Libertarian John Bujak Is a candidate for Idaho Governor
Bujak is the former Canyon County prosecutor.
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With less than a month to go until the general election we've been hearing from the players, but now a lesser-known team is trying to storm the political field.
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Come November, you might notice a lot of L's on the ballot. This year's general election fields 17 Libertarian candidates. That's the most ever offered by the party in Hawaii and it's also 16 more than the one who made the ballot in the last election.
"Rather than waiting for the current system to change, we want to be the ones making the change," said Anthony Higa, the Libertarian state House candidate.
Anthony Higa's looking to represent State House District 19. He's going up against the incumbent Bert Kobayashi and Republican Victoria Mathieu. Higa's one of the Libertarians top candidates and he's giving this run all he's got. Higa already went as far as quitting his day job to focus on finding the needs of his community. But when no Libertarian has ever won any race in the state, getting supporters can be next to impossible.
"The chances are always long shots unless you're a democrat in the State of Hawaii because this is a blue state," said Tracy Ryan, Libertarian Party chairperson.
The hope for this party lies in its beliefs. Libertarians want minimal government involvement while maximizing the public's freedom. They stand for ending the income tax, keeping guns accessible and marriage equality.
"We feel that liberty is the default position in a free country and we feel the burden of proof are the people that want to make anything illegal should fall on them, not on the people who say that it shouldn't be criminal or illegal," said Ryan.
Other candidates leading the Libertarian's charge are Tom Berg, the former City Councilman is up against Republican Bryan Jeremiah and Democrat Matt Lopresti for House District 41. On the Big Island, there's larger expectations for Eric Weinert. While he doesn't have name recognition, the party believes Weinert could win because his stance has "high" standards.
"We've been in favor of legalizing marijuana since day one when we started 40 years ago and the public opinion supports us for the first time," said Ryan.
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Libertarian candidates 'on the rise'
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Prof. Robert Boroffice, has described the defection of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State from the Labour Party to the Peoples Democratic Party as a big blessing for the All Progressives Congress in the state.
Boroffice, who is representing the Ondo North Senatorial District at the upper chamber, stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday.
He explained that many aggrieved members of the LP and the PDP in the state, who were not happy with the governors action, had started defecting to the APC.
Boroffice said, The defection of Governor Olusegun Mimiko to the PDP is the best thing that could happen politically to the APC in Ondo State. Before Mimiko finally made his intention known to Nigerians that he was going to join the PDP, his heart had always been with the PDP.
Many of the people in the Labour Party belong to the progressives camp. They didnt join the LP because of Mimiko; they joined the LP because the party subscribes to progressive ideology.
Now that Mimiko had gone back to the PDP, many people are also defecting from the LP to join their kits and kins in the APC being a truly progressive party. We are in the harvest time in Ondo State.
We are so excited, we are so happy. We can see the finger of God in all these things. Since Mimiko defected to the PDP, there is hardly any week that we are not harvesting, at least, 500 people from both the LP and the PDP, who are willingly joining the real progressives party, the APC.
The senator said the fact that some members of the PDP protested last week in Akure, against the defection of Mimiko to their party showed that the party was already in crisis.
He said, They know that he (Mimiko) may want to take over the party structure as the sitting governor.
So, some of them went to court. They know quite well that Mimiko would want to be in control of the party structure in the state.
The member representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, on Wednesday described as untrue and baseless, allegations by some members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state that the All Progressives Congress was planning to frustrate the inauguration of the Governor Elect, Mr. Ayo Fayose, on October 16.
Ojudu, who spoke with our correspondent in Abuja, denied the alleged move by the APC to use the crisis between Fayose and the judiciary in the state to stop the swearing-in of the governor-elect.
He said, It is not true that the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State is plotting to frustrate the inauguration of Fayose on October 16. What APC had done is to go to the tribunal to challenge the election of Fayose and the court was about to sit when Fayose invaded the court with his thugs and disrupted it.
The senator explained that invasion of the court by Fayoses men, informed the relocation of the tribunal outside the state so that members can sit in a separate location.
He also added that the E-11 group had instituted its case against Fayose before the governorship election and that it was the annual court vacation that stalled the hearing of the suit before the poll.
He said, The E-11 had gone to court since May 23 to challenge the qualification of Fayose to contest the election. But there was a strike, and the court later went on vacation, and the suit suffered some setback, so they are just hearing it now.
Why is the PDP in Ekiti blaming its misfortune on other people? It is taken that when anybody is aggrieved, the place to resolve it is the court and not through self help. The E-11 went to court, and the APC went to court.
It is the Fayoses group that went to court to beat up judges and disrupt court proceedings. Why are they now claiming to be the victim.
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