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

DonVolaric said:
We will have to agree to disagree. Mr. Bentivolio a personal friend or use to be (My Choice) ran on no more growing big government. Kerry Quote: "We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem". C4L Chairman & Vice Chairman as well as RLC MI Chairman & Regional Chairman all have the same opinion as mine. If the liberty movement in Michigan (Chairman's) are done with Mr. Bentivolio, then who would no better?
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I agree and am also curious as to why this is even a discussion. I'm even more curious as to how he made it on the list of featured speakers at LPAC!? He ran as a Liberty candidate and got elected because of our help but yet the moment he gets to Washington he votes to raise the debt ceiling and says "I'm a Reagan Man, Not a Ron Paul Man".
 
Michael Landon said:
We have a Liberty candidate running against John Kline for the Republican nomination: David Gerson.

http://www.gerson2012.com/

- ML
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Has he declared for 2014? It doesn't seem so as he hasn't updated his site.

Mr.NoSmile said:
Does Gerson have a built in base and name recognition? Also, how is his approval rating? If he's not doing too badly, can't imagine it'd be a simple battle.
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Let me put it this way - Gerson will be lucky to get one more point in 2014 than he got in 2012. You just don't beat a popular incumbent.
 
Smart3 said:
Has he declared for 2014? It doesn't seem so as he hasn't updated his site.



Let me put it this way - Gerson will be lucky to get one more point in 2014 than he got in 2012. You just don't beat a popular incumbent.
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Sounds exactly like McCain and Lindsey Graham. I mean, on one of Nancy Mace's Facebook pages, someone posted this about Graham:

South CArolina will keep voting for this guy. He has the progressive political machine in South Carolina locked up tight.
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It's not entirely wrong.
 
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Why is Stovall speculative?

Also, isn't Sciortino a socialist? How can he be a 3* candidate if he won't vote the right way on so many votes?
 
compromise said:
Why is Stovall speculative?

Also, isn't Sciortino a socialist? How can he be a 3* candidate if he won't vote the right way on so many votes?
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Fixed and also Sciortino is positioning himself as the new Dennis Kucinich. We'll have to wait and see but according to what we already know, he does seem like a good match for Kucinich or at least Takano/Grayson. We need every vote against war and for civil liberties we can get no? And better yet he's running in Markey's district.
 
What is the reason for Gohmert not being on this list?

Here's a good liberty candidate listing site by Spoa, would be cool if you could link it in the OP: http://llphsecondrevolution.wordpress.com/

Also, sorted out the formatting of your "Alabama" section:

Alabama
Tripp Pittman (R) AL-1 - (purity: ★★★★☆)
 
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Spoa said:
With all due respect Mr. Volaric, I encourage you to focus on your own race so you can get to congress and make a difference. Bentivolio may not be perfect, but he is the 2nd best in the Michigan delegation...no doubt about that.
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Well said...fair enough :)
 
Spoa said:
With all due respect Mr. Volaric, I encourage you to focus on your own race so you can get to congress and make a difference. Bentivolio may not be perfect, but he is the 2nd best in the Michigan delegation...no doubt about that.
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Actually three others have a higher score than Bentivolio. His Freedom Works score is 50% while his record for voting with Boehner is 92%. Regardless, if any Liberty candidate openly distances himself from Ron Paul and then votes in accordance with that rhetoric, than a true Liberty candidate should be sought out to replace him. We need not make excuses for him. Making excuses and giving politicians passes when they mess up is how we gradually got to where we are.
 
PatrickHenry1 said:
Actually three others have a higher score than Bentivolio. His Freedom Works score is 50% while his record for voting with Boehner is 92%. Regardless, if any Liberty candidate openly distances himself from Ron Paul and then votes in accordance with that rhetoric, than a true Liberty candidate should be sought out to replace him. We need not make excuses for him. Making excuses and giving politicians passes when they mess up is how we gradually got to where we are.
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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.
 
Um...who decided that Carl Sciortino should be on the list? The guy wanted to put trackers on people's cars. He is widely regarded as the most socialist member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and he has a lot of competition for that title. Other than a few surveillance state issues, he is nothing even vaguely resembling a libertarian.
 
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