Why should the libs quail at selling nominations? They're in favor of selling everything else. --jks > >Libertarians don't like to talk about how David Koch came to be their >party's vice-presidential nominee, and you can't blame them. To be blunt >about it, Koch bought the nomination; it cost him a half-million dollars. >There is no law against selling a slot on the national ticket to the >highest >bidder, and in the Libertarians' case , it made a good deal of financial >sense. Still, it's not the kind of thing they like to talk about. >"I was disturbed by it," admits Robert Poole, editor of Reason, a >California >magazine that is the voice of the Libertarian movement's right wind. >Several >weeks before the Libertarian party staged its national convention in Los >Angeles last September, David Koch sent a letter to the delegates >announcing >that he would contribute several hundred thousand dollars to the 1890 >campaign if he were nominated. In Los Angeles he upped the ante to a _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
