A. Barton Hinkle has a profile of Robert Sarvis, Libertarian candidate for Governor of Virginia on the Reason magazine website:
“The Democrats have nominated the only man in their party to step up: Terry McAuliffe. Denounced – by liberals, no less – as a soulless political hack, McAuliffe is running on the strength of his business acumen, even though his more recent ventures look less like Steve Jobs than Harold Hill. The Republicans have nominated Ken Cuccinelli, who is denounced – by conservatives, no less – as a strident extremist whose views on social issues make Cotton Mather look like Caligula.”
“This might be the only race in recent history where the candidates’ approval ratings go down as their name recognition goes up. The consensus among those who know something about political horse racing holds that most Virginians will be voting against a candidate rather than for one. So some voters may take solace in knowing there is a Door No. 3: Robert Sarvis.”
“The 36-year-old Sarvis has some things going for him: He has submitted 17,000 petition signatures, or 7,000 more than required to get on the ballot. He is, to put it mildly, smart – having earned degrees in math from Harvard and Cambridge, then a law degree from NYU, then a master’s in economics from GMU. He is a native Virginian. Half-Asian, with an African-American wife, he is bulletproof on diversity grounds. He is wonkish: As a fellow at GMU’s Mercatus Center, he co-authored, among other things, a paper on America’s historical experience with fiscal stimuli. And he is a technological innovator: He was a winner of Google’s 2008 Android Developer challenge for mobile apps.”
Full article by A. Barton Hinkle @ http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/24/robert-sarvis-libertarian-with-a-chance
The reporter is also a reason contributor.
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Actually, yes, I would agree that Reason covering a Libertarian is newsworthy. Other than at LP presidential conventions, that doesn’t seem to be something they really do. Let’s leave the article up.
He sounds great. Can we clone him?
I looked to see if it had been posted, and did not see your posting Krzysztof. You can remove my post if you want.
I just thought it was significant that Reason gave publicity to a Libertarian Party candidate.
Also, using only the author last name in the title may lead to confusion with Mark Hinkle among casual readers.
I posted this article yesterday, although I included a link to the original source, the Richmond newspaper. Reason simply re-published the same article.
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2013/06/richmond-newspaper-publishes-editorial-on-virginia-gubernatorial-candidate-robert-sarvis/