The Natural Law Party in Michigan has endorsed Ralph Nader for President. The Taxpayers (Constitution), Green and Libertarian parties are the other ballot qualified parties in the state. Here, they have recreated what the Ron Paul press conference was meant to achieve with the unanimous presence of the four candidates on enough state ballots to [...]

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Presumably in response to Ron Paul’s endorsement of Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin — a reaction to the “Snubgate” fiasco that the LP claims wasn’t a big deal — Libertarian Party spokesman Andrew Davis has posted a blog at LP.org saying that the Constitution Party’s “raison d’etre is to essentially establish a ‘Christian’ nation.”
Davis, [...]

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In the wake of Ron Paul’s endorsement of Chuck Baldwin, Tony Wall, the Chairman of the Tennessee Libertarian Party, has issued a statement admonishing both Bob Barr and the Libertarian National Committee for their handling of “Snubgate.”
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The stupid stunt pulled by the Barr Campaign has officially robbed this party of the opportunity of [...]

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The Austin Chronicle says that “in snubbing Ron Paul, Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr may have lost his base.”
The Chronicle reports that the Libertarian Party of Texas hopes to be a “difference maker” in the state’s November elections, but “is worried that its own presidential nominee has sunk that strategy with ‘Snubgate.’”
“I can say that [...]

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In saying that the uproar over Snubgate has not cost Bob Barr much, Reason’s Dave Weigel referred to IPR and its “teargas-choked air,” linking to a story about LP spokesman Andrew Davis’s questionable statement that “Barr will not be removed” from the ballot.
Weigel also reports that Barr is representing a gun dealer in a libel [...]

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As reported earlier, the LNC is in a deadlock between two resolutions responding the Snubgate. Mary Ruwart’s resolution would apologize to Ron Paul, whereas party Treasurer Aaron Starr’s resolution expresses “disappointment” in Paul, insults the other third-party candidates, and “invites” Paul to endorse Barr/Root.
Below is the text of the Starr motion:
The Libertarian National Committee is [...]

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George Phillies, who will be one of two Libertarians on the New Hampshire ballot unless a lawsuit throws him off, says that “the notion that the [LPHQ] staff should not involve itself in party politics, dead since Mr. [Shane] Cory used the front page of the April LP News to shill for the candidate who [...]

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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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Writing for the Socialist Worker, columnist Alan Maass says appearing alongside “reactionary” Ron Paul and “crackpot” Chuck Baldwin was a “step backwards” for Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney. Maass says Nader and McKinney should have followed Bob Barr’s lead and “snubbed” the press conference:
Barr snubbed the gathering, arguing at his own press conference a few [...]

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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.”
Garris’s question was prompted by the scathing editorial David Franke, a conservative movement veteran, posted at Third Party Watch. [...]

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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.”

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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. In order for the issue to be taken to a vote among LNC members, only one rep need make the motion and another [...]

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“No significant political movement takes place without breaking down old alliances and establishing new ones,” says Joh V. Walsh of LRC. “And so it is with the press conference sponsored today by Ron Paul at the National Press Club. There he was joined by Ralph Nader (Independent), Chuck Baldwin (Constitutionalist) and Cynthia McKinney (Green), to [...]

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Acting without just authority, interim Executive Director of the Libertarian Party Robert Kraus — who replaced the disgraced and resigned Shane Cory (who now works for the Barr campaign) — issued a statement saying that libertarians should not trust blogs for their news. He was unhappy with the way IPR, Last Free Voice, and LewRockwell.com [...]

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IPR is getting plenty of first-time visitors as a result of our coverage of Bob Barr’s no-show at yesterday’s Campaign for Liberty announcement and the subsequent fall-out — even as it extends into Day Two. To make things easier for these new readers, we are cataloging all of our posts related to Snubgate here, which [...]

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