From Eric Dondero:

The leadership of the Libertarian Party of Kentucky is in turmoil over comments made by LPKY Vice-Chair Joshua Koch to the Washington Post on Tuesday. Koch said that Rand Paul was not going to be supported by Libertarians in the State, and that the Libertarian Party may in fact run a candidate against him.

In an interview with Libertarian Republican, LPKY Chairman Ken Moellman indicated that Vice-Chairman Joshua Koch may have been speaking out of turn, and was misrepresented by the Washington Post as speaking on behalf of the entire Libertarian Party.

Late last night, Moellman issued the following statement on the Party's official website, (excerpted):

It's now painfully obvious that we need to clarify some things. I've been on the phone all day, which has just been great (sarcasm). Let's get some things cleared up right now:

The LPKY is not endorsing anyone in the Senate race

As a party we have no one in this race, and we do not seek to help or harm the candidacy of any candidates other than our own. As a party, it would be completely inappropriate to involve ourselves or in any way devote resources to a candidate outside of the LPKY, when there are great libertarian candidates running as Libertarians for office in Kentucky.

Anything that looked like any sort of endorsement or un-endorsement should be seen as a private individual's opinion, and not the policy of the LPKY. .

The LPKY has no candidate for US Senate

While technically possible for the LPKY to run a US Senate candidate in 2010, the prospects are very unlikely, despite what some in the media have said...

Any other comments are individual opinions and are not the view of the Libertarian Party of Kentucky. (emphasis Ken Moellman's)

Note - Other leaders in the libertarian political movement at the upper levels, have expressed privately to Libertarian Republican their great displeasure at the initial comments released by the LPKY.