Liberty Union co-founder Peter Diamondstone dies at age 82

Liberty Union Party co-founder Peter Diamondstone during a 2014 broadcast debate.BRATTLEBORO — Liberty Union Party co-founder Peter Diamondstone ran in every one of Vermont’s two dozen general elections since the party’s start in 1970.
“I choose to be ‘the dandelion on the manicured lawn of the wealthy,’” he explained in 2014.
But the perennial candidate for attorney general, lieutenant governor, governor, congressman and U.S. senator’s nearly half