{"id":17102,"date":"2012-09-27T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T05:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17102"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:30:56","slug":"gary-johnson-profile-in-businessweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/gary-johnson-profile-in-businessweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Johnson profile in <em>Businessweek<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s still struggling to get on the last three state ballots (Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Oklahoma), but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-09-20\/spoiler-alert-meet-gary-johnson-libertarian\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Johnson<\/a> does offer a very different vision than BaraMitt Obamney:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gary Johnson was governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003. He made a name for himself by vetoing 750 bills that didn\u2019t meet his standards for thrift. Before that, Johnson made a fortune in construction, starting as a solo Albuquerque handyman in 1974 and selling his 1,000-employee company, Big J Enterprises, for $10 million in 1999. Johnson likes to ski, hike, and cycle. He has completed 75 triathlons and climbed Mt. Everest while healing from a broken leg. Also, he is running for president.<\/p>\n<p>While Representative Ron Paul (R-Tex.) carried the Libertarian flame all the way to the Republican convention this summer, it\u2019s Johnson, not Paul, who\u2019s on the ballot as the Libertarian candidate in 47 states \u2014 and making his case in courts to get on in the remaining three. (According to Richard Winger, editor of <em>Ballot Access News<\/em>, Pennsylvania is likely, Michigan a maybe, Oklahoma almost impossible.) \u201cNo other third party is going to come close to that,\u201d Johnson says.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson began the race as a Republican. His antiwar, pro-gay marriage, pro-marijuana legalization message could not get traction in a primary race led, at one time or another in the polls, by every other candidate \u2014 except Paul. \u201cI thought it was going to be hard to marginalize two people talking about the same thing,\u201d says Johnson. \u201cI just got excluded.\u201d (During a Fox News [&#8230;] debate he did manage to get into, Johnson drew applause when he said, \u201cMy next-door neighbors\u2019 two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.\u201d) So Johnson became a Libertarian. While the party has no one in national office, it\u2019s good at getting on ballots. \u201cThey know how hard ballot access is, and they\u2019ve got people who have been doing it for years,\u201d says Micah Sifry, author of <em>Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s still struggling to get on the last three state ballots (Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Oklahoma), but Gary Johnson does offer a very different vision than BaraMitt Obamney: Gary Johnson was governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003. He made a name for himself by vetoing 750 bills that didn\u2019t meet his standards for thrift. 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