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Jesse Ventura, former Independent Governor of Minnesota, will speak at Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic on September 2 in Minneapolis. He joins former Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico, former Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr and others in calling for limited government and restoration of our liberties.
In 2002, Norm Coleman was elected to the U.S. Senate as a supporter of President Bush and his pending war with Iraq. He has been a loyal supporter of Bush and Bush’s war. He even tried to provide an after the fact justification for the war with his investigation of the U.N. supervised “Oil for Food” program.
The war has proved to be a fiasco, and is now widely unpopular. But Minnesota Democrats have only been able to come up with a comedian to challenge Senator Coleman.
Minnesota voters have another choice. Dean Barkley is seeking to challenge Sen. Coleman as the candidate of the Independence Party. Dean Barkley helped elect Jesse Ventura as Governor of Minnesota in 1998, and has briefly served as appointed Senator.
Dean Barkley calls for fiscal responsibility, and points out the Federal Debt is killing our economy and our children’s future. Barkley calls for ending the Iraq War, and points out that Americans were misled into supporting the war.
Dean Barkley calls the War on Drugs a failure, and calls for an emphasis of rehabilitation rather than imprisonment as a way to deal with the drug problem.
Dean Barkley campaign site @ http://www.barkleyforsenate.org/
The Campaign for Liberty will hold a three day Rally for the Republic, as a counter convention to the Republican National Convention. The Rally for the Republic will take place from August 31 to September 2, 2008 at the Target Center, in Minneapolis.
Tucker Carlson will MC the events. Featured speakers will include:
**Barry Goldwater, Jr, former Congressman from California
**Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico
**Bruce Fein, former Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan
**Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform
**Adam Curry from MTV
More information @ http://rally.campaignforliberty.com/
Dr Murray Sabrin held high the banner of liberty in his campaign for Senate in New Jersey’s Republican primary. A long-time advocate of Free Market economics, Dr Sabrin was endorsed by Congressman Ron Paul and supported by the Republican Liberty Caucus and many Libertarian Party members. Dr Sabrin was defeated in the primary by former Congressman Dick Zimmer, also a long-time friend of the Libertarian Movement.
In 1972, Dick Zimmer worked with New Jersey Libertarians in a dump Nixon campaign. As a state legislator and Congressman, Mr Zimmer associated with the Republican Liberty Caucus and other libertarian organizations.
As a member of Congress, Dick Zimmer fought for less government:
“While others talk about fiscal responsibility and cutting spending, Zimmer has an unmatched record of fighting on behalf of New Jersey taxpayers. Zimmer was instrumental in persuading the House to phase out the obsolete wool and mohair subsidy, saving taxpayers more than $500 million over five years. He worked hard to protect taxpayer money from being spent on wasteful government programs and pork barrel projects. Zimmer supported $700 billion in specific spending cuts, which would have balanced the budget.”
- The National Taxpayers Union three times named Zimmer the most fiscally conservative member of the entire Congress based on the net savings of legislation he sponsored.
- Citizens Against Government Waste designated Zimmer a “Taxpayer Hero” every year he served in Congress except the two years he was named a “Taxpayer Superhero”.
- The anti-deficit Concord Coalition honored Dick as a deficit hawk and placed him on its “House Honor Roll,” rating him in the top 10 percent of Congress.
- Zimmer never failed to receive the Golden Bulldog Award from the Watchdogs of the Treasury for his votes in Congress.
The Courier-Post notes “On Iraq, Zimmer wisely breaks with McCain and says the United States should look to withdraw combat troops quickly.”
Dick Zimmer is a candidate that libertarians and limited government conservatives should consider in November. More info @ http://www.zimmerforsenate.com/
Delia Lopez is the Republican nomimee in Oregon’s Third Congressional District. She is challenging Democrat Congressman Earl Blumenauer on a platform emphasizing Property Rights, Privacy Rights and National Sovereignty.
Delia Lopez has actively supported Ron Paul’s campaign for President, and pledges to oppose continued funding of the Iraq War. She says:
“We must leave Iraq ASAP, and let the Iraqi’s decide how their country will be rebuilt.”
More information @ http://dlopezforcongress.com/
“John McCain announces timetable for withdrawal from Iraq!”
“Well, actually, he did no such thing, and probably will never do any such thing, but this morning, in an interesting speech (and crappy companion commercial) dreamcasting ahead to the year 2013, the presumptive Republican nominee cleverly set bait for the national media to undo his most enduring campaign blunder to date: Letting slip the bedrock truism that McCain sees no downside whatsoever to having U.S. troops stationed in Iraq in the year 2109.”
Matt Welch looks at McCain’s latest ploy on Iraq http://www.reason.com/news/show/126525.html
“John McCain’s idea — now embraced enthusiastically by Hillary Clinton — to temporarily suspend the federal gasoline tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day is rich fodder for energy analysts. Even richer, however, is the somewhat curious response that the proposed “tax holiday” has provoked from political actors and policy pundits of various stripes. A quick tour of the issues in play is instructive.”
“First, if there is any math out there to refute Barack Obama’s claim that the proposed tax holiday would save the average driver a grand sum of $28 — “otherwise known as $9 a month” as he puts it, or the grand sum of one-half of a tank of gas — it has escaped our attention. Of course, even that calculation presupposes that service station owners will pass on the full tax cut to the consumer — which they most definitely would not. How much of that tax cut would reach consumers is unclear. What is clear, however, is that Sen. McCain’s claim that the tax holiday would provide a powerful stimulus to the economy is risible. Sen. Clinton’s claim that the savings represents “real money” to the poor, hard-trodden masses yearning to keep their heads above water is similarly hard to swallow.”
Jerry Taylor and Jagadeesh Gokhale analyse the latest energy proposal from John McCain & Hillary Clinton @ http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9397
Newsweek Magazine reports that John McCain’s pick to manage the Republican National Convention is a lobbyist with ties to special interest groups of the type Sen. McCain has repeatedly denounced.
Doug Goodyear and his lobbying firm, the DCI Group, have represented General Motors, ExxonMobil and other corporate clients. More problematic, the firm was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma’s military junta.
Newsweek reports: “Justice Department lobbying records show DCI pushed to “begin a dialogue of political reconciliation” with the regime. It also led a PR campaign to burnish the junta’s image, drafting releases praising Burma’s efforts to curb the drug trade and denouncing “falsehoods” by the Bush administration that the regime engaged in rape and other abuses.”
Full story http://www.newsweek.com/id/136321
Upon publication of the story on Newsweek’s website, Mr. Goodyear resigned as GOP Convention Manager.
Allen Buckley is running an active campaign as the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senator from Georgia.
Mr Buckley touts himself as a fiscal conservative for today and tomorrow. He pledges to fight for fiscal responsibilty, and to challenge the deceptions that led America into its disastrous war with Iraq.
More info @ http://buckleyforsenate.com/
Steve Chapman @ Reason Magazine wonders if there is a strategy to Hillary Clinton’s lies http://reason.com/news/show/126203.html