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=yikes flanked by alt rt?<div>an 6 22</div><div><div>no lnx twt</div><div>Liberals and progressives have long expressed mixed feelings about libertarians, applauding their views on marijuana, abortion and gay rights while disagreeing vehemently with their hardcore fiscal conservatism. Libertarians have a long history of describing themselves as fiscal conservatives who are social liberals and arguing that the War on Drugs and the evangelical Christian Right have been terrible for the Republican Party and terrible for the conservative movement.</div><div>
</div><div>The far-right MAGA movement championed by former President Donald Trump and his army of authoritarians and Christian nationalists is antithetical to many of the positions libertarians have taken over the years, such as abortion on demand and full legalization of marijuana and prostitution. But journalist Jeet Heer describes an unlikely trend in an article published by The Nation on June 6: a growing MAGA influence within the Libertarian Party.</div><div>
</div><div>“Third parties have a political impact far greater than their electoral successes,” Heer explains. “They are the research and development wing of the political system…. The Libertarian Party can rightly claim to be heir to this tradition of being a seedbed for policy innovations taken over by both Democrats and Republicans…. If the dominant ideology of American politics since the 1970s is neoliberalism, then the Libertarian Party has truly punched above its weight…. The Libertarian Party championed gay rights and drug decriminalization long before the Democrats.”</div><div>
</div><div>But Heer goes on to lament that Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, has become influential in parts of the Libertarian Party — pushing MAGA-like “blood and soil” rhetoric. And Heer describes a struggle between the Libertarian Party’s Mises Caucus and its “Gary Johnson wing.” Johnson, a former New Mexico governor and ex-Republican, was the Libertarian presidential nominee in 2012 and 2016.</div><div>
</div><div>In 2017, Arvin Vohra, vice chair of the Libertarian Party, warned that the Mises Caucus had “been turned into a sales funnel for the White nationalist branch of the alt-right.” And others in the “Johnson wing” of the Libertarian Party, Heer notes, have been equally critical of the Mises Caucus and its MAGA-influenced views.</div><div>
</div><div>“Taking the Libertarian Party out as a competitive force will help consolidate the right-wing vote around the Republican Party,” Heer warns. “Once the Libertarian Party becomes a husk of its former self, the alt-right faction will continue to assist a Trumpized GOP in a way that parallels groups like the Proud Boys. MAGA Libertarians will be a potent vector for spreading bigotry on social media. The Mises Caucus are the nominal winners in the internecine libertarian wars, but the ultimate beneficiary could be Donald Trump.”</div></div><div>=</div>=https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle/stone helped? mark amesOn this degrading election day, I want to take one last look at our alleged "third choice", the huckster who supposedly "shakes up the status quo" and can "break the two-party stranglehold." Or, as he calls himself, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/us/politics/gary-johnson-the-libertarian-partys-presidential-nominee-worries-republicans.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print" style="text-decoration: none;">"Perrier."</a>This is the hidden story of Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson — which is really a story about the depths of corruption and depravity that our democracy has sunk to. I’ve made it clear already that I find Rocky Anderson to be a genuine progressive alternative, someone whose ideas I am for and who has a real track record of governing, as well as trial lawyer and human rights activism experience. But our politics today don’t allow a Rocky Johnson as a real choice, not yet anyway.Since Gary Johnson and libertarianism is the only real Third Party choice our gangrenous democracy allows us, it’s time we took a serious look at him — and it’s not pretty, folks. Because if you poke beneath the facade, what you find is a sponge absorbing just about every bad right-wing idea, and a campaign mixed up with some of the most loathsome GOP political operators of the last few decades.Gary Johnson, in other words, is proof that our democracy is finished, a fistula of bad politics swelling up under Lady Liberty’s armpit.It’s surprising to me how little skepticism or critical interest there is in Gary Johnson’s third party campaign, especially since he’s been hard-sold to progressives as the "real alternative" or "principled" or "more progressive than [NAME OF CORRUPT DEMOCRAT SCUMBAG HERE]."The fact that Gary Johnson’s Libertarian Party was founded and funded by the Koch brothers (David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s VP in 1980 in order to make it easier for the Kochs to shovel more money into the party and the libertarian cause), and that Gary Johnson was a longtime loyal Republican — considering all of this, and what’s at stake in presidential elections, it would seem to me malpractice for a journalist to assume there isn’t a story, or several stories, to be found under the Gary Johnson rock. Stories that matter. And that are bizarre and fun and grotesque in their own right.The first interesting thing about Gary Johnson is that he decided to set up his campaign headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, just a few blocks away from the HQ of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. That’s where Gary Johnson’s main Super PAC is located as well. Gary Johnson isn’t Mormon.The Salt Lake City Tribune also thought it was a little weird, so they asked about it in a story headlined<a href="http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=17232915&itype=storyID" style="text-decoration: none;">"Ex-New Mexico guv bases his presidential campaign in — Utah?"</a> which begins:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">A Republican presidential candidate has landed his national campaign headquarters in Salt Lake City, just a couple of blocks from the Utah governor's mansion. But it's not the White House contender you might think it is.</blockquote>It turns out there’s a simple answer: Gary Johnson’s campaign chief, Ron Nielson, is based here. Ron Nielson runs a conservative polling firm called NSON Opinion Strategies, whose headquarters is the same three-story building on South Temple Road as Johnson’s campaign headquarters, and the same address as Gary Johnson’s "Our America Initiative" nonprofit, which launched his bid for the presidency in late 2009.Unfortunately, the SLT didn’t pry any further, because this is where things start to get interesting. For one thing, NSOM has a history of working with GOP right-wingers including crotchety Mormon asshole <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/david-catanese/2012/04/super-pac-poll-hatch-under-119794.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Orin Hatch</a> and ex-witch and masturbation-denier <a href="http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/tea_party_expre_2.php" style="text-decoration: none;">Christine O’Donnell</a>, as well as the <a href="http://reason.com/assets/db/1327339633235.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">Koch’s 'Reason' magazine.</a> They also worked on a smear campaign against Harry Reid in the run up to the 2010 election, but I’ll get to that later.The point here is that Gary Johnson’s campaign headquarters is located in Romney’s backyard, in a right-wing Republican polling firm’s office. Gary says he likes transparency and believes he should wear his backers’ labels on his jacket like a NASCAR driver. Let me help him into his coat....According to <a href="http://wordcab.blogspot.com/2011/04/gov-gary-johnsons-documents-reveal.html" style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 252); text-decoration: none;">documents</a> filed with the state of Utah, the person responsible for filing the paperwork to register Gary Johnson’s "Our America Initiative" is Maureen Otis, a Texas attorney with deep roots in the far-right Minutemen movement, and with Republican Party voter-suppression dirty tricks. Otis’s Texas law office is listed as the mailing address for Johnson’s "Our America Initiative."Maureen Otis has a long history with far-right anti-immigration vigilante groups. Just a few years ago, Otis served as board secretary for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/spring/shoot-shovel-shut-up/the-groups-a-lis" style="text-decoration: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> described as a "nativist extremist" group that "targets individual immigrants rather than immigration policies." That Minuteman outfit collapsed after donation funds went missing, much of it paid to Maureen Otis’s own private company, "American Caging," a company that specializes in <a href="http://www.americancaging.com/services.html" style="text-decoration: none;">"caging</a> as the name implies."Caging" was used by Bush operatives to suppress the minority vote in 2000 and 2004. Slate offered <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/05/raging_caging.html" style="text-decoration: none;">this definition of vote "caging"</a>:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">"Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress minority voters (who tend to vote Democrat) by getting them knocked off the voter rolls if they fail to answer registered mail sent to homes they aren't living at (because they are, say, at college or at war)."</blockquote>Maureen Otis’ clients for American Caging included nonprofits set up for Alan Keyes, a fundraiser for Jerry Falwell’s Liberty Alliance, and other assorted homophobic Christian groups.So what does the attorney who registered Gary Johnson’s "Our America" outfit really believe, the libertarian end of the Republican spectrum that Johnson represents, or the reactionary extremism of the Minutemen and Christian homophobes she serves?Maureen Otis answered that question herself on her own twitter feed, such as <a href="https://twitter.com/motislaw/status/210198612406304769" style="text-decoration: none;">this June 5 tweet</a> following Scott Walker’s win in the Wisconsin recall:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">"Great news for WI & start of an important trend for Repub's in the fall. Time for everyone to $$ to Romney campaign."</blockquote>If Maureen Otis were the only hard-right operative involved in Gary Johnson’s campaign, her confused allegiances might just seem odd. But as you’ll see, extremist right-wing operatives like Otis are all around Gary Johnson, beginning with the "Our America Initiative" nonprofit that launched his campaign.The lawyer who incorporated the "Our America Initiative" charter documents, an A-list GOP dirty tricks operative from Orange County named Jim Lacy, also worked with and supported the same Minutemen outfits as Maureen Otis. Like her, Jim Lacy also operates a bland-sounding direct-mail business called "slate mail" that targets Democratic voters with mailers purporting to come from fake liberal groups with names like "The John F. Kennedy Alliance" with a soothing photo of JFK on one side, and a slate of supposedly "Democratic" candidates on the other side. In reality, Republican candidates pay to have their names and faces secretly mixed in with the liberal candidates whose names and faces appear to give it a semblance of authenticity. Lacy’s slate order business is, he claims, the largest in the state of California, if not the entire country, and it wreaked so much havoc on California local elections that even Orange County residents revolted with a ballot requiring slate mailers disclose. Lacy fought to have the courts void the will of Orange County’s voters, and the courts agreed, saying that putting restrictions on how badly Lacy could deceive voters violated his First Amendment rights and constituted a form of tyranny.So both lawyers whose names are on Gary Johnson’s main campaign group since 2009 are not only associated with right-wing extremists and violent nativist vigilantes, but more importantly, both of them specialize in fraudulent vote schemes that help their Republican Party clients win elections by deceiving Democratic Party voters.Lacy has been poisoning American politics since his radical-right college years when he was national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom. In recent years, Lacy has been a major backer of anti-immigrant Minutemen groups, Islamophobia, and "birther" conspiracy-theory outfits smearing Obama as a foreign-born Muslim. Lacy co-founded a handful of far-right immigrant-bashing outfits with "Birther" leader Gary Kreep, Orly Taitz’s creepier half in joint lawsuits filed to "expose" Obama’s birth certificate as a fake. Both Kreep and Jim Lacy have provided legal help to Minutemen groups in San Diego, when they were at their violent peak terrorizing homeless illegal migrant workers and vandalizing their shanties.This summer, Jim Lacy opened up his <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/07/gary_kreep_judge_race_birther.php" style="text-decoration: none;">bag of dirty tricks</a> to get Gary Kreep get elected Superior Court judge. How he did it is instructive: On the eve of the San Diego vote, a Lacy outfit bombarded Latinos and Democrats with robocalls claiming that the sitting judge had been releasing drug dealers into their neighborhoods. Kreep won by just over 1,000 votes, and now they might have to someday face a judge who <a href="http://usjf.net/about-2/about-executive-director-gary-kreep/" style="text-decoration: none;">boasts</a> of his pro bono work for the Minutemen.But Gary Kreep is just a warm-up act. Jim Lacy’s much more serious partner in political dirty tricks operations over the past two decades is Citizen United’s co-founder Floyd Brown, a Republican Sasquatch who gets a lot of credit for the notorious Willie Horton race-baiting ads in 1988, designed to scare whites into believing Dukakis would empty out the prisons on weekends and allow black inmates to rape and rob white women. The ad worked.As soon as Obama’s candidacy surged ahead of Hillary in 2008, Lacy and Brown unleashed a barrage of birther-propaganda, and they haven’t let up yet. Their National Campaign Fund outfit produced some of the first "birther" conspiracy commercials, including <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbsihrdn-_s&e" style="text-decoration: none;">"Was He Muslim?".</a> Just days after Obama’s inauguration, Lacy and Brown were running a new campaign, ImpeachObama.com already comparing his first week in office to Hitler and Stalin’s rule.And here is where the Gary Johnson third party Libertarian campaign begins to cross paths with these Republican dirty tricksters. As the first stimulus bill was being debated, Lacy and Brown announced another smear project, <a href="http://www.exposeharry.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">ExposeHarry.com</a>, aimed at weakening Nevada Sen. Harry Reid’s support and turning voters against him in time for the 2010 elections. To understand where Harry Reid was most vulnerable, they hired a Republican polling firm out of Salt Lake City. That polling firm, NSON Opinion Research, is the same polling outfit whose offices serve as Gary Johnson’s Libertarian Party presidential campaign headquarters, and whose founder, Ron Nielson, is Gary Johnson’s campaign chief.Ron Nielson later helped create Gary Johnson’s "Our America Initiative" to launch the start of his campaign for 2012. This nonprofit was incorporated by GOP dirty trickster Jim Lacy, and is represented by far-right activist, "voter caging" specialist and Mitt Romney booster Maureen Otis.It might seem strange to see so many nasty, hard-right dirty tricksters running Johnson’s "principled" campaign, but the notion that Johnson is in any way "liberal" or a friend of progressives is nonsense. Johnson’s liberal creds begin and end with one plank of his platform: legalizing pot.Johnson’s actual record as governor of New Mexico was that of a law and order authoritarian, on the right-wing fringe of the Republican Party. Johnson ran on a “law and order” platform, stiffening prison sentences (while recklessly <a href="http://lubbockonline.com/stories/090299/reg_0902990098.shtml" style="text-decoration: none;">privatizing the prisons</a>), along with a broader program of slashing taxes, slashing social programs, and privatizing schools. He was divisive, and his law and order policies led to some of the worst prison violence in decades.It wasn’t until after Gary Johnson won his second term and final term as New Mexico’s governor, and turned his attention to the national stage, that he had his big epiphany about locking up marijuana smokers. Johnson’s about-face on locking up drug offenders sounded brave and newsworthy to outsiders who didn’t know his record — wow! a pot-friendly Republican governor, how cool! Johnson wanted to make the jump to the national stage, and what easier way than adopting the one popular plank in the Koch brothers’ libertarian political platform, legalizing pot, to make journalists and the public forget about all the grim libertarian policies he’d not only talked about but implemented.The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/20/magazine/he-just-said-no-to-the-drug-war.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm" style="text-decoration: none;">national media elites</a> [fell?]for it, none worse than the aging Baby Boomers at Rolling Stone, whose Tim Dickson <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/meet-gary-johnson-the-gops-invisible-candidate-20110615" style="text-decoration: none;">hailed</a> Gary Johnson as "one of the more honest – and certainly more unorthodox – politicians in the running."Back in New Mexico, reporters who were familiar with the real Gary Johnson were dumbfounded by his hypocrisy, particularly on the drug war. As the Albuquerque Journal <a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle/%E2%80%9Dhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/2/thread2670.shtml%E2%80%9D" style="text-decoration: none;">wrote</a> in 1999:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">'Johnson acknowledged that some of his recent statements, including his belief that people shouldn't be jailed for using drugs, appear to contradict his otherwise hardline stance on crime. During his 1998 re-election campaign, Johnson aired a tough-sounding television commercial in which he said if you commit a crime in New Mexico, you're going to serve "every lousy second" of your prison sentence. "When I made that commercial, I'm thinking about the guy who's got his gun out," Johnson said. "I was never thinking about the guy who did heroin and that's all he did. I wasn't thinking about Robert Downey Jr.," Johnson said, referring to the actor recently sent to prison on drug charges. [Italics mine—M.A.] Johnson said he would veto bills that required additional state spending for new drug-treatment programs because it could result in tax increases. Despite his belief that people should not be sent to jail for using drugs, Johnson said he does not intend to issue any blanket pardons for those serving time in New Mexico jails on drug charges.'</blockquote>Johnson’s drug-legalization cant provided the perfect PR distraction from his real record on crime, which came down to this: privatizing half the prison population, harsh "three strikes your out" sentencing laws, and wetting his beak with <a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Sidebar/Prison-firms-donate-thousands-to-Richardson#.UJa7FGl27R8" style="text-decoration: none;">campaign donations</a> from the same private prison corporation, Wackenhut [renamed "Geo Group"], that Johnson picked to run New Mexico’s private prisons.[For more on Wackenhut backstory and Geo Group abuse today, see Yasha Levine's <a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/deportation-corporation" style="text-decoration: none;">"The Deportation Corporation"</a>.]The result of Johnson's privatized prisons and harsh sentencing laws: a wave of <a href="http://lubbockonline.com/stories/090299/reg_0902990098.shtml" style="text-decoration: none;">prison riots and deaths</a>, the first prison killings in New Mexico since the Santa Fe prison riot in 1980 that left 33 inmates dead.Whereas the 1980 prison riot led to improved conditions for New Mexico inmates and two decades without a single instance of deadly violence, Gov.Johnson's privatization program undid those reforms overnight, sparking violence, riots and death. Johnson's response to the riots on his watch was more violence: he shipped over 100 New Mexico inmates out to a notoriously brutal super-max in Virginia, ignoring <a href="http://lubbockonline.com/stories/090499/reg_0904990028.shtml" style="text-decoration: none;">criticism</a> from Human Rights Watch:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">Virginia's first "super-max" prison... where New Mexico inmates were sent has come under criticism from a human rights group that says prisoners are subject to excessive force by guards, racism and unnecessarily harsh conditions. A Virginia state commission is investigating the allegations, which prison officials say are untrue. "New Mexico is deliberately putting people in a super-max setting who may not warrant it," Jamie Fellner, associate counsel of Human Rights Watch in New York, said Friday.</blockquote>At heart, Gary Johnson espouses views that are largely on the right-wing fringe. That’s always a shock to people because he (and libertarians) expend so much energy hard-selling a few issues that make them look progressive, such as legalizing marijuana and pulling back the American military empire.At the debate in Chicago, both Blumenthal and I were shocked at Johnson’s reactionary stances, and we’re the least gullible-to-libertarian leftists I know. Johnson spent much of his energy railing against the budget deficit, against the Federal Reserve and fiat money, against the income tax and corporate taxes and the IRS, against regulations and against entitlement programs, and so on down the line. When it comes to drugs, Gary Johnson is only for legalizing pot, by which he means making marijuana a states’ rights issue —which could very well mean that most states would continue jailing pot smokers in privatized prisons if they chose to.As for other drugs, Johnson is coy — he won’t say he’s for legalizing or for decriminalizing, he’s somewhat coy and vague, saying he would look at HARM reduction ideas to treat drug addiction as a health problem rather than as a crime. He doesn’t say he would decriminalize; and moreover, if left to the states to decide, most states would likely continue jailing drug offenders and waging drug war on America’s minorities.Compare that with a genuinely radical progressive approach that Rocky Anderson would take: Release all nonviolent federal drug offenders from prison, decriminalize all drugs, and invest government funds into treatment programs. It’s not that hard to say if you genuinely believe it — but Gary Johnson believes cocaine puts holes in your heart, so...Johnson’s team has done a good job of hiding his right wing stances, but they’re not hard to spot when you actually read his platform. For example, Johnson’s "Our America Initiative" website describes his views on defense in a section titled <a href="http://ouramericainitiative.com/issues/defense-and-the-middle-east-war" style="text-decoration: none;">"Defense and the Middle East War"</a> — and here Johnson's views sound like every other Republocrat’s neocon hack, calling for preemptive military action against suspected terrorists, and favoring the use of America’s military to protect Israel:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">"It is important to have a strong defense both at home and abroad. We are each grateful and appreciate those that are involved with our nation’s military. The United States should be protected from terrorism and those that attack America should be brought to justice quickly and efficiently. The United States should be proactive in such matters. We support the right of Israel to exist as a sovereign country and believes that the United States should protect that right militarily if needed."</blockquote>Johnson has tried to stick to the "real progressive" script, but he’s slipped a few times, telling one interviewer that he would <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRlGXuGHfrc" style="text-decoration: none;">keep Guantanamo Bay open</a> and another time <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-1ktig7Pwg" style="text-decoration: none;">supporting American military intervention</a> in Uganda.The real, Republican Gary Johnson was rolled out in late 2009 on a website called <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091104061109/http://www.johnsonforamerica.com/meetgary.php%22" style="text-decoration: none;">"Johnson For America"</a> promoting his candidacy:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">"As Governor, Gary ... dramatically curtailed taxes and spending, (vetoing 750 bills, more than all the vetoes of the other 49 Governors in the country at that time, combined), with only two overrides."</blockquote>When Gary Johnson is selling himself to a Republican or libertarian audience, this is what his pitch really looks like: He’ll go veto-to-veto against any uppity governor who thinks he can out-authoritarian Gary Johnson.Besides vetoing everything, to quote the Johnson for President site, "Some of Governor Johnson’s accomplishments include:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Enacting major welfare reform, which cut government welfare spending by 30%</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shifting state Medicaid to managed care</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Privatizing half of the prisons in the state</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shooting down campaign finance legislation</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Attracting many new private and parochial schools into the state</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Repealing the Little Davis-Bacon Act, thereby allowing non-unionized labor the ability to be employed in construction of new schools and other public works</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Overseeing the construction of 500 miles of new, four-lane highway (designed, financed, built, and guaranteed by the private sector)</li></ul></blockquote>That last corrupt boondoggle about Gov. Johnson’s public-private highway-widening project is something I would’ve advised him to leave off that list, and scrub from the record as thoroughly as possible. This highway widening project has been attacked by everyone in New Mexico on both sides of the aisle, because rather than spending highway funds wisely, Gov. Johnson blew a giant hole in New Mexico’s budget by handing the project over to a Koch Industries asphalt subsidiary, earning the billionaire brothers <a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.ibjonline.com/print_modot_director_pete_rahn.html%E2%80%9D" style="text-decoration: none;">tens of millions of dollars</a>, while nearly <a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle/%E2%80%9D" http="" www.claimsjournal.com="" news="" west="" htm="htm" style="text-decoration: none;">bankrupting New Mexico’s budget</a> and depriving the state of funds for roads in rural areas.The Koch Industries-Gary Johnson road boondoggle was such a shocking example of bad, corrupt, Third World government, that the Albuquerque Journal published a multi-part investigative series exposing the scams, followed by a special 24-page summary report titled <a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle/%E2%80%9D" http="" www.abqjournal.com="" nm44="" nm44.pdf="" style="text-decoration: none;">“Four Lane Politics”</a> that begins:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">Why We Did The Series The widening of 118 miles of N.M. 44 from San Ysidro to the Four Corners area is the biggest road project in New Mexico history. At a cost of $420 million, including financing, it is also the most expensive. The Johnson administration says its plan is so innovative it could change the way states handle highway construction projects. Critics call it a disaster in the making. Journal investigative reporters found that highway officials jumped the project ahead of other needed road work and entered into a questionable warranty deal at a cost of $62 million. They also found that the only company [Koch Industries] to bid on the project proposed it in the first place.</blockquote>The road-widening cost the state $345 million, which Gov. Johnson covered by tapping a federal bond program giving the state 20 years to pay back the interest. So the “principled” budget-conscious libertarian governor forced his state deep into debt to pay for a campaign donor's pork barrel project, and the only way he could raise that much debt was to go to Washington DC and borrow everything he could against the state, sticking the <a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/new-mexico-poverty-rates_n_1881321.html" style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 252); text-decoration: none;">poorest state</a> in America with the bill: $345 million for construction of the road, plus another $142 million in interest on those bonds. It will take New Mexico's residents twenty years to pay off what was essentially a transfer of a half-billion dollars from New Mexico's residents' wallets into the Kochs brothers' offshore accounts.The Upshot: The Kochs bankrolled Gary Johnson’s 1998 campaign, and they helped make him a national figure by PRing his name through their libertarian think-tanks like the <a href="http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/libertarian-gary-johnson-spoiler-alert" style="text-decoration: none;">Cato Institute</a>.The Downside: Less money available to pay for New Mexico’s public schools, food programs, Medicare, parks, and all the other roads and infrastructure.Which is to say, no downside if you’re Gary Johnson or Charles Koch. Which you’re not. So vote for Gary Johnson, because he’s unconventional. He's for marijuana.<center style="background-color: rgb(253, 252, 252);"> </center>That’s the real, unvarnished Gary Johnson, as opposed to the fantasy hero in David Weigel’s open-throated comparison of Gary Johnson to <a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/04/americas_next_top_libertarian.html%E2%80%9C" style="text-decoration: none;">“Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots”</a>.Once you get past the PR branded version of Gary Johnson and just see him for the conventional hard-right Republican he really is, you're no longer so surprised to learn that the people running Johnson’s presidential campaign were themselves big-name GOP political operatives — the darkest and the dirtiest operatives in the GOP cellar.Exhibit A: Roger Stone, a self-described “GOP hitman” with a giant tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face etched across his back. Roger Stone —the skeeziest, meanest, most flamboyant and most Russian-nihilistic of any Republican dirty trickster working the field going back a few decades, the Satanic Zelig of Republican black ops, who’s had a hand in just about every major GOP election crime you’ve heard of, and lots more you haven’t heard of. Everyone seems to have forgotten already, but last spring, Roger Stone made a big public stink about how he’s fed up with the Republican Party and the two-party stranglehold, and joined Gary Johnson’s Libertarian Party campaign. Pro bono. Because democratic idealism and principles are what Roger Stone is all about.Let’s see if this makes any sense in the context of Roger Stone’s record. Starting with the 1972 Nixon re-election campaign, when a hippie-bashing college student named Roger Stone joined Nixon’s dirty tricks team, and impressed them with stunts like planting a fake check from the Socialist Party in a rival’s campaign fund kitty, then leaking that story to the press... Or planting a spy in Hubert Humphrey’s campaign and seeing to it that his spy becomes Hubert Humphrey’s favorite driver on the campaign trail...Roger Stone had a hand in the "Willie Horton" ad; he masterminded the Florida "yuppie riot" on James Baker’s behalf, halting the recount long enough to let William Rehnquist decide the elections; and although he won’t admit it on record yet, Roger Stone is most likely responsible for destroying Dan Rather’s career by planting the fake National Guard documents on his producer.That’s a small sampler, but it’s enough to make anyone with a functioning brain realize that when Roger Stone’s says he’s suddenly decided he’s had a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-stone/goodbye-to-the-republican_1_b_1289339.html" style="text-decoration: none;">political awakening</a> and he’s now a hardcore libertarian doing volunteer "pro bono" political consulting for Gary Johnson’s campaign... you better assume he’s not telling you the whole story. The whole story is absurd, but obviously Roger Stone is onto something by offering the media such a hack storyline, knowing that precisely because it’s so Hollywood unreal, the Manhattan media elites will swallow it hook, line and sinker.To see a perfect example of American media gullibility, read Mark Warren’s attempt at magazine-edgy prose in his Esquire dispatch on Roger Stone called <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/roger-stone-interview-rnc-2012-12175013" style="text-decoration: none;">"Roger Stone To GOP: Payback’s A Bitch"</a>. It’s his Ivy Leaguer "bitch" that makes it so authentically awful—it’s like he’s found a way to outfit his magazine prose with a black leather jacket. The piece reads as though he’s in on the joke Roger Stone is playing on the two-party system, when in all likelihood Warren himself is the mark, a sucker to keep distracted while Stone does what he does best: fixing elections, voter fraud, electoral theft, all-around sleaze.Which brings me to the one Roger Stone story which now has four-alarm relevance to this election, and to his decision to work for Gary Johnson’s third party candidacy. I’m surprised this episode isn’t talked about more, but that could be because it’s far too disturbing in a serious not-fun way, especially compared to Stone’s more rock’n’roll public stunts, which give guys like Mark Warren and Dave Weigel a hard-on.This episode comes from a rather candid interview Roger Stone gave to the Weekly Standard in a 2007, and in it he describes how the most effective election fraud trick of all is using a credible Third Party candidate to split the opposition’s vote. In 1980, Stone’s candidate was Ronald Reagan, and his enemy was incumbent president Jimmy Carter. The wild card in the 1980 election was a popular Illinois liberal Republican named John Anderson, who lost in the primaries against Reagan and decided to run against him and Carter anyway, given his popularity and disgust with both Reagan and Carter.John Anderson’s biggest problem was getting his name on the ballots. Roger Stone realized that if Anderson could get on the New York state ballot, it could split the liberal vote and hand the electoral prize to Ronald Reagan. So Stone seeks help from a political operative so evil he makes Roger Stone look like a Mormon: Roy Cohn, Sen. McCarthy’s right-hand henchman during the Red-baiting hearings. Cohn brings a mobster named Fat Tony Solerno with him, and they ask Roger Stone what his problem is and how they might help.Roger Stone’s problem was simple: He wanted to get "Mr. Clean" outsider John Anderson on the New York state ballot as a third party candidate to drain votes from Carter, but there wasn’t nearly enough time to make it happen. Most people were led to believe that Anderson would naturally split the Republican vote, but that wasn’t the case at all. Privately, polls showed that in tight state races, Anderson’s candidacy caused far more damage to Carter than to Reagan. Here, I’ll quote from the article this <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/278vjcro.asp" style="text-decoration: none;">amazing episode</a> about how Roger Stone stole New York for Ronald Reagan:<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 25px 29px; background-image: url(" img="img" chrome="chrome" bq-bottom-right.png="bq-bottom-right.png" url="url" bq-bottom-left.png="bq-bottom-left.png" bq-top-right.png="bq-top-right.png" bq-top-left.png="bq-top-left.png" background-position="background-position" right="right" bottom="bottom" left="left" top="top" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color">Stone, who going back to his class elections in high school has been a proponent of recruiting patsy candidates to split the other guy's support, remembers suggesting to Cohn that if they could figure out a way to make John Anderson the Liberal party nominee in New York, with Jimmy Carter picking up the Democratic nod, Reagan might win the state in a three-way race. "Roy says, 'Let me look into it.'" Cohn then told [Fat Tony Salerno], "'You need to go visit this lawyer'--a lawyer who shall remain nameless--'and see what his number is.' I said, 'Roy, I don't understand.' Roy says, 'How much cash he wants, dumbf--.'" Stone balked when he found out the guy wanted $125,000 in cash to grease the skids, and Cohn wanted to know what the problem was. Stone told him he didn't have $125,000, and Cohn said, "That's not the problem. How does he want it?" Cohn sent Stone on an errand a few days later. "There's a suitcase," Stone says. "I don't look in the suitcase . . . I don't even know what was in the suitcase . . . I take the suitcase to the law office. I drop it off. Two days later, they have a convention. Liberals decide they're endorsing John Anderson for president. It's a three-way race now in New York State. Reagan wins with 46 percent of the vote. I paid his law firm. Legal fees. I don't know what he did for the money, but whatever it was, the Liberal party reached its right conclusion out of a matter of principle." I ask him how he feels about this in retrospect. He seems to feel pretty good--now that certain statutes of limitations are up[...] "Reagan got the electoral votes in New York State, we saved the country," Stone says with characteristic understatement. "[More] Carter would've been an unmitigated disaster."</blockquote>Sounds familiar, don’t it? Just substitute "Libertarian" for "Liberal Party," "Obama" for "Carter," and "Gary Johnson" for "John Anderson" and you can see what Stone might really have had in mind when he announced earlier this year that he was at last dumping the terrible Republican Party.

hmmn<a href="https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/libertarian-gary-johnson-very-confused-about-student-loans/">https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/libertarian-gary-johnson-very-confused-about-student-loans/</a>=By Alexander Holt
AUG. 2, 2016
Do the stated positions on higher education policy from both major presidential candidates leave you feeling sad, and like you are choosing between two bad options? Maybe you could vote for Gary Johnson, candidate for the Libertarian Party and former governor of New Mexico. Yes you would throw away your vote, but perhaps he has some smart things to say about higher education.
He does not.
Johnson is deeply confused about higher education policy. He believes that the reason college costs are so high is because of the “guaranteed government student loans.”
Linking college costs to federal aid is not a fringe theory—it’s called the Bennett hypothesis, named after Ronald Reagan’s education secretary, and there’s some evidence that federal student loans may lead to increased tuition (although it’s not the main reason costs have increased). But what’s worrying about Johnson’s statement is that he called federal student loans “guaranteed.” That word has a very particular meaning in federal student loan policy, and it refers to a program that was abolished in 2010.
Before 2010, banks would issue student loans and the federal government would “guarantee” those loans. That program was wasteful corporate welfare, and the government saved billions of dollars per year when it switched to loans issued directly by the federal government.
Granted, new federal loans are still “guaranteed” by the government, but that’s a very strange word to use in light of the program’s history. Why not call them “government” or “federal” loans? It suggests that Gary Johnson simply hasn’t read up on the federal student loan program since 2010. Which is… concerning.
But it gets worse. Johnson has publicly stated that he’s in favor of reducing interest rates on federal student loans, which is also known as “refinancing”.
I would really take a hard look at how students might, I don't know, receive some sort of benefit or reduced interest rate. I mean, if we can--if the Federal Reserve can bail out all the big banks, it seems to me that we might arrange lower interest rates for these loans to get paid back.So here’s a guy who believes that federal student loans shouldn’t exist and are the primary cause of increasing college costs. But he also believes that we should offer lower interest rates on those existing loans. A recent estimate suggests refinancing would cost taxpayers $55 billion. Not only is refinancing expensive, but it’s also highly regressive because borrowers who have the highest level of debt (and thus benefit the most from interest rate reductions) have college degrees and tend to earn higher incomes than the rest of the population.
Except Johnson seems to believe it would cost nothing because maybe the Federal Reserve could do it. And in that way, Johnson is also keeping company with Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who wants to erase all student debt using quantitative easing. Jordan Weismann at Slate does a great job of explaining why Stein’s proposal makes no sense. As far as Johnson’s statement goes: the main bailout of the banks came from Congress, not the Federal Reserve. And I can’t quite figure out what Johnson would expect the Federal Reserve to do. Also, Johnson can’t tell the Federal Reserve what to do.
Even more confusing, Johnson doesn’t believe the Federal Reserve should exist.
By the way, Gary Johnson also wants to abolish the Department of Education. As I’ve written before, that idea has become more popular in recent years, but also leads to difficult question. Does Johnson, who wants vouchers for K-12 schools, really want to get rid of Pell grant program, the most successful and popular voucher program ever? Given what he’s said so far about student loan policy, I’m not sure I want to know his answer. <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/why-college-so-expensive-libertarian-gary-johnson-wants-eliminate-education-2383517">http://www.ibtimes.com/why-college-so-expensive-libertarian-gary-johnson-wants-eliminate-education-2383517</a>
...Gary Johnson, former Republican governor of New Mexico and the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate, recently explained to International Business Times how he would tackle the United States' education system. Watch the exclusive video above and read his comments below on eliminating the federal Education Department and changing the way tuition works.
International Business Times: You just mentioned eliminating the IRS. I know you've also proposed that, if you were president, you would get rid of the Department of Education — which is something that's obviously of great interest to my generation. Well, how would that work? Could you kind of walk me through your thoughts?
Gary Johnson: Let me walk you through this one. OK. New York City. Washington, D.C. Here's New York City. New York City sends Washington, D.C., 13 cents. OK? [It] goes to Washington, D.C., and it comes back to New York state as 11 cents. Gee, how does that transaction work? Something happened. Bureaucracy happened. All right. And then, they send 11 cents back. So 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends comes from the federal government, but it comes with 15 cents' worth of the strings attached, meaning they say, "To get the 11 cents, we want you to do A, B, C and D." Well, to do A, B, C and D, that's 4 cents that the state could have spent in ways that it saw fit. But now it's got to comply with the federal government to receive it.
So if none of this transaction ever occurred in the first place, a dollar would get spent in New York in ways that New Yorkers would have wanted to spend that money. Doesn't that make sense?
IBT: It does make sense. I know they [Congress] just recently passed an education law that returns a lot of that federal control to the local level. You want to go even further than that.
Johnson: So they're going to return more control. Why should they have any control at all in the first place? That's my point. I think we have this notion that the Department of Education was established under George Washington, when it was established under Jimmy Carter.
This also leads to another topic, which is: Why is the cost of college tuition so high?
Related StoriesLibertarian Gary Johnson Says He’s Third-Party ChoiceLibertarians Angle For Mainstream SupportIBT: I was going to ask you that next.
Johnson: It's guaranteed government student loans. If guaranteed government student loans never existed, tuition today would be half of what it is, because colleges and universities would have to go out and attract you as a student. And they would have to be as effective and efficient as everything else in our lives. But because you are guaranteed a government student loan, you have no excuse to not go to college. Colleges' and universities' tuition keeps going up. They have absolutely no reality with regard to their pricing. If every college student tomorrow says, "I'm not going to go to college until the price of college, university education drops," guess what? It would. It would happen. It would happen dramatically.
And I am sorry that college graduates today have been sold a bill of goods. Graduating with college with a home mortgage without the home. I think college students have been sold a bill of goods.

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Gary Johnson on Corporations

Libertarian presidential nominee; former Republican NM Governor

Eliminate double taxation embodied in business income taxes

Governor Johnson advocates the elimination of tax subsidies, the double taxation embodied in business income taxes, and ultimately, the replacement of all income and payroll taxes with a single consumption tax that will allow every American and every business to determine their tax burden by making their own spending decisions. Taxes on purchases for basic necessities would be "prebated", with all other purchases taxed equally regardless of income, status or purpose.

Many leading economists have long advocated such a shift in the way we are taxed, and Gary Johnson believes the time has come to eliminate the punishing tax code we have today and replace it with a system that rewards productivity, investment & savings. The IRS as we know it today would no longer be necessary, and Americans would no longer need to live in fear of the force of government being wielded under the guise of tax collection.

Source: 2016 presidential campaign website GaryJohnson2016.com , Jan 11, 2016

Built Big J Enterprises into leading construction company

With a lot of help from many dedicated employees, we grew Big J Enterprises into a multi-million dollar corporation.

By the time I sold the company in 1999, it was one of New Mexico's leading construction companies, grossing $20 million a year. We had grown from a door-to-door business to a multi-million dollar corporation, ranked as high as #34 on the New Mexico Private 100 companies list.

When I sold the business, I made enough money that I wouldn't have to work ever again. I'd earned true freedom

Source: Seven Principles, by Gary Johnson, p. 19 , Aug 1, 2012

Visited Occupy Wall Street; we need radical surgery

With the real unemployment rate probably well above 10 percent, we have to, as President Kennedy said, "get America moving again." When I visited Occupy Wall Street, I felt the frustration of young people who wanted to work but couldn't get an interview, much less a job. What's even more frustrating is that when I visit business owners and employers, I meet people who want to hire, but can't.

Meanwhile, the federal government is spending us deeper and deeper into debt while we shell out billions in foreign aid we can no longer afford and trillions more for foreign wars in which our national interest is just not apparent to me.

Republicans and Democrats have both failed to respond to this reality. In order to create jobs now, we need radical surgery, not a haircut.

Source: Gary Johnson, "America moving again" in The Washington Times , Feb 2, 2012

Started a one-man handyman business; grew it to 1,000 people

Q: You are an outspoken libertarian. What makes you a better choice for libertarian Republicans than Congressman Paul?

A: I bring a unique perspective to this stage. I started a one-man handyman business in Albuquerque in 1974 and grew it to over 1,000 employees. I have run for two political offices in my life: governor of New Mexico and reelection. I promise to submit a balanced budget to congress in the year 2013. I promise to veto legislation where expenditures exceed revenue.

Source: 2011 GOP Google debate in Orlando FL , Sep 22, 2011

Eliminate corporate income tax as real way to create jobs

Q: Why are you running for president?

A: I'm the only candidate that is talking about a balanced budget in the year 2013 and eliminating a corporate income tax as the real way to create jobs.

Q: Why's that?

A: Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it and you would have an explosion of hiring. As a corporation, why wouldn't you base your business in the United States--and the jobs that went along with that--with no corporate tax? The advantage to not taxing corporations would be an advantage to all of us.

Q: But the biggest advantage would go to the best off. It would be much cheaper for corporations to pay out to shareholders.

A: Exactly. That income would get distributed to shareholders, at which point it would get taxed.

Source: Tim Dickinson in Rolling Stone Magazine , Jun 15, 2011

Lower the tax burden; eliminate corporate tax

Americans are more concerned than ever before about the future of our economy, and those concerns are well-founded. As a nation, we simply can't afford to continue borrowing 43 cents out of every dollar we spend. The US must adopt 3 approaches:

Cut Spending: We must restrain spending across the board.

Cut Taxes: The US tax system imposes an enormous toll on productivity through high marginal rates, absurd complexity, loopholes for the well-connected, and incentives for wasteful decisions. The government must lower the tax burden to stimulate the economy.

Eliminate punitive taxation of savings and investment.

Simplify the tax code; stop using it to reward special interests and control behavior.

Eliminate the corporate income tax so that America will once again be a great place to start a business.

Reduce Federal Involvement in the Economy.

Source: Presidential campaign website, garyjohnson2012.com, "Issues" , May 2, 2011

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