The IPR-coined term “Snubgate” made it to the most widely read libertarian Web site in the world, LewRockwell.com, today, when Eric Garris published an entry on the LRC blog asking if the Barr campaign’s leadership is “splitting.”…
Posts published in “Day: September 12, 2008”
Bob Barr, LPNH sue to kick George Phillies off New Hampshire ballot
By Administrative Team on September 12, 2008 10:02 PM
As reported by Last Free Voice:
A reporter for the Nashua Telegraph has been calling libertarians today about a lawsuit filed in US District Court.
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George Phillies starts new ‘pro-liberty’ group with ‘centrist’ platform
By Administrative Team on September 12, 2008 7:13 PM
For $15 a year, you can be a member of George Phillies’s Liberty for America promoting “libertarian centrism.” What are the “litmus tests” of libertarian centrism?…
‘Snubgate’ hits WikiNews
By Administrative Team on September 12, 2008 4:48 PM
LP interim Executive Director Robert Kraus might want to add WikiNews to his official media blacklist. The populist alternative to the corporate-controlled media has recently published a story on “Snubgate.”…
Motion to remove Barr as LP nominee has been written
By Administrative Team on September 12, 2008 4:03 PM
Despite the blackout by third-party media outlets sympathetic to and/or controlled by the Barr campaign, there is a serious effort under way to remove Bob Barr as the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee.…
Might be too late for Ron Paul to remove name from Montana ballot
By Fred Church Ortiz on September 12, 2008 1:59 PM
As noted yesterday on IPR, Ron Paul filed a request with the Montana Secretary of State asking that his name be removed from the ballot as the Presidential nominee of the disaffiliated Constitution Party of Montana, deferring to national Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin.…
Barr campaign calls for advertising concepts
By Fred Church Ortiz on September 12, 2008 1:48 PM
Shane Cory, former Libertarian Party Executive Director and Deputy Campaign Manager for Presidential nominee Bob Barr, has written a call for submissions from Barr supporters for “your concepts or even full commercials” to start the campaign’s media effort.…
Eugene Platt to be on Green Party Watch Radio
By Gregg Jocoy on September 12, 2008 12:47 PM
Green Party Watch Radio will host South Carolina’s only elected Green, Eugene Platt, this Sunday from 3 to 3:30 East Coast Time.
Platt is at the center of a legal battlefield.…
Libertarian Schansberg polling five percent in U.S. House bid
By PJO on September 12, 2008 6:14 AM
A WCPO Cincinnati/WHAS Louisville poll on the Indiana Ninth District U.S. House race finds Libertarian Eric Schansberg at five percent. The poll of 603 likely voters, conducted for the two television stations by SurveyUSA September 8-10 (+/- 4.1%), shows Schansberg backed by 19% of registered independents, and 12% of respondents age 18-34.…