Previously, IPR had reported that insiders from the Gravel campaign claimed Steve Kubby “stabbed Mike Gravel in the back.” The allegation was that Kubby had agreed to endorse Gravel and not Mary Ruwart.…
Posts published in May 2008
Walter Block: Barr/Root not ‘real libertarians’; LP ‘taken over by conservatives’
By Administrative Team on May 31, 2008 4:55 PM
Austrian economist and LRC contributor, Dr. Walter Block, has posted a nearly 4,000-word account of his experiences at the 2008 Libertarian Party convention.
I had heard, beforehand, that the LP was on the verge of being taken over by conservatives, and nothing in my experience of that convention was incompatible with that surmise.
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Knapp aims for ‘double digits,’ ‘respectable second’ in MO congressional race
By Administrative Team on May 31, 2008 3:46 PM
Libertarian Thomas Knapp is ramping up his campaign for Congress in Missouri’s 2nd district. In a message sent to his Facebook supporters, Knapp says:
Over the next two months, my job is to position myself, rather than the as-yet-unnamed Democrat, as THE alternative to incumbent Todd Akin.
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LRC: Root ‘enthusiastically endorses’ War on Terror
By Administrative Team on May 31, 2008 3:30 PM
In a blog entry entitled LP VP on RP, Lew Rockwell posts a letter from Kevin Tuma. To the question “why do ‘they’ hate us,” Tuma quotes Bob Barr‘s running mate, Wayne Allyn Root:
- They hate us because we’re not Islamic.
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George Phillies refutes IPR report
By Administrative Team on May 31, 2008 2:09 PM
Earlier, I reported that the Massachusetts “executive committee” met and decided to put the Barr/Root ticket on the ballot. George Phillies has refuted this claim on Last Free Voice, saying there is no executive committee and no such meeting has taken place.…
Wall Street Journal interviews Nader
By PJO on May 31, 2008 3:59 AM
Ralph Nader is the subject of this weekend’s Wall Street Journal Saturday interview. In the course of a nearly 2,000-word piece, Nader calls Barack Obama “a corporate Democrat” and says Obama’s progressive stance is “a charade.”…
Mass. LP will put Barr/Root on the ballot
By Administrative Team on May 30, 2008 9:47 PM
CORRECTION: It was later discovered that this report was inaccurate. Please see the updated story.
There had been some question as to whether the “majority neo-pagan” Libertarian Party of Massachusetts would put Barr/Root on the ballot based on Barr’s past anti-Wiccan activism.…
College columnist surveys third-party candidates
By PJO on May 30, 2008 9:38 PM
In his column in The Lantern, the Ohio State University newspaper, Travis Schulze offers a brief survey of alternative presidential candidates running this year. Schulze leads with Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, whose “campaign centers on a return to the Constitution.…
Independent candidate switches to LP in Maryland
By PJO on May 30, 2008 9:30 PM
Gary Hoover, a used car dealer running for Congress in Maryland’s Sixth District, has switched from an independent candidacy to a Libertarian bid. According to the AP, “Hoover says he contacted the Libertarian Party about his candidacy because he agrees with the party on many issues, including withdrawal from Iraq, opposition to the Patriot Act and smaller government.…