To see the film of George Stephanopoulos interviewing Ralph Nader on June 29, use this link.
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To see the film of George Stephanopoulos interviewing Ralph Nader on June 29, use this link.
Bob Barr was interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, on June 29. Thanks to ThirdPartyWatch, here is the transcript.
Vince Miller died on June 28, 2008. He was 69. He had founded the Libertarian International in 1980. In 1989 it had been merged with the Society for Individual Liberty, to create the International Society for Individual Liberty. It held annual conferences in sites all over the world. See this obituary by Eric Garris. His death is shocking, since he had attended the Libertarian national convention just a month before he died.
Both the Washington Post and the New York Times have now run editorials, attacking the U.S. Supreme Court decision Davis v Federal Election Commission. The Post editorial is here; the Times editorial is here. Neither editorial mentions that the U.S. promised to “provide the necessary legal guarantees to enable candidates to compete with each other on a basis of equal treatment before the law” when we signed the Copenhagen Meeting Document (part of the Helsinki Accords) in 1990. Nor does either editorial mention that, if the “Millionaire’s Amendment” had been made applicable to presidential candidates, individuals could only have contributed $2,300 to Hillary Clinton, whereas those same individuals would have been free to contribute $6,900 to Barack Obama. It happens that Congress didn’t make the “millionaire’s amendment” apply to presidential candidates, but it could have. Clinton spent more than $350,000 of her own money on her own campaign, whereas Obama did not. Thanks to Rick Hasen’s electionlawblog for the links.