Via Random Acts of Kindness
Keyes’ asked for the Libertarian nomination for US Senator from New York. NEW YORK PEOPLE!
And they turned him down.
Let me repeat:
Kevin Roy: When Pat Buchanan suggested on fox news channel in march of 2000 that he run for senate in New York, Keyes responded “I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton?s willingness go into a state she doesn’t even live in and pretend to represent people there, so I certainly wouldn’t imitate it.” That is from Alan Keyes three years ago. Now, he is scheduled to meet with the republican central committee at 2:00 this afternoon. They are expected to announce the final decision sometime later today.
I’m speechless.
UPDATE: Jeff’s still confirming the story is completely accurate, but someone put Keyes name up. More later I’m sure over at Random Acts of Kindness.
UPDATE 2: Another bit of information on the 1998 New York Libertarian Convention:
Then came the “race” for US senator (D’Amato’s seat). Alan Keyes didn’t show up at the convention; a spokesman for him did, although he didn’t impart much information of use to us. There was doubt expressed as to how libertarian Keyes is, but in general attendees thought there was little info by which to judge. So someone nominated me. I thought for a few seconds and said I’d accept; again it looked like we had nobody else. Then someone nominated Bill McMillen. He similarly thought a few seconds and accepted. The choice then became a decision over the possibility of Alan Keyes. When asked, I said we’d have to find out more about him, but that if Alan Keyes was considered seriously by our committee to fill vacancies, I’d consider my judgement about of equal weight to any of them, and decline my nomination in favor of Keyes’s if we thought it best. Bill said he’d not decline the nomination. He then won the nomination fairly handily.
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