Quick Question About the Timely Plane Crash of Iowa #39;s Libertarian Senate Candidate
Just throwing this out there, but does anyone else find it a bit...oh, I dunno, odd...that the Libertarian Senate candidate for Iowa, Dr. Doug Butzier, died all alone in a plane crash less...
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A foundation led by the owner of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team and the Charles Koch Foundation have pledged $6 million to create a new center that will study enterprise and markets at the University of Maryland's business school.
The center will be dubbed the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets after a $5 million donation by Ed Snider, a Maryland alumni and chairman of Comcast-Spectacor, which owns the Flyers.
With another $1 million from the Koch Foundation, the university can hire three professors and a managing director, in addition to support staff, five doctoral candidates and four post-doctoral fellows.
Koch and his brother David run Koch Industries, an oil, gas, and chemical conglomerate that is the country's second-largest privately held company.
The Koch brothers are known for financially backing libertarian and free-market organizations, supporting conservative political causes, and helping to found other economic and policy think tanks like the conservative Cato Institute.
Charles Koch also is a board member at the George Mason University's Mercatus Center, a market-oriented think tank that some left-leaning critics argue is partisan and favors viewpoints held by the Kochs. The brothers have drawn criticism for similar donations to other universities.
University of Maryland officials said the center will conduct its hiring and research independently of the donors. The $5 million gift from the Snider Foundation is the second-largest in the business school's history after the $15 million naming grant from Robert H. Smith in 1997.
The center will draw on the expertise of academics outside of the business school and study "business as transactions among people within firms and markets" and "the history and philosophy of enterprise, markets and institutions," said Alexander Triantis, dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Snider, who recently recovered from cancer, also is known for his libertarian views. He helped found the Ayn Rand Institute and was executive producer of the film "Atlas Shrugged: Part I," based on one of the libertarian author's books.
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By Nick Niedzwiadek Published 21 hours ago
Its tough running as a Libertarian political candidate in the United States.
The plurality system hurts the chances of third-party candidates, and they rarely receive the financial support major parties enjoy.
That is why it is surprising to see ads popping up on Twitter and other outlets supporting North Carolinas Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate, Sean Haugh.
The American Futures Fund, a conservative advocacy group,started running $225,000 worth of ads targeting younger voters with blunt messaging, including Get Haugh, get high and More weed, less war.
The ads are noticeably campy, with young people holding the cutout signs and cheesy camera work throughout.
The ads came as a surprise to Haugh, who has spent most of his time campaigning on YouTube instead of TV or print.
Though Haugh clearly welcomes more awareness of his Libertarian platform, the ads appear to have an ulterior motive, as some of the group's other spots are critical of Sen. Kay Hagan, yet none mention Republican candidate Thom Tillis.
In one ad, a woman rhetorically asks, Does Kay Hagan support progressive values? Others paint Hagan as pro-war and out of touch.
The reason these ads are getting a cynical glace from observers is because Tilliss positions on military use is also different from Haughs. Tillis hasn't taken a stance on marijuana legalization.
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National chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, on Tuesday said the party is not an appendage of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Umeh spoke in a lecture titled Towards a successful 2015 election: The role of the opposition, which he delivered to mark the inauguration of the executive committee of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, in Enugu.
He made the assertion in apparent response to the South East zonal spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, who had, earlier in a keynote speech at the event, described APGA as an appendage of the PDP.
APGA is a distinct political party which cannot be an appendage of another political party, Umeh said.
However, he noted that the fact that APGA was not in power at the federal level does not mean that the party must oppose the Federal Government.
According to him, The term opposition is misleading in Nigeria we assume that once you are not in government you must be opposing government.
You must not oppose government all the time if you are not in government.
In developed countries (opposition parties) means those who are not in government but are interested in government.
Umeh accused the APC of engaging in blind opposition.
He also offered an insight into APGAs refusal to join merge with the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria and All Nigeria Peoples Party to form the APC.
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National Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ostia Izunazo, on Tuesday, said the party has no choice but to provide a level playing field for all aspirants in order to make an impact in 2015.
Isunazo said this while receiving the expression of interest and nomination forms from Dr. Leke Pitan, who is aspiring for the position of Lagos State governor, on the partys platform.
He explained that the party stood the risk of becoming weak if it fails to provide a level playing field for aspirants.
Izunaso said, The party will provide a level playing field for every aspirant it is only by so doing that the party can come out stronger.
Anything short of that will make the party weaker. We are also aware that we have competitors who are looking for what we are looking for. Our best way to beat them is to put our house in order. We dont have a choice.
While speaking to reporters shortly after handing over his completed forms, Pitan said he was not aware that anybody has been anointed to succeed Governor Babatunde Fashola.
The former commissioner said, I am not aware of anybody being anointed. I believe in the partys promise of a level playing field, it is not an issue at all.
According to him, the issue of consensus can only come up when aspirants discuss among themselves and arrive at a decision to put forward one they feel can best provide quality leadership.
Pitan said when elected, he would focus on human capital development as the cardinal point of his administration. This, he further explained will be in addition to the attention given to health care delivery and infrastructural development.