Darryl W. Perry is the first announced candidate seeking the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination in 2016. Recently, he received some coverage for his campaign around the web, specifically about his press release stating he will only accept precious metals and alternative currencies as donations.
Here is an excerpt from a Mother Jones article by Andy Kroll that was published on April 29th:
Darryl W. Perry says he’s running for president in 2016 as a libertarian, and he’s pledging to be the first White House hopeful to accept Bitcoin, the online currency currently en vogue in tech and libertarian circles.
Bitcoin appeals to libertarians who are skeptical of the Federal Reserve and other central banking institutions. As Jim Harper, the director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, recently told Mother Jones, “There are types like me, libertarian gold-buggish folks,” for whom “inflation is a constant worry” and who “see the cryptography in Bitcoin as insulation against inflation.” The US Libertarian Party accepts Bitcoin donations on its website, and the Libertarian Party of Canada joined the Bitcoin bandwagon in March.
Perry laid out his decision to accept Bitcoin in a recent open letter to the Federal Election Commission, the nation’s beleaguered elections watchdog. The Darryl W. Perry for President campaign, he said, will not accept any donations “in currencies recognized by the federal legal tender laws.” The only currencies going into Perry’s campaign war chest are Bitcoin, Litecoin (another online currency), and precious metals. “I am attempting to put into practice a belief that I hold that we should get rid of the Federal Reserve, which is a central bank,” he recently explained. “And unlike some who want to get rid of the Fed, I don’t want the government stepping in to fill the void.”
To read the rest of the article, please go to the following link:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/libertarian-presidential-hopeful-bitcoin-donations-fec
Here are more recent articles from several different websites about his campaign as well:
http://www.examiner.com/article/first-libertarian-launches-presidential-campaign
http://www.examiner.com/article/presidential-candidate-will-only-accept-bitcoin-as-contribution
BRAVO, DWP 2016 !
Keep spreading the L message….
I like that he’s a radical but I’d prefer someone with a little more history as an LP activist, like Mary Ruwart or someone like that.
If Johnson runs again, however, the nomination will probably have already been decided (not that I don’t think Johnson is a great candidate.)
Very nice! Keep building name recognition.
I’d never vote for him, but this DOES make his campaign interesting to watch.
Good job, hope you do well.
I congratulate Darryl on this coverage and hope it continues.