The following links are permanent, because they are based on the candidate’s FEC registration number, so those interested in such things may want to bookmark them (or bookmark this page, whichever is easier). Each candidate page lists links to contributions, reports, and all kinds of interesting things.
What I found most interesting of all, though, is that the much-touted Wayne Allyn Root is not even registered with the FEC as a candidate, libertarian or otherwise. Dondero isn’t registered with the FEC for his alleged run against Ron Paul, either.
George Phillies: One contributor has donated over $1000. It appears that Dr. Phillies has donated much more to his own campaign than what I originally thought. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s interesting if his own contributions are being counted in overall contributions for the quarter for comparison purposes with other LP candidates.
Steve Kubby: Three contributors have donated over $1000 each; two of them have given $2000. Kubby has not contributed any funds to his own campaign, and that’s okay too.
Christine Smith: One person has contributed $2000. Ms. Smith also received an individual contribution from someone who works for the Oregon LP. She has not contributed to her own campaign.
Mike Jingozian: Jingozian has received no contributions.
Alden Link: Link is registered with the FEC as a Republican presidential candidate. He has received no contributions.
Bob Jackson: Jackson has received no contributions.
Daniel Imperato: Imperato is registered with the FEC as an Independent. He has received no contributions.
Barry Hess: Not registered with FEC
Wayne Allyn Root: Not registered with FEC
Robert Milnes: Not registered with FEC
Dave Hollist: Not registered with FEC
John Finan: Not registered with FEC
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The maximum is now $2,300, not $2,000 anymore.
Thanks, Paulie; I corrected it.
I’m not sure how far back the report goes, but I was given to understand that Mr. Whitfield also contributed some money prior to the $1,500. If true, that would mean three separate people – not two – have given Steve at least $2k each for the presidential campaign.
Where do these people come from? I need to add Dave Hollist and Barry Hess to my Independents. Some of the others I don’t have on the list do not seem to have a website. Maybe someone dropped out…
Mr. Whitfield is a true mensch — a max contributor to the Kubby campaign, and a contributor to many other Libertarian campaigns as well (I don’t know if he’s “maxed out” on the others or not). I don’t know that he particularly likes having that information thrown around, but since has to be reported to the FEC and since someone brought it up …
… is the error in the FEC report? Or did ElfNinosMom just miss that one? It would have been easy to — his first contribution was in either the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2006 (4th, I think).
A number of Libertarians have contributed to more than one of the LP presidential campaigns. Presumably their interest in contributing is advancing the party, regardless of their personal candidate preferences. Which, of course, is very cool.
George Phillies
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_ind/P80003080
Steve Kubby
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_ind/P00004671
Christine Smith
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_ind/P80003403
I didn’t pay much attention to the names, Tom. I just took a quick look at the current figures listed, then threw the links up with a very short synopsis.
Hiya, Professor, great to see you here again. Let’s see if I can try to answer your question ……
George Phillies (actually Dr. George Phillies) is an MIT-educated Physicist, who now teaches Physics and Game Design at Worcester Polytechnic. He’s also a highly respected longtime libertarian activist. Uber-smart, uber-nice guy. I’d hang out and wax philosophical with Dr. P anytime. http://www.phillies2008.org
Steve Kubby is a medical marijuana activist, another nice guy, no small beans in the brains department either. He suffers from a rare form of adrenal cancer which is controlled by cannabis. He’s very politically active, very respected, and once ran for Governor of California as a Libertarian. I’d party with Steve. http://www.kubby2008.com
Christine Smith is fairly new to the LP, and is a writer apparently best known for writing some stuff about Gore Vidal. She’s also a wannabe model-slash-actress, which I find quite amusing for a presidential candidate. She strikes me as the type of woman who’d badmouth me behind my back, though, so I wouldn’t hang out with her. http://www.christinesmithforpresident.com
Alden Link: I really don’t know much about him except that his website says he’s a libertarian candidate, but he registered with the FEC as a Republican candidate. I’d like to meet him, if only to find out why he’s running as a libertarian. http://www.link-for-pres.org New website under construction at http://www.linkforpresident.com
Bob Jackson: He’s definitely libertarian, has business experience, and owns a lot of patents. Other than that, I really don’t know much about him at this point. I’d have lunch with him, because he seems like he’s had an interesting life. http://www.bobjackson.org
Michael Imperato: Certifiable. LOL He claims to be buying Chrysler although they won’t even let him see the offering documents, claims to at one time have been a billionaire on paper, and sends out his own press releases wherein he refers to himself in the third person. You definitely want to take a look at this wacky candidate. I wouldn’t hang out with Imperato, but I’d point and laugh at him. He doesn’t really have a website for his candidacy, but he has his own website which sends out some pretty weird press releases, most of which can be seen at http://openpr.com/news/archive/15477/i1connect.html
I did a humorous write-up on Imperato for LFV, in which I compared him with former LP presidential candidate Gene Chapman. That can be seen at http://www.lastfreevoice.com/2007/06/08/imperato-and-chapman-wacky-lp-candidates-separated-at-birth/
Barry Hess: Previously ran for other offices, including governor, as a libertarian. Seems to be a nice enough guy, and has support among libertarians, but I honestly don’t know a lot about him at this point and he doesn’t have a presidential website that I can find. I’d like to meet him, though, based on a video I saw from his gubernatorial candidacy, because he seems like a really nice person.
Wayne Allyn Root: He’s a Vegas oddsmaker. He also has a website called millionairerepublican.com, so I have no idea why he’s running as a libertarian. He’s very charismatic though, and does infomercials. I wouldn’t hang out with him, but I’d hang up on him if he called to sell me something. His presidential site is at http://www.rootforamerica.com
Robert Milnes: He has run for the LP presidential nomination several terms in a row. He’s quite brilliant albeit eccentric, but a nice guy from what I can tell. I’d like to meet Robert some day, he’s had a very unusual life. http://www.robertmilnes4president2008.com/
Dave Hollist: His website starts out with “I don’t want to waste your time” then he writes a veritable manifesto. LOL I can’t even stand to read his entire website, so hanging out with him and remaining conscious is probably out of the question. http://i.am/trading
John Finan: No idea, I can’t even find a website for him, so I couldn’t hang out with him even if I wanted to do so.
Mike Jingozian is a Green/Libertarian fusion candidate. He wants to forward libertarian ideals, while also concentrating on the environment and global warming. I like his ideas, but I wouldn’t hang out with him because New Agers creep me out. http://www.resetamerica.com
As far as I know, they’re all still running for president. I’ve put some videos of candidates on our official Last Free Voice myspace, http://www.myspace.com/.last_free_voice if you want to take a gander.
The question was how many contributors at or over 2K each candidate has. The names are already in the reports, previously linked in the entry.
I don’t know if the error is in the report or if the report does not go back far enough to cover that, although it goes back to at least Sep. 2006.
ENM
It’s Daniel Imperato, and he does in fact have a presidential website.
http://imperato2008.com
ElfNinos Mom writes:” Ms. Smith also received an individual contribution from someone who works for the Oregon LP. ”
That was from Richard Burke, the outgoing Executive Director, who was with the Jingozian campaign and apparently no longer is. This may have been to help pay for her trip to the Oregon Convention in March.
MHW
Paulie: Where the heck did I get “Michael Imperato”? Wait a minute, I must have been thinking about Michael Imperioli, who played Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, LOL
For the record, Imperioli is a hottie, so I’d definitely hang out with him.
Paulie’s absolutely right, the candidate’s name is Daniel Imperato. I forgot he has a website. I even signed up for updates months ago, but have never received any.
He’s still certifiable, though. LOL
Michael H. Wilson: Thanks for the explanation. I had no idea beyond that the donation was made, and I didn’t see any similar donations.
No similar contribution from Burke or the Oregon LP was made to other candidates who attended that convention, and this was prior to his involvement with Jingozian, so I am assuming it meant he was a Smith supporter at that time. I have no idea regarding his fallout with Jingozian or whom he supports now.
One (sort of) correction, one “yes, very” –
Christine Smith is indeed a Gore Vidal fan, but as an author the only book-length work of hers of which I am aware is Mountain in the Wind: The Spirituality of John Denver. What was that you said about New Agers?
And: Yes, Barry Hess is a nice guy — a very nice guy, and a lot of fun to hang out with.
I’ve actually had dinner with Bob Jackson a couple of times. For some real unfortunate reasons, his campaign has basically fizzled before it had a chance to really get started. I won’t go into details. It would be nice if everything can pull together for him but I feel time is running out.
“An Exploration of the Spirituality of John Denver”? That book almost puts me to sleep just from reading the title, LOL! Just out of curiosity I looked up the publisher (http://store.findhornpress.com/HostedStore.LassoApp), and they sell exclusively New Age crap. Then I looked the book up on Amazon, and saw that many people not only seriously disliked it, but actually hated it; and very interestingly for our purposes, some thought Christine was a real weirdo, after reading the book.
Here are some review excerpts:
Okay, so that’s yet another reason why I wouldn’t hang out with Christine. LOL
In fact, after reading those reviews, combined with the wannabe model/actress crap, I’m kinda tempted to toss her into the wackjob category.
I dunno, she’s kinda cute. Plus I dig a chubby chick.
A quid pro quo for the second ballot is not out of the question, but I’d hate to place myself in the same moral and inellectual category as all those women who voted for Bill Clinton and John Kerry just because they thought they were cute. Even more disturbing was that I heard some of them voted for Dubai-ya or the same reason.
Oh, hell, who am I kidding? Christine can probably get my vote if Kubby is out and she wants the nomination badly enough to earn it. I’m scared of those teeth though.
I’ve never heard anyone say they voted for John Kerry because he was cute. He looks like Lirch from the Addam’s Family got pistol whipped and subsequently roasted on an open fire.
Why is it that if a male candidate is “attractive” that’s an asset, but if a female candidate enters the room it’s time for the guys to talk about whether or not they’d do her?
1) In politics, being female can be an asset if for no other reason than that the “glass ceiling” hasn’t been broken yet. There are fewer female than male candidates, so they tend to stand out more.
2) In politics, being attractive is an asset. Smith is, in general, attractive. I’m not speaking to sexuality per se (that’s a highly individual judgment and I decline to offer my own evaluation), but from what I’ve seen/heard she is within the normal human weight range, doesn’t have visible leprosy, knows not to show up at a candidate forum in a torn pair of jeans and an old tie-dye, has a pleasing voice, etc.
3) To the extent that she is interested in acting/modeling, she has presumably picked up some useful skills in speaking, personal presentation, conquering stage fright, etc. Those don’t hurt.
All other things being equal, I’d probably support the attractive female in any political contest whether I fantasized about doing her or not. I don’t support Smith because I find other things (policy positions, presentation, etc.) unequal.
I was mostly being facetious. I’m not really all that interested in Christine, and as far as I know she is in a long term relationship anyway.
Her positions are mostly OK. From an ideological standpoint she would be an acceptable candidate – probably better than Phillies and certainly better than Root.
I’ve heard some people say that she is unresponsive and/or very arrogant, and the John Denver book seems a bit weird.
Mostly, my concerns are that she is not a known quantity. I would prefer an LP presidential candidate who has been active in the party and/or the movement prior to this cycle, and if possible one who has run for lower level office before. For that reason, my second choice at this time is probably Phillies – even though I probably disagree with him on more issues than Smith.