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For Immediate Release Tuesday, August 26, 2008 While Senators John McCain and Barack Obama spar over their houses and their vice president picks, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr picks up steam in several battleground states that will play a key role in determining the outcome of the November election. “It’s hard to ignore the […]

For Immediate Release Saturday, August 23, 2008 It is up to Congress, with constitutional authority over war and treaties, to decide on the length of America’s commitment ‘The Bush administration reportedly has reached an agreement to keep U.S. combat troops in Iraq until the end of 2011,” says Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for […]

For Immediate Release Thursday, August 21, 2008 McCain contradicts 2000 pledge to never use supporters to keep candidates from ballot Bob Barr’s presidential campaign has recently learned of an action by the McCain campaign and the Pennsylvania Republican Party to have Barr removed from the state’s ballot, this despite McCain’s promise in the 2000 election […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Taxpayers at risk while McCain and Obama argue over Paris Hilton ads ‘The American people cannot afford to keep bailing out big businesses, lenders, investment bankers, and brokers who made big mistakes,’ says Bob Barr.’With bad financial news continuing to pile up, officials at the Treasury Department and […]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, August 19, 2008 55 percent of likely voters want Bob Barr included in the debates A recently released poll by Zogby International shows that a majority of American voters want Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr included in the presidential debates. Barr, currently polling at 6 percent nationally, would need to meet […]

For Immediate Release Monday, August 18, 2008 American taxpayers should not pay for the mistakes of other nations ‘The Bush administration is talking about pumping aid into the damaged Georgian economy, after that nation’s short war with Russia,” says Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate for president. “The conflict between Georgia and Russia was tragic, […]

For Immediate Release Thursday, August 14, 2008 Says the U.S. ‘cannot afford to wait any longer’ for reform “The US is facing a financial tsunami as the Baby Boomers retire,’ warns Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, on the 73rd anniversary of Social Security being signed into law. ‘The total unfunded liability for […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Recommendations to Serve as Roadmap to Shrink Size, Scope, and Cost of Federal Government In a statement released by the Barr 2008 presidential campaign, Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr called for a new commission to address wasteful government. “Federal finances are in a catastrophic condition and are getting […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Barr Proposes to Stop Taxpayer Funds for Parties’ Conventions ‘My party has already held its convention without a single taxpayer dollar in its support,’ notes Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee. But the Republican and Democratic conventions live on federal subsidies. Each party is receiving $16 million […]

For Immediate Release Monday, August 11, 2008 Bush’s deplorable track record with civil liberties and regulatory policies makes him an unfit ambassador of American values If it weren’t for a history of abuses against civil liberties and a penchant for regulatory economic policies, President George Bush could have been an ambassador of freedom and capitalism […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Iraq should be footing their own bill “It is time for Iraq to take responsibility for the costs and burdens of rebuilding their country,” says Libertarian Party National Chairman William Redpath, following a new report from the Government Accountability Office stating that Iraq may have a budget surplus […]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, August 5, 2008 Illegal immigration a product of ineffective government policies As the federal government scrambles to put up a costly border fence along the Mexico-US border, Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis is already calling it a “poor substitute for real immigration reform.” “Illegal immigration is a huge problem in the […]