List of Liberty-minded Candidates for US Congress

[John F Kennedy III]

Found this while trying to find the guy I was looking for:http://americanbuilt.us/news/2012-Liberty-Candidates.shtml#Arizona

I don't know if it will help any. I can't remember who it is I am thinking of, but an RPF mentioned once mentioned he should run for Senate instead of Gary Johnson...I'll try to find his name.

He is in New Mexico. The site I linked lists Adam Kokesh, but that is not who I am talking about.

Edit #300000: It's not Doug Turner either.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can help me figure out who I am looking for. Lol. From what I read he sounded like a really good liberty candidate.

 

[tbone717]

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can help me figure out who I am looking for. Lol. From what I read he sounded like a really good liberty candidate.

AZ Senate race? Flake is running for that - he's a good guy. Pretty strong chance at winning to IIRC.

Or is it the NM race. Sowards looks good from what I see on his site. http://sowardsforsenate.com

 

[matt0611]

Bump.

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

bump

 

[Brian4Liberty]

As Matt0611 is doing such a good job at maintaining this list and keeping the OP updated, I propose that this thread become the "Official" Ron Paul Forums list, and that it be sticky-ed at the top. All in favor?

 

[Crotale]

It's hard to measure viability but it has to be done. It's important that resources are focused towards the candidates that stand the most chance of winning. How do we go about doing this?

 

[Crotale]

As Matt0611 is doing such a good job at maintaining this list and keeping the OP updated, I propose that this thread become the "Official" Ron Paul Forums list, and that it be sticky-ed at the top. All in favor?

Aye!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

We should consider adding Jason Chaffetz from Utah to our list. Of course he's the incumbent, and probably doesn't need our financial support, but it might be nice to list him. How is his purity at this point? He started out as a big fiscal conservative, he is calling for our troops to come home from Afghanistan, he opposed the Libya bombing, and he had a run-in (Rand-style) with the TSA over their invasive practices.

http://chaffetz.house.gov/
http://www.jasonforcongress.com/

 

[matt0611]

We should consider adding Jason Chaffetz from Utah to our list. Of course he's the incumbent, and probably doesn't need our financial support, but it might be nice to list him. How is his purity at this point? He started out as a big fiscal conservative, he is calling for our troops to come home from Afghanistan, he opposed the Libya bombing, and he had a run-in (Rand-style) with the TSA over their invasive practices.

http://chaffetz.house.gov/
http://www.jasonforcongress.com/

Added him with 4/5 purity for now. Can always change it later.

Thanks for stickying this, I never had a sticky thread before

And yeah, I still need to get around to doing the rest of the ratings and the chances for winning the nomination. If anyone can is willing to do some of this that would be great.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Another edit from the other thread:

A couple of lists had Bob Sauerwein WA -6th. He has withdrawn from the race and endorsed Doug Cloud.

Bob Sauerwein is out, Doug Cloud seems to be in, but it would be nice get some info about him first. Where does he stand on bailouts like TARP? How about the Federal Reserve? War on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc? Patriot Act? Government spending? War on drugs?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Added him with 4/5 purity for now. Can always change it later.

Thanks for stickying this, I never had a sticky thread before

And yeah, I still need to get around to doing the rest of the ratings and the chances for winning the nomination. If anyone can is willing to do some of this that would be great.

We can all pitch in. I would propose that people take a good hard look at the candidates that they can vote for in their areas, and then give input. We need to be careful to screen out neo-conservatives who try to talk like liberty candidates, but are really big government socialists.

 

[BamaFanNKy]

Of course the man on the left, (Patrick Kelly) is running for US Congress in the 6th congressional district.

http://www.patrickkelly2012.com/

 

[PatrickKelly]

Hi, I'm Patrick Kelly, and as the post above suggests, I am a Liberty candidate and I'm running for congress in KY's 6th district! Any questions you guys have I'd be happy to answer and I'm pretty sure that I could satisfy your purity ranking system. Let me know what you want to know!

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

Hello Patrick!

Kentucky really has it going on.

 

[trey4sports]

Hi, I'm Patrick Kelly, and as the post above suggests, I am a Liberty candidate and I'm running for congress in KY's 6th district! Any questions you guys have I'd be happy to answer and I'm pretty sure that I could satisfy your purity ranking system. Let me know what you want to know!

i have a question....


did you really throw that pose while taking a picture with Rand or is that a nifty photoshop rework?



p.s. who are you running against? Incumbent, non incumbent? What about the district? lean left, right?

 

[PatrickKelly]

i have a question....


did you really throw that pose while taking a picture with Rand or is that a nifty photoshop rework?



p.s. who are you running against? Incumbent, non incumbent? What about the district? lean left, right?

100% legit photo. That's from Rand Paul's Summer Vacation in Florence, KY in 2009, almost a full year before the primary. I got Rand to do it with me once, but the camera didn't work right, and he didn't pose the same way the second time around. I put about 500 hours in on Rand's campaign going door to door and phone banking, and he's one of the biggest reasons I'm running.

I'm running in the primary against Andy Barr. He lost the general election last time against the incumbent Ben Chandler-D. The district historically has been pretty down the middle, but slightly leaning left, some redistricting pushed it a little further that way. However Rand carried the district during the 2010 election and Barr lost it. He's just not conservative enough

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Hi, I'm Patrick Kelly, and as the post above suggests, I am a Liberty candidate and I'm running for congress in KY's 6th district! Any questions you guys have I'd be happy to answer and I'm pretty sure that I could satisfy your purity ranking system. Let me know what you want to know!

Welcome Patrick! It sounds like you will make the list...

Could you give us your quick take on the Patriot Act and pre-emptive war (as proposed by John McCain and Bill Kristol)?

 

[PatrickKelly]

Welcome Patrick! It sounds like you will make the list...

Could you give us your quick take on the Patriot Act and pre-emptive war (as proposed by John McCain and Bill Kristol)?

The Patriot Act is absurd. It is both unnecessary for government to a good job in counter-terrorism and it is a violation of the 4th amendment. If anything, it makes it harder for counter-terrorism to work. The hardest part about intelligence work is filtering out the noise. You have to be able to tell the irrelevant from the relevant. What does the Patriot Act do? It adds lots of noise. Between 2006 and 2009, of the approx. 1700 warrants issued under the Patriot Act, only 15 were related to terrorism. This is a policy that is used to expand the police state and makes non-violent people become criminals. It is a knee jerk policy that fails to understand both why we were attacked and why we failed to prevent it, and as a US congressman, I would fight tooth and nail to end it and similar acts.

The only time the US should go to war is if we are attacked or there is an impending attack. Preemptive war creates war, it does not stop it. You stop war through proper diplomacy. Especially when these preemptive wars are not fought against people that can actually attack us, but against poor nations that don't have enough resources to make gasoline and feed their people.

Hope I answered your question and I'd be get glad to answer more.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The Patriot Act is absurd. It is both unnecessary for government to a good job in counter-terrorism and it is a violation of the 4th amendment. If anything, it makes it harder for counter-terrorism to work. The hardest part about intelligence work is filtering out the noise. You have to be able to tell the irrelevant from the relevant. What does the Patriot Act do? It adds lots of noise. Between 2006 and 2009, of the approx. 1700 warrants issued under the Patriot Act, only 15 were related to terrorism. This is a policy that is used to expand the police state and makes non-violent people become criminals. It is a knee jerk policy that fails to understand both why we were attacked and why we failed to prevent it, and as a US congressman, I would fight tooth and nail to end it and similar acts.

The only time the US should go to war is if we are attacked or there is an impending attack. Preemptive war creates war, it does not stop it. You stop war through proper diplomacy. Especially when these preemptive wars are not fought against people that can actually attack us, but against poor nations that don't have enough resources to make gasoline and feed their people.

Hope I answered your question and I'd be get glad to answer more.

Thanks, that sounds very reasonable and common sense. Kind of like Ron Paul.

 

[HoppForLiberty]

It is worth noting that Dr. Dan Eichenbaum has dropped out of the race for US House in NC.
I do understand that there is a good one running in the 2nd district for US House named Sonya Holmes