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.
Thank G°d for good news among all the lawsuits trying to remove Kennedy.
Chase Oliver sucks but Kennedy isn’t any better. Both are commies
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.
Boo! What happened to supporting Trump?!
Go Kennedy!
MASTER PLOT OF LP MISES-TRUMP FACTION TO BLOW UP THE LP ???
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A little syllogism for you to complete:
Kennedy-Shanahan is more libertarian than Oliver-ter Maat.
Neither Kennedy nor Shanahan is libertarian.
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@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.
@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.
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.
I think that if the Kennedy campaign believes they don’t need this nomination they should decline.
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.
Why not nominate Jones/Santos?
@Richard Winger
Sorry to be pedantic, but could you please change Shanihan to Shanahan, in the title and URL?
Please change it to Benihana.
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.
Is Kennedy already on in Colorado as an independent?
No.
At least, not according to his own site as of this morning.
But the Kennedy petition in Colorado is exceedingly likely to be valid. It is about to be submitted.
Does Kennedy support child abuse like Chase Oliver does?
“The idea is we can essentially leverage this to create a swing state situation and become real viable players on the national level” – Hannah Goodman, LPCO chair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DhnvmF2zsI
Thanks to IPR for this.
Jeff,
The Colorado libertarians are misses caucasians.
He’s better off being on the ballot as an independent.
Sorry, his site, Wikipedia etc do not show petitions in progress.
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.
The fewer ballots Chase Oliver is on the better. Say no to child abuse supporters.
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.
There’s no guarantee that Chase Oliver will be on any ballots.
I had a senior moment it was Prop. 19 and not Prop 13. Sorry for the error .
It had been 52 years.
The Chase Oliver campaign is imploding. Great to see.
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.
The “Federal Pledge for Liberty” that Nuna mentioned sounds like a very good set of rules.
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.
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.