In an interview with the Jewish Exponent, previously covered by IPR here, Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root characterizes the “surge” in Iraq as a success, and says a similar “surge” should be imposed upon the people of Afghanistan:
Root has said that the success of the surge should be declared a victory, allowing troops [...]

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The Jewish Exponent has a piece on Wayne Allyn Root under the headline “Libertarian Candidate For V.P. One Of The Fold.” Root “was raised as a Reform Jew and became a Bar Mitzvah at Sinai Free Synagogue of Mount Vernon, N.Y.” He “has never worked in Washington, D.C., or held political office, and [...]

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Hotline On Call reports on Penn Jillette’s not-entirely-unexpected endorsement of the Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root Libertarian ticket.

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Libertarian vice presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root is issuing this press release:
Government Should Leave Home Schooling Families Alone, Says Wayne Allyn Root
Henderson, NV — “There is no more important task for a parent than the education of one’s children. That responsibility belongs to parents, not the government,” insists Wayne Allyn Root, the Libertarian Party candidate [...]

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Wayne Root on the radio in North Dakota
Bismarck — Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root, joined Jim Kusler and Jeff Baranick on Fox Friday Night Live to discuss his pursuit to the White House with running mate Bob Barr.
Mr. Root knows he has his work cut out for him running on a third party [...]

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In her “Political Fix” blog on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website, Jo Mannies profiles Libertarian vice presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root, “a Las Vegas oddsmaker by profession” who “breezed into the St. Louis area today as part of a two-day swing through the state to raise money and his ticket’s profile.” In the generally [...]

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The “25 or so” people who showed up for Bob Barr’s Las Vegas fundraising event — hosted by Wayne Root at Root’s “ostentatious” mansion — were described by the Las Vegas Review-Journal as “mostly Libertarian Party stalwarts, including many who are running for office locally, and friends of Root, including his physician, Dr. Loring Jacobs, [...]

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Gay issues website Queerty.com interviews Libertarian vice presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root, who said he left the Republican Party because “two main decisions squeezed him out. One was the debate over Terry Schiavo, the brain dead woman whose final moments played out in Congress and the Supreme Court. The second factor, which hit [...]

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The Libertarian Party’s national ticket of Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root has qualified for the Nebraska ballot, the AP reports. LP activists needed “about 6,000 signatures from voters and say they gathered nearly 10,000. The Secretary of State’s office confirms the Party is recognized.”

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