We reported, yesterday, on rumors that Judge Jim Gray, a former Superior Court Justice in Orange County, California, might run for one of the at-large seats on the Libertarian National Committee. Gray has previously run for US Senate in California as a Libertarian, in 2004.
I sent a question to Judge Jim Gray asking if the rumors about him running for LNC were true, he replied thusly:
Yes, I believe that this is an area in which I can help. I am discouraged to see that our LP to some degree is breaking into factions, and that is not what our country needs from us. So I will run for an at-large seat, and request your support.
There you have it, Judge Jim Gray is running for the LNC in an attempt to stop factionalism.
Yes, I believe that this is an area in which I can help. I am discouraged to see that our LP to some degree is breaking into factions, and that is not what our country needs from us. So I will run for an at-large seat, and request your support.
Excellent! Exactly what we need.
Great news!
I sent another email to him encouraging him to send us a public statement about his campaign for the at-large seat if he wants to.
He should run for LNC Chair.
Does anyone have a list of who is running for LNC At-Large positions? And how many will be open?
Jill, all the info we have is linked in the comments at https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/05/open-forum-ipr-readers-questions-for-any-and-all-libertarian-national-committee-candidates/
That’s a lot of threads to sort through, but you can discern which ones merit your attention from the titles.
It covers all IPR threads about known LNC candidates since Jan 2009, although there may have been discussions in the comments sections of other posts that meandered.
All 5 At Large positions will be open.
At -Large candidates that have surfaced.
incumbents:
Mary Ruwart
Lee Wrights
Pat Dixon
On LNC but not presently At-Large:
Rebecca Sink-Burris
Bill Redpath
Others running:
David Nolan– Arizona
John Jay Meyers if he doesn’t win chair
Judge Gray
Maybe a few others
A slightly more extensive list of candidates:
Chair: Phillies, Root, Myers, Hinkle, Hancock
Vice Chair: Marbry, Rutherford
Secretary: Power
Treasurer: Oaksun, Starr
AT-LARGE: Charles Wilhoit
Thomas B Hill
Mary Ruwart
Lee Wrights
Judge James Gray
Pat Dixon
David Nolan
Rebeca Sink-Burris
Bill Redpath
Kevin Knedler
Alicia Mattson?
M Carling?
(other National Chair candidates?)
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES: (We are people. We have names, not numbers.)
NE NY NJ: Dan Karlan, Carl Vassar
PA–VA: Jim Lark, perhaps an opponent
SOUTH: Brad Ploeger, Doug Craig, Guy McLendon, Stuart Flood. It is not clear
if this is actually a single or double region. Stuart Flood indicated to me that it is now a
double.
CA: Dan Wiener <–Elected
WA-FL-MA-OR-HI-ID: Rachel Hawkridge <– More or less elected.
Rocky Mountains: James Remmert
GREAT PLAINS: Lupe Diaz
IN OH MI KY: Emily Salvette
Thanks to both of you.
Thanks to all three of you.
Stewart, not Stuart. Williamson is still running too, right?
OH, IN, KY: Rebecca Sink Burris Regional rep.
Andy Wolf is running for Region 3, unless Rebecca Sink Burris does not win at-large.
Check out but is Mattson running for LNC Secretary?