Libertarian Candidate: 'I Screwed Up (and So Did the Division of Elections)'
Libertarian gubernatorial candidate John Wayne Smith told Sunshine State News he's off the November ballot because the state Division of Elections "lost my paperwork.
"I submitted three pieces of paper -- a lieutenant governor statement (naming Libertarian Party Chairman J.J. McCurry), a notarized financial disclosure plus my party loyalty oath -- and now (state officials) say they only have the latter two," Smith said.
Smith said he hand-delivered the documents to Tallahassee, as he did when he ran as a No Party Affiliation gubernatorial candidate in 2006.
"There's some hanky-panky going on here," he said, vowing to pursue legal remedies beginning Tuesday.
Smith said his "fatal mistake" was leaving the Division of Elections office without a receipt on June 17, when he filed.
"Them people are not honest in the least," the Ocala resident said. "It's my own stupidity for trusting government. I've been preaching (against) that for 40 years."
Division of Elections spokeswoman Jennifer Davis was not immediately available for comment over the Labor Day weekend.
Smith received 15,987 votes in his NPA bid in 2006.
This year, he and the Libertarians appear to be out their $8,600 filing fee, with nothing to show for it.
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1:34PM SEP 6TH 2010
Apparently the State Department of Elections reads the internet unlike some in the media. Maybe they got a letter or call. They realized something was up with these pseudo-Libertarian candidates and booted them off the ballot if the news is correct? Either that, or the screw up was deliberate by Smith, McCurry and Kirkland: Smith is a convicted criminal and says he hates the Libertarian Party of Florida? The LP Florida submitted massive petitions some years ago without a problem. Suddenly they're the bad guys?
Many Libertarians are apparently rejoicing saying these people are right-wing GOP plants who took over the party to deliberately wreck it? They say it has lost 15% of its funds it gave to Smith against its own rules? The money was targeted for other purposes and now a lawsuit may happen? Smith has even proposed the state party leaving the Libertarian national party. Will we see similar problems with the other right-wing nutjob candidate claiming he's a Libertarian that Smith and his Libertarian Reform Caucus and GOP buddies put in, Snitker?
It seems Libertarians were either leaving the party or organizing against these guys who actually wanted to raise taxes and had dicey backgrounds according to the detractors. See: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/16211/ with links to public documents and more?
Alex Snitker seems intent on ruining the LP Florida good relations with the media with his stunts. What will be next? Is he getting funds that were supposed to go to long term party growth too to fund a failed campaign prohibited by party rules? He just left his job so he's judgment proof, and keeps his campaign account outside of Florida's jurisdiction in Texas which would make a member lawsuit to recover money more difficult, so what's going on? IMHO
Many Libertarians are apparently rejoicing saying these people are right-wing GOP plants who took over the party to deliberately wreck it? They say it has lost 15% of its funds it gave to Smith against its own rules? The money was targeted for other purposes and now a lawsuit may happen? Smith has even proposed the state party leaving the Libertarian national party. Will we see similar problems with the other right-wing nutjob candidate claiming he's a Libertarian that Smith and his Libertarian Reform Caucus and GOP buddies put in, Snitker?
It seems Libertarians were either leaving the party or organizing against these guys who actually wanted to raise taxes and had dicey backgrounds according to the detractors. See: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/16211/ with links to public documents and more?
Alex Snitker seems intent on ruining the LP Florida good relations with the media with his stunts. What will be next? Is he getting funds that were supposed to go to long term party growth too to fund a failed campaign prohibited by party rules? He just left his job so he's judgment proof, and keeps his campaign account outside of Florida's jurisdiction in Texas which would make a member lawsuit to recover money more difficult, so what's going on? IMHO
5:41PM SEP 13TH 2010
These compalints are all coming from the extremeLibertarian oldtimers who can'
t accept that real Libertarian politics is now based on Jesus.
t accept that real Libertarian politics is now based on Jesus.
