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TALLAHASSEE | Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Adrian Wyllie just completed a statewide tour of 30 brew pubs, discussing issues over craft beer. His campaign accepts Bitcoin. In other words, hes running a vastly different campaign than Republican Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist, a Democrat.

But a July poll by Quinnipiac University showed Wyllie with 9 percent of the vote in a three-way race, while Crist got 39 percent and Scott had 37 percent. Virtually no one knows much about Wyllie, but there are a lot of Floridians who arent keen on either of the major party candidates, said Peter Brown, the polls assistant director, at the time.

Wyllie lives in Palm Harbor. He and his wife, Dawn, have been married 22 years and have two sons. He attended Dunedin High School and served in the U.S. Army and Florida National Guard. A small-business owner, Wyllie is president of an IT consulting firm and co-founder of the 1787 Radio Network, which calls itself Floridas Voice of Liberty. Hes also been chairman of the Libertarian Party of Florida.

The News Service of Florida has five questions for Adrian Wyllie:

Youve said if elected, youll fight to repeal Common Core. Talk about why.

Well, I firmly believe in the United States Constitution. And the federal government only has the authority to do those things which are specifically enumerated in the Constitution. Education is not one of them. Education is the realm of the state and local government. And one of the problems I see with the Common Core curriculum is that its coming down from upon high. And parents and teachers and students lose input when that happens.

Right now, its very easy for someone to get their school board member on the phone and tell them their concerns or make suggestions about curriculum. But with Common Core, everything is being flowed down from the national level, and it really takes away the local communitys ability to steer the direction of their local schools. So my objective is to repeal Common Core and to give local school boards more authority over the curriculum and the course of their schools. And also work to ensure that the funding is directed locally to the correct places. Right now were spending a ton of money on education, and its not making it to the classrooms. We need to fix that.

Youre also running against cronyism. But youve only raised about $62,000, while Scott and his supporters are on track to raise $100 million and Crist about half that. Is it possible to be elected governor without contributions from cronies wholl expect a return?

(Laughs.) The reason that you see such a large gap in fund raising between our campaign and the campaigns of Scott and Crist is exactly because of the cronyism. We dont have special interests or large corporations trying to buy favors from us because they know that were not going to be granting those special favors. Were not going to be granting those single-source no-bid contracts at three times the market value. Thats the kind of influence that the big-money campaign financing buys. And were not for sale.

Yes, that is one of my highest priorities: to go after the cronyism, to go after the corruption and the waste and, in a lot of cases, fraud. And thats how we can cut the state budget. We are very pro-business, but were not pro-business in the way that Republicans or Democrats think of it. They think of it as giving special favors to the corporations that came to the table. We think of it as leveling the playing field for everyone and making sure that nobody has any special barriers to entry or hurdles in their way but by the same token, making sure no businesses have any special advantages. Thats the difference in the Libertarian free-market concept.

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