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November 07, 2006
Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Socialists?! Oh, my!
On Nov. 7, Minnesotans will go to the polls to elect new public servants in the legislative and executive branches. In addition to the major parties a much smaller group of parties will be on the ballot.
The Libertarian Party of Minnesota, part of the national Libertarian Party, believes that throughout American history, the State has tried to control the lives of their citizens and “confiscate the fruits of their labor.” According to the platform of the Libertarian Party, the government’s only legitimate purpose is to protect the rights of the individual. The Libertarian party holds that at the most basic level, the rights of people to do what they want with their bodies is intertwined with property rights because the first property citizens own is their own bodies.
Another minority party is the Constitution Party. The Constitution Party opposes abortion rights, staunchly defends Second Amendment gun ownership and is opposed to amnesty for illegal immigrants already living inside the United States. Candidates for the Constitution Party favor a return to small government, a “strict interpretation of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as was originally intended.” The Constitution Party supports the inclusion of all faiths in its organization while it “acknowledges and reveres” the “benevolence and sovereignty of God and the eternal salvation offered to us in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”
The Constitution Party’s Senate candidate, Ben Powers, a former Republican and Austin, Minn. native, became active in the Republican Party while at University of Minnesota but left the party after what he saw as wasteful spending by President George Bush and the Republican National Committee’s allowing of gay Republican Jim Kolbe to address the 2000 Republican National Convention. A social conservative from an early age, Powers has been a “vocal advocate for the unborn and an active opponent of homosexuality.” For the last three-and-a-half years, Powers has worked at Quality Pork Processors in quality control.
The far-left Socialist Worker’s Party is running a write-in campaign for both U.S. Senate and governor. Rebecca Williamson of St. Paul is running for the Senate seat vacated by Mark Dayton. Williamson, a meat packer and member of United Food and Commercial Workers union, ran for St. Paul school board in 2005.
Sources: www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=126730
www.powers2006.info/
www.americanreform.org/ARP-State-Affiliates/minnesota.htm
Posted by dwright at November 7, 2006 09:06 PM
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