Washington Post on the Barr Campaign Ghostwriting Lawsuit

David Weigel, the Washington Post’s “Right Now” columnist/blogger (covering conservatives and the Republican Party), posted the following today on the lawsuit against the Barr 2008 Presidential Committee:

The former congressman from Georgia who joined the Libertarian Party and became its 2008 presidential candidate gets some unwelcome attention from Jim Bovard, a prolific libertarian writer who ghosted Barr’s campaign book. After waiting for two years without being fully paid for his services, Bovard’s suing.

I covered the Barr campaign and watched Barr apologize for his record in Congress to win over an initially skeptical libertarian movement, for which he’s become a reliable, attention-getting spokesman. His presidential campaign, however, was a bit of a mess — raising less than $1.5 million, going into debt and getting into a useless spat with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.). Its immediate legacy has been the prominence of Wayne Allyn Root, a betting expert who penned a book called “The Conscience of a Libertarian,” frequently appears on Fox News and is running for Libertarian Party chairman.

UPDATE: Barr’s 2008 campaign manager Russ Verney confirmed that there’s an effort underway to raise enough money to pay Bovard.

“We owe him some money and we intend to pay it,” said Verney….

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