Yesterday, Tampa Bay Times staff writer Curtis Krueger wrote an article entitled Five in race for Congress from Pinellas stress local roots, national views that profiled the 5 candidates vying for a U.S. House seat in Florida. Among them was Libertarian Party nominee Lucas Overby. From the article:
Lucas Overby, 27, is a commercial diver who has worked on various grass roots causes, but whose website calls him the “quintessential political outsider.”
He has spent most of his life in Pinellas, graduating from the Center for Advanced Technologies program at St. Petersburg’s Lakewood High School. Pinellas roots are important, he believes, “because I’m not sure of any other way to know your community.”
Although government shutdowns can be a valid tool, he said he “was opposed to this last shutdown simply because the Republicans did not take the opportunity to present meaningful alternatives and solutions” to the Affordable Care Act.
The special election, to fill the seat of the late congressman Bill Young, will take place March 11, 2014
I will be voting for Lucas Overby.