List of Liberty-minded Candidates for US Congress

[matt0611]

List updated on Aug 29, 2012.

General Election Candidates
(Tuesday, November 6, 2012*)
*Primary dates indicated below if Primary has not occurred yet.

US House
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Arizona

California

Tom McClintock (R-incumbent) CA-4 - (purity: ★★★★☆)
Greg Imus (R) CA-5 - (purity: ★★★★☆)
John Dennis (R) CA-12 - (purity: ★★★★★)
Dana Rohrabacher (R-Incumbent) CA-48 - (purity: ★★☆☆☆)

Colorado

Tisha Casida (I) CO-3 - (purity: ★★★★★)

Florida

Calen Fretts (L) FL-1

Georgia

Paul Broun (R-incumbent) GA-10 - (purity: ★★★☆☆)
Tom Graves (R-incumbent) GA-14 - (purity: ★★☆☆☆)

Idaho

Raul Labrador (R) ID-1 - (purity: ★★★★★)
Rob Oates (L) ID-1 - (purity: ★★★★★)

Indiana

Kentucky

Thomas Massie (R) KY-4 - (purity: ★★★★★)

Maryland

Eric Knowles (R) MD-3

Michigan

Justin Amash (R-incumbent) MI-3 - (purity: ★★★★★)
Kurt Haskell (D) MI-7 - (purity: ★★★★☆)
Kerry Bentivolio (R) MI-11 - (purity: ★★★★★)

Minnesota

Missouri

New Hampshire
Primary: September 11, 2012

Brendan Kelly (L) NH-1
Rick Parent (R) NH-1
Hardy Macia (L) NH-2
Dennis Lamare (R) NH-2

New York

North Carolina

Walter Jones (R-incumbent) NC-3 - (purity: ★★★★☆)

North Dakota

Eric Olson (L)

Ohio

Richard Ehrbar (L) OH-3

Oregon

Art Robinson (R) OR-4 - (purity: ★★★★★)

Pennsylvania

Mike Koffenberger (L) PA-4

Tennessee

Texas

Patrick Hisel (L) TX-12 - (purity: ★★★★★)
Steve Susman (L) TX-22
Jessica Puente Bradshaw (R) TX-34
Steve Stockman (R) TX-36 - (purity: ★★★★★)

Utah

Jason Chaffetz (R-incumbent) UT-3 - (purity: ★★★☆☆)

Virginia

Washington

John Koster (R) WA-1 (purity: ★★★★★)


US Senate
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Arizona

Jeff Flake (R) - (purity: ★★★☆☆)

California

Florida

Connie Mack (R) - (purity: ★★★☆☆)

Indiana

Richard Mourdock (R) - (purity: ★★★☆☆)
Andrew Horning (L)

Maine

Maryland

Daniel Bongino (R)

Michigan

Scotty Boman (L) - (purity: ★★★★★)

Minnesota

Kurt Bills (R) - (purity: ★★★★★)

Missouri

Montana

Dan Cox (L) - (purity: ★★★★★)

Nebraska

New Mexico

Jon Barrie (I) - (purity: ★★★★★)

New York

Chris Edes (L) - (purity: ★★★★★)

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island
Primary: Sep 11, 2012

Barry Hinckley (R)

Tennessee

Texas

Ted Cruz (R) - (purity: ★★★★☆)

Virginia

Wisconsin


Green Purity indicates endorsement by Ron Paul.


Check out http://libertycandidates.com/ for more Liberty Candidate endorsements!

 

[Tyler_Durden]

Here's one in Iowa:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...Iowa-Please-Support-Her-and-Share-with-Iowans

 

[Tyler_Durden]

Duplicate fail

 

[matt0611]

Here's one in Iowa:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...Iowa-Please-Support-Her-and-Share-with-Iowans

Thanks! Looks like a good candidate. But this list is only for US Congress and Senate. She's running for Iowa state senate.

I do need to start making a list of state candidates too, but that would be quite a task!

 

[ericams2786]

For TN, there is a guy named Zach Poskevich running for Senate against Bob Corker who seems to be very liberty minded (and seems to agree with Paul on foreign policy).

On another note, does anyone know who is running for Paul's seat in his district?

http://www.zachforsenate.com/

 

[cindy25]

Remove Mandel; he is 100% Zionist neo-con. pro-wars, any war.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Another from California:

Jenny Worman for Congress in California 28th District (Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale)

http://jennywormanforcongress.ning.com/

 

[Brian4Liberty]

There is a sub-forum dedicated to 2012 Liberty Candidates:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?42-2012-Candidates

 

[tsetsefly]

There is a sub-forum dedicated to 2012 Liberty Candidates:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?42-2012-Candidates

Yup and no one ever sees that forum this has to be stickied here!

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Josh Mandel doesn't belong on that list.

 

[tbone717]

Remove Mandel; he is 100% Zionist neo-con. pro-wars, any war.

You do realize that there are libertarians that are not in lock step with Paul's non-interventionism? Just like there are many factions of every movement, there are many factions of libertarianism.

I don't know much about Mandel, but just pointing this fact about the policy differences out, because there are some that are not aware of this.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

Do we know enough about these to know which ones are the priority, or which ones we stand the best chance of winning based on demographic? I'd rather focus on a few and win some rather than get close and lose in all of them.

 

[matt0611]

Remove Mandel; he is 100% Zionist neo-con. pro-wars, any war.

Ok thanks, I haven't vetted all these candidates (don't have the time to).

Oh well, can't be worse than Sherrod Brown I suppose...

 

[tbone717]

Do we know enough about these to know which ones are the priority, or which ones we stand the best chance of winning based on demographic? I'd rather focus on a few and win some rather than get close and lose in all of them.

That's why I brought up a discussion about Rohrer and Scaringi in the PA thread. One is about 90% of what we like and can win, the other is 100% of what we like and has no chance whatsoever, both are running against an establishment picked candidate who is little of what we want. Foolish to dump money into a race that we can't win, only to see the establishment guy get it because we were trying for 100% instead of being pleased with 90%.

I am sure there are a lot of races like that if we examine them.

 

[freshjiva]

Add Augustus Alzona, (R), MD-8.

http://www.alzona.com

 

[LisaNY]

Ok thanks, I haven't vetted all these candidates (don't have the time to).

Oh well, can't be worse than Sherrod Brown I suppose...

The thread title says these are Liberty-minded candidates yet some of them aren't?

 

[matt0611]

The thread title says these are Liberty-minded candidates yet some of them aren't?

I've skimmed over the candidates but I don't have time to vet all of them, all of them should be better than the incumbents though.

I was hoping that you all would give me some assistance of refining the list.

 

[Crotale]

Perhaps we should properly vet all these candidates first?

 

[tbone717]

I've skimmed over the candidates but I don't have time to vet all of them, all of them should be better than the incumbents though.

I was hoping that you all would give me some assistance of refining the list.

That can be a problem, because there are many differing opinions on what defines a liberty-minded candidate and what does not. One only needs to take a look at Rand is criticized at times on this forum to see that some folks have a certain standard they hold everyone up to. If we go down a road of absolutism we will be no more effective than the LP or CP folks are.

That's the reason I like the RLC because they have some standard principles that all their members agree to, but the means by which those goals are accomplished can be different.

 

[1836]

This is offtopic. But like Ron always says, congress is supposed to be the most powerful branch of the federal government, we can't forget it!

I know it sucks that this race isn't turning out as good as we all wished, but like Ron says, revolutions are long term projects!

Do you think the neo-cons took over the party in one election? Hell no!
Do you think the progressives took over the democrats in one election? Hell no!

This is long term people, us liberty minded patriots are out there and we are growing the fastest out of all of em!
Remember, if only people age 18-30 were allowed to vote we would be winning!

There are many good candidates that we have a shot at getting into congress.
Sheriff Mack, Karen Kwiatowski, and Thomas Massie are some of my favorites, but there are a lot more!

Here's just some of the liberty-minded candidates that I've found:
(let me know if you know of any more too!)

US House
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California
Gary Clift (R) CA-3
John Dennis (R) CA-8
Christopher David (R) CA-33

Colorado
Tisha Casida (I) CO-3

Florida
Calen Fretts (L) FL-1

Indiana
Kristi Risk (R) IN-8

Kentucky
Thomas Massie (R) KY-4

Maryland
Peter James (R) MD-6

Michigan
Justin Amash (R-incumbent) MI-3
Kerry Bentivolio (R) MI-11

Missouri
Jason Greene (R) MO-5
Bob Parker (R) MO-8

New York
Dan O'Connor (D) NY-12

North Carolina
Dan Eichenbaum (R) NC-11

North Dakota
Kevin Cramer (R)
Eric Olson (L)

Ohio
Richard Ehrbar (L) OH-3
Bill Yarbrough (R) OH-12

Oregon
Art Robinson (R) OR-4

Pennsylvania
Mike Koffenberger (L) PA-4
Evan Feinberg (R) PA-18

Texas
Patrick Hisel (L) TX-12
George Harper (R) TX-14
Sheriff Richard Mack (R) TX-21
Steve Susman (L) TX-22
Wes Riddle (R) TX-25
Bill Tofte (R) TX-34
Michael Cole (L) TX-36

Utah
Jacqueline Smith (R) UT-1
Mia Love (R) UT-4

Virginia
Karen Kwiatowski (R) VA-6
Ken Vaughn (R) VA-11

Washington
Bob Sauerwein (R) WA-6



US Senate Candidates
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Arizona: Jeff Flake (R) http://www.jeffflake.com/

Indiana: Richard Mourdock (R) http://www.richardmourdock.com

Pennsylvania: Marc Scaringi (R) http://scaringiforsenate2012.com/
Sam Roher (R) http://www.rohrerforsenate.org/

Nebraska: Don Stenberg (R) http://stenbergforsenate.com/

Texas: Ted Cruz (R) http://www.tedcruz.org/

Wisconsin: Mark Neumann (R) http://neumann2012.com/

Virginia: Jaime Radtke (R) http://radtkeforsenate.com/

Michigan: Scotty Boman (R) http://boman12.org

California: Rick Williams (R) http://www.rickwilliamsforsenate.com/

Florida: Dan Stojadinovic (R) Back2Liberty.org

Ohio: Josh Mandel (R) http://jobs.joshmandel.com/ (libertarian purity questionable)


There is much work left to do in the cause for liberty! We all must do what we can.

Hard to see this and NOT have hope!