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Gary Johnson, Libertarian nominee for president, 2012/06/10
Jun 5, 2025
Gary Johnson, the nominee for U.S. President of the Libertarian Party, addresses the State Convention of the Texas Libertarian Party, June 10, 2012, 12:00 PM.
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so uh starting this campaign all of you
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are dealing with your friends your
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family your
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neighbors and why should they vote a
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Libertarian why should they vote for the
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libertarian candidate for president well
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here's what you tell them you start out
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by telling them who the libertarian
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nominee
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is the other
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joh and that would be me
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JN and I'd like you to tell him that
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Gary Johnson um has been an entrepreneur
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his entire life that Gary Johnson
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started a oneman handyman business in
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Albuquerque in
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1974 and actually grew it to over a
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thousand employees over a 20-year period
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And there's an education
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there's an education and an experience
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that goes along with that that um I
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think is really
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important and there were a lot of things
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I learned uh with that experience
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growing a business um at the top of that
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list was cutting people in on the
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profits that when you get everybody tied
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in to pull the same direction that
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things really
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work and then you tell them that Gary
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Johnson is an
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athlete I've been an athlete my entire
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life tell them that I climbed Mount
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Everest but don't tell them that I
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conquered Mount Everest because I didn't
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I got really lucky but you know what um
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I'm disciplined and I'm determined and I
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work really hard and I do what it takes
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I hunker
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down and I think you want someone as
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president of the United States that's
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capable of hunkering down
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woo and you tell him that this guy Gary
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Johnson was a two-term former governor
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of New Mexico so talk about kooky ideas
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well this guy got to govern for eight
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years in the state of New Mexico well
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what was he known
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for well he was known for vetoing more
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bills more spending bills than the other
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49 govern governors in the country
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combined and how did that work out in
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New Mexico he got reelected the second
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time by a bigger margin than the first
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time I vetoed 750 bills while I was
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governor of New Mexico I v I had
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thousands of line item vetos as governor
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of New Mexico I took uh line it veto to
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a new art
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form my first year in office the
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president uh the the the Republican whip
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uh Senate Republican
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whip passed
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legislation Republican a dog and cat
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exercise bill a bill that short of my
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signature would have become law would
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have become law mandating that dogs and
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cats by pet stores be exercised three
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times a week for two
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[Laughter]
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hours what about the terrific
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idea terrific idea it's what dog it's
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what pet stores should do they should
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exercise their dogs and cats two hours a
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day three times a week but I vetoed that
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legislation because the next thing I was
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going to have to do was fun the dog and
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cat exercise
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police the libertarian
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candidate for president Gary Johnson is
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going to be the only candidate of the
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three that are going to be on the ballot
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in all 50 states the only candidate of
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all the three who's going to govern
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under strict adherance to the United
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States Constitution
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the libertarian candidate for president
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Gary Johnson is the only candidate that
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if elected is going to declare peace
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yeah Gary Johnson is the only candidate
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for president that doesn't want to bomb
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Iran yeah
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Johnson's the only candidate that wants
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to get out of Afghanistan and bring the
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troops home now now
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nowon is the only candidate that is not
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going to use the United States military
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under any circumstances unless the
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United States is attacked and if the
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United States is attacked Gary Johnson
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will respond
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with the United States
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military what do you tell your friends
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they're going to ask you Gary Johnson's
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the only candidate that is going to
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slash federal spending Gary Johnson is
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the only candidate that's going to
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propose a balanced budget in the year
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2013 which is a $1.4 trillion reduction
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in federal spending and that means
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addressing entitlements and that means a
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reduction in military spending to that
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tune Barry Johnson's the only candidate
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that's calling for an end to the drug
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wars
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legalized G Johnson's the only candidate
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that is genuinely talking about marriage
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equality Gary Johnson believes that
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marriage equality is a federally guarant
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that is a a constitutionally guaranteed
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right that under the Constitution
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individuals are entitled to Gary Johnson
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is the only candidate running for
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president that wants to abolish the
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income tax the corporate tax tax
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withholdings the IRS
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[Applause]
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I love the libertarian debate and the
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discussion I am proposing
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to in lie of corporate tax income tax I
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am proposing a consumption tax the fair
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tax I love the debate and the discussion
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I'm going to argue to you all that that
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is a template to bring about no tax that
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no politician is going to raise the only
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federal tax and that there will be great
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pressure to lower that federal tax and
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that that's the template to no federal
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tax
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G Gary Johnson's the only candidate that
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wants to abolish the Department of
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Homeland Security yeah
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and that means the TSA and if Congress
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doesn't abolish or doesn't propose
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legislation to uh eliminate the
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Department of Homeland Security Gary
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Johnson will make
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TSA as safe and less intrusive starting
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the day after he takes
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office the libertarian candidate for
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president Gary Johnson is the only
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candidate that's going to genuinely
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talking genuinely talk about free
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markets promoting free markets that
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means no tariffs that means sound Money
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G libertarian candidate for president is
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the only candidate that is talking about
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or proposing eliminating the Department
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Federal Department of Education return
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education to the states to the
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municipalities yeah
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G Johnson is the only candidate that's
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talking about meaningful immigration
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reform starting with the fact that
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individuals that want to come into this
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country and work is good for
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America Harry Johnson's the only
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candidate the libertarian candidate is
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the only candidate that is going to
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ground Air Force One yeah
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Gary Johnson the libertarian candidate
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for president has more executive
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experience than the other two guys that
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he's running against
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combined so what is so what is
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government executive experience me you
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know I want to say that of the 300
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declared candidates that have run for
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president in the United States in this
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cycle that combined I have cut
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government spending than all the others
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combined and that is really really
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significant so much is made about
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working with
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Congress working with Congress is code
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word for how we're going to spend money
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that's working with Congress I don't
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want to work with
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Congress I want
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I want to come at Obama hard from the
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left civil liberties and I want to come
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at Romney hard from the right dollars
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and
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cents what's the definition of
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insanity doing the same thing over and
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over again and expecting different
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results a message that you need to send
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all your friends and family and
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Associates and the message that I'm
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sending to the world is do me a favor
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vote libertarian justce one time and
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give me a chance as the libertarian
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candidate for president to make a
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difference and if it doesn't work out
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then we can always go back to what it
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was and that was
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Ty thank you
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thank you for allowing me to be your
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spokesperson Jeff's going to get back up
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I think we're going to follow that with
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questions uh comments any insults that
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you have in this process of
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questions comments insults at the core
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of all this I want to be the best
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spokesperson that I possibly can for
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libertarian ideals and beliefs and I
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want you to believe that I can make this
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stuff happen and it isn't just I can
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it's what I've done my entire life yeah
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thank you very much
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