Bob Barr

Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr and the New Hampshire Libertarian Party has filed a lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire attempting to remove George Phillies from the ballot, The Nashua Telegraph reported.

Phillies, also a libertarian presidential candidate, qualified to appear on the November ballot despite the fact that the national Libertarian party nominated Barr in May.

Libertarian Party of New Hampshire Presidential candidate George Phillies today decried the Bob Barr Lawsuit against Secretary of State William Gardner as a 'cheap political stunt'. The suit seeks to remove Phillies from the November General Election ballot.

The initial suit was filed in mid-September; Secretary Gardner was not served with notice of the suit until October 3. "It's too late," Phillies said. "Ballots are already been printed and distributed. Barr is trying to frustrate the will of New Hampshire Libertarians. The Libertarian State Convention chose me as their nominee in Spring 2007. Barr's New Hampshire cronies waited through the next Libertarian State Convention, the petitioning period, and most of the general election campaign before suing." Phillies noted that there is considerable evidence that the suit is actually being funded by a D.C. Libertarian group, not by any of the plaintiffs.

New Hampshire voters are one step closer to having the option of picking from two Libertarian presidential candidates.

Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr has collected 5,000 signatures in the Granite State and George Phillies has already qualified to appear on the November ballot. August 6 was the deadline for thirty-party candidates to hand in 3,000 to local election officials who will then verify the signatures.

Despite not gaining his party's presidential nomination, Massachusetts Libertarian George Phillies has qualified to appear on the New Hampshire ballot.

According to the Secretary of State office Phillies has collected 3,369 signatures, surpassing the threshold required by law.

Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr: Campaign PhotoMANCHESTER -- Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr paid his first visit to New Hampshire where a recent poll shows him with 10 percent of the vote.

Barr, a former Republican U.S. House member from Georgia, was nominated at the Libertarian National Convention in Denver over the Memorial Day weekend.

Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr is scheduled to visit Manchester on July 22.

Barr, a former U.S. Rep. from Georgia, will visit Manchester's Murphy's Taproom at 8:00pm, The Concord Monitor's Lauren Dorgan is reporting.

Don't get us wrong, we enjoyed the Ron Paul primary campaign as much as anybody: Ginormous lawn signs. Demonstrators in colonial-era garb marching in downtown Manchester. And imagine how much money you could have made, betting on the Texas congressman vs. the New York mayor and taking just 2 percentage points!

Still, we're a bit bewildered by the latest Zogby Internet poll, which reports the following "state of the race" in New Hampshire: