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Gary Johnson Put Up or Shut Up!

• Gary Johnson

No matter what state you live in, when you go to the polls on Election Day you will be able to select me, Gary Johnson, as president.

My running mate Bill Weld and I are two well-regarded former governors. We are the Libertarian Party candidates. Our support and name recognition is getting higher, as exemplified by the Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday. It shows our ticket at 13 percent nationally. This poll puts us within the margin of error for obtaining 15 percent nationwide.

This poll further shows, as have other polls, that the majority of Americans want to see us on the debate stage.

Given the political climate of this year's presidential election, Americans are looking for a new and different alternative to the very unpopular Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton candidacies. This is a key reason why I should be permitted on that debate stage with Trump and Clinton: The nation needs to know that there is a credible alternative on the ballot in all 50 states to the polarizing nominees this year from the Republican and Democrat parties.

As the Republican Governor of New Mexico, I vetoed wasteful spending 750 times, cut taxes 14 times, and left the state with new highways, bridges, schools, hospitals and a billion dollar surplus. I did this all without raising taxes.

As the Republican Governor of Massachusetts, Bill Weld cut taxes 21 times and took state unemployment from the highest among the 11 most industrialized states to the lowest. We were both comfortably re-elected – in Democrat states – because we balanced budgets and worked across the aisle to get things done.


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