Libertarian U.S. presidential nominee Bob Barr trying to remove running mate Wayne Allyn Root, reports say

September 18, 2008



Reports published by various political news websites on Wednesday night said that there may be a movement within the to replace its vice presidential nominee,.

This comes after (LNC) representative Stuart Flood made a motion to remove Root from the ballot over remarks that the latter made in a recent interview with . Many found these remarks to be racially insensitive.

It is reported that Libertarian presidential nominee and former  wants Root off of the ballot as well, which some believe is the reason that the Barr campaign supposedly advised party  to keep Angela Keaton, a probable vote for Root’s removal, on the LNC. Over the past few weeks, several members of the LNC have been trying to remove Keaton from the committee because of what they felt were sexually inappropriate comments written by her in a blog.

Barr has been the subject of controversy for over a week because of his last-minute refusal to attend former presidential hopeful 's third party unity conference at the  in  last Wednesday.