Aberdeen News via Ballot Access News:
Even before he’s collected a single one of the more than 3,000 signatures he needs to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate, Larry Pressler said some of his Republican friends are calling him a spoiler.
He’s OK with that.
“I’d like to be a spoiler of getting nothing done in Washington,” Pressler said in Friday afternoon at the Ramkota Inn in Aberdeen as he announced his candidacy.
Pressler served two terms in the U.S. House, beginning in 1975, and three terms in the U.S. Senate, beginning in 1979, as a Republican.
The article goes on to say:
A veteran, Pressler said he feels his time serving in Vietnam was largely wasted time that accomplished little. He said he favors bringing all U.S. troops home from Afghanistan within a year.
President Barack Obama’s pledge to bring troops home quickly was one reason Pressler twice endorsed Obama for president. Another reason was Obama’s resistance, as a senator, to the Patriot Act. Republicans have been critical of Pressler’s support of Obama. But Pressler said the reasons he backed Obama were conservative ones. And, he said, he’s been disappointed in the president.
And:
even though he will be running a nonaffiliated, low-budget campaign, he said, “I intend to win.”
Pressler also said both establishment parties need to do more to rein in spending.