David Boaz of the Cato Institute wrote the following article celebrating the 90th birthday of 1980 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Ed Clark. Clark, an attorney who turns 90 on May 4, received 1.06 percent of the popular vote in 1980; the highest percentage for a Libertarian presidential nominee until Gary Johnson received 3.28 percent in 2016. …
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David Koch was the Libertarian Party’s 1980 vice-presidential nominee.
Via American Third Party Report, May 19th, 2016:
Today, Drew Johnson of the DailyCaller.com reported:
Billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Koch has pledged “tens of millions of dollars” to help bankroll the campaign of Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, according to a source within Johnson’s campaign.
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via the official Facebook page of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
The document quoted is the 1980 Libertarian Party Platform, not anything personal to David Koch or particular to his candidacy for Vice President that year. …
In 1994, Republican Steve Stockman (R-TX) upset longtime incumbent Democrat Jack Brooks in an east Texas congressional seat. While he lost two years later, during that time Stockman forged tight links on the ‘constitutional conservative’ right.…
Email from Green Party activist Edy:
Forward this around the country!! Thanks!!
So I had a conversation online and the question came up if it would be un-Green like to take money from Republicans in order to help fund a campaign.…
Excerpts from an article by Matt Welch of Reason:
New York Times columnist Frank Rich accused the Kochs of plotting “a billionaires’ coup” to secure “corporate pork,” tax cuts, and a blank check for Wall Street bailouts.
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Excerpts from an article by Randy Shaw in Beyond Chron:
(T)he notorious Koch Industries – run by the type of corporate plutocrats who battled FDR – are described in the October 19 New York Times not as selfish profiteers but as “longtime underwriter of libertarian causes.”
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