A New Message From Gary Johnson

Our America: It’s time…

Friends,

In 2009, the Our America Initiative was founded to provide a platform to raise issues and give voice to Americans who believe the path to renewed greatness for our country lies in a truly smaller government and greater liberty.

As Barack Obama begins another four years in the White House, and as we watch the politicians in Washington continue the absurd spending and taxing that has given us a wrecked economy and $16 trillion in unsustainable debt, never has the need to shrink government and increase freedom been greater.

That’s why I have rejoined the Our America Initiative as its Honorary Chairman.  With your help, we have created an organization of thousands of activists, young people and defenders of liberty who share the principles of smaller government that are so desperately needed today.  And I am excited to help mobilize those thousands of Americans to have a real impact on the decisions and policies Washington will be making in the weeks and months to come.
 
In the next few months, Obama and the Congress will be deciding what to do — or NOT do — about the fact that we have once again hit the nation’s debt ceiling.  Will they FINALLY face the fact that the government is simply spending far more than we can afford?  Or will they find yet another way to dance around that reality?  
 
With chaos continuing in places like Syria, Libya and Mali, will the politicians again decide to send our troops and our money to intervene in conflicts with no clear U.S. interest?  And will the government be allowed to keep up its attack on our individual and constitutional rights of privacy, gun ownership and individual liberty?  
 
All these questions will be answered in the weeks and months ahead, and we MUST be heard.

Beginning in a few weeks, as Honorary Chairman of the Our America Initiative, I will be speaking on college campuses all across the nation.  I will be joined at those events by other leaders of the liberty movement who will help us put the energy of our young people to work.

Also, stay tuned for announcements very soon of nationally-known and respected leaders who will be joining the Our America Initiative as Honorary Board Members.  I can’t do this alone, and I’m excited to have other voices challenging the status quo on Our America’s behalf.
 
Of course, all of these activities, as well as the Internet and social media activism we will be doing and a wide range of additional outreach efforts, require funding.  Your support is essential!
 
I hope you will go to OurAmericaInitiative.com today and make a contribution to the Our America Initiative.  It is a 501(c)4 not-for-profit advocacy organization, and can accept contributions from individuals, corporations and other organizations, with no government-imposed limits.  The opportunity — and the need — to make ourselves heard on the national stage is great, and I am committed to making the best possible use of that opportunity on behalf of real liberty and economic freedom for all Americans.

We have much to do in a few short weeks as critical decisions about our nation are made by the politicians.  They need to know that more government and less freedom are not the solutions they claim to be seeking.  We’ve tried it their way. Now it is time to let liberty lead us to prosperity and the freedom we can achieve if government will get off our backs and out of our way.
 
Please join me.  Your support will make the difference.  Please go to OurAmericaInitiative.com or mail a check to Our America Initiative, PO Box 1985, Salt Lake City, UT 84110 so that we can put liberty and freedom back in the national debate!

Thanks, as always, for your friendship and support.


Governor Gary Johnson
Honorary Chairman
Our America Initiative

Thank You From Gov. Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson 2012

Friends,

The first words I must say to you are THANK YOU.

We made history Tuesday. Thanks to you and thousands of other supporters of real liberty, my running mate, Judge Jim Gray, and I received more votes than any other Libertarian candidates for President and Vice-President in history. Even with the closeness of the contest between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, when all the votes are counted, we will most likely have received 1.2 million votes!

That’s 1.2 million Americans who heard us and voted on the basis of principle over politics. And they did so despite the fact that Romney and Obama spent at least a thousand times more on TV and radio advertising than we did.

Given the outcome Tuesday, which returned the status quo to not only the White House, but also the Congress, we even have supporters already talking proudly of being part of the new “1%” who refused to accept that status quo.

Even more important than Tuesday’s results, with your support, we have built a grassroots organization nationwide that is truly the foundation for carrying our message of individual freedom, small government and non-intervention forward in a big way. Tuesday was not the end. It is the beginning.

We have identified hundreds of thousands of liberty–minded Americans. We have connected with more than a million people on Google+, 300,000 fans on Facebook, and more than 100,000 followers on Twitter. And over the past few days–before and after Tuesday, “Who is Gary Johnson?” was one of the most “searched” phrases on the Internet.

NONE of that has happened without your help. Your time, your energy, and your contributions have placed Liberty squarely on the national stage, and with all signs pointing to a continuation of big government, small liberty policies in Washington DC, the NEED for Liberty to be on that stage will never be greater than in the months ahead.

I am taking a couple of days to recharge my batteries in New Mexico and, frankly, attend to some chores at home — and then I will be picking up the bullhorn again. We already have major national interviews scheduled for next week, and fully intend to use the foundation we have built to make sure we are heard in the critical policy debates that are already raging in the wake of Tuesday’s election.

The “fiscal cliff”, Internet regulation, and of course, events in the Middle East are all going to be dealt with in the weeks ahead – by the status quo government that was reelected Tuesday. It is critical that we not sit on the sidelines.

To make sure we ARE heard going forward, there is much we need to do. We have to pay the final bills for all the work we did leading up to the election. We have a tremendous amount of data collection and list organization to do. We need to update our website and social media pages. And of course, I will be traveling the country to give voice to Liberty. All those tasks, and many more, require funding.

I really want you to be a part of what we will be doing over the next few weeks, and I hope you will go to GaryJohnson2012.com and help make sure we have the funding we need. What we have accomplished with the amount of money we have spent – compared to the so-called “major” party candidates – is nothing short of remarkable. And we are committed to carrying this work forward until the status quo strangle-hold is broken.

Tuesday’s election created a great opportunity for us. Being part of the “1%” that didn’t settle for the lesser of evils or the renewal of the status quo is soon to be a badge we can wear with pride, and more importantly, the foundation for a movement that America desperately needs.

You’ve been with me this far, and I sincerely hope I have earned your support as we look ahead. We have a lot of work to do, and I need your help.

Please go to GaryJohnson2012.com today and make the contribution that will let us take advantage of the amazing opportunities we have created!

Words cannot capture my gratitude for all you have done, for your friendship, and for your dedication to a cause that is REALLY important. We have an exciting future – so let’s get to it!

Sincerely,

Gov. Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson Breaks The 1 Million Vote Mark And The Future Looks Bright For Libertarianism

With the final totals still undecided, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has so far tallied 1,139,562 votes, good for nearly 1% of the national tally and breaking the previous high of 1980 candidate Ed Clark who received 921,128 or 1.06% of that elections votes.

Now, I was hoping for better as I predicted he would finish with 4%, but given that he was outspent 667-1 by his opponents, who also received 1000 times more media coverage, 1% is not a bad result.

What's even more encouraging is that this election defeat should be the death knell for the neocon/socon wing of the GOP and usher in a new movement toward the libertarian ideals of social tolerance in conjunction with fiscal conservatism.

The movement toward sane fiscal and foreign policy was started by the Ron Paul r3VOLution and turned into the Tea Party but was quickly co-opted by the GOP establishment and soon turned into nothing more than extension of the old guard GOP.

Well now we get to begin again and and get back to the roots of the movement. This time though we need to work the outside the two party paradigm to exert the pressure needed to move our nation in the right direction.

With our friends in the Ron Paul camp who want to work within the GOP to affect change, we libertarians need to also affect change within the Libertarian Party to have it more focused and less fractured by Left and Right Libertarians.

Gary Johnson's positive message of fiscal conservatism and social tolerance needs to be the guiding principle of this new LP. With Governor Johnson as our standard bearer, we can grow the seeds he planted in this election into a new tree of liberty.

United with a common goal we can be that irate, tireless minority that Samuel Adams spoke about and bring an end to the two party stranglehold on our Republic.

The days of the sunshine patriots has passed and we need to work towards rebuilding our fractured nation. The time for division and rhetoric is gone; time and again we have seen that path is a dead end. We need to educate our fellow Americans that there is a better path and that is through smaller government, personal responsibility and acceptance of our differences.

We also need to stand united against Leviathan and it's minions; taking the fight to them and never backing down. We need to, once and for all, shake the mindset that our only choice is the lesser of two evils. Evil is evil and in the end, it is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from it's government regardless of what the snake oil salesmen want us to believe.

The time has come for the next American Revolution and we are the new American Patriots. Let us build together for 2016 and beyond.

Libertas inaestimabilis res est

Via Memeorandum

Gary Johnson Halloween Mask

If you want to be really scary for Halloween you can print Obama and Romney cut out masks, but for those of us who prefer Treats to Tricks the Gary Johnson Grassroots blog has created a Gary Johnson cut out mask.

Click on the image to open the image in it's own window and then you can print the full size image on 8.5x11 piece of paper, cut it out, put some string through it and you are all set for Halloween.

You can accessorize the mask in a number of ways.

• Wear a construction belt if you want to be American Businessman Gary Johnson. 
• Wear a suit and carry an oversized pen to be Governor Gary "Veto" Johnson. 
• Wear biker/running shorts to be Iron Man Gary Johnson.
• Wear a winter jacket, crampons, ice pick to be Mt Everest Summiting Gary Johnson
• Bring your dog and a shovel to show how Gary Johnson's neighbor's dogs can create more shovel ready jobs than the current administration.
• How do you plan on accessorizing your Gary Johnson mask?