Our America Initiative
Redefining the liberty movement in America!
Feb 12, 2016 - Our America Honorary Chair and Governor Gary Johnson has letter opposing Three Strikes law expansion read on floor of New Mexico Senate. From the letter: "We all want to reduce violent crime. But "three strikes" laws and mandatory minimums serve only to clog up prisons, remove common sense judicial discretion...and do NOT make us safer."
Feb. 12, 2016. iSideWith.com founder interviewed about the 28 million voters that have taken the presidential quiz to get matched to a candidate that agrees with how one responds to a series of questions on important issues. Click here to take the quiz.
January 10, 2016 - Our America Honorary Chair and Governor Gary Johnson interviewed on the prospect of a strong third party option for voters in the 2016 election. Excerpt: "In 2016, he said, “frustration levels are at all-time high” and voters fed up with the choices of the two major parties might give him a second look...Johnson was also hopeful about the prospects of a lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates, the non-partisan, not-for-profit body which determines debate rules, in an attempt to force it to allow third-party candidates on to the stage in the fall."
January 5, 2016. Our America Initiative Honorary Chair and Governor Gary Johnson responds to the Republican Party's rejection of its lone libertarian candidate. "With (Senator Paul's) departure from the presidential race, there is no voice remaining to challenge failed military interventions, mass surveillance of Americans by their government, or real cuts in the size and cost of government."
Dec 8, 2015. RT touts election coverage fairness with more fair coverage of third party alternatives. "Debates between the Democrat and the Republican were said to be a "mockery of a democracy" and "a farce of a debate," as the two candidates' positions on several issues of state importance appeared essentially very similar, if not the same – especially their stance on foreign policy. Some issues were ignored altogether. It was the third party candidates, especially the Green Party's Jill Stein and the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, who suggested that America "should not bomb Iran," and should "end the war in Afghanistan." They also pushed for a milder stance on whistleblowers and called for the cessation of legal action against them."
Dec 7, 2015. Salon covers the GOP's rejection of libertarian candidates, ideas and donors. "The short-term answer clearly involves the rise of Donald Trump. If you’re Rand Paul, it would be difficult to draw any other conclusion. The 10 percent to 20 percent of the Republican primary base that might normally turn out for a Ron or Rand Paul has shifted to the populist, xenophobic camp of Donald Trump. Libertarians come in all shapes and sizes, and if the polls are to be believed, many prefer at this moment to support a candidate who gives voice to their frustrations rather than their hopes for reducing the scale and size of government."
Nov 27, 2015. Our America Honorary Chair and Governor Gary Johnson criticizes New Mexico Governor Martinez for unwillingess to accept "fair share of Syrian refugees". “We more than share in the responsibility for them being there in the first place...Recently, the governor of Indiana was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union for attempting to block state services to refugees."
November 19, 2015 - Reason.com
Gary Johnson Talks ISIS, Refugees, Black Lives Matter and Marijuana Legalization. Read full story here.
September 29, 2015 - washigtontimes.com
Third party anger: Libertarian and Green candidates sue the Commission on Presidential Debates. The Libertarian and Green parties - along with their respective presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein - filled a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court. Read full story here
September 28, 2015 - Reason.com
The Libertarian Party's Arguments for Suing to Get Into Presidential Debates. Positing a "market" in elections and campaigns, the Debate Commission and major parties are alleged to be illegally colluding and creating barriers to entry. Read full story here
August 31, 2015 - The New Yorker
The fearful and the Frustrated. Donald Trumps nationalist coalition takes shape for now.Read full story here.
August 10, 2015 -Fox Business
Gary Johnson tells Cavuto: I was booted from GOP. Watch here.
August 8, 2015 - MSNBC's Weekends with Alex Witt
2012 Libertarian presidential nominee and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson joins Alex Witt to discuss Donald Trump’s threat to run as a third party nominee, as well as his own experience with feeling excluded by the GOP for his stance on social issues. Watch here.
February 12, 2015 - Fox Business
Former Gov. Gary Johnson, (R-NM), and FBN’s Neil Cavuto on limiting federal government powers and the 2016 election. Watch here.
January, 28,2015 - Letter to Congres:
On behalf of our organizations and the millions of Americans we represent across all 50 states, I write to express our strong opposition to legislation that includes an increase to the federal gas tax. Read full letter here.
December 19, 2014 - Independent Political Report
Governor Gary Johnson On Easing Relations With Cuba: “The Free Market is a More Powerful Force for Good Than Is a Government-Imposed Embargo.” Read here.
November 6, 2014 - Fox Business
Gary Johnson: Let’s abolish the IRS - Former Libertarian Presidential Nominee Gary Johnson on taxes and efforts to include third-party candidates in the Presidential debates. Watch video here.
November 5, 2014 - RT America
Coke or Pepsi? Tuesday night, I talked with Ben Swann and Erin Ade on RT America about the unfair treatment of independent and "third party" candidates -- and their exclusion from debates. Watch video here.
October 13, 2014 - RT America
Libertarian and other third parties may upset the outcomes of many November election. Former New Mexico Governor and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson offers his take on why it’s time for the US to vote differently. Watch video here.
September 30, 2014 - PJTV
2012 Libertarian Presidential Candidate, Gary Johnson, joins Stephen Kruiser to discuss the future of the Libertarian Party in 2014 and 2016...and beyond. Watch video here.
July 23, 2014 - Voice of Liberty
For 25 years, the Gallup polling organization has been asking Americans about their political party “identification”, measuring how many of us consider ourselves to be Republicans, Democrats or independent.
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July 17, 2014 - B Swann
Following the latest letter released from former IRS official Lois Lerner, former Governor of New Mexico and 2012 Libertarian party presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, added his two cents regarding the controversy with the Internal Revenue Service in an interview with the New Mexico Watchdog. Read More.
July 14, 2014 - Fox News Politics
For 2012 Libertarian Party presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the ongoing controversy at the Internal Revenue Service is further proof the agency should be eliminated. Read More:
July 2, 2014 - RT America
Gov. Gary Johnson on Ukraine crisis, NSA spying, guns and immigration reform. Watch video here:
June 20, 2014 - Examiner.com
Gary Johnson continues work to raise money to sue Debates Commission. Read More:
June 2, 2014 - Daily Record
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson was once voted the most fiscally conservative governor during his time in office beginning in 1995 and ending in 2003. He brought a business-like mentality to governing and believed that public policy should be based on cost and benefits and not strict ideology. Read More:
May 20, 2014 - New Mexico WatchDog.org
SANTA FE – Former Gov. Gary Johnson says he’s “still mad as hell” upon reading an internal review of a crackdown conducted back in February by armed officers of the U.S. Forest Service at the Taos Ski Valley. Read More:
May 16, 2014 - Santa Fe Reporter
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson railed against newly proposed medical cannabis rules at a morning news conference that included Democratic candidate for governor Alan Webber, patients and several licensed producers. Read more:
May 5, 2014 - Orange County Register
Judge Jim Gray (Ret.) - For debates, it was the worst of times. When President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney met for their three scheduled 2012 presidential election debates, there were many issues that neither of them wanted to discuss, and so mostly they didn’t. Read More
April 28, 2014 - Newsmax
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who ran for president in 2012 with the Libertarian Party, said he would like to be a third party candidate in 2016, the National Journal reported.
April 21, 2014 - Reason.com
The Our America initiative, which is headed up by 2012 Libertarian presidential candidate and former two-term New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, has produced a sharp commercial asking for donations to fund a legal challenge to presidential debates.
April 8, 2014 - WKRG.com News 5
During his visit to Mobile, Alabama, Gov. Gary Johnson renewed his warning about the consequences of growing federal debt.
April 7, 2014 -Brenner Brief
Former presidential candidate headlines discussion on free market environmentalism. Read here
April 7, 2014 - AL.com
Libertarian Gary Johnson once climbed Everest, but that might be only second-highest hurdle. Read here
April 2, 2014 - MOX News
Former NM Governor Gary Johnson Says Police Brutality Is A Problem Nationwide Not Just Albuquerque.
Mar. 17, 2014 - Fox Business
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson says the country is actually becoming more libertarian in its policies.
March 15, 2014 - DNJ.com
Gary Johnson, attends the Tennessee Libertarian Party convention at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center, on Saturday March 15, 2014. Johnson was also the keynote speaker at the event.
January 30, 2014 - "Off The Grid" welcomes its first guest, Governor Gary Johnson. The former Governor of New Mexico and Libertarian candidate for President joins Jesse Ventura to talk Obama's State of the Union, the legalization of marijuana, and Edward Snowden.
January 29, 2014 - Making the point on HuffPost Live with Alyona that Obama's minimum wage proposals are distracting from the encouragement we should be giving young Americans to not worry about "getting a job", but instead to "think how they could start a business".
January 29, 2014 - Gov. Gary Johnson on President Obama’s State of the Union address and the state of the Republican Party. Fox Business Networks' Cavuto.
January 19, 2014 - Alex Witt talks to former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson about the new details in the Christie scandal, the president’s NSA proposals, and his stance on marijuana. MSNBC's Weekends with Alex Witt
June 21, 2013 - Huffington Post
Former New Mexico Governor and Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson joins us in-studio. We'll discuss the NSA and government surveillance, marriage equality, marijuana and more.
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