Bloomberg Business Week lists all of our Liberty Candidates running in 2012! People flocking to the website to check out who these extraordinary candidates are!
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who has said he’ll step down from office at yearend, has inspired a crop of candidates who are running for office on his libertarian platform.
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-26/the-ron-paul-effect
Liberty Candidates have made it into the big time! Elizabeth Dworkin of Bloomberg/Businessweek has written a story including many of our liberty candidates like Karen Kwaitkowski, Tisha Casida, Calen Fretts and more! Gigi Bowman met up with the author and some of our Liberty Candidates during Philly Phreedom, the Ron Paul Rally on April 22. In the middle of a storm Elizabeth Dworkin might have found more Liberty than she’d imagined 4,500 people with umbrella’s in the rain to hear the Presidential Candidate who has brought so much inspiration to all the liberty Candidates 🙂
~Gigi Bowman, President of Liberty-Candidates.org; libertycandidates.com
Karen Kwiatkowski, a Republican candidate for Congress in Virginia, rarely passes up an opportunity to scold Washington politicians about runaway defense spending, which she says is an egregious waste of taxpayer dollars that does little to make Americans safer. Halfway across the country, Tisha Casida, a Colorado Independent, says she’ll push to end the drug war and legalize marijuana if she’s elected to the House. In Florida, Calen Fretts, a Libertarian seeking to unseat a veteran Republican congressman, promises that if he’s elected he’ll begin working to abolish the U.S. Federal Reserve. “As people increase the size and scope of government,” Fretts says, “there’s got to be a few of us to resist it.”
These candidates have two things in common: All are long shots seeking office for the first time. And all were inspired to run by the same man—Ron Paul.
After 12 terms in the House, Paul, who is 76, says he’ll retire at year’s end. Though he gamely insists he can still defeat Mitt Romney and capture the Republican nomination, his presidential runs have always been about forcing other candidates, and the public, to pay attention to his libertarian arguments for eliminating most taxes, closing federal agencies, bringing U.S. troops home from overseas, legalizing drugs, outlawing official secrecy, dismantling the Fed, returning to the gold standard, and generally getting the government to get out of the way.
If forcing his don’t-tread-on-me, minimalist philosophy into the mainstream is the benchmark, Paul can claim victory and return to Texas a happy man. The professional political class may ridicule him as an eccentric kook leading a cantankerous army of potheads who invade chat rooms with ALLCAPS rants about government overreach. (And no doubt there’s something to that—the most worshipful Paul evangelists can be hard to stomach.) But listening to his rivals in the GOP debates demand that the Fed be audited and the Departments of Energy and Education be shuttered, it’s clear that many of Paul’s positions, once considered extreme, are now routine Republican talking points—and that his influence over conservative politics greatly outweighs his low poll rankings and back-of-the-pack primary returns. “I believe our time has come,” says Paul, who quickly tempers this uncharacteristic display of optimism. “It’s still going to be a knock-down dragged-out fight.”
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-25/ron-pauls-torchbearers#disqus_thread
Both Political Parties in Washington, D.C. are completely out of touch with the people. The Republicans and the Democrats are discussing and passing legislation that should never have even be a talking point on the floor of the Congress, let alone law. They took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and look at what they have done! Are they trying to “protect us” or is something more sinister going on? Conspiracy is certainly on the minds of Americans these days as both parties support and pass unconstitutional and yes, treasonous legislation against the American people. What is happening?
WE MUST stop them! I am talking about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Anyone who reads this assault on us is asking “WHY do we need this type of law”? How is it that they think we need this? What are they not telling us? We all like to call our elected officials ‘stupid’ at times but I am certain they are not stupid enough to not have a plan and understand what is going on here. Why does this have so little opposition from either party? Why is it not talked about in our “main-stream” news media?
Enough! Every state, county, and city must draft legislation to nullify this unconstitutional declaration of war against Americans. They can’t even call it a war against terror anymore because they just declared “us” the American people terrorists, extremists, committing “belligerent acts”. They clearly have drawn the line, it is our elected officials against the American people. How is this possible? Why would they do this? Check out the actual verbiage (Title X, Subtitle D, Sections 1021 and 1022 – Page 81 of 371) and you decide. It is now WAR – they provoked and declared it.
Our founding document The Constitution of the United States of America means nothing to them anymore or they would not have drafted or passed this treasonous act. They have failed to uphold their oath of office. So do we follow them or follow the Constitution? The Constitution warns against what they have done to us and clearly states what is necessary for “we the people” to protect ourselves from the disastrous effects of power freaks, cowards, and dictators. Read the bill and decide for yourself.
We can combat all of this in a non-violent way. But you must get off the couch and put down the TV remote. Americans have become complacent and think it’s all gonna be okay. Time to walk the walk and stop screaming at the television which goes on deaf ears and does nothing to empower yourself. This is exactly why I am running for Congress – to protect our liberty and freedom from an oppressive government. Every state has the opportunity to fight back and I am fighting for Coloradans. This is not a “sky is falling message”, this is real and in force since New Years Eve 2012. You have already lost your liberty and freedom, it is just not enforced yet. Elect me to restore your liberty and freedom and stop this egregious act against YOU and all of us. I stand for you and all of Colorado, I will not stand down. I got off the couch, please join me. http://www.casida2012.com/ndaa/nullify-the-national-defense-authorization-act-ndaa/
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