On Saturday afternoon, delegates at the Libertarian National Convention will choose candidates for President and Vice-President. As has become tradition, the leading candidates for the nomination met for a debate the evening before the vote. If you were looking for fireworks and personal insults, you […]
Bruce Majors posted this video on YouTube of a look inside the Gary Johnson for President campaign suite at the Red Rock Resort. Johnson and running mate Jim Gray are shown talking to delegates, with stacks of the former governor’s new book piled in the […]
This is a quick scan of the exhibit hall taken on Thursday afternoon, featuring 1980 presidential nominee Ed Clark and 2012 hopeful Gary Johnson. In this video, Bruce shows viewers around his upgraded Presidential suite, which is absolutely amazing looking… A look around the grounds […]
Attorney and activist Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, whose last-minute candidacy for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1972 helped galvanize women’s interest in politics, was overwhelmingly defeated by Gov. Dolph Briscoe in a second bid for her party’s gubernatorial nomination on this day in 1974. Garnering more […]
The following video is taken from Michael Cloud’s opening keynote address to the Libertarian National Convention delivered earlier this morning. The video was taken by blogger and convention attendee Bruce Majors. C-SPAN will be offering live coverage of the Presidential debate on Friday evening and […]
A new survey out from Public Policy Polling shows likely Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson polling at 8% in Montana. The new number reinforces the perception that Johnson’s candidacy will have legs throughout the western states. The poll asked: “If the candidates for President this fall […]
Video blogger and convention delegate Bruce Majors tours the Libertarian Party’s convention hall and visits with some of the exhibitors…
Activist and author Mary Ruwart mounted a late challenge to Bob Barr’s nomination at the 2008 Libertarian National Convention. This time around she’s supporting her close friend and former campaign manager Lee Wrights in his extremely uphill race against former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson. […]
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer called for the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era legislation separating commercial banks from investment banking, during a breakfast meeting of New York City’s Real Estate Principals Group on Tuesday morning. The Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in late […]
In a story spread across the top of its front page, the Miami Herald published a photograph of a young woman leaving former Sen. Gary Hart’s townhouse in Washington, D.C., on this day twenty-five years ago. The Herald, which had been investigating reports of Hart’s […]
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