Virginia newspapers are reporting that political activist Caleb Coulter has quit the Roanoak City Republican Executive Committee to become campaign manager for Robert Sarvis, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate from Virginia.
The Augusta Free Press carries a quote from Mr Coulter’s resignation letter that explains why he is doing this:
It is time for me to employ myself where I can freely promote the values I cherish, rather than submitting them to the tarnish of a party awash in a history of corruption and perversions of those values; and of course, the Democrat Party is no better…. I, like an arguable majority of voters, am tired of settling for a choice between the lesser of two evils in elections…I look forward to championing the values I believe in through the vehicle of a worthy candidate from a party with principles. I believe that candidate is Robert Sarvis.
Mr Coulter further explains why voters should reject the Bipartisan candidates:
In this year’s Senate race, conservatives would be wise to distrust Ed Gillespie’s commitment to limited government and fiscal restraint, based on his career as a corporate lobbyist and Bush Administration official; and progressives should be thoroughly disappointed in Mark Warner’s abysmal record on civil liberties, corporate welfare, and failure to address the debt, to name a few.
Full story @ Augusta Free Press: http://augustafreepress.com/gop-activist-leaves-party-joins-robert-sarvis-senate-campaign/
You may. I’ve certainly seen enough predictions of it over the years….
You may see of this kind of thing in the future.
Latest email from the Sarvis campaign:
Dear paul,
Thank you again for signing the petition to demand my inclusion in the debates.
Unfortunately, there might not even be another debate because Democrat Mark Warner has refused to commit to any.
But that hasn’t stopped Warner from colluding with Republican Ed Gillespie to make sure I’m not even invited.
You see, my campaign has learned that a student group at James Madison University asked the Student Government Association to invite me to its planned debate.
The Student Government confirmed that it had engaged the Gillespie and Warner campaigns about inviting me, but both campaigns replied by effectively guaranteeing that they would not accept an invitation to debate at JMU if I were also invited.
The JMU student leaders decided it would be better for the student body to see a debate between only two of the three candidates than to have no debate at all.
Of course, there might not be a debate anyway.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch asked the campaigns to go on the record about their bullying debate negotiation tactics, but both campaigns refused to comment.
I think it’s obvious why they don’t want to debate me — especially at a college campus in front of university students.
They know that on a shoestring budget last year in my campaign for governor, I earned the support of 15 percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 29.
That’s because the millennial generation is responsive to my “Open-minded and Open for Business” message.
In fact, according a recent poll by Reason-Rupe, a majority of millennial voters would support a candidate who is both “socially liberal” and “fiscally conservative.”
I’m the only candidate in the race who fits that description.
I’m also the only candidate in the race even talking about some issues important to young voters, especially civil liberties.
It’s easy to figure out why incumbent Democrat Mark Warner isn’t talking about civil liberties.
Warner has repeatedly voted to reauthorize and expand the federal government’s flagrant abuses of our constitutional liberties — and against bipartisan reforms to better protect privacy or promote transparency.
But the Republican Party of Virginia didn’t nominate someone like Rand Paul, who would raise the issue of civil liberties on the campaign trail.
Instead, the Republicans nominated former Bush Administration official Ed Gillespie, who has long supported the so-called “Patriot” Act.
Civil liberties didn’t even come up at the first — and possibly only — debate.
That’s why it’s critical if there is another debate, I have the opportunity to be on stage to make Warner and Gillespie defend their records.
And regardless of whether there’s another debate or they get their way to keep me out of it, it’s vital my campaign has the resources to expose their records.
Email, social media, banner ads, “snail” mail — even TV and radio ads if we can find room in the budget.
And your contribution today will help us prepare for our college tour to reach out to the very students my opponents want to shield from my “Open-Minded and Open for Business” message.
Our campaign won’t have access to the special interest money flowing into Mark Warner’s and Ed Gillespie’s campaign coffers.
I’m counting on concerned citizens like you.
I hope you’ll chip in with a contribution today of $10 or more today.
Of course, if you can afford to give more, I’d greatly appreciate it.
With less than three months until Election Day, it’s time to kick the campaign into high gear.
Getting in the debates, if there are any more, could be a difference-maker.
But I need to be prepared either way, so I hope you’ll chip in with a contribution of $10 or more right way.
Thanks again for signing the petition, and thanks in advance for your continued support.
Sincerely,
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Robert Sarvis
P.S. Democrat Mark Warner and Republican Ed Gillespie are colluding to keep me out of any future debates.
That’s why it’s vital I have the resources to expose their records, especially about issues like civil liberties both my opponents would prefer to ignore.
So please chip in with a contribution of $10 or more today.
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This email was sent to [email protected].
There are a lot of libertarians in Virginia who work for other groups that are a bad fit, because they need a paycheck, Much info, like Sarvis 2013 donors, is on line already.
Most excellent news!
I would use caution in bringing in elephants at this time of the campaign. Data miners come in all shapes and sizes.