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Craig residents Sacha and Travis Mero are running, respectively, for House Representative District 57 and for Congressional District 3.

The married couple doesnt anticipate easy wins, but they do want to get the message out about Libertarianism and challenge the two-party system. They both got the go-ahead at the Colorado Libertarian caucus in April and will be on the November ballot.

Sacha Mero ran for the District 8 State Senate seat in 2012, and said she got 4.5 percent of the vote without no campaign funding.

That just shows how much people are fed up with our two party system, she said.

But, now the two are working together and setting up a Libertarian group locally to garner more support.

This time we have a lot more organization, Travis Mero said.

Theyre talking to people in the districts, campaigning and raising funds. Their goal is to challenge voting down a party line and start conversations.

A lot of people will find they lean Libertarian, Sacha Mero said.

The Meros said thats because Libertarians fall in the middle on a lot of issues. Libertarianism is about personal liberty and limiting government power, Sacha Mero said.

The couple is for broad Second Amendment rights, same-sex marriage, a womans right to choose and the legalization of drugs. They want to limit government reach; empowering local governments to have the most power.

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Two Craig Libertarian candidates are running for state legislative offices

The Democratic Party's new candidate for Congress in Pinellas County is an unknown who lives in Tampa and in what may be a first can't actually run as a Democrat.

Ed Jany is a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve colonel with an accomplished resume. But politically speaking, he's no Alex Sink, the well known, well financed candidate who narrowly lost the special election March 11 to Republican David Jolly.

"Just when you think things can't get any more bizarre for the Democrats, they get more bizarre," said Darryl Paulson, professor emeritus of government at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

"It certainly is a bit stunning and somewhat surprising," said Pinellas Democratic Commissioner Janet Long.

"Quite frankly under the very best of circumstances, running a congressional race is very difficult... So if you just decide to run for Congress and you don't have an infrastructure and built-in base, I'm not quite sure how that works."

Jany, 49, is officially running as an independent candidate with "no party affiliation," though his campaign was touted heavily on Friday by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which recruited him. The reason is a quirk of state law that says people can't run for a party's nomination unless they have been registered in the party for at least one year. Jany used to be a Republican, but switched to Democrat several months ago out of frustration with last year's federal government shutdown.

Jany will face Jolly, now an incumbent, and Libertarian Lucas Overby in the Nov. 4 general election.

Jany spoke briefly to reporters Friday in a conference call, discussing his interesting personal and professional background. He was born in Brazil and moved as a child with his family to the United States. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. He served in the Army's Special Forces and is a colonel in the Marine Corps, set to retire in July. He has been based at Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force base. He also has been a law enforcement officer, and was once shot in the line of duty. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Tampa near MacDill. They have been looking for several months for a place in Pinellas, possibly on Sand Key.

"To those of you who understand duty and honor, it's very obvious that our representatives in Washington are not serving the country the way that they should," he said.

Partisan fighting, he said, is preventing Congress from "helping businesses grow jobs, cutting wasteful spending, balancing our budget and looking out for our seniors and veterans."

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COLUMBUS, Ohio The Libertarian Party of Ohio immediately appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday after a lower court denied its attempt to get a gubernatorial candidate on Tuesdays primary ballot.

Their candidate, Charlie Earl, was disqualified by Secretary of State Jon Husted after his nominating petitions were challenged. Husted agreed with a hearing officer who found two Earl petitioners failed to properly disclose their employers.

Libertarians sought to reinstate Earls ballot status, arguing that Husteds ruling violated petition circulators First Amendment rights and conflicted with previous state rulings allowing them to submit signatures without declaring an employer.

With five days until the election, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said Thursday the party was too unlikely to succeed in a First Amendment challenge to Husteds ruling to proceed.

The three-judge panel acknowledged the decision could present severe and irreparable harm on the party and likely undermine its status as a ballot-qualified party in the state.

We note that the LPO has struggled to become and remain a ballot-qualified party in Ohio, and we acknowledge that this decision entails that their efforts must continue still, the opinion said. But we also note that we decide one case at a time, on the record before us. In so doing, we preserve the First Amendments primary place in our democracy over the long run.

Husteds office praised the ruling.

Todays ruling is more validation that we are following the law and properly administering elections in Ohio, spokesman Matt McClellan said.

Aaron Keith Harris, who chairs the partys state central committee, called the ruling disappointing and said the party had asked for a stay in order to file its appeal.

Whatever the outcome, the Libertarian Party of Ohio is looking forward to taking our unique message of fiscal responsibility and social tolerance to Ohio voters in the May 6 primary where we expect thousands of voters to choose the Libertarian ballot and in the general election with more than 20 candidates across the state, he said.

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