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Mark Norrod<br/> Date:<br/> 6/7/2008<br/> Year:<br/> 2008<br/> Article:<br/> SHOWDOWN FOR US SENATE CANDIDATES AT LIBERTARIAN PARTY CONVENTION<br/> 6/06/08<br/> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br/> CONTACT:聽 LPM Chair Bill Hall 616-460-9516 or Media Coordinator Mark Norrod 616-902-0086</p> <p>Scotty Boman and Leonard Schwartz will be battling at the Libertarian Party convention to win the Party’s United States Senate nomination for the Michigan November general election聽 ballot.聽 The convention is this Saturday, June 7th, in Romulus at the Best Western-Gateway.</p> <p>Scotty Boman is a longtime party activist, former state party chairman, and captured almost 137,000 votes in his 2004 race for State Board of Education.</p> <p>Leonard Schwartz has served as the party’s political director, was the party’s US Senate candidate in 2006, and drew more than 438,000 votes in his 2004 race for Michigan Supreme Court.</p> <p>“Either of these men would be a voice of reason in the US Senate, and a welcome 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