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Ruff and Phillips Speak to the Success of Libertarian Party Down Ballot Wins
Ruff and Phillips Speak to the Success of Libertarian Party Down Ballot Wins
Phoenix, Arizona – Kim Ruff is a candidate for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president in 2020. Her campaign is dedicated to focusing on local elections and to impassion people to be the spark to reignite liberty. Following the 42 libertarian victories on November 5th, 2019, Ruff released the following statement:
“What a momentous night for Liberty! Following on the heels of the South…
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Drunk n’ Disorderly: Duane Whitmer for NY 27th. Duane Whitmer, Libertarian Candidate for New York’s 27th congressional district and John Phillips Jr, Libertarian candidate for Vice President join Erin and Raptor to talk about the race in New York.
Drunk n’ Disorderly: Kim Ruff and the Ruff Riders Kim Ruff, Libertarian Presidential Candidate, sits down with Dre, Erin, and Raptor to go over her campaign, and why she is a different kind of nerd than the rest of us.
Hundreds of unheralded hopefuls file paperwork every four years to vie for the biggest prize in electoral politics.
...But there are also are sober and serious candidates, believe it or not, such as Libertarian Kim Ruff, a project manager for a suburban Phoenix, Arizona, manufacturing firm, who admitted she doesn’t have a real chance of winning even though she’s mounting a nationwide campaign.
Ruff said in an interview with ThinkProgress that she felt the need to carry the Libertarian banner in her campaign — to faithfully represent the party on the national stage and help the party’s down-ballot candidates get elected in local campaigns.
“In our 40 years of existence, [Libertarians] have failed to achieve that brass ring we are seeking because we have always tried to run these watered-down Republican candidates or something very modified in order to bridge that gap between us and the electorate,” Ruff said.
“In doing so we have sacrificed our foundational beliefs. What little bit of media attention we can get, we should use to speak unapologetically and very boldly about who we are as Libertarians and speak out against the duopoly in American politics.”
Jason Dunlap, a retired Army sergeant first class in Odenton, Maryland, is running as a Democrat and titled his campaign organization “The committee to put backbone in the White House.”
In an interview with ThinkProgress, Dunlap said he’s not taking campaign contributions and is seeking votes by talking to as many people “by word of mouth” and online. “I don’t think like other people,” he said. “I believe I can win by letting people hear my voice and asking for their vote; I don’t need to ask them for their gas money, too.”
Interestingly, some of these longest of long-shot campaigns have reported surprisingly huge campaign receipts and expenditures, often money taken from their own pockets or from loans in their name. For instance, Christin Noel Powers, a physical therapist from Detroit, reported in the first quarter of this year $97,657 in “candidate contributions.”
Powers’ website asks visitors “Please do not leave this site without making a $10 donation!” in their quixotic campaign to “Make America Happy Again.”
James Peppe of Montgomery, Texas filed in February as a Republican challenger to President Trump. According to the FEC filings, he’s received $5,665 in total campaign receipts, including $2,865 in individual contributions, $2,800 in candidate contributions. The campaign is also the beneficiary of $20,000 worth of loans made by the candidate.
A licensed financial investment advisor, Peppe said on his campaign website that he’s “a regular American, NOT a professional politician or wealthy celebrity.”
A brief stint working on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., shortly after graduating from Yale in 1988, whet his appetite for politics. He ran unsuccessfully in 1992 for a seat in the Minnesota State Senate, retreating after that loss to a business career and steering clear of politics.
But Donald Trump’s election triggered him to get back involved in the political game. As he notes on his website:
“The election of Donald Trump in 2016 awoke Peppe’s passion for service with a flood of mixed emotions. On the one hand, he was excited to witness the upending of the political establishment that for so long had promised so much to so many and delivered so little. On the other hand, he was stunned and disappointed to see America invest its hopes in a self-promoting individual of such questionable character as Trump.”
In a campaign appearance earlier this month at Keene State College in New Hampshire, Peppe predicted he would shock the world by beating Trump in the GOP primaries, and then deliver a “50-state landslide” in the general election. That’s tall talk for a virtually unknown personality with 591 Twitter followers....
Blast Off! With Johnny Rocket Episode #41: The First In Line! (W/John Phillips Jr.)
Blast Off! With Johnny Rocket Episode #41: The First In Line! (W/John Phillips Jr.)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8sy6p-b0224f
Show Summary:Johnny Rocket, Raylene Lightheart, and The Voluntaryist are caught in a treacherous battle between free markets and socialism! The scales now tipped towards the collective, our three warriors must guard against the attack as they plan their strike. Great responsibility has been placed upon John Phillips Jr. who is the running mate…
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Blast Off! With Johnny Rocket Episode #25: The 1st Libertarian Party Radical Presidential Debate
Blast Off! With Johnny Rocket Episode #25: The 1st Libertarian Party Radical Presidential Debate
https://JRLP.podbean.com/mf/play/u47ew6/BOJR_Episode25_LRPD_Clean.mp
3Show Summary: The first Libertarian Presidential debate was held on December 11th, 2018 for the 2020 election on the birthday of the Libertarian Party! Each candidate made a three-minute opening statement, and was presented many questions including social media, taxes, war, and power!
The rules were the candidates…
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