The Arizona Libertarian Party has at least two notable candidates this year for Congress. One is Richard Mack, running for U.S. Senate. During the 1990’s he was the elected sheriff of Graham County, Arizona. He won a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court against a newly-enacted federal law that required county sheriffs to offer their services to the federal government regarding gun registration. He then intended to be the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of Utah in 2004, but instead he decided to compete in a TV network show “The American Candidate” (he couldn’t do both, since the TV network prohibited anyone from competing in the show if the person was actually running for public office in the same year).

Running for US House in the 8th district (Tucson) is David F. Nolan, who started the Libertarian Party at a meeting in his home in 1971.