Char Reid reflects on his two campaigns. He discusses how he handles debates, why he’s aggressive towards his opponents, and why so many tea partiers support him over his Republican opponents.
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It’s a busy week ahead for the Libertarian Party of Indiana!
Chard Reid Debates Opponents in Congressional District 5 Debate
Andy Horning calls in to the Gary Snyder Show
Executive Director Chris Spangle Offers Commentary on the Final Old Party Debate from the Indy Star Newsroom
Andrew Horning Participates in US Senate Debate
Governor Gary Johnson Returns to Indiana!
Governor Gary Johnson is returning to the Hoosier State for two days! Three stops are in the works, but only one is confirmed. Please check this facebook event for updates and changes: https://www.facebook.com/events/318176108289736/.
Wednesday Evening:
Other potential stops:
Rupert Boneham Participates in Indiana Gubernatorial Debate
Fort Wayne Debate Watch Party and Celebration
Rupert calls in to the Amos Brown Show
Rupert calls in to the Gary Snyder Show
LPMC Volunteers at the Irvington Halloween Street Fair
Second District Congressional Candidate Debate with Joe Ruiz
(Originally posted at IndyPolitics.org)
Libertarian 5th CD candidate Chard Reid chimes in in this edition of “Why are You Running”?
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Friends,
Polls open on election day in 623 hours! That being said, I really need your help to promote the upcoming debates. Will you help me ensure that the voters of the 5th district hear my message? Are you willing to invite your family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to my upcoming debates? Will you please post my website (www.ChardReid.com) on your Facebook and Twitter pages?
UPCOMING DEBATES:
1) Our first debate will be live on the Gary Snyder Show TODAY from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. If you cannot catch it at that time, it will be recorded and available online at www.garylsnyder.com.
2) We also have a live debate on Monday, October 22 at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel. The debate will be hosted by the League of Women Voters and the Jewish Community Relations Council. Because we expect a huge crowd, I am asking that my supporters arrive around 6:30 to make sure they get a seat. If you would like to volunteer at this event, I have plenty of opportunities for you. The address is 3085 W. 116th Street. It is directly next to University High School.
SOCIAL MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES:
Please send me public messages on Facebook and Twitter every couple days. Here are a couple examples of what I mean:
Twitter:
Thank you for your continued support! We couldn’t do this without you!
Conservative Voters of the 5th District:
Did you know that Susan Brooks criticized the Tea Party at Tuesday night’s forum in Zionsville? She said that the Tea Party wants to pay off the debt all at once, but she wants to take a more reasonable and incremental approach.
The truth of the matter is that she doesn’t know the difference between a deficit and the debt. When she says that she wants to incrementally pay off the debt, she is misleading voters or demonstrating her ignorance in this area. After all, she supports a budget that will not balance for 28 years. That means she wants to INCREASE the debt every year for 28 more years. But her statement in Zionsville was that she wants to incrementally pay the debt down.
In contrast, I am the only candidate in the state with my own balance budget proposal, which I call the Road to Reality. Check it out at www.ChardReid.com or directly at www.RoadtoReality.us. My plan produces a budget surplus by Fiscal Year 2015 and then begins paying down the debt from there.
Why am I running for office?
As a high school finance teacher, it is my personal mission to ensure that every student in my classroom learns to balance their budget, avoid debt, and save for the future. Do you think that our elected officials in Washington need to learn the same lessons?
I decided to run for office because it was clear to me that our elected officials simply do not care about being fiscally responsible. Certainly, they must understand that running budget deficits will only serve to increase our debt, depreciate the value of the dollar, and lead to higher taxes in the future. The real problem must be that they just don’t care. Their number one priority is reelection. In contrast, my only priority is to get America back on the road to sustainable economic growth. Let me be perfectly clear: I do NOT want to be a Washington insider for the rest of my life—I want to be a teacher. I love kids, and I love teaching them how to be fiscally responsible. But in this season in my life, I feel called to run for office because there are no other candidaes of conviction running in this race am running for office because I am tired of seeing our elected officials trample the Constitution. It is important to remember that the federal government only exists because the states agreed to grant it limited powers through the Constitution. In their wisdom, our Founding Fathers only delegated seventeen specific powers to the federal government, and they clearly stated in the Tenth Amendment that all other powers would be reserved to the people and to the states.
In essence, the 10th Amendment is a leash on our federal government that prevents it from getting outside of its realm of authority. But a leash is only as good as the person holding it. For the past 100 years, the Republicans and Democrats have proven that they are altogether unworthy of holding the federal government accountable to the Constitution, and quite frankly, it’s time to pass the leash on to someone who is more principled in their stance for liberty.
Unfortunately, our current politicians resent the constraints that the Constitution puts on their power, so they have begun to disregard its principles. I will fight to make sure that the federal government only passes laws that it has the Constitutional right to pass, and I will insist that my fellow elected officials abide by the Tenth Amendment.
If you are satisfied with how our federal government is currently run, then you should probably vote for one of my opponents because they will continue to maintain the status quo.
But if you’re like me, you understand that the United States is way past the point of needing minor adjustments. Rather, it is time to completely restructure the size and scope of our federal government. It’s time to reclaim the roots of our once constitutionally limited government and reassert our natural rights to life, liberty, and property. It’s time to fundamentally simplify government!
Why should you vote for Chard Reid?
I want you to notice an important distinction between my opponents and me. I am the only candidate in this race willing to take a firm stance on the issues. I am the candidate of substance and principles, and they are merely talking pieces of the establishment parties. I challenge you to visit their websites. Yes, I want you to go to my opponents’ sites and see for yourself how weak they are on the issues. It will only take you about three minutes to read their entire issues section because it contains nothing but fluff. Then take the time to read my positions on the issues and watch some of my videos. You may want to pour yourself a nice cup of coffee and prop up your feet because I have gone out of my way to provide voters with a detailed explanation on each of my positions as well as the rationale for why I believe what I believe.
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Chard Reid
Candidate for U.S. Congress
www.ChardReid.com
(Congressional Candidate Chard Reid (CD 5) and US Senate Candidate Andrew Horning have realesed a Libertarian solution to restoring economic prosperity and fiscal stability through constitutional austerity. This plan has been endorsed by our other Congressional candidates.)
Please take a moment to view the Road to Reality by clicking here. If you like what you see, I would highly encourage you to share our plan through email, Facebook, and Twitter.
The budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) and endorsed by my Republican opponent is woefully inadequate of restoring fiscal stability to our nation. In fact, Mr. Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” will continue to run deficits until the year 2040.
On my page entitled Encourage Economic Growth , I clearly demonstrate how government deficits are destructive to the long-term prosperity of our nation. Consequently, I believe the Paul Ryan plan should be renamed the “Path to a Lower Standard of Living” or perhaps the “Path to Global Mediocrity”.
In contrast, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has offered a respectable proposal that promises to balance the budget within 5 years. To avoid reinventing the wheel, I concluded that Senator Paul’s budget would be a great starting point for my own proposal. But creating a federal budget is certainly not a job for just one man. Therefore, I have collaborated for the past month with Andy Horning (candidate for U.S. Senate) and a few Libertarian candidates for U.S. House of Representatives (Rex Bell, Joe Ruiz, and Bart Gadau) to create a budget plan that we call the Road to Reality.
Because we believe the United States must balance the budget during the next session of Congress, we have increased the magnitude of Senator Paul’s spending cuts and completely eliminated even more programs to accelerate the balancing process. Our solution, the Road to Reality, will balance the federal budget within two years.
As your representatives in Washington, we will battle the two-party system to make significant cuts to federal spending and reassert our Founder’s vision of a truly limited government whose primary mandate is to protect our lives, our liberties, and our property.
Any program or department that the federal government does not have the constitutional power to authorize will be ended immediately (i.e. Department of Education). Furthermore, programs that are inefficient and create moral hazards (i.e. Department of Housing and Urban Development) will also be eliminated without delay.
In addition to eliminating entire departments, the Road to Reality will bring all non-military discretionary spending levels back to at least FY 2006 levels. In some case, we have proposed even bigger cuts than that.
Please take a few moments to review the Road to Reality and give us any feedback that you may have by emailing me at chard@chardreid.com. By no means do we consider this proposal to be perfect, but we hope that the Road to Reality can serve as a map that helps America return to fiscal responsibility and stability.
In Liberty,
Chard Reid
The Libertarian Party of Hamilton County has a fantastic meetup guest this month!
Chard Reid is our featured speaker and he will be present his platform, highlight key issues, share campaign progress, inform us about volunteer opportunities and answer questions. We will be meeting on Tuesday, June 12th at 7 pm in the private room at Claude and Annie’s in Fishers (9251 E 141st Street, Fishers IN 46038).
Friends,
Liz Ewbank wrote an outstanding op-ed piece in the Zionsville Current about my campaign to simplify government. Throughout the article, Liz did a great job of explaining how I am fundamentally different from the establishment candidate, Susan Brooks. Would you be willing to post a link to this article on your Facebook page and Tweet it to your followers on my behalf? I have a copy of it on my website at this site: http://chardreid.com/blog/ . If you prefer to link to the original source, you can use this link: http://www.currentzionsville.com/2012/05/27/zionsville-resident-ewbanks-backs-reid/
I honestly believe that we can win this election if the voters of our district know who I am and where I stand on the issues. This article is a great opportunity to show them. Would you also be willing to view and consider posting this YouTube video? It is footage of Susan Brooks admitting that she supports bailouts when they “preserve jobs”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJFn1nJXiw
The voters of the 5th district deserve to know why I am the best candidate in this race. Will you help me communicate the message that a vote for Chard Reid is a vote to keep government out of your life, out of your faith, and out of your paycheck?
Thank you for all of your support!
Chard Reid
Candidate for U.S. Congress
www.ChardReid.com
Our candidates are getting great press! Several times a week, if not daily, our candidates at the national and local levels are getting positive (or at least fair) press coverage. We post these on our Facebook page as they come out, so please be sure to “like” us to get the most current information.
“An Opening For Libertarians?” - “Both Democrats John Gregg and Joe Donnelly as well as Republicans Mike Pence and Richard Mourdock may have trouble with the segments of their party which are not as conservative as they are on some issues and Brad Klopfenstein tells Indy Politics that might be where Libertarians have an opening.”
“Letter to the Editor: Consider Chard Reid” - “We need someone who will take his oath to the constitution seriously. Fortunately, there will be someone who fits that description on the ballot in November and he isn’t a Republican or a Democrat. He is Libertarian Chard Reid.”
“Survivor’s Rupert vying to make his Libertarian candidacy, party relevant” - “And even with the fall election still half-a-year away, [Rupert] Boneham – who faces no primary challenger — said another big part of his campaign is to introduce a lot of people to the idea that a third party candidate can be elected governor. ”I want to show people that I am that voice of reason,” Boneham said.”
“Rupert, of Survivor Fame Tells AWA Why He’s Running For Indiana’s Next Governor” - “Now he wants to give back to Indiana as our state’s next Governor. Rupert is the Libertarian candidate for Governor. In his first interview with Indiana Black media on Afternoons with Amos, Rupert explains why he’s running and the issues of importance to him. They include reducing government administrative costs, reducing incarceration of non-violent offenders, bringing jobs to Indiana, restoring vocational education and more.”
“Indiana Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Favors Marriage Amendment” - “Boneham continued, “The protections in the Indiana and U.S. Constitutions apply to each and every one of us. We aren’t supposed to have second class citizens in this country and we won’t stand by and allow there to be second class Hoosiers.”
“The Gary effect” - “The PPP poll in New Hampshire yesterday showed the Libertarian candidate getting 7 percent, in a matchup in the state where the president took 53 percent to Romney’s 41 percent. [Gary] Johnson“draws a little bit more from Romney than Obama, increasing the president’s lead in the state to 13 points at 51-38,” the pollsters at the Democratic firm wrote.”
“Gary Johnson 2.0: The Libertarians’ new choice for president” - “I got a leg up on Obama when it comes to civil liberties,” Johnson said. “I crush Obama when it comes to dollars and cents. I think I have a leg up on Romney when it comes to dollars and cents and I think I crush him on civil liberties.”
(Originally posted in the Chronicle-Tribune in Marion, IN this previous weekend)
Recently, former U.S. attorney Susan Brooks won the Fifth Congressional District’s GOP primary. I have heard it said that she is a favorite of the tea-partiers. But if tea-partiers are looking for someone who is truly fiscally conservative and will fight to protect them from the federal government’s war on the constitution, they should take notice of Chard Reid. Unlike Brooks, Chard Reid actually understands economics (he is a high school economics teacher) and has a plan to tackle the dire problems facing Social Security and Medicare. He also supports a full audit of the the Federal Reserve. Brooks doesn’t even mention these issues on her website. It seems many conservatives will vote for any Republican out of loyalty to the party. But how loyal has the party been to you? Bush and the Republicans spent nearly twice as much as Clinton (who himself was a big spender) and increased the federal budget by 104 percent! When congress was under the GOP’s control, they seemed to do nothing but find more ways to spend your money and reduce your liberties. Why should we trust them any longer? The Fifth District needs someone who is passionate about liberty and actually understands how harmful the government’s actions are to the economy. We need someone who will take his oath to the constitution seriously. Fortunately, there will be someone who fits that description on the ballot in November and he isn’t a Republican or a Democrat. He is Libertarian Chard Reid.
Brandon McKnight, Gas City
LPIN Congressional candidate Chard Reid (CD-5) participated in a debate on April 23, 2012 versus 6 Republicans. The 6 Republicans are competing to face Chard in November.
Don’t have two hours to listen to the entire debate? We’ve isolated Chard Reid’s answers to the questions here. http://podcast.lpin.org/
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Congressional candidate Chard Reid (D5) has launched new web series: Santa Clause Economics. The series will focus on problems and solutions in our Federal government. Learn more about Chard and his campaign at ChardReid.com.
Warning: This series tells the hard truths about Santa Clause and our government.
Reid is a candidate for the LPIN nomination at the 2012 convention, and was the party’s nominee in 2010 in Congressional district 5.
“Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”…. Galatians 6:9
Back in 2004, when the Libertarian Party was still new in these parts, the Wayne County party had three solid candidates for the county council seats that were up for election that year. Two were business managers, and one had worked in production in Wayne County for over 30 years. A couple of weeks before the election, one of the Democratic Party candidates for council was arrested for shoplifting cold medicine at a local drugstore.
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Chard Reid, Libertarian Candidate for U.S. House District 5, has been endorsed by the Indianapolis Star. The state’s largest newspaper gave praise to both third party candidates, but ultimately decided to endorse Reid.
“Reid, a young economics teacher at Plainfield High School, has taken the fight to Burton on taxes and the deficit. He maintains that the 14-termer has not worked for systemic change despite his conservative persona. Reid also offers thoughtful ideas for cutting spending, simplifying the tax code and reforming entitlements.
Reid represents the best of Libertarian small-government ideals. He would be a refreshing departure from the incumbent’s complacency and cavalier attitude toward ethics.”
Read the entire endorsement here.
Reid has also been endorsed by one of the Republican primary candidates. Read this story here.
