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'Take back our freedoms': Libertarian gubernatorial candidate stops by while on the campaign trail

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Adrian Wyllie isn't a career politician, but that hasn't stopped him from putting his name into the hat for the 2014 Florida governors race.

"I couldn't just sit there and read the newspaper and shake it in my hands as I read about our government and what they were doing to us," he told The Log Tuesday. "I decided that it's really the duty of individual citizens to stand up and take back our freedoms."

Wyllie, a third generation Floridian based in Pinellas County, spent the better part of the week on a media tour of the Western Panhandle, sharing the Libertarian message through a variety of speaking engagements.

Sitting down with The Log, the small business owner said the basic ideas of his party are increasingly taking root across the country.

"We're finding more and more that the Libertarian message is permeating through the country," he said. "The basic idea of Libertarianism is the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

While the message seems simple, Wyllie said the key is to take it and apply it to the government, by removing it from "our wallets, our bedrooms and our businesses."

The state's citizens will elect a governor on Nov. 4. There are no less than a dozen candidates that will more than likely throw their hats into the race, including Wyllie, former governor Charlie Crist, incumbent Rick Scott, and former majority leader of the Florida Senate, Nan Rich.

"A lot of people over the years have approached me saying 'you need to be the guy, you need to be the guy,' " Wyllie told The Log of his decision to run. "I see our likely candidates, Rick Scott and Charlie Crist, and I know both of those guys. They are not going to reverse course; we are headed for a worse economy down the road."

As for fixing the "broken" economy, Wyllie has a seven-point plan that would essentially reduce the state's $74.5 billion budget by 30 percent. Wyllie said they could easily cut the budget by 30 percent without affecting a single government service, by essentially reducing "wasteful" spending.

Once the budget is cut, Wyllie said the state could easily reduce taxes, which in turn "puts more money into the hands" of the private sector.

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Illegal Immigration, Libertarian Philosophy, Environmental Protection and Economic Stability – Video

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Illegal Immigration, Libertarian Philosophy, Environmental Protection and Economic Stability
The libertarian movement, the environment and the economy are all threatened by out of control illegal immigration and various people claiming to be liberty ...

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Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis takes message to Shockoe Slip

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Posted on: 2:04 pm, September 7, 2013, by VCU iPadJournos, updated on: 02:07pm, September 7, 2013

EDITORS NOTE: This semester WTVR.com has partnered with VCUs School of Mass Communications iPadJournos mobile and social media journalism project. Students from the project reported the following story.

RICHMOND, Va. As a third-party candidate with a lack of funds and public attention, Robert Sarvis is going above and beyond to bring awareness to his campaign for governor of Virginia. The Libertarian Party candidate said he put 12,000 miles on his van, just driving around the state to talk to voters.

On Friday, Sarvis made his stop in Richmonds Shockoe Slip. On the corner of 12th and East Cary streets, Sarvis tirelessly tried to remind voters that they have another option in the gubernatorial race besides Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe.

Sarvis supporters are also planning a sign waving prior to Saturdays NASCAR race at Richmond International Raceway in hopes to attract more attention to the campaign. In Shockoe Slip, Sarvis directly talked to voters and handed out small fliers promoting his platform on issues such as marriage equality and protecting gun rights.

Im here to both meet a lot of voters and to spread my message through media contacts, Sarvis said. Im here to meet as many voters as I can.

Sarvis said that awareness was the biggest challenge he has faced so far in this election. He added that his campaign sells itself once people know about his interest in having an open-minded and open-business Virginia.

Previously, Sarvis was a Republican candidate for the Virginia State Senate in 2011. He left the Republican Party following his loss, citing differences in ideology in regards to personal liberty.

I think the Republican Party cannot be trusted on economic issues like keeping taxes and spending low, but also on personal issues they are very regressive and they are trying to force a regressive ideology on all of us, Sarvis said. Im the only person who is focusing on letting you live your life as you see fit and you running your business as you see fit.

He also thinks he is different from Democrat Terry McAuliffe, claiming that McAuliffe is the poster child of crony-capitalism and the idea that the government should be choosing winners or losers.

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Lindsey Graham: I respect the Libertarian wing of the GOP but Fortress American won’t work – Video

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Sarvis’s Libertarian campaign is out and about

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Robert Sarviss quixotic campaign to become Virginias next governor released a schedule of events Friday that includes pressing the flesh in downtown Richmond and making a call for an interview with AltDaily, an alternative publication in the Virginia Beach area.

Were trying to reach out to real voters, Sarvis campaign spokesman John V. LaBeaume said Friday.

Sarvis, a Fairfax County resident who is running as a Libertarian, has touted a poll conducted by students at Emerson College showing he has received 10 percent support. He could also benefit from the fact that many Virginia voters find the major party candidates Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) and Terry McAuliffe (D) to be unlikable.

Because of the negatives that are so high for the two other guys, people are just ecstatic to hear about this guy, LaBeaume said. In the past few days, weve been inundated with calls for bumper stickers and signs.

The Harvard-educated Sarvis said he would avoid culture wars and focus on expanding personal freedom through support for issues such as gay marriage and economic liberty by reducing taxes, his Web site says.

His schedule Friday includes an appearance at the Sycamore Square shopping center in Midlothian; recording a video and doing a question-and-answer session at the Virginia Chamber of Commerce for its members guide; doing a video interview with students at Virginia Commonwealth University; and greeting people at South 12th and Cary streets in Richmond. Then hes going to talk with AltDaily.

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Inside the Beltway: The Libertarian awakening

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We support the maintenance of a sufficient military to defend the United States against aggression. The United States should both avoid entangling alliances and abandon its attempts to act as policeman for the world, states the Libertarian Party in its bedrock platform statement. Syria is not threatening our country. We have no national interest in intervening there. There are no reasons for the U.S. to support either the Assad dictatorship or the opposition warlords, declares Chairman Geoffrey Neale.

Such thinking has begun to resonate with voters and elected officials who are skeptical of President Obamas proposal for a military strike. The party has been presented with an opportunity to clearly define itself on the political landscape, particularly as libertarian leaning conservatives, such as Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, take center stage in the noisy debate.

The Libertarians are ready to rumble.

Americans are discovering the truth: there is no real difference between big government Democratic and big government Republican politicians. They both send our servicemen and women off to war for dubious causes, in spite of the abysmal results that our countrys foreign meddling has produced, Carla Howell, the partys political director, tells Inside the Beltway.

Both support mass surveillance of Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Both are wreaking havoc on the economy, and especially on the working poor, by overspending, overtaxing and overregulating, she adds. The most effective means to change the course were on is to vote Libertarian putting America on a course for peace, freedom, individual rights and abundance for all.

CONSERVATIVE + LIBERTARIAN = ?

Yes, but will everybody play nice? The question will occupy the American Conservative Union when it meets for a regional political action conference Sept. 28 in Missouri. Yes, theres an entire panel discussion devoted to the issue, aptly titled Can Social Conservatives and Libertarians Ever Get Along? for the many who wonder.

At a time when President Obama is leading the country off the economic, social and foreign policy cliff, I am confident that libertarians and social conservatives can find enough common ground to save the United States of America, says the unions ever-ebullient Chairman Al Cardenas. This no-doubt lively panel at CPAC St. Louis will explore similarities and differences between conservatives and libertarians and the future of both movements.

On the stage: Heritage Foundation scholar Matthew Spalding, the aforementioned Libertarian Party Chairman Geoffrey Neale and Cato Institute senior fellow Douglas Bandow.

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GOP's libertarian wing sees opportunity to push for less intervention

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The debate over whether the U.S. should launch airstrikes against Syria is testing the willingness of rank-and-file Republicans to get involved in another military conflict and giving the partys libertarian wing a chance to push the party toward adopting a less interventionist approach to foreign policy.

Sen. Rand Paul and other GOP lawmakers in both chambers have challenged the Obama administrations call for an attack against Syrian President Bashar Assads regime putting them at odds with House GOP leaders and some of the leading Republicans voices on foreign affairs issues in the Senate, who have lined up behind the president.

I think there is a reasonable argument that the world may be less stable because of this and that it may not deter any chemical weapons attack, Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican, said Tuesday during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. I havent had one person come up to me and say they are for this war. Not one person.

Rep. Justin Amash, Michigan Republican, delivered a similar message during a town hall tour across his district, saying via Twitter that his constituents are sending him a clear message: Do not get us into a war in Syria.

I cant recall an issue this lopsided, Mr. Amash said.

Congress last authorized the use of military force in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that led to almost 3,000 deaths on American soil and generated strong public support for military action in Afghanistan and then Iraq.

Indeed, no Republicans opposed the 2001 resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to use force against those responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks paving the way for military operations in Afghanistan. A single Republican in the Senate and just a half-dozen Republicans in the House voted against the Bush administration and the authorization of the use of force in Iraq in 2002. Democrats also strongly supported both resolutions.

Since then, public support for the wars has plummeted, and Republicans have shouldered most of the political blame.

Along the way, Democrats won the Senate in the 2006 election and two years later Barack Obama won the White House, after touting his early opposition to the Iraq War.

The party has paid a price politically for going in one direction, while the public is going in the opposite direction, said Christopher A. Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank.

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