An inside source says that the grassroots effort to replace Bob Barr as the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, in response to “Snubgate,” has been rejected by the LNC, with not a single person on the 17-member body willing to make the motion.
Instead, LNC at-large rep Mary Ruwart supports a resolution to “apologize” to Ron Paul. [...]

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Washington City Paper recently had a favorable piece on Damien Ober, whose guerilla theater campaign for the District of Columbia shadow U.S. Senate seat has evolved into a real Libertarian campaign. Ober’s campaign videos are at YouTube.

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Pennsylvania’s Oil City Derrick reports James Fryman, the Libertarian nominee in the state’s Fifth District U.S. House race, joined the Democratic and Republican candidates at a Chamber of Commerce forum on Friday. Fryman, who has worked as an “auto plant worker, teacher and IRS revenue officer,” among other jobs, “said he is ‘not running [...]

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The AP says Missouri Libertarian Teddy Fleck was left “largely on the sidelines during much of the sniping” between his Democratic and Republican rivals for lieutenant governor during a three-way debate Friday. Fleck “joined in the fray over a proposed constitutional amendment that would have created a one-eighth cent sales tax to boost funding [...]

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Among the California newspapers running obituaries of Peter Camejo this morning are the Contra Costa Times, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Jose Mercury News.
In his three Green Party campaigns for governor of California, Camejo received 5.3% of the vote in 2002, 2.8% in the 2003 recall election, and 2.3% in 2006. He [...]

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