Minute Libertarian - Day 1 Gay Marriage or Civil Unions
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The five candidates for governor of South Carolina are, (left to right, top) IndependentTom Ervin, Libertarian Steve French, Republican incumbent Gov. Nikki Haley, (left to right, bottom) United Citizens Party candidate Morgan Bruce Reeves and Democrat S.C. Sen. Vincent Sheheen.
Libertarian candidate for governor Steve French today committed to taking part in both of the political debates being sponsored this election season by The Post and Courier and its media partners.
The addition means all five candidates for governor will be on the stage for the first go-round, to be held Oct. 14 in the Charleston area.
Four of the candidates have also committed to the second debate date, Oct. 21, to be held in the Upstate.
Democrat Vincent Sheheen has cited a potential scheduling conflict.
Gov. Nikki Haley, independent Tom Ervin and United Citizens Party candidate Morgan Bruce Reeves on Thursday all agreed to take part.
The debates are being put together as part of a cooperative between The Post and Courier, WCIV-TV in Charleston, WACH-TV in Columbia, WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach and WLOS-TV/WMYA-TV in the Greenville market.
Ticketing information and venues will be announced at a later date.
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Libertarian for governor commits to Post and Courier gubernatorial debates
WASHINGTON (AP) A pizza deliveryman in North Carolina, a "libertarian cop" in Kentucky and an Alaska candidate but not the one who was expected hope to do what a Kansas businessman did this week: shake up Senate races as third-party candidates, an often-dismissed lot.
Greg Orman isn't a household name, but he's getting attention now. The independent Senate candidate in Kansas fared so well in his third-party bid to unseat three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts that the Democrat in the race, Chad Taylor, abruptly canceled his candidacy on Wednesday. With that, conservative Kansas landed on the list of conceivable, if improbable, Democratic gains in the national battle for Senate control.
Republicans must pick up six seats in November to win the majority, and the new uncertainty over Roberts' fate complicates their drive.
Kansas Republicans, worried about Orman possibly consolidating anti-Roberts sentiment, challenged the legality of Taylor's withdrawal. The Kansas secretary of state said Thursday that Taylor's name must remain on the ballot.
Orman's case is unusual. Most third-party candidates have no chance of being elected themselves. But in a handful of extremely tight races, including North Carolina, Alaska, Georgia and Kentucky, third-party candidates could help decide who wins and which party controls the Senate in the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency.
Third-party candidates are chiefly a worry for Republicans. Many of these long-shot hopefuls are libertarians who tend to appeal to conservative voters, who otherwise might lean GOP.
The biggest impact by a third-party Senate candidate thus far came in Kansas. As Roberts was fighting a bitter GOP primary against Milton Wolf, Orman aired ads that declared "something has to change." In one, he looked over at a muddy tug of war between Republicans and Democrats and asks: "You guys accomplishing anything? Didn't think so."
Orman briefly ran for the Senate as a Democrat in 2008, when he says he voted for Obama. And he says he might caucus with Democrats in Washington if elected this fall. These details could help Roberts in a state that has elected only Republicans to the Senate since 1932.
Established Republicans are quick to note that most third-party candidates become nonfactors, winning minuscule portions of the vote.
The notion that Libertarian candidate Sean Haugh could cost Republican nominee Thom Tillis the Senate seat in North Carolina, for instance, "is a story line being created by the media," said Paul Shumaker, a top Tillis adviser. He said Haugh, a pizza deliveryman, doesn't have enough campaign money to identify and turn out his potential supporters on Nov. 4.
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Third-party Senate Candidates Worry GOP
Dear Editor: Last week, readers learned that Wisconsin tax collections for the last fiscal year were down 2 percent from projections and by over 1 percent from the previous year. In January, as legislators were high-fiving the rainbow and unicorn projections for revenues, I was asked what I would do with the projected budget surplus. My response was to place it in reserves as Wisconsin would face tough times ahead.
Wisconsin politicians on the Red and Blue teams have been unable to set aside enough of the short-term revenue growth that comes in during an economic boom to avoid later tax increases and/or spending cuts when the economy turns sour. State reserves are expected to drop to 8.6 percent of spending this year and to 7.4 percent next year, according to experts in the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.
Rather than use increased revenue to pay down the $13.7 billion in debt accumulated during the last decade or rebuild General Fund reserves, the Blue Team wanted to spend it and the Red Team wanted to reduce taxes. Dealing with debt continues to be a bipartisan abdication, according to Dale Knapp, research director at WISTAX.
Wisconsins budget balances are declining from 5.3 percent of spending last year to 1 percent next year. That's close to the level Wisconsin carried at the beginning of the last recession, which led to our increased long-term debt. Budget experts recommend savings of at least 5 percent of spending. More would be even better. Mary Burke and Scott Walker are not listening.
Out of the four candidates, I am the only one running for governor who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I am the candidate willing and able to deal with the impending problems facing Wisconsins economy and I believe, Forward is in the other direction.
Robert Burke
Libertarian candidate for governor
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Libertarian Robert Burke: GOP and Dems both fiscally irresponsible