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Super “L”: Utah libertarians close ranks to keep Dell Schanze off the ballot
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Edited | RBH Mar 29, 2008 01:43am |
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| News Date | Thursday, March 27, 2008 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The daily newspapers have already declared “Super Dell” Schanze the Libertarian candidate for governor. Not to minimize their equally premature designation of nudist/Libertarian legal counsel Andrew McCullough for attorney general, but just who do they think Libertarian are?
Not your average political party, for sure.
“We may be small and ineffective but, by God, we have our pride,” says Jim Dexter, a former Libertarian Party of Utah chairman who has re-upped with the party just to oppose the Schanze nomination. Dexter has combined forces with Willy Starr Marshall, a gay Libertarian activist who was once mayor of Big Water, in Kane County, to certify something other than Schanze on the ballot.
That “other” is NOTA, or None of the Above, an infrequent but effective tactic for the party that booted perennial candidate Ken Larsen before he could rack up yet another failed gubernatorial bid. Larsen then went on to form the Personal Choice Party with its smiley face logo.
In Utah, the Libertarian have been making significant political noise since the 1970s and, this year, garnered enough signatures to regain their ballot status. This was a fete that eluded Larsen’s PCs as well as the Green Party. |
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