No matter the results of the Nov. 6 election, the Libertarian presidential campaign duo of Gary Johnson and Jim Gray, the retired Orange County superior court judge, plan to run again for the White House in 2016.
Gray, Johnson's vice presidential running mate, told a crowd this month at Tulane University that the two men have already decided a second run–next time with plenty of planning–is critical to break the stranglehold the two major political parties exercise over failed foreign and domestic policies.
Calling President Barack Obama and Democrats “financially irresponsible” and Mitt Romney and Republicans “socially intolerant,” Gray predicted voters will warm to Libertarian ideas as a route to escape present day “bipolar politics.”
]
After being locked out of the four presidential and vice presidential
debates, Johnson–a former popular Republican governor of New Mexico and
outspoken advocate of reducing the size and power of the federal
government–won six percent of the vote in a recent national poll.
Gray
is urging California residents not to waste their votes on Romney
because Obama will undoubtedly win the state and its 55-member electoral
college delegation. Instead, he is arguing that voters can buy real
future change by supporting his party's ticket, which might qualify for 2016 federal
matching funds (and thus easier state by state ballot access) if Johnson nabs
at least five percent of the nationwide vote next month.
Gray, a
longtime Republican before switching affiliation, first won national
fame himself in 1992 when, as a sitting California criminal court judge in ultra-conservative Orange County, he declared the
nation's alleged War on Drugs was a dismal failure that wastes money and lives.
To learn more about Johnson and his plans to end the Democrat/Republican monopoly, go HERE.
Follow OC Weekly on Twitter @ocweekly or on Facebook!
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.