John Daniel, a Logan Circle tech entrepreneur, is the DC Libertarian Party’s 6th announced candidate, filing petitions New Year’s Eve to run in the U.S. Shadow Senate race. The position is one created by the DC government to protest DC’s lack of statehood and representation in the U.S. Senate. Created in 1982, the first Shadow Senator was elected in 1990.
Daniel joins a group of 5 DC Libertarians already running for office: Frederick Steiner, City Council At Large; Sara Jane Panfil, Delegate to Congress; Bruce Majors, Mayor; Ryan Sabot, Ward 3 city council representative; and Pranav Badhwar, Ward 6 city council representative.
The DC LP hopes to recruit a candidate before the January 2 deadline for city council chair or for shadow representative.
More candidates are being recruited, for an unprecedented nearly full slate never before put on the ballot by any DC party other than the Democrats. The newly created elected Attorney General position is open to any member of the DC Bar. Wards 1 (Petworth/Columbia Heights), 5 (Brookland) have races, as well as City Council Chair, school board, and Advisory Neighborhood Commission. If you or anyone you know would like to learn more about running for office, please contact: Bruce Majors at (202) 704-6401.
Seems the Statehood Greens are not running any council district candidates this year though…
http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/01/filing-closes-for-2014-district-of-columbia-primaries-democrats-and-libertarians-are-only-parties-with-candidates-for-city-council-district-candidates/
“unprecedented nearly full slate never before put on the ballot by any DC party other than the Democrats”
Not exactally a true statement. While this is the largest Libertarian slate ever in D.C. the D.C. Statehood Green Party routinely fields large slates of between 10 and 20 candidates.
Thanks Bruce, I sent that to IPR also, but I might give it a couple of days before I post anoter story….although if someone else here does that would be fine.
DC is actually up to 7 candidates now. Since this was posted we added Martin Moulton, a long time DC resident who was a Ron Paul alternate in 2012, as Shadow Representative. If you’d like to see all 7 candidates’ photos and read their candidate statements, we have a blogspot devoted only to the candidates DCLibertarians2014.blogspot.com.