Yesterday, we reported that Wayne Allyn Root would be participating in a live chat on Rocky Mountain News. Apparently, his appearance garnered so much attention that he temporarily crashed the site’s server.…
Posts published in May 2008
Nader challenges McCain
By Administrative Team on May 21, 2008 1:04 PM
Media Release: Nader Asks McCain – Are You Still Good on Your Promises from 2000?
Ralph Nader wants to know.
If John McCain becomes President, will he hold weekly press conferences and British style “question time”?…
Maine Greens hold convention
By Administrative Team on May 21, 2008 12:55 PM
The Maine Green Party is perhaps the strongest state affiliate of any national third party in America. It has elected and re-elected a state legislator, and its most recent gubernatorial candidate, Pat LaMarche, polled double digits in 2006.…
NH Libertarian claims Web site was hacked
By Administrative Team on May 21, 2008 6:55 AM
This local story seems to be a bit of a smear piece.
Selectman Brendan Kelly has been rounding up signatures for Libertarian candidates in the November elections and apparently gathering unwanted hacker attention on his Web site, www.brendankellylpnh.com
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Root, Gravel, Barr forum hosted by Reason
By Administrative Team on May 21, 2008 6:43 AM
Yesterday, Wayne Allyn Root, Mike Gravel, and Bob Barr participated in a forum moderated by Dave Weigel, associate editor of Reason. The American Spectator reports.…
Wall Street Journal: Beltway libertarians ‘factotum[s] of the establishment’
By Administrative Team on May 21, 2008 6:17 AM
From today’s Wall Street Journal:
A factotum, if you don’t know (I didn’t), is “an employee who does all kinds of work.”
Consider the poor Washington libertarian.
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David Nolan on Richard Viguerie
By Fred Church Ortiz on May 21, 2008 1:36 AM
Libertarian Party founder David Nolan has written a short article connecting several of the recent controversies in the LP. A list of topics covered would spoil the entire piece (hint: check the tags), so here’s the gist in Nolan’s own words:
Clearly, Barr and Viguerie are attempting to gain control of the LP so that Barr can campaign on a conservative/libertarian hybrid platform and Viguerie can extend his fundraising empire into the libertarian quadrant of the political universe.
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Bob Barr’s PAC
By Trent Hill on May 21, 2008 12:21 AM
Bob Barr’s Leadership PAC is facing a great deal of scrutiny, especially from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. They reported on the low rate at which his PAC contributes to the “Conservative” candidates the PAC claims to help raise funds.…
Candidates protest to chair on LP keynote speaker selection
By Thomas L. Knapp on May 20, 2008 11:21 PM
In a letter sent to Libertarian Party chairman Bill Redpath earlier this evening, three LP presidential candidates — Steve Kubby, George Phillies and Mary Ruwart — protest the selection of fellow candidate Bob Barr‘s campaign finance advisor, Richard Viguerie, as keynote speaker for the party’s 2008 national convention and suggest a substitution.…