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OF YOUR SCREEN THERE. NO WORD YET ON WHY THE DRIVER WAS ON THE RUN. Janine Stanwood: ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS RICK SCOTT AND CHARLIE CRIST ARE RUNNING TO GOVERNOR BUT DID YOU KNOW THERE'S A THIRD CANDIDATE IN THE RACE. HIS NAME IS ADRIAN WILY AND HE'S RUNNING AS A LIBERTARIAN. HE RECENTLY CAME TO LOCAL10 ON AND SAT DOWN WITH OUR SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER MICHAEL PUTNEY. I AM VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED TO COMMON CORE. COMMON CORE IS THE FEDERAL TAKE OVER OFF OUR LOCAL EDUCATION. Reporter: HE PULLS NO PUNCHES. HE DOESN'T THINK MUCH OF HIS MAINSTREAM OPPONENTS, REPUBLICAN RICK SCOTT AND DEMOCRAT CHERYL CRIST OR OF THE WAY BUSINESS IS DONE IN TALLAHASSEE. IT'S REALLY GOTTEN TO THE POINT IN THIS STATE WHERE IT SEEMS THAT WE HAVE A POLITICAL CLASS THAT IS NO LONGER INTERESTED IN TRULY WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN. Reporter: WILE SCOTT AND CRIST ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE POLITICAL, AND HE SAYS BOTH PUT SPECIAL INTERESTS ABOVE THE PUBLIC INTEREST. I'MA CONSTITUTIONALIST. I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE HAVE INALIENABLE RIGHTS AND SHOULD BE LEFT TO LIVE THEIR LIVES AS THEY SEE FIT SO LONG AS THEY'RE NOT HARMING ANYONE ELSE. Reporter: WILY IS 44 YEARS OLD, MARRIED, THE FATHER OF TWO SONS. HE RUNS A SMALL I.T. COMPANY IN PALM HARBOR ON FLORIDA'S WEST COAST. THIS IS HIS FIRST TRY AT PUBLIC OFFICE. WHAT IS A LIBERTARIAN? HOW DO YOU DEFINE IT? YOU KNOW, I DEFINE IT AS SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN ECONOMIC FREEDOM, HAVE YOU HAD LIBERTY AND THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD BASICALLY STAY OUT OF WALLETS, OUT OF OUR BEDROOM, AND OUT OF OUR BUSINESS. Reporter: THAT MEANS HE SUPPORTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, OPPOSED THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS LIKE SCHOOL CHOICE AND VOUCHERS, AND OPPOSED TO EXPANSION OF MEDICAID. SOME VOTERS LIKE WILY'S MESSAGE. IN A RECENT QUINN PEA AC POLL HE WAS FAVORED BY 9% OF FLORIDA VOTERS. THAT WAS REALLY A NONE OF THE ABOVE VOTE THAT PEOPLE SIMPLY COULDN'T STOMACH EITHER CHARLIE CRIST OR RICK SCOTT. I THINK I'M ABSOLUTELY AN NONE OF THE ABOVE VOTE BECAUSE PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THE TWO NAMES ABOVE ME ON THE BALLOT ARE MORE OF THE SAME. Reporter: WILE IS DEFINITELY NOT MORE OF THE SAME. HIS CHALLENGE, HOWEVER, IS GETTING HIS MESSAGE OUT WITH A CAMPAIGN BUDGET OF LESS THAN $100,000.

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Senate campaign of Libertarian Robert Sarvis has a strong connection to the Roanoke Valley. Caleb Coulter (Cole-ter) is a Roanoke native who has been active in Republican politics. Last year, he sought the gop nomination for the 11th district seat in the House of Delegates. But recently, he left the gop and signed on as manager of the Sarvis campaign. Caleb Coulter/Sarvis Campaign Manager: i was attempting to be a part of a change for the better for the Republican party, that i think they could use if they want to stay valid in today's politics, and there's a lot of resistance to that change. And i think I'm a lot more comfortable with the Libertarian party. Sarvis is making his second run for statewide office in the last two years. Coming up at six, Political reporter Joe Dashiell will profile his Senate campaign.

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Don Ytterberg

Good news for Republican Don Ytterberg, who has the unenviable task of trying to knock off Democratic powerhouse Ed Perlmutter: Libertarian Tyler Bagley has withdrawn from 7th Congressional District race and endorsed him.

Understanding this race is so close, I am honored to support Don Ytterberg, Bagley said, in a news release. I believe his small business background and common sense solutions will benefit Colorado families. I ask third party and swing voters to support Don Ytterberg for Congress.

Libertarians in recent years have been blamed for costing Republicans close state Senate races in Jefferson County and El Paso County.

After analyzing Dons agenda and meeting with him, it became apparent that we agree on most matters of importance to the people of Adams and Jefferson counties, Bagley said. Im confident Don Ytterberg will improve things for District Seven.

Democrat Ed Perlmutter has represented the 7th Congressional District since taking office in January 2007. (Matthew Jonas/Longmont Times-Call)

But knocking off Perlmutter, a lifelong resident of CD 7 and a former state senator, is a formidable task, even in what is expected to be a Republican wave year and without a Libertarian.

Perlmutters been able to handily disarm opponents such as Joe Coors of the Coors family and Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier, deemed an up and comer in the GOP. Perlmutters strength at the top of the ticket has been credited with helping Jefferson County Democrats win legislative seats.

Still, Republicans are optimistic.

This is a race to watch, said Ytterbergs campaign manager, Phil Kelly. People are really frustrated with Congress and are looking for fresh faces and better options. Don Ytterberg is a man people like and can trust. He is a man of action who has a history of working to defend private interests from public intrusion.

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'A classical liberal': Senator David Leyonhjelm. Photo: James Alcock

Only one official libertarian sits in the federal Parliament, though there are many closet libertarians hidden inside the tax-and-spend big government of Tony Abbott. This week that libertarian, Senator David Leyonhjelm of the Liberal Democratic Party, had a lesson in the treacheries of politics delivered to him personally by The Australian newspaper.

Leyonhjelm had intended to announce on Thursday that he had appointed Helen Dale, born Helen Darville, also known by the literary pseudonym Helen Demidenko, to his staff as a senior adviser.

But a reporter at The Australian, David Crowe, got what the paper called an "exclusive" by simply ignoring the senator's embargo, much to the senator's chagrin, then delivering a cartoon about "a hoaxer" being appointed to the senator's staff. As the headline inThe Australian put it: "Literary hoaxer signed up by LDP."

The woman portrayed as "a hoaxer" is a 42-year-old policy scholar who has left behind a legal career in Edinburgh because she believes in what Leyonhjelm is doing. And what Leyonhjelm is doing, as a cross-bencher in a deadlocked Senate, is trying to slow what he sees as the decline of individual freedom and economic health under the growing weight of government.

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I first met Dale and Leyonhjelm at a libertarian conference in Sydney earlier this year where both were delivering papers. Dale's presentation focused on social changes caused by technology, not expensive social engineering. Among many examples was a correlation between the removal of lead from petrol, paint and cosmetics and a decline in crime. Practising law, she saw government regulation and compulsion as frequently having both adverse and unintended consequences.

"I noticed the extent to which government regulations often had a malicious effect," she said.

"Unlike many lawyers, I do not think the solution to every problem is 'pass a law'. Law has limits."

She arrived at this belief via a circuitous path, having become famous at age 20, as Helen Demidenko, for a novel written when she was 19, The Hand that Signed the Paper. It won the Miles Franklin Award in 1995.

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