Jo Jorgensen – United States President – Libertarian Nominee

Website: Jo20.com

Other: Dr. Jo Jorgensen is committed to the right of every individual to run his or her own life, to enjoy the benefits of a competitive free market, and to live in peace.

Dr. Jorgensen is an academic, a businesswoman, and a mother. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, is a full-time senior lecturer in psychology at Clemson University, and is a business partner in a consulting firm. She started her career as a marketing representative for IBM after earning an MBA, and later owned a software duplication company.

She was the Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee with Harry Browne in 1996 and ran as the Libertarian for US House (SC-04) in 1992. A Life Member of the Libertarian Party, Jorgensen has been voting Libertarian since 1980. She has served as Greenville County, South Carolina Vice Chair and as Marketing Director for the national LP.

Position Statement: No group better represents the independent streak that defines Alaska and its people than the Libertarian Party.

While 4,000 miles separate The Last Frontier from Washington, DC, it sometimes feels that there is an even greater divide between Alaskans and the politicians who claim to represent them.

Perhaps that is why the best ever results for Libertarian presidential, gubernatorial, and U.S. Senate candidates have all come in Alaska.

Alaska has made clear that it won’t settle for the status quo, and time and again, Alaskans are shown to be correct in their suspicions of business-as- usual.

Much like Alaskans, Libertarians know that it doesn’t have to be this way. We can reduce healthcare costs without putting government in charge of highly personal medical decisions and creating a one-size-fits-all system.

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We can prioritize our national security without being involved in unnecessary foreign wars and stationing troops around the world in dozens of countries away from their families.

We can protect our communities without sacrificing freedom through failed initiatives like civil asset forfeiture, no-knock raids, qualified immunity, and the War on Drugs.

We can create business opportunities without the endless barriers of entry. We can recognize and fund important budget items without spending future generations into bankruptcy and taxing Americans at every turn.

I’m running for President not just to present a new way of addressing important issues.

I’m running because Alaskans deserve a better way — solutions that create real change for real people.

Jeremy “Spike” Cohen – United States Vice President – Libertarian Nominee

Website: Jo20.com

Other: My name is Jeremy "Spike" Cohen and I began my entrepreneurial career at the age of 17 by building a web design business that catered to small businesses which, at the time, did not yet have the technological tools to have a web presence.

By opening these opportunities to smaller companies, I filled a much- needed niche in the market. It was so successful that I was able to retire in my early thirties and begin working on my true passion: spreading the message of liberty to an audience who had likely never heard of it before.

Position Statement: My running mate, Jo Jorgensen, and I are running on a platform of maximizing your freedom and personal liberty while, at the same time, minimizing the harm that inevitably comes from government interference in your lives.

We believe that you are better suited to make the important decisions that affect your life than any government agency and, to that end, we will end or reduce the size of every government agency in existence.

We will end the IRS so that you can keep all the fruits of your labor.

We will end the ATF so that you and your neighbors can defend yourselves in any way you see fit.

We will get the federal government out of schools so that families and communities can make decisions about how best to educate their children.

We will end the drug war and release its victims from their cages so that they can live productive lives again without the stigma of a felony conviction for victimless commerce.

We will end the endless wars and immediately bring our troops home, creating one giant Switzerland, armed and neutral.

A vote for Jo and I is a vote for freedom, prosperity, and peace. Learn more at jo20.com.