List of Liberty-minded Candidates for US Congress (2014)

[FSP-Rebel]

http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/kerry-l-bentivolio FreedomWorks scorecard for Mr. Bentivolio 43%. This is a done deal!

There were over 70 C4L members (including a few of us that drove over an hour one way) and associates protesting the Gov on his speech over medicaid expansion at the Westin at 15 mile and Van Dyke (in your district) this last Monday, where were you? Saw Rep Miller signs and I kept asking locals about how the Volaric campaign was doing but not much in the way of a positive response. Perhaps, you paid to get in to the Gov's speech There were plenty of locals that would've been great for you to get in touch with to lit drop and the like.

 

[T.hill]

What about that bryan smith guy whos challenging simpson. Didn't he get endorsed by club4growth?

 

[compromise]

Eddie McCain (R) SC-2 - (purity: ★★★★★)

He's a former Libertarian Party candidate, now primarying Wilson as a Republican.

 

[jurgs01]

Eddie McCain (R) SC-2 - (purity: ★★★★★)

He's a former Libertarian Party candidate, now primarying Wilson as a Republican.

He needs a website. All I can find is his Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eddi...d-District-of-South-Carolina/505877069506311​

 

[Smart3]

Added Eddie McCain and Bryan Smith.

 

[compromise]

He needs a website. All I can find is his Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eddi...d-District-of-South-Carolina/505877069506311​

He's working on it. Should have it up in the next few weeks.

 

[pulp8721]

Three potential liberty candidates have announced within the last few days:

Art Halvorson- PA-9 (arthalvorsonforcongress.com)
- He's primarying incumbent Rep. Bill Schuster, and recently released a statement condemning his vote against the Amash Amendment

Elise Stefanik- NY-21 (http://eliseforcongress.com/)
-Former Bush Staffer, and apparently was Paul Ryan's debate coach
-Young, articulate, entrepreneur, and on her campaign website site "constitutional liberty" must be protected
-Bashed Ron Paul's foreign policy on twitter (to be expected given her background)
-Running in democratic swing district
-Potentially worth a couple stars

She also has a pretty good campaign video




Isaac Misiuk- MA-1 (misiukforcongress.com)
-Home schooled, twenty something
-Heavy democratic district

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Stefanik is running against Bill Owens, a Democrat in New York. Realistically, I have to wonder how good her chances are.

 

[pulp8721]

Stefanik is running against Bill Owens, a Democrat in New York. Realistically, I have to wonder how good her chances are.

Owens run reelection by two points last year. If she runs a good campaign, doesn't make any gaffes, then she has a shot.

 

[PatrickHenry1]

Not making excuses for his votes, but it is important to note that Freedomworks did NOT score votes such as CISPA, Amash's (Gibson-Smith) indefinite detention amendment, spending cut amendments to defense department such as the Afghan Infrastructure Fund, all of which we would consider very important and these were votes that Bentivolio voted correctly on. Bentivolio correctly voted to cut $600 million from Pakistan foreign aid. Give him credit where credit is due is my position.

I personally do not mind if he does not connect himself to Ron Paul. He's voted correctly on foreign aid, defense cuts, and is quite strong on liberty issues. Name a liberty issue that he has voted against us on...I can't think of any. He could certainly improve on fiscal issues, but I consider him an ally and think that we have more representatives to pick bones with than with him.

Unfortunately I can name several. I wouldn't be as upset as I am otherwise.

H.R. 325 - Increased the debt ceiling.
H.Res. 99 - Continuing Resolution; closed rule prevented any input or amendments from individual members of congress.
H.R. 933 - Contained the CR; through this they could have defunded Obamacare or made any number of spending reforms.
H.R. 1947 FARRM - 80% of the trillion dollars of projected spending was to go to food stamps.
H.R. 807 Full Faith and Credit Act - Raised the debt ceiling and incentivized the government to continue issuing trillions of dollars in new debt.

And to set the record straight regarding the NDAA; Smith-Gibson failed and Kerry STILL voted for it. He says he's more of a Reagan Republican than a Ron Paul Republican. His actions back up his rhetoric. I'm tired of it all.

 

[PowerOfLiberty]

I continually See Dan Bongino show up on these lists for Maryland. Where are you getting the idea that he is a liberty candidate? He is an Establishment Republican.

 

[Smart3]

I continually See Dan Bongino show up on these lists for Maryland. Where are you getting the idea that he is a liberty candidate? He is an Establishment Republican.

Bongino is running for the state legislature this time. Presumably, you recognize that fiscal conservative candidates are really all we need at the state level. So Bongino makes the cut.

but Bongino was first put on the list last election because he was endorsed by Mike Lee. They have roughly identical positions.

 

[compromise]

Bongino is running for the state legislature this time. Presumably, you recognize that fiscal conservative candidates are really all we need at the state level. So Bongino makes the cut.

but Bongino was first put on the list last election because he was endorsed by Mike Lee. They have roughly identical positions.

He's running for the state legislature? I thought he was running for the US House.

 

[Krzysztof Lesiak]

http://eliseforcongress.com/[/URL])
-Former Bush Staffer, and apparently was Paul Ryan's debate coach
-Young, articulate, entrepreneur, and on her campaign website site "constitutional liberty" must be protected
-Bashed Ron Paul's foreign policy on twitter (to be expected given her background)
-Running in democratic swing district
-Potentially worth a couple stars

She also has a pretty good campaign video

No idea why should would be considered a liberty candidate in that case. Let's not be endorsing every Republican that announces now.

Halvorson listed Justin Amash as one of the congressmen he considers himself very close to on the issues...unfortunately, he also listed that clown Louie Gohmert. Isaac Misiuk doesn't have any issues page on his website, but he's super young, which I think is a plus, given the age demographics of Congress.

 

[compromise]

Louie Gohmert is a clown?

Louie Gohmert is one of the best guys in the House and a close personal friend of Rand. Look at his voting record so far this year. CISPA, NDAA, NSA amendment, it's pretty much flawless. On fiscal issues, he has higher FreedomWorks scores than most of the incumbents in the OP's list. With regards to foreign policy, he's been very vocal in his opposition to any US involvement in Syria.

The only reason he isn't in the OP is because Smart3 doesn't agree with some of his socially conservative views.

The liberal media (e.g. The Young Turks) like to go after Gohmert and make him look like a racist, a monster and a moron. If you've ever met him or looked at his voting record, you'll know none of that is true.

 

[Spoa]

I continually See Dan Bongino show up on these lists for Maryland. Where are you getting the idea that he is a liberty candidate? He is an Establishment Republican.

Dan Bongino opposes CISPA, opposes indefinite detention, and supports the Amash amendment (NSA). He also stated that he opposes the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (I posted a video somewhere on this forum). He's very strong on civil liberties.

 

[Anti-Neocon]

Elise Stefanik- NY-21 (http://eliseforcongress.com/)
-Former Bush Staffer, and apparently was Paul Ryan's debate coach
-Young, articulate, entrepreneur, and on her campaign website site "constitutional liberty" must be protected
-Bashed Ron Paul's foreign policy on twitter (to be expected given her background)
-Running in democratic swing district
-Potentially worth a couple stars

Any vocal adversary of non-interventionism who also has worked for key GOP insiders is worth zero stars. I don't care how nice her campaign video is, or what lip service she pays to "constitutional liberty". Lots of politicians say they support constitutional liberty, and then they never do. If she were to outline specifics on what constitutional liberty she would support, then at least that would be meaningful. I still wouldn't support her, but it'd show at least she's willing to take a stand for liberty.

 

[jurgs01]

Gohmert is getting better, but he was pretty establishment and anti-freedom back in the Bush years:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/freedomindex/profile.php?id=G000552

 

[NJP411]

Frank Kuchar is running against Joe Barton again in TX-6.

 

[z9000]

Carl DeMaio running for CA52