Posted on 06/21/2006 5:39:35 AM PDT by jmyrlefuller
ALBANY -- The state's small Libertarian Party, abandoned by first choice Bill Weld, has backed a U.S. Navy submarine veteran for governor.
The party chose John Clifton for its governor candidate and Donald Silberger, a professor, for lieutenant governor, said party spokesman Richard Cooper.
Weld, a Republican candidate for governor, dropped the Libertarian line after he ended his Republican campaign earlier this month. Weld had lost a nominating vote at the state Republican convention to John Faso, now the party's designee for governor.
Clifton is a Navy veteran and the party bills him as "a social worker against the welfare state, and a former drug counselor against the war on drugs." He lives in Queens.
His platform is defending property rights and legalizing marijuana. He is opposed to big government and eminent domain, gun control and welfare that he called "neo-slavery."
Clifton endorses Weld's proposal to no longer tax the first $75,000 of income.
Silberger is a math professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He seeks to unite supporters of gun rights and drug legalization.
More info: http://www.ny.lp.org/
Ha, seems like I could really get behind this guy but let me tell ya! I was stationed at Sub-Base Pearl for a long time and went to school near the nuke school and these bubbleheads are a breed of thier own.
Damn right we are a breed of our own!!!
worry not, I meant that in the nicest way!!!!! : )
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