Gatewood Galbraith’s campaign says it now has 5,000 signatures on its petition to be on the Kentucky ballot as an independent candidate for Governor on November 8, 2011. See this story. The signatures aren’t due until August, and the drive will continue until it has 10,000. He had been the Reform Party nominee for Governor in 1999 and had polled 15.4%. He will be the only person on the ballot this year (assuming he has enough signatures) for Governor, other than the Democratic and Republican nominees. We know this is true because Kentucky requires a declaration of candidacy in April for petitioning candidates for state (but not federal) office. Galbraith is the only candidate for Governor who filed such a declaration.
In 2010, Kentucky had been one of only five states with only major party nominees on the statewide ballot. The 5,000 signature requirement is not terribly difficult but Kentucky is a state in which the minor parties traditionally don’t get on the ballot in the odd-year gubernatorial election years. There has never been a Constitution Party, or Libertarian Party, or Green Party, nominee on the ballot for Governor of Kentucky. Currently the Libertarian Party is circulating a petition for State Treasurer.
According to Galbraith’s website, he and his running mate appear to be running more as “independents” than as a Reform Party ticket.
This is good. When you campaign as an “independent” voters have a tendency to accept you as more serious. When you place a 3rd party label on your candidacy – especially one that is not fully understood or that politically scares people away, a candidate doesn’t perform as well at the polls.
I may not agree with all of the Galbraith-Riley ticket positions on the issues, but just running as an independent is a good thing. I wish them well.
LETS ALL SUPPORT GATEWOOD HE IS GREAT
GATEWOOD HAS THE SUPPORT OF WILLIE NELSON
Galbraith is pretty libertarian-minded on several issues. I wish him the best. Go whup those two-faced major parties!
NONPARTISAN Approval Voting for all executive/judicial offices – pending advanced head to head math.
This story is incorrect – we have not submitted the names, but rather have collected 5,000 signatures over the past month – we are currently collecting 5,000 more signatures as to allow for a margin of error. We will submit all 10.000 signatures August 1st as expected.
Just for clarification.
We are in fact running as Independents and are not subject or dictated to by ANY party dogma – Independents boast no party affiliation nor are they a formalized party.
Dea Riley
Candidate for Lt. Governor
driley@gatewood.com
http://www.gatewood.com
502-395-3159
Galbraith may be “libertarian” but I can handle a Libertarian governor, but would fear a Libertarian President. A Libertarian governor and legislature are limited in what they can do to destroy needed government services for the people. But a Libertaraian President and Congress could send the US back to a 3rd world status – something they seem to have no qualms about.
But if Galbraith could be elected – whether he is a Libertarian, Independent, Constitutionalist or whatever, at least he would not be a “major party” governor and this would help establish a true open and free electoral process for America.
If I lived in Kentucky, I might have to “clinch my teeth” in doing so, but I’d vote for him.
GATEWOOD IS A O.K. BUT HE RUNS ALL THE TIME , GOOD FOR A PROTEST VOTE.BUT HIS CHANCES FOR SUCCESS ARE SLIM. BUT HE IS A GREAT GUY I ENJOY VOTING FOR HIM.ITS LIKE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE IRS BUILDING AND FLIPPING THEM OFF MAKES YOU A BETTER PERSON
Was it the free market or statism that got the U.S.A. to be a world power between the Civil War and WW I — i.e. to be able to barely save Democracy in both WW I and WW II ???
Hmmm. Why did that Boston Tea Party happen in Dec. 1773 ??? — to produce the 1775-1783 American Revolutionary War .
#6, thanks for the correction. I amended the post.
“We are in fact running as Independents and are not subject or dictated to by ANY party dogma – Independents boast no party affiliation nor are they a formalized party.” (Dea Riley)
This shows political savvy on the part of Galbraith and Riley. If they will promote “Galbraith & Riley” and what they will do as Governor/Lt. Governor for Kentucky, the voters will accept their candidacy much more than if they were pushing a party label as the answer. This is something organized and doctrinaire Libertarians, Constitutionalists, and Greens cannot understand.
Prezs – Guvs – Mayors = New Age mini-emperors ???
— due to the ANTI-Democracy indirect minority rule gerrymanders in the U.S.A. and State regimes and many local regimes.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
“Only delusionial utopian statists want to control the EVER-changing economy — having more efficient ways of producing goods and services (with new inventions, etc.) — at least in what remains of the private sector — aka business.
Paper money is OK in theory — ONLY IF it is LIMITED per adult — i.e. via a CONSTITUTIONAL amdt — along with having NO deficits in peacetime years.
The party hack robots in the gerrymander Congress would LOVE to inflate the money supply just before each gerrymander election — to have one more econ FIX — just like a drug fix.
See the inflation rates on the internet–
1789-1812
1812-1860
1861-1914
and the NONSTOP inflation since 1914 with the FRS – except for the deflation insanity in 1929-1933.
See the per person money supply in 1789-1860 especially.”
Demo Rep. Unless Richard deletes this, I’m “cutting and pasteing” above your reply from your previous comment of several posts ago, so others can chime in if they want. For this is a serious issue, and it is a shame that many Libertarians, Constitutionalists as well as conservative Republicans don’t want to take the time to learn and to understand. They think the concept of “fee enterprise” and “capitalism” the way were taught in school is fine just like it is.
Demo Rep, please get this silly notion out of your head that “Only delusionial utopian statists want to control the EVER-changing economy…” Yes, Communists might – and some Socialists might. But real believers in a genuine Free Enterprise System know the difference. There is nothing wrong with a so-called “capitalist” system, as long as that system does not allow them to gouge and manipulate the consumers – making the capitalists richer and the consumers poorer. Permanent Price and Wage controls would correct this. For a real capitalist to make more money, he or she simply expands their business activities – not increase their prices – just because there is more money in circulation.
And yes paper money would be limited in increased ciruclation under and through a National Banking System. But it would be “loaned” to those entrepreneurs who want to build businesses or factories to create jobs and help the overall economy. It also would be loaned to couples wanting to build their “dream home” paying back only the principal – not with compounded interest – to be paid back over time, and only a “user fee” of say no more than $10 per thousand in loan paid back for administrative costs. No longer would private banks get filthy rich from compounded interest.
If the government needed, for example, an extra 5 trillion to shore up Social Security, it would create (coin) it for that purpose. But any potential inflation caused by that extra 5 trillion in circulation would be controlled by the same permanent Price and Wage Stablization Board. This 5 trillion would never have to be paid back – it would be left to circulate in the economy and would stimulate the economy in many ways.
Yes, the monetary system would have to be carefully managed – but by Congress – not the Federal Reserve System as we have today. There would always be sufficient money for commerce, and unexpected government expenditures. Wages would be stablized positively by “income stipends” from the federal govenment to assist those employers who qualified and who honestly cannot pay a living wage to their employees due to the limits placed on it by the Price and Wage Stablization Board.
And yes, there still would be taxes – but it could be a Flat Tax or whatever tax system that was needed nationally, or a sales tax for whatever was needed in the states or locally. As citizens, we still have an obligation to pay taxes – fairly accessed taxes – as we all have a duty to help with the general expenses of our governments – whether national, state or local.
I know this sounds “fairy tale” to many, but it would work. And there are many other facets of its operations too detailed to be covered here. But Entrepreneurs would still have the motivation to invest and create jobs. People could still become millionaires if they worked hard. And the working people would have “living wage” salaries to take care of their families, whether it be for their education, health care, or for whatever.
Again, Demo Rep, why can’t you understand this? Or do you understand it, but just think it is “just part of the free enterprise system way” for businesses to exploit the consumers with unnecessary increaded prices, and the private bankers to gouge the common people with compounded interest? Which is it.
Alabama Indendent hit the nial right on its head, he is correct in every thing he said. As Presidents Jefferson and Jackson abolished the first and second private banks of the united states the private Federial Reserve must go also. The den of vipers an thiefs that destorys our liberties and our limited republican form of government and make slaves and surfs of us all!!! They are the ones that pushed throuhgt the income tax 16th amendment and the I.R.S. they want and always have wanted the whole world to live under thier system of Goverment FEUDALISM……….
To Raymond Agnew. I am happy to know there is at least one reader out there who understands this monetary system we are enslaved by as I do. I just wish the Libertarians and the Constitutionalists would get these “outdated” doctrines out of their head regarding money.
The “love of money is the root of all evil” and the sooner we all understand how that “love” is instituted into our current monetary system, the sooner we can become a genuine politically free, economically strong, and independent republic again.
Keep helping to spread the word and the Truth. And you have an enjoyable Memorial Day holiday.
This is a ballot access blog — NOT a general politics blog.
I only responded to one of the more outrageous comments about the alleged meaning of one more robot party hack in a gerrymander district special election.
The usual suspects can send their statist economy control freak ideas to the gerrymander statists in the gerrymander Congress and State legislatures — and see the economy get wrecked even worse (now approaching NO private capital formation – NO/FEW new houses, factories, stores, etc. — just the way some usual suspects want things to be). See —
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
The dollar from 1933 is now about 95 percent devalued.
Do the math with even 3 percent compounded annual inflation — 0.97 x 0.97 x 0.97 etc.
I will ignore the statist / socialist comments on this list in the future — unless they are super-outrageous.
Hopefully R.W. will also comment that this is a ballot access / election reform list — and NOT anything else — i.e. NOT a statism / socialism list (or even a free market list) — about the alleged meaning to the survival of civilization about electing ANY body to ANY office — Hoover, Roosevelt, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, etc.
No shortage of leftwing and rightwing government blogs on the internet for the usual left/right suspects to worry about.
Hmmm. Are folks with left/right brains now different species of human folks — having MAJOR difficulties in getting along somehow ???
See the nonstop migration of R folks AWAY from D folks (in ghetto gerrymander concentration camp districts) — i.e. MAJOR political/physical segregation.
P.R. and App.V — before it is too late.
See the economics leading up to April 1775 and April 1861.
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Demo Rep. Yes I know this is supposed to be a blog on ballot access news, and I’m appreciative to Richard Winger to allow us to use the space for this exchange. I wish we had another format where we could continue discussing this and others could participate if they wished.
However, you still are hung up on monetary theories that are outdated. Who gives a crap that the dollar from 1933 is now about 95 percent devalued? Only the rich who love their wealth care. You just don’t get it do you? When are you going to get this nonsense out of your head that we must have gold or silver to back our money? This is pure b— s— that benefits only the rich. As long as we have an economically strong, physically healthy society, and a well-educated populace, we can produce and sustain the strongest industrial and technically superior nation in the world. THAT, Mr. Demo Rep – not gold or silver – but THAT, is all we need to back our money and keep us as an independent republic.
Again, this is not about “delusionial utopian statists wanting to control the EVER-changing economy —” What we need is a monetary system which givs the boot to both the Socialists and the Capitalists. But it does sound like you want the greedy capitalists to control our economy so they get richer and the working people get poorer. That is quite obvious with your defense of outdate monetary policies. This is about putting our monetary system into the hands of the common people. This is about taking the “greed” factor out of business. This is about a money system that supplies sufficient interest-free and non-debt creating capital to all who want to invest in factories, creating jobs, as well as homebuilders.
You may say you are far this too – but it appears you only want it if the greedy investors and speculators are allowed to get their little piece of the pie. They’ve had their piece of the pie long enough and have gourged themselves on it until they are fat and sassy, and we the people have suffered economically because of it.
But again, you don’t get it and I’m not so sure you want to get it – along with many other libertarians and constitutionalists.
One day; Xiao Ming another class …. a sudden “rush”(fart) a cry,sitting next to a small U.S. scolded and said: Xiao-Ming Ah ~ if you could not make a noise.