The City Hall Blog of the Dallas Morning News relays word that Libertarian John Jay Myers will seek to unseat Pete Sessions to represent Texas’s 23rd Congressional District.
Onetime city council candidate and longtime Libertarian John Jay Myers has announced his plans to runs for U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions’ seat. The campaign will officially kick off Jan. 28.
Myers ran a spirited but doomed campaign for City Council member Carolyn Davis’ 7th district seat. Virtually unknown to the district’s political and religious establishment, he nevertheless won quite a few votes through tireless campaigning and a message that seemed to resonate with voters from Buckner Terrace to East Oak Cliff.
From the Myers’ campaign:
Dallas, TX – John Jay Myers, a small business owner and Libertarian candidate for the 32nd U.S. Congressional district of Texas, has announced his campaign kickoff and fundraising event for 6:00 pm, January 28 at Sambuca Restaurant in Dallas. His candidate application having been accepted by the Libertarian Party of Texas, John Jay Myers plans to run an aggressive online, media, and grass roots campaign to hold Washington accountable to its citizens and the Constitution. John Jay says to all Americans, “Stand up for yourself, and stop being taken advantage of!”
OK everyboy. I just found out there is a further delay in my ordering of mini laptop. Evidently they ran out of inventory and are arranging to replace with permission with rebuilt with discount. I said ok but no info on time factor for delivery. The solution to my situation is volunteers & donors go to my websites. I’m willing to use a motorhome as campaign vehicle also. I could use a decent full sized laptop. & solar panels with charge controller. Now, if you would rather not donate cash, please contact me to make arrangements for these items to be delivered. I’m looking at 2 modest motorhomes on rvtrader.com & motorhomeclassified.com. 1980-1991 vintage Ford chassis. @7000. If you want to volunteer for my campaign & help me help special election campaigns please do so.
The NJ senate failed to pass gay marriage bill. NJ is usually fairly progressive. If I were gay I would give up begging reactionaries & try supporting progressive & libertarian candidates’ possible victories via PLAS. ( Angela).
Tom @10. I’ve been thinking about this. It is fairly simple & you usually are very astute I have found over the years. Yet you still don’t get it. About the simplist I can state it would be the same progressive vote that won Obama the dem nom. can be tapped to help Libs win & Libs could help Greens likewise. The 1% you refer to is the suppressed Green & Lib. vote. The diehards. The recent special election 9% by the Lib in GA shows The Libertarian Vote @13%.-20%max.I admit my 27% is my own estimate for the max progressive vote. Seems about right though. So what is needed is the circumstance that the 13%And the 27% get realized AND added. That would be PLAS. You seem to have some sort of mental block in this matter. Maybe it is I thought of it before you? Or maybe you do not want to admit Libs cannot win without pinko help. Maybe the purist in you can’t deal with pinko help. Something like this is going on with you & Mary Ruwart too. Until you get over it, you have a problem & so do I-you & Mary Ruwart.
Robert Milnes, yes I support you, as does Catholic Trotskyist, and we will be campaigning for the PLAS in southern California this week. Though we will do it separately because we’re not friends anymore. Our political beliefs are quite different than yours, but we support the PLAS for tactical reasons.
Tom, good answer. It is good that you admit that most people don’t agree with you, nor agree with one particular political ideology for that matter.
The trifecta is complete: the Combine, Texas Police Department “peace officers” John Allen “Jay” Hoskins and Chief Steve Allen both resigned in November after they were complicit in my false arrest and false imprisonment.
Now, the national star of marijuana legalization efforts and the guy who helped Combine PD arrest former Bardwell Police Chief Michael Meissner in a separate sting operation (and one that Hoskins falsely claimed that I had my “hand in the cookie jar”) has also “lost” his race for Texas Attorney General.
Barry Cooper did not file in time, which effectively ends the plans of these guys. Cooper used the sting operation to promote his campaign for AG.
Link to the video of the sting operation Cooper and Combine, Texas’ PD orchestrated to further the AG campaign: http://www.elliscountyobserver.com/?p=11171
Along with pure sweet Mary, Skyler M., B. S. webmeister.& Richard Winger on retainer.
the Last Conservative, look out. You have taken on Tom, spinmeister par excellance. This is why he is on my campaign dream team/wish list.
Last Conservative,
You write:
“Tom, you’re in denial too … because you actually truly believe that people want the kind of changes you want.”
I’m not sure where you got the idea that I “truly believe” that.
I “truly believe” that people should want the kind of changes I want.
I’m interested in persuading as many people as I can to want the kind of changes I want.
I do not, however, labor under the misimpression that more than a small fraction of the populace already wants the kind of changes I want. If they do, they don’t want those changes very badly — badly enough to vote for them, for example, let alone take to the barricades in pursuit of them.
the last conservative, thank you very much for your continued support…I think.
Tom, you’re in denial too even more than Robert is. And same with all of you libertarians, greens and constitutionalists, because you actually truly believe that people want the kind of changes you want. The only viable revolutionary political option is true monarchist/feudalist conservatism, because that doesn’t come from the will of the unwashed masses.
hey, it is not too late. If a LOT of contributors went to the Green’s website in CA special election Jan 12 no libertarian on ballot & activists show up in sunny southern CA to campaign for the Green there, IN EXCHANGE for both sides supporting the independent libertarian in that special election where there is no Green Jan 19 in MA AND GOTV, just maybe…
hey, I tried to tell people last year the libs had a winning ticket- Gravel/Ruwart. & I was willing to support that ticket. I asked for a special advisor position. But the libs nominated dinosaur Barr/Root. well, pure sweet Mary wouldn’t soil herself by being Gravel’s vp any more than Barr’s vp. So I guess that ticket was moot. So now I’m saying libs & Greens could win a couple of special elections with a 1-2 combination. Coordinate the Libertarian AND progressive vote AND GOTV-get out the libertarian & progressive vote. Special elections usually have a small turnout. But nobody listens to me. Nevermind!
Bob,
And you continue to wade into its strongest current on your hobbyhorse. What of it?
Until you ‘re able to explain precisely how 1%- of the vote plus 1%- of the vote will magically transmute itself into 33.66%+ of the vote just because the two sub-1% entities agree to co-brand and back a candidate who doesn’t agree very much with either one of said entities, you’ll remain the veritable Pharaoh of De Nial.
hey paulie, don’t forget the money bomb for RonPaul2012 or Gary Johnson or whatever dinosaur goes for the 35 mil this time.
Tom, the river is deep & the river is wide. It’s called The Nile!
The river is deep & the river is wide.
Dee Nii All.
The river is deep & the river is wide.
Dee Ni-i-i-i-all!
TPR @2, oops, excuse me. Don’t THEY know they are losertarians?
Bob,
1) How many times have you run for office?
2) How many times have you won?
“…will seek to unseat…” LOL! ROTFLMAO! He He. Haw Haw! Doesn’t he know he is a losertarian? & paulie feeds right into it!
press release from the campaign
The John Jay Myers for Congress Campaign Announces 2010 Kickoff Event and Money Bomb
Dallas, TX – John Jay Myers, a small business owner and Libertarian candidate for the 32nd U.S. Congressional district of Texas, has announced his campaign kickoff and fundraising event for 6:00 pm, January 28 at Sambuca Restaurant in Dallas. His candidate application having been accepted by the Libertarian Party of Texas, John Jay Myers plans to run an aggressive online, media, and grass roots campaign to hold Washington accountable to its citizens and the Constitution. John Jay says to all Americans, “Stand up for yourself, and stop being taken advantage of!”
To celebrate Benjamin Franklin’s birthday on January 17, and to hasten the downfall of the two-headed government monopoly party, John Jay Myers is also announcing the “Big Ben Money Bomb” going on between now and the 17th. Myers explained that, “These two weeks of fundraising fury will begin a year of freedom from the banks, corporations, and lobbyists whose left and right handed puppets have enjoyed power too long. All Americans have a stake in this campaign, and all contributions are deeply appreciated by freedom lovers everywhere.”
John Jay Myers explained why he is running: “The two-party system is directly responsible for most of the problems we have in America, and the incumbent in this district is everything wrong with government all in one person. The Republican Party has shown its true big government loving colors by including Sessions among its ranks. Warmongering, fiscally reckless, bailout crazy statists have got to go. The last thing Americans need right now is more debt, wars, and economic control.”
He added, “I have to run because otherwise some lawyer from the left will just cruise into the seat due to the ineptitude of this incumbent, and we’ll be stuck with more of the same for years to come. Decades of swinging back and forth between the same two parties have yielded the same horrible results no matter which one you choose. It’s time to just stop.”
John Jay Myers is proving his commitment to serving all Americans rather than just a few cronies by vowing never to vote for any bill not explicitly authorized by the enumerated powers of the Constitution, by promising to introduce legislation to repeal all unconstitutional programs such as government controlled health care, and by calling on Congress to not only audit, but also to end the corrupt Federal Reserve system. Furthermore, he is making himself personally available during the campaign to answer phone calls or e-mails to discuss any issue with anyone in America. He invites everyone to stop by and meet him as well. John Jay challenges Pete Sessions, the bought and paid for incumbent, to make the same commitments.
Having turned a one-man operation in his tiny apartment into a successful small business that has more verifiable jobs than any government stimulus, John Jay knows that the entrepreneurship of hard-working Americans creates jobs, not government intervention. He knows that the only way to stimulate the economy is through investment in production, not through taxes, wealth redistribution, corporate welfare, or regulatory controls.
John Jay and his wife Chenin raise their family in Dallas. Their first daughter, Ella, was born on Christmas day in 2007, and they just celebrated the arrival of their second daughter Dagny on December 10th. John Jay Myers has been active in the cause of liberty, serving on the Dallas County and State of Texas executive committees of the Libertarian Party. Whether protesting the wars or joining the fight to end the Fed, John Jay knows the proper role of government.
The John Jay Myers for Congress campaign will host its 2010 kickoff event and fundraiser at Sambuca in Dallas, 2120 McKinney Ave. Everyone is invited. Please visit http://www.johnjaymyers.com/sambuca.html
for details and RSVP.
Anyone wishing to contact John Jay Myers, learn more about the campaign, or donate to the Big Ben Money Bomb can visit http://www.johnjaymyers.com
for more information.
Actually there is an error. The title says 32 but the article says its 23. Also, politics1.com says that he is running in the 30th district.
Also running for Congress in Texas as a Libertarian:
1. Donald Perkison
2. David Smith (http://www.dsmithforcongress.com/)
3. Chris Claytor (http://www.claytorforcongress.org/)
4. Jim Prindle
5. Ken Ashby
6. Byron Severns
7. Drew Parks (http://liberty7.com/)
10. Jeremiah “JP” Perkins
12. Matthew Solodow
13. John Burwell Jr.
14. Eugene Flynn (Ron Paul’s district)
19. Richard Peterson (http://www.chippeterson.com/)
21. James Strohm (http://www.strohmforcongress.net/)
25. Jim Stutsman (http://www.jimstutsmanforcongress.com/)
26. Mark Boler
27. Ed Mishou
29. Brad Walters
We here at Third Party Revolution endorse John Jay Myers in his campaign for Texas’s 32nd Congressional District, along with many other third party and independent candidates seeking public offices nationwide, ranging from local to federal levels.