Jay Fisher, who had hoped to be the first US House candidate on the ballot in Georgia from a party other than Democratic or Republican since 1942, has dropped out. He had hoped to appear as the Libertarian nominee in the 6th district. The first blow to his campaign was when he learned that the signature requirement is not 15,000, but 19,377. Since past experience with U.S. House petitioning in Georgia shows that the invalidity rate of signatures is typically 50% (since so many registered voters who sign don’t live in the correct district), this would have meant collecting 40,000 signatures before mid-July. Another barrier was that his employer informed him that, even though there is no formal policy against state employees running for federal office, an informal policy frowns on it.
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Edited By Richard Winger
maybe he should run consider a run for state house, state sen, or a statewide office.
Rats!
Scott,
You should look at my website at controlcongress.com and give me feedback. Thanks jk
While this is a bad thing in more general terms, in this specific case …
No big loss. He likes to “BS people” (in his own words) at a significant loss of time, money and opportunity cost to them.
Also, Jay only learned how many signatures he actually needed AND that he had the wrong form thanks to us, was mad at us for pointing it out, and then changed his mind about doing business with us, and is “concerned” that we asked just our expenses only be covered.
I sincerely hope he returns Mr. Winger’s generous campaign contribution and pays our expenses.
And finally, while this is somewhat off-topic
here, I hope the Libertarian Party will NOT endorse candidates who support national sales extortion (“tax”) *and* increased state harassment of employers who hire so-called illegal aliens.
In my opinion these views expressed by Jay in his blog are contradictory not only to the LP platform, but also the philosophy of liberty.