Colorado Libertarian Party Releases Invitation to Major Party Candidates

Posted on by August 20, 2025

On August 19, the Colorado Libertarian Party released an invitation to major party candidates to sign a pledge on certain political issues. Major party candidates who sign the pledge with then avoid having a Libertarian Party opponent. See this story.

There is nothing about this so far on the Colorado Libertarian Party’s website.

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Colorado Libertarian Party Releases Invitation to Major Party Candidates — 28 Comments

  2. Incumbents don’t make pledges, they can lie with impunity. Non-incumbent candidates don’t make pledges that would alienate their base. I doubt this pledge claim is factual, but regardless it is futile.

  7. What assurance is there that they will keep their pledge? What penalties will they suffer if they break the pledge?

  9. THREAT ??? BRIBE ???
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    CO – 1 OF 18 STATES WITH VOTER PETS FOR ST CONST AMDTS
    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  10. They have no money and don’t intimidate anyone. Also, pets voting might explain Colorado election results.

  11. I can hear the REEEEEEEEing coming from a mentally ill pink haired woman in Castle Rock.

  12. In my last race in Colorado, I “took” twice as many votes from the Democrat as the Republican, from a direct comparison with another race in the exact same district (CD-2, 2014), disproving the conventional wisdom that Libertarians “take” more votes from Republicans than Democrats.

    Since before that, I have helped to promote Approval Voting (you can vote for more than one), which is the easiest and simplest voting system to address vote splitting and spoiler candidates (but I prefer the expressiveness of Score or Range or STAR Voting: partial votes are also allowed).

  17. This may make it easier on the COLP candidate recruitment committee, but I’m pretty sure it’s our duty to run, not not run! Plus, we’re not a top-down party. We can’t tell people not to run, so I wonder how much this invitation means.

  19. I think state parties have to nominate their candidates and submit their candidate list to the state, but it’s different in every state. In some states they could run as libertarians regardless of what the state party thinks, but I don’t believe Colorado is one of those. In some states they could run without party approval but would have to run as independents or some other label and petition to get on. In some states they can only run as whatever party they are registered to vote as, etc.

  21. The bill which passed in Texas will mean fewer fascists in office. Fascists in the USA run as Democrats.

  22. So what did the Texas Democrats accomplish with their tantrum except hold up flood relief?

  28. The party organization does not have the ability to ensure that these pledge signers don’t draw Libertarian opponents. A candidate may be nominated by convention and the convention attendees may, or may not, choose to not nominate a prospective candidate for a particular office but a prospective candidate may also qualify for the ballot by petition. The party organization has no means of stopping a candidate who qualifies by petition, and the party leadership cannot prevent the members from nominating a candidate for a particular office at convention if the members vote to do so with that requirement being only 30% of the convention vote.

    It is very poor practice on the part of the Colorado Libertarian Party to promise something it cannot be certain it can deliver. Any establishment party candidate signing this pledge is buying a pig in a poke and I would be surprised if any pledges get signed.

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