ALL HANDS ON DECK: Justin Amash has a SERIOUS Dem challenger. DEFEND THE FUTURE OF LIBERTY

[sonofshamwow]

Thanks for posting this. Next to Ron Paul, Amash is the only person currently in the House defending us with his pro-liberty votes every day. The least we can do now is stand up and help him defend his seat.

 

[CaseyJones]

So...What do we need to do to support these liberty candidates? We need a thread where the top 3-5 Candidates we need to be rallying around can be listed with information, location, links to donation, and goals for the community. I wanted to support a Liberty Candidate via a previous thread here, Thomas Massie, but all I was informed to do was to 'like' his facebook page. Is that really all the help he needs? ....Okay.

https://secure.thomasmassie.com/ donating is good to

 

[raystone]

Amash is the freakin' man and he has my 100% support!!! Go Justin!!

Yep. Still waiting for a single vote where Amash hasn't taken the position of defending liberty.

 

[bluesc]

Yep. Still waiting for a single vote where Amash hasn't taken the position of defending liberty.

(Note: not trolling) There are one or two where he disagreed with Ron that could be interpreted as anti-liberty, but that's more a discussion of the philosophy of liberty than any sort of authoritarian streaks.

I only say that as Ron is a pretty good measure of whether a vote is anti or pro-liberty.

 

[sailingaway]

There were some procedural votes that made the substantive bad stuff easier to pass (lessened the vote necessary), but he is a freshman and finding his feet. There is noone, after Ron, who is better, or near as good.

 

[trey4sports]

Is it possible for Ron to make a pit stop and campaign for him? What about Rand? Fuck, we can't lose Justin.

 

[sailingaway]

Ron just campaigned with him, or he with Ron. Maybe we need to mobilize that area. It might be a good idea to duplicate this thread in the Michigan forum.

When does he need help? When is his election? November? Or is there a primary?

 

[bluesc]

Is it possible for Ron to make a pit stop and campaign for him? What about Rand? Fuck, we can't lose Justin.

Ron was in his district recently, and Amash joined him. At this point, Ron's email lists would be move valuable than his (extremely limited) time.

Rand would be a huge asset, though.

 

[trey4sports]

Ron was in his district recently, and Amash joined him. At this point, Ron's email lists would be move valuable than his (extremely limited) time.

Rand would be a huge asset, though.

Yeah, i'm curious though about down the road.

Assuming there is no republican challenger and assuming ron unfortunately is not the GOP nominee I would hope that he makes a bit of a play to help Justin during the general election this year, and with the new formation of the 3 or 4 libertarian super PAC's hopefully we can get some serious backing behind Amash in his general election campaign.

 

[LibertyIn08]

In some respects, Justin does a few things better than Ron -he was, and I believe still is, the only Representative who posts an explanation, whether one agrees with him or not, on every single vote he takes.

Many on the floor warned him this would not even be possible.

 

[tsai3904]

Amash has loaned his campaign $200k. If he's loaning money to his campaign, you know it's serious.

As of year end, he only had $163k cash on hand and had $200k of debt (to himself).

 

[bluesc]

Amash has loaned his campaign $200k. If he's loaning money to his campaign, you know it's serious.

As of year end, he only had $163k cash on hand and had $200k of debt (to himself).

. We need some SuperPAC backup.

 

[qh4dotcom]

Bump

 

[bluesc]

Yeah, i'm curious though about down the road.

Assuming there is no republican challenger and assuming ron unfortunately is not the GOP nominee I would hope that he makes a bit of a play to help Justin during the general election this year, and with the new formation of the 3 or 4 libertarian super PAC's hopefully we can get some serious backing behind Amash in his general election campaign.

Hopefully the whole slate of famous liberty folks make some time for him. Peter Thiel-hosted fundraisers don't sound too bad either.

 

[LibertyIn08]

http://www.endorseliberty.com/ is looking for Congressional candidates to support.

Convince them that Amash is work a second look and I'm sure the group will dig in and throw him some money.

http://www.endorseliberty.com/contact.php has their contact details - only call if you have a serious inquiry, please.

 

[cindy25]

Justin is as vital to the future of Liberty as Rand is, but if his district goes Dem, then the Dems will end up gaining 100 seats. this seat held even in 2008 and 2006; Obama might carry Michigan but not by the margin of 2008. most of Obama's margin would come from Detroit.

 

[angelatc]

Most of our liberty candidates are in trouble in one way or the other, yet there is really no push by those who run the site to make them a priority.

This is real. The GOP really hosed Amash when they redistricted. He's not "entrenched" enough to get his lines drawn favorably.

 

[EBounding]

In some respects, Justin does a few things better than Ron -he was, and I believe still is, the only Representative who posts an explanation, whether one agrees with him or not, on every single vote he takes.

Many on the floor warned him this would not even be possible.

Yes. Even if you disagree with him, he provides a valuable service to everyone. I'm donating to him just to make sure that "service" continues.

 

[TomtheTinker]

Bump

 

[TomtheTinker]

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