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  Congressional Candidate & 3X Combat Veteran Endorses Gary Johnson for President
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Last EditedCincinnatiReds1990  May 28, 2012 11:13am
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AuthorRJ Harris
News DateTuesday, May 22, 2012 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionRJ Harris Endorses Governor Gary Johnson for President of the United States

I just had a very productive meeting with one of my campaign’s most generous donors going back to the 2010 congressional campaign. This gentleman is the vice president of a major Oklahoma energy company and he is a huge supporter of clean domestic energy and free markets for energy. He has traditionally been a Democrat supporter but feels totally betrayed by the left’s pandering to socialism and failing to end the war like Pres. Obama promised nearly four years ago. Nor is he too keen on Obama using the government to pick the winners and losers in the energy markets. However, he won’t switch Republican because he sees that the GOP has continually failed to deliver on its candidate’s promises of fiscally responsible government and because of their atrocious record on the war and on civil liberty issues. All of this is why he has been one of my supporters; because he, like so many Americans, is fed up with the failures of two party tyranny. He sees in this campaign a candidate who will not pander to either side but will fight instead to restore our freedom, liberty and fiscal responsibility.

So before I can ask him for his support for this 2012 congressional run he asks me, ‘why do I think we can get a population pre-programmed for decades to support either the left or the right to vote for me, a Libertarian, this November’? And I respond it three parts: 1. because I am sitting there talking with him which is evidence that prudent businesspersons and industry leaders are as fed up with the destruction being wrought on our great Republic by the Republicans and Democrats as much as are we in the grass-roots. 2. because I proved my mettle and commitment to the cause of Liberty in the last campaign and in so doing built a major base of supporters in Oklahoma’s 4th district. And 3. because the Libertarian Party just nominated its most viable presidential candidate in its entire
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