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Johnson, Petersen and Kerbel all personally told me that they are favorable to the idea of doing a campus mini-tour here in January in conjunction with signature gathering. I don’t know if schedules can be made to coincide, but if they can, there could be some joint appearances or debates.
Darryl Perry mentioned that he donated to the Oklahoma petition drive. He does not expect to be able to make it down here in person.
“I don’t think POTUS candidates should spend a lot of time petitioning. Their job is to campaign (hopefully in a way that helps build the party). But, I think it would be good for any/all of them to spend some non-negligible amount of time actually doing the dirty of work of a LP POTUS campaign.”
Their job is to provide leadership, inspire and pull people in. Allowing others the opportunity to collect the signatures.
I liked all three of the main contenders for the LP presidential nomination in 2004 in Gary Nolan, Michael Badnarik, and Aaron Russo.
The list of presidential contenders at LP conventions has gone down hill since 2004, in my opinion.
I remember Nolan was pissed at Pennsylvania because he visited the commonwealth 10 times (much more than Russo or Badnarik), but the delegation split its votes between Badnarik and Russo.
Russo and Nolan both gathered signatures in Pennsylvania in 2004. Probably Badnarik too, but I’m not certain of that. There’s a picture of me petitioning with Russo out on the Internet somewhere… maybe my website (been a while since I poked around me own website).
Michael Badnarik gathered petition signatures in Texas in 2004 while he was running for the LP’s presidential nomination. He actually gathered petition signatures at an event with me.
I don’t think POTUS candidates should spend a lot of time petitioning.
No, but it would make a great photo-op to inspire activists to petition or donate.
PEACE
If any POTUS candidates collect more than a token handful of sigs on their own, I’ll consider that a mark in their favor.
I don’t think POTUS candidates should spend a lot of time petitioning. Their job is to campaign (hopefully in a way that helps build the party). But, I think it would be good for any/all of them to spend some non-negligible amount of time actually doing the dirty of work of a LP POTUS campaign.
Johnson is talking about doing a campus tour here in January also.
Would be great if Johnson did
Yes, but he doesn’t have the money to do a long term volunteer gig and apparently not enough confidence in his petitioning abilities, or maybe just too much going on, to come in as a paid petitioner and make a living at it. We’re talking more in terms of him coming in for one or a few days for a campus swing in January, hopefully to coincide with some of the other campaigns and if things work out well I’ll try to have them do some debates or joint appearances of some sort. He wants to do some petitioning in conjunction with that.
Has he offered to come help gather sigs himself?