Kathie Gass is the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of Texas in the upcoming general election. (RUBEN R. RAMIREZEL PASO TIMES) <\/p>\n
Kathie Glass, the Libertarian candidate for Texas governor, spent Tuesday in El Paso, the last stop of her statewide campaign bus tour. <\/p>\n
Glass, a relative unknown, is running against Democrat Wendy Davis and Republican Greg Abbott. Early voting has started and the election is Nov. 4. <\/p>\n
Glass, 61, said she is running for governor to fend off two threats to people's liberty: \"An out of control tyrannical federal government and a state government that is corrupted by cronyism.\" <\/p>\n
Glass said cronyism refers to the rich and powerful using government to get things done that they never could get done otherwise and the rest of the people have to pick up the tab for it. <\/p>\n
She said Texas currently favors big businesses over small businesses and favors the political well-connected over just an ordinary person. She is running as a Libertarian because the two party systems is broken, she said. <\/p>\n
\"I'm the only one in this race that is not a crony,\" she said, referring to the fact that Davis and Abbott have been in politics for several years. <\/p>\n
When asked if she thinks she has a chance to win the election, Glass. a Houston attorney, said she is not predicting anything, but she thinks she has an opportunity. Most of the state polls on the governor's are only asking voters about Davis and Abbott, excluding Glass who political experts say will get less than 4 percent of the vote, <\/p>\n
For this election, Glass said she is not looking to get the majority of the votes, she said she only needs a little bit more than 33 percent of the votes to win because there are three candidates. <\/p>\n
Glass ran for governor in 2010 and got 2.2 percent of the votes. <\/p>\n
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