The Independence Party will select its candidate in a primary this Tuesday.

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