Libertarian Party of Colorado Announces It Will Put Kennedy/Shanahan Ticket on the Ballot

The Libertarian Party of Colorado previously announced that it would not place the National Convention nominated presidential ticket of Chase Oliver and Mike ter Maat on the ballot in that state. On July 2, the LPCO announced that it would place the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr./Nicole Shanahan ticket on in its place.

Here is the announcement on X.

It is possible that RFK, Jr. will decline the nomination, however. He does not need the LPCO ballot line to appear on the ballot in Colorado, as his campaign has obtained 27,000 signatures to appear on the ballot as an Independent candidate. The signature requirement for Independent presidential candidates in Colorado is 12,000 signatures of registered voters.

The Colorado Libertarian Party decision is contested, and the state party’s judicial committee will hear the issue.

The LP of Montana has also stated that it will not place the Oliver/ter Maat ticket on the ballot in that state.

These instances are the first time that a Libertarian Party state affiliate has not placed the nationally nominated presidential ticket on the ballot since the LP of Arizona put L. Neil Smith on the ballot for President in 2000 instead of Harry Browne.


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Libertarian Party of Colorado Announces It Will Put Kennedy/Shanahan Ticket on the Ballot — 50 Comments

  1. Thank G°d for good news among all the lawsuits trying to remove Kennedy.

  2. OK, so will his name be listed twice, once as an independent and again as LP? Or does Colorado allow fusion tickets? My guess is whichever one he pays the filing fee on.

  3. MASTER PLOT OF LP MISES-TRUMP FACTION TO BLOW UP THE LP ???


    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

    IN ALL PARTIES AND GOVT REGIMES

  4. A little syllogism for you to complete:

    Kennedy-Shanahan is more libertarian than Oliver-ter Maat.
    Neither Kennedy nor Shanahan is libertarian.

  5. @Trump Forever, Forever Trump
    The chair of the Libertarian Party of Colorado, Hannah Goodman, said she would vote for Trump. That is her personal endorsement as an individual, not that of the party. The party only said they would refuse to support Chase Oliver.

  6. @Trump Forever, Forever Trump

    Addendum: The LPCO offered to pull candidates from any race for federal office, if the Republican candidate in that race pledged “Federal Candidate Pledge for Liberty” (see below). Presumably Trump did not make any such pledge, and so the LPCO is free to nominate anyone they like as their presidential candidate – even Kennedy.

    Federal Candidate Pledge for Liberty:
    1.) I will immediately work to pull funding for Ukrainian aid and push aggressively for peace negotiations with Russia.
    2.) I will oppose a military draft, should the Ukraine-Russia conflict escalate.
    3.) I will audit and reduce foreign aid spending.
    4.) I will work to remove the presidential war powers and return those powers back to Congress.
    5.) I will recognize the egregious abuses by the US intelligence agencies, and work towards reducing their power with the end goal of abolishing them entirely.
    6.) I will include auditing the Federal Reserve in your two-year congressional plan.
    7.) I will prioritize reducing the size of government and funding of all three letter agencies.
    8.) I will abolish the Department of Education, returning education back to local control.
    9.) I will uphold freedom of the press by not objecting to the incoming president pardoning Julian Assange.
    10.) I will protect whistleblowers by not objecting to the incoming president pardoning Edward Snowden.
    11.) I will protect internet freedom by not objecting to the incoming president pardoning Ross Ulbricht.
    12.) I will vote to always protect and uphold the right to bear arms. I will move to abolish all unconstitutional gun laws, including the NFA.
    13.) I will support and uphold the freedoms afforded to the American people as set forth by our Founding Fathers in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

  7. Colorado does not allow fusion for president. The presidential elector candidates for Kennedy must be registered independents. The presidential elector candidates for the Libertarian Party must be registered Libertarians. So the sets of presidential elector candidates must be different people.

    Montana does not allow fusion for president either. The law says if someone is nominated by two different groups, the candidate must choose just one.

  8. I think that if the Kennedy campaign believes they don’t need this nomination they should decline.

  9. Nationally Kennedy is better off running as an Independent than as a Libertarian, but I don’t know whether that holds true in Colorado, as the LP is relatively strong there because of all the junkies and libertines. It might be one of the only states where he would gain more votes by running as a Libertarian.

  10. @Richard Winger
    Sorry to be pedantic, but could you please change Shanihan to Shanahan, in the title and URL?

  11. So along with the Massachusetts, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Virginia affiliates, the Colorado branch is also going further to the left against the Mises Caucus. The Libertarian Party may be on the verge of complete collapse like the Reform Party did. That’s depressing.

  12. But the Kennedy petition in Colorado is exceedingly likely to be valid. It is about to be submitted.

  13. He’s better off being on the ballot as an independent.

    Sorry, his site, Wikipedia etc do not show petitions in progress.

  14. Back to New Jersey. To the case of Salmon v. Way filed 25 June 2024 in Mercer County. It was Harry Kaplitz with the Sommerset County Clerk office in New Jersey that tallied all write-in on 9, 10, 11, & 12 congressional.districts in Democratic Primary to determined all of some 22 votes went to the same write-in person with different version of names all assigned to Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.

    I will contact him again next week after his holiday weekend to get more details on those 22 write-ins he combined.

  15. The fewer ballots Chase Oliver is on the better. Say no to child abuse supporters.

  16. Back to UCLA YAF Chapters in 1971. We
    had two chapters approved on campus. One was the UCLA Bruins YAF Chapter and the other was UCLA Mises Chapter.

    At the time the chapters worked together on all campus issue except the issue of pot. The spit was over Prop. 13 in 1972. Mises members backed Prop. 13 and Bruins were against Prop. 13.

  17. There’s no guarantee that Chase Oliver will be on any ballots.

  18. I had a senior moment it was Prop. 19 and not Prop 13. Sorry for the error .
    It had been 52 years.

  19. Chase Oliver is now on the ballot in most states. The Libertarian national officers have alraedy forwarded the Certificate of Nominations from the national convention to the state chairs, and most of them have already forwarded those certificates, plus the list of presidential elector candidates for that state, to the state elections offices.

  20. The “Federal Pledge for Liberty” that Nuna mentioned sounds like a very good set of rules.

  21. I am reaching out to anyone that recalls a meeting at the Hollywood Poladium in 1966. I attended with Dr. Clifford C. DeFord of the 1927 University of Nebraska Dental School.
    He was in a dental practice with my father in Los Angeles at the time, viz., Edward I. Seidenberg, DDS of the USC Dental School Class of 1925.

    Dr Deford was in the US Navy between
    1929 – 1965 and became a rear admiral in 1955.

    ring WWII in 1944 C. C DeFord was detailed as the dentist to the United States Embassy in Moscow USSR and had the additional duty on spying on the Soviet Union. DeFord while spying on the Soviet Union he found out the Soviets were supporting the addition othatvf fluoride poison to the America water supply. DeFord standing next to me told of that plot to Mr. Harry Von Zell. This was during a talk about Raoul Wallenberg spoted on Wrangell Island, Alaska in 1962.

    Does anyone reading this that recall the name of that 1966 meeting and the date in 1966. I recall Dana Rohrabacher was present after returning from visit to Vietnam.

  22. NUNA,

    In California the Presidential electors do not have to be registered voters in that state. They do not have to be residents of California. In fact two of the selected presidential electors for Trump/Pence in 2016 were on both slates, Republican and AIP.

  23. It’s crazy the way the far-right hates Chase Oliver so much more than they hate Gary Johnson despite their extremely similar policies.

    Oh wait, it’s because those snowflakes are insecure about and triggered by Chase’s sexuality, that’s why.

  24. @Richard – so it sounds like the Libertarians will end up just splitting the Kennedy vote.

  25. How many conspiracies / conspirators has MS run into in the last 70 years ???

  26. Gene Berkman once again shows why he is a commie retard. He supports child abuse.

  27. My recollection is that the Arizona party that nominated L. Neil Smith had been disaffiliated by the LNC. If that is the case, you might want to revise this article.

  28. Berkman is too stupid to remember many libertarians voting against Gary Johnson because of his views and actions. This is why all retards and commies should be kicked out of the LP.

  29. AZ,

    Rear Admiral Clifford C. DeFord, USN (Ret.) was reporting on a WWII Soviet Plot to poison America with floridation starting at Grand Rapids, Michigan. He learned of that plot while detailed in Moscow in 1944 at the US Embassy.

    On 22 November 1963, at gun point JFK
    was removed from Parkland Hospital in Dallis without Dr. Earl F. Rose doing an autopsy on the body of JFK as required under Texas Law. The question is who gave the order to Secret Service Senior Agent Kellerman
    to place Dr.Rose in Harms Way, because of his objection in removing JFK body and why?

    We know from the Warren Commission that Kellerman order came from Kenneth O’Donnell (Irish Mafia). Where did O’Donnell get his order. Did it come from LBJ or RFK Sr.? The resent posts say it was RFK Sr. Older post say it was LBJ.

    Then there was no autopsy of Warren G. Harding body in San Francisco on 2 August 1923. He was poisoned in Talkeetna, Alaska on 17 July 1923.
    In 1959 Mable Walker Willebrandt told me that it was Florance Harding that poisoned her husband at the Fairview Inn at Talkeetna.

    Willebrant was a good friend of my parents and active with them at the USC Alumni Association. She was # 2 at the Deparment of Justice from 1921 – 1929.

  30. Gene Beckman,

    Do you recall the 1966 meeting at Hollywood that Dana showed up at after Viet Nam? I still recall you burning your Social Security Card during the 1960’s in YAF.

    Reason I was to do a FOIA request for that 1944 report that DeFord issue of the Soviet Plot to poison America and can use the date and name of the meeting of 1966. Harry Von Zell was an organizer with Rabbi Juda Glazner.
    Also their was Goodwin night, Shirley Temple Black, and Blanch “Mrs. Frank R.” Sevver.

    .

  31. My bad. SPelling error. There for their. Knight for night. Seaver for Sevver.

  32. “Chase Oliver is now on the ballot in most states. The Libertarian national officers have alraedy forwarded the Certificate of Nominations from the national convention to the state chairs, and most of them have already forwarded those certificates, plus the list of presidential elector candidates for that state, to the state elections offices.”

    You’re discounting the possibility of lawsuits and all sorts of other things which can get him off the ballots as a consequence of that party’s crackup. You’re only looking at the dominoes which already fell, not the ones lined up to fall.

  33. Objective observation,

    What does “alraedy” (sic.) mean? I am not discounting the possibility of lawsuits & “and all sorts of other things”. What are the “other things”?

    I went through three lawsuit between 2008 to 2010 in the American Independent Party of California and the King/Grundmann cohorts lost all three times. What makes you think the
    People taking on Bobby Kennedy could win a lawsuit in Colorado with lawyer like Paul Rossi working for RFK Jr.?

  34. I appear to have spelled already correctly. I don’t have to spell out everything for you. Hide and watch.

    As for your last question, I have no idea what it has to do with anything I said. What I said was directly in reply to what I quoted.

  35. Kennedy posted he will be on the Libertarian ballot in Colorado so appears he will not submit his petitions

  36. I think that the Libertarian Party of Arizona was disaffiliated from LP National at the time that it put the L. Neil Smith/Vin Supernowicz ticket on the ballot instead of the Harry Browne/Art Olivier ticket on the ballot.

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