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Washington Post on The Reason Magazine Debate Today

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The Washington Post had a blurb promoting today’s Reason Magazine Debate with Vern McKinley, Bob Barr, Mike Gravel, and Wayne Allyn Root.

“This is the wildest Libertarian [race] in a long time,” says Reason associate editor David Weigel, who organized and will moderate the debate. “They’ve never had two [former] elected officials leave their parties and run Libertarian.”

The first one is, of course, Barr. The second is Mike Gravel, a former Democratic presidential contender and former senator from Alaska. Gravel, disillusioned with the Democrats after standing on their stage for this cycle’s early debates, joined the LP in March.

Joining Barr and Gravel will be Wayne Allyn Root, a former Republican, and Vern McKinley, a “Ron Paul Republican” who is challenging Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.).

Read the full article.