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Title: Libertarian Party Selects Gary Johnson, William Weld For Presidential Ticket
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The Huffington Post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry ... ry_us_574aff19e4b03ede44151293
Published: May 29, 2016
Author: Eliot Nelson
Post Date: 2016-05-29 21:16:14 by Hondo68
Keywords: Transparent government
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld secured the Libertarian Party's respective nominations for president and vice president Sunday, capping off the party's weekend-long biennial convention. The nominations came after an often raucous nominating convention. Johnson was unable to obtain the necessary 50-plus percent of convention delegates on the first round of balloting. He ultimately finished with 55.8 percent of delegates supporting him. Weld won on the second ballot with 51 percent support. The Libertarian Party selects its president and vice president separately. Johnson and Weld will now serve as the standard-bearers for the economically conservative, socially liberal party. Interest in alternative presidential candidacies has spiked recently, due in part to the historically low approval ratings of Republican presumptive nominee businessman Donald Trump and likely Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Several recent polls have found Johnson, who served as New Mexico's Republican governor from 1995 to 2003 and was the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee in 2012, earning the support of around 10 percent of likely voters. Thus far, the Johnson-Weld campaign has been running a mostly shoestring operation, focusing more on building support within the party than soliciting support for the general election. With their ticket set, the Libertarians' goal now is to create a national campaign infrastructure -- raising funds and building up field, digital, press and other operations necessary to remain competitive. A number of party officials this weekend expressed hope that large-dollar donors would flock to the Libertarian Party due to frustration with the Democratic and Republican tickets. "If [the nomination] happens, I think there will be a lot of money that will roll into this campaign and given a lot of money," Johnson said Saturday. "I think we'll have a lot of real expertise at the table that we haven't had to this point and would be able to strategize." Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sarwark told The Huffington Post the goal will be to entice disillusioned bundlers and so-called megadonors to donate to his party. "[I'll be] explaining why the return on their political investment for putting money into the Libertarian Party is so much better than the return on political investment for putting money into one of the old parties," Sarwark said. "I've talk to three or four people just at this convention who have super PACs right now who don't have a candidate to support," he continued. "[They] are here to see who we nominate and to see if that's a ticket that they can get their network behind." In addition, the Johnson campaign and Libertarian Party officials have their sights set on the presidential debates, which they view as their best chance of reaching a wider audience. The Commission on Presidential Debates mandates that a candidate receive 15 percent in national polls to earn a spot in the debate. The Johnson campaign is currently involved in a lawsuit against the commission to lower the threshold. Johnson's running mate, Weld, was thrown into jeopardy this weekend as activists raised concerns over Weld's ideological bona fides. Weld was a state campaign chair for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and many in the party viewed his recent addition to the ticket with suspicion. Many also expressed concerns over his decision in 2006 to leave the New York gubernatorial race after securing the Libertarian nomination, leaving the party without a candidate. Weld's attempt to stem the bleeding only made matters worse. In a debate on Friday, he voiced his support for the United Nations, a bête noire in libertarian circles. Exacerbating the situation, he said libertarians are often regarded as “unattractive people.” On Saturday, when another attendee called for reducing the CIA's presence overseas, Weld replied that he was possibly biased in the matter, name-checking Kermit Roosevelt Jr, his "great uncle in-law" and a leading CIA figure who helped depose a number of foreign governments, including the 1953 overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Johnson spent much of his speech Sunday urging the gathered delegates to select Weld as their vice presidential nominee. He stressed that he was not a prolific fundraiser, but said Weld had raised "close to a quarter of a billion dollars" in the course of his career. Johnson added that he planned to take his campaign all the way to the White House. "We do have the opportunity to reach millions and millions of Americans," he said. "I've never been involved in this without the notion of winning." With the nomination secure, Johnson told HuffPost Sunday morning he plans to head to New York City for a number of unspecified media appearances. Poster Comment: Libertarian Party chair candidate strips on stage at national convention http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/29/libertarian-party-chairman-candidate-strips-stage-/ After overcoming a contested convention, the party now needs to scale up fast enough to make a difference in the November election.
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Gary Johnson speaks to supporters at the National Libertarian Party Convention Friday in Orlando, Florida. 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Weld and Trump may be fun. https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/05/29/response-kristallnacht-comparison By Nik DeCosta-Klipa It appears Donald Trump did not appreciate Bill Weld comparing his immigration plan to the Holocaust. Asked about the Kristallnacht comparison the former Massachusetts made when talking about Trump’s proposal to deport an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants from the country, the Republican candidate responded in true Trump form. “I don’t talk about his alcoholism, so why would he talk about my foolishly perceived fascism?” Trump told The New York Times through a spokeswoman. The comment appeared as part of article published Saturday about the rise of right-wing nationalism in other countries amid his campaign’s success. Weld, who is vying to become the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential nominee, told the Times earlier this month that he “hear[s] the glass crunching on Kristallnacht in the ghettos of Warsaw and Vienna” when Trump’s immigration plan is discussed. Both Weld and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson have stood by the comparison, despite some criticism for its geographic inaccuracy (the 1938 attacks against European Jews by Nazi Germany did not occur in Warsaw, as indicated by Weld). Trump did not offer any evidence to support his claim about Weld in the Times article. A 2006 New York magazine profile of Weld touched on the subject during Weld’s gubernatorial campaign to be the Empire State’s governor in 2006. Weld attended Grateful Dead shows and bragged that he raised a “wee small one” of booze before speaking at an annual Saint Patrick’s Day breakfast. His annual Christmas parties became legendary for the sheer volume of liquor, not to mention Weld’s predilection for doing duck calls after a few glasses of what he liked to call “the amber liquid.” At his second inauguration, Weld’s speech was more than a little slurred. The Boston Globe reported that at a Rolling Stones concert staged the year after Weld resigned, he had been intoxicated to a point that he had trouble standing up (Weld told the Globe he had only one glass of wine). When I asked him about his drinking, Weld dodged a bit, then said, “I used to see Governor Carey drinking at P.J. Clarke’s a lot, and he seemed to get things done.” In the Times article Saturday, Weld declined to respond to Trump. “I’ll let that ride,” he said.
Speaking of broken glass, that's what Johnson and Weld can shove up their asses - illegal-alien-loving scumbags. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld secured the Libertarian Party's respective nominations for president and vice president Sunday
Donald Trump claps back to Kristallnacht likening, calls Bill Weld an alcoholic
May 29, 2016, 1:53 PM
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#2. To: nolu chan (#1)
Weld, who is vying to become the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential nominee, told the Times earlier this month that he “hear[s] the glass crunching on Kristallnacht in the ghettos of Warsaw and Vienna” when Trump’s immigration plan is discussed. Both Weld and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson have stood by the comparison
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