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Libertarian candidates 'on the rise'

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With less than a month to go until the general election we've been hearing from the players, but now a lesser-known team is trying to storm the political field.

Click here to watch Brenton Awa's report.

Come November, you might notice a lot of L's on the ballot. This year's general election fields 17 Libertarian candidates. That's the most ever offered by the party in Hawaii and it's also 16 more than the one who made the ballot in the last election.

"Rather than waiting for the current system to change, we want to be the ones making the change," said Anthony Higa, the Libertarian state House candidate.

Anthony Higa's looking to represent State House District 19. He's going up against the incumbent Bert Kobayashi and Republican Victoria Mathieu. Higa's one of the Libertarians top candidates and he's giving this run all he's got. Higa already went as far as quitting his day job to focus on finding the needs of his community. But when no Libertarian has ever won any race in the state, getting supporters can be next to impossible.

"The chances are always long shots unless you're a democrat in the State of Hawaii because this is a blue state," said Tracy Ryan, Libertarian Party chairperson.

The hope for this party lies in its beliefs. Libertarians want minimal government involvement while maximizing the public's freedom. They stand for ending the income tax, keeping guns accessible and marriage equality.

"We feel that liberty is the default position in a free country and we feel the burden of proof are the people that want to make anything illegal should fall on them, not on the people who say that it shouldn't be criminal or illegal," said Ryan.

Other candidates leading the Libertarian's charge are Tom Berg, the former City Councilman is up against Republican Bryan Jeremiah and Democrat Matt Lopresti for House District 41. On the Big Island, there's larger expectations for Eric Weinert. While he doesn't have name recognition, the party believes Weinert could win because his stance has "high" standards.

"We've been in favor of legalizing marijuana since day one when we started 40 years ago and the public opinion supports us for the first time," said Ryan.

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Libertarian for 4th District wants no TV Ads

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Posted: Monday, October 6, 2014 10:50 am

Libertarian for 4th District wants no TV Ads

BATH The Libertarian candidate for Congress in Michigans 4th District kicked off his campaign this week with a plan for reducing the cost of elections and ending two-party gridlock.

Will Tyler White announced his campaign four weeks before the election because, he said in a press release, he believes that is enough time to present his message to the public.

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Why You Should Vote for Me, Adrian Wyllie Libertarian Candidate for Governor of FL – Video

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Libertarian says follow the money

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A self-employed mason and ironworker with a love for philosophy and the great outdoors is challenging the establishment as the Libertarian candidate for House District 3.

As a Libertarian, youre free to think how you want, Chris Colvin said, conceding that he doesnt come across as a typical Libertarian. While Republicans and Democrats fight over guns, abortion and religion, the Libertarians focus on the real issue money. If you want to know whats going on, follow the money.

Colvin graduated from Haverford College with a bachelors in philosophy and religion in 1970. He moved to Columbia Falls in 1976 and worked for a short time at the Anaconda Aluminum Co. smelter rebuilding pots before starting his own masonry business. He owned a granite countertop business in the former movie theater in Martin City for several years.

Forty years self-employed, never rich, he said. I know what its like to be poor, injured, sick near death with no insurance. I cut firewood, eat wild, fight winter. I know the life and understand the needs of House District 3.

Colvin ran for the legislature as a Democrat in 1976 while living in Boulder. Growing up in New York state, his parents were Roosevelt Democrats his father a psychologist, his mother a history teacher. But hes a Libertarian now.

I believe today the same big money interests own and corrupt both the Democratic and Republican parties, Colvin said. In my view, its impossible to be free if you suffer from poverty, ignorance and disease, so the Libertarian goal should be to promote economic justice jobs, public education and public health.

Colvin supports gun ownership rights.

I own more than 60 guns, belong to three gun clubs, have been shooting Winter League for 15 years, was top gun on the AA winning team twice, reload six shotgun gauges and more than 15 metallic calibers, have more than 25 books in my gun library, took the carry course, won a rendezvous shoot and several sporting clays shoots, have more than 30 sets of deer and elk antlers, a bear rug, a goat mount and an antelope mount, and raise and hunt bird dogs, he said.

Colvin believes education should be the No. 1 priority for the legislature more important than fish and game.

Government should stay in the education business, he said. If locals completely controlled the schools, we wouldnt learn the things we need to know. Locals have knee-jerk responses to change.

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American Way: between Democrats and Republicans, a libertarian "third force" is emerging

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The libertarian sentiment reflects the pitchfork politics that gave rise to the Tea Party on the right and the Occupy movements on the left that were both fuelled by public disillusion with the power of conventional politics to deliver anything other than the stagnant status quo.

Measuring the potential electoral impact of libertarianism is difficult precisely because it cuts across traditional party lines, which is both its protean strength and political weakness in an era of big money politics.

Put a capital 'L' on libertarianism and it largely evaporates Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate in 2012, won only 1 per cent of the popular vote (1.2m people), but research by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think-thank, points a much deeper pool of Americans with libertarian leanings.

When they asked voters if they considered themselves "fiscally conservative and socially liberal also known as libertarian", some 44 per cent of Americans were happy to be placed in that category.

The politician most obviously trying to capitalise on the idea that Americans aren't quite so easily pigeonholed into red and blue boxes is Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky who the bookies rate as a leading contender for 2016.

As the son of veteran libertarian Ron Paul, his formula will be to bring libertarian ideas off the fringe where his cranky dad always languished and into the mainstream, tapping that well of disaffection that resonates across party lines.

The younger Paul has demonstrated a knack for cutting through when it comes to popular issues.

When riot police overstepped the mark in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of a black teenager this summer, it was Mr Paul who spoke out about the obscene militarisation of American police forces, hitting a sweet spot with both young liberals and conservative anti-big government types.

In the same vein and in a rare moment of bipartisanship, Mr Paul is working with a Democrat colleague to end the mandatory sentencing laws that are clogging up America's bloated and broken jail system with non-violent offenders, at vast cost and to little good effect.

It is a bold gambit that could resonate both with minorities particularly African-Americans who are disproportionately sentenced and the young drug decriminalisation lobby which has gathered strength since Colorado and Washington state legalised marijuana in 2012.

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Chris Michel, Libertarian for Illinois Secretary of State 2014 – Ad 3 – Video

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Chris Michel is a small business owner from Illinois who is married with three young boys and another child on the way. He wants to help make cut red tape for citizens and small business owners...

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Why Vote Libertarian? Candidate Michael McDermott Explains. – Video

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Dr. Alex "AJ" Cummings, Libertarian for Illinois Lt. Governor – Ad 3 – Video

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Dr. Alex "AJ" Cummings is a medical doctor who is also a strong supporter of gun rights, school choice and individual liberty. Living in central Illinois, he has traveled a lot around the state...

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