Endorsements and Candidates of Interest

Since our original "Outright Libertarians' Endorsements" blog entry has rolled off of our front page, and my "More Libertarian Candidates" entry is near the bottom, I thought I'd bump to the top of the blog a reminder about which candidates deserve your attention on Tuesday...

Official Endorsements by Outright Libertarians:

• Philip Berg - US Congress, California District 8


• Bruce Guthrie - US Senate, Washington


• Mike Nelson - US Congress, Texas District 5


• David Schlosser - US Congress, Arizona District 1


• Starchild - Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, CA

Berg, Nelson, and Starchild are Outright Libertarians members with whom, naturally enough, we found large areas of agreement. Guthrie and Schlosser are running high-profile campaigns with Libertarian solutions to GLBT issues prominently featured through single-issue brochures, gay pride festival appearances, web site mention, etc.

We regret that due to a very aggressive timeline for nominations, some deserving candidates were not able to be considered by our membership. Here are some of them...

Additional Candidates of Interest:

• Michael Badnarik - U.S. Congress, Texas District 10
• Joe Cobb - U.S. Congress, Arizona District 7
• Neil Evangelista - U.S. Congress, Florida District 22
• Kevin Cherry - Georgia Public Service Commission
• Jason Peck - Kansas State House, District 24
  
• Hardy Machia - Vermont State House
• David Atkinson - Vermont State House
• Mark Noble - Ohio Lt. Governor
  
• Dawn Winkler - Colorado Governor

Keep a bookmark on this blog entry -- this list will almost certainly grow as November 7 approaches. If you know of a Libertarian who publicly supports without reservation the LP Platform plank on Sexuality and Gender, as the candidates listed above do, and they're not on this list, please let us know.

[Update: You gotta read the comment Bruce Guthrie added to this post!]