Libertarian Nat’l Chair to GOP: “Get out of the Libertarian Party’s way”

PolitiChicks.comWhat do Libertarians do when they receive a Republican fundraising letter masked as a survey? In the case of Nicholas Sarwark, the National Chair of the Libertarian Party, the answer is share the survey answers on Facebook.

Sarwark posted photos of his responses to the State of the Nation survey sent by the the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Underneath a question that asks respondents to rank issues in the order of importance for Speaker Boehner to focus on in 2015, Sarwark marked an X next to “Other” and wrote, “Get out of the Libertarian Party’s way.”

In lieu of a signature under the survey validation line, Sarwark penned, “If you want a valid survey, you might want to survey Republicans, not Libertarians.” He added in parentheses, “especially not the National Chair.”

Sarwark provided this statement to Politichicks:

“Our old party opponents would rather waste their donors’ money on fear mongering ‘surveys’ that are so badly targeted that they go to the Chairman of a competing political party. If that’s how wasteful they are with their donors’ money, just imagine how badly they manage your tax dollars.”

PolitiChicks.comThe Libertarian Party appears to be making a small impact in local non-partisan elections. A running tally of elected Libertarian candidates is listed on the party Web site, which shows 38 Libertarian candidates elected to non-partisan positions in Pennsylvania—the highest number of any state. The GOP however does not take Libertarian candidates in partisan elections as a serious threat. The Republican National Chair Reince Priebus in 2012 referred to the Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson as a “non-factor” in that year’s election cycle.

“The Libertarian Party is working to recruit over 1,000 candidates in the 2016 election who are dedicated to supporting all of your freedoms, all of the time. All of our efforts and funds are dedicated to providing the American people with a real option to the old parties,” Sarwark said.

Kathryn Porter

Kathryn Porter is a political watchdog who has served as an elected member of the Colorado GOP State Central Committee and the El Paso County Republican Party Executive Committee. As an illuminator of truth, she was banned as a guest of the 2016 Republican National Convention by then Colorado State Chairman. Following her banishment, she contested the entire 2016 delegation to hold the state party accountable for balloting errors, the disregard of bylaws, and numerous irregularities at the state convention. The 2016 RNC Credentials Committee granted her a convention pass, overruling the former chair's pronouncement. In an RNC report responding to the case she brought before the Committee on Contests, the Colorado Republican Committee was chastized for its "embarassing incompetentence."

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