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Atlanta’s Creative Loafing Newspaper Covers the Barr Ghostwriting Lawsuit

11:33 am | Bob Barr | Uncategorized

From Creative Loafing, a weekly paper in the Atlanta area (with the second-highest circulation of any paper in Georgia) :

Barr ghostwriter finds promoting liberty doesn’t pay
May 10, 2010 at 3:58 pm by Scott Henry in News
Bob Barr, the GOP congressman-turned-Libertarian presidential candidate (and CL columnist-turned-AJC columnist) is being sued by the ghostwriter of his 2008 campaign book, Lessons in Liberty, for $47,000 in unpaid fees.

Libertarian author James Bovard has gotten some high-profile press over the past few days for having the distinction of, as he puts it, making Barr’s the “only U.S. presidential campaign to ever be sued by its ghostwriter.”

According to a Washington Post blog, Russ Verney, Barr’s 2008 campaign manager, confirms Bovard is right…