Neither Oregon nor Washington are presidential election battleground states, so the region’s TV viewers have been spared the attendant barrage of campaign commercials.
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But two weeks ago, the businessman and philanthropist ponied up $117,000 to Gary Johnson’s Libertarian bid for the presidency – the legal limit one can give directly to a campaign.
A criminal-justice-reform advocate who put more than million behind California’s 2014 initiative to reclassify certain drug and theft crimes as misdemeanors, Hughes said Johnson, the former GOP governor of New Mexico, and his running mate, Bill Weld, are similarly committed to overhauling the country’s approach on crime.
“And done that”, Weld adds.
Standing on stage alongside Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is crucial to the Libertarian campaign plan.
Johnson, when asked “what inspired you to switch party allegiance from Republican to Libertarian?” replied “Shedding the social conservative dogma of the Republican Party”. In 2000 the Commission on Presidential Debates adopted a rule that candidates must have an average of at least 15 percent in an average of five recent national polls to be eligible for the debates.
According to a report from The Hill, all three debate venues have indicated they are preparing a third lectern just in case a third-party candidate qualifies for the debates. In the four-way contest, survey respondents could choose Clinton, Trump, Johnson or Green Party nominee Jill Stein. He has scheduled a public rally on Saturday afternoon, September 17, at the downtown Seattle Sheraton Hotel.
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The former Republican Massachusetts governor will speak to students at 2 p.m. Thursday.
