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A blogger at the Daily Kos who calls himself “halfasspete” (a handle which seems appropriate to this columnist), has written an article in which he argues that libertarian activist Pete Jacob, the subject of the article, has “corrupted” the ballot initiative system.

Ol’ halfasspete is incensed that Jacob’s arrest isn’t getting more press saying, “Jacob is one of the key players in the rapidly accelerating movement to pass cookie-cutter, far right bills by initiative and referendum all over the country. Spending caps that kill schools and other vital services, term limits for judges and state legislators, the destruction of land use regulation…and that’s just the beginning.”

Gaming is where the 50 states do their best to keep the Libertarian Party off the ballot, although we routinely succeed in getting on it anyway at great personal cost. Literally 1/2 of the Libertarian Party’s entire national budget gets spent every four years just trying to get on the ballot and deal with the huge mountain of ballot access laws placed in our way. That, of course, leaves no money left over after other party expenses to spend on things like getting our message out.

These stories really need to be heard. You will often hear how 3rd parties never win and that’s because they are too outside the mainstream. Too bad that can’t be verified because of the blatantly bias ballot laws.

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