{"id":190,"date":"2004-06-01T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2004-06-01T09:04:44","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T17:04:44","slug":"libertarian-nominee-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/01\/libertarian-nominee-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian nominee chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embarassing though it may be, I watched the Libertarian national convention for no less than 3-4 hours on CSPAN, Sunday.  There were 3 major contenders &#8211; Aaron Russo, Michael Badnarik, and Gary Nolan.  (There were a few votes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadvocates.org\/celebrities\/drew-carey.html\">Drew Carey<\/a> also, incidentally).<\/p>\n<p>The candidate who&#8217;s campaign manager <a href=\"http:\/\/tlianza.subaverage.com\/mt\/archives\/000718.html\">stayed at my apartment<\/a> a few months ago was Gary Nolan, so I was routing for him for the most part.  After the first round of voting, it was extremely close.  Russo had 258 delegate votes, Badnarik had 256, and I think Nolan was 10 or so behind Badnarik.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the part where I left and went to <a href=\"http:\/\/microcenter.com\/at_the_stores\/cambridge.html\">Microcenter<\/a> for an hour, and then missed the events that transpired before the second round of voting:  Nolan conceeded the race, and encouraged his supporters to vote for Badnarik.  When I returned, I saw Badnarik end up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/2004\/May\/05312004\/nation_w\/171375.asp\">winning the race<\/a>.   Apparently he did very well in the debate the day before.<\/p>\n<p>So, for those of you even moderately interested in the Libertarian party, a good way to help out would be to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badnarik.org\/collect.html\">donate<\/a> a few bucks to Badnarik.  He must be a good guy &#8211; he&#8217;s a computer programmer after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embarassing though it may be, I watched the Libertarian national convention for no less than 3-4 hours on CSPAN, Sunday. There were 3 major contenders &#8211; Aaron Russo, Michael Badnarik, and Gary Nolan. (There were a few votes for Drew Carey also, incidentally). The candidate who&#8217;s campaign manager stayed at my apartment a few months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-34","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}