tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72379392009-04-09T13:07:34.820-04:00Official campaign website of Al Barger, 2004 Indiana Libertarian Party candidate for US SenateAlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08940553284067503671noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237939.post-1099655530297655972004-11-03T18:50:00.000-05:002004-11-07T22:17:56.020-05:00

So here are the final numbers in the 2004 election for US Senator from Indiana: Democrat Evan Bayh 1,495,250 - 62% Republican Marvin Scott 904,843 - 37% Libertarian Albert Barger 27,966 - 1% To be honest, I was pretty disappointed with these numbers. I was hoping for 100K votes. Ah, well. You do what you can. One thing, though: I said what I intended to say. I got my two

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I finished my campaign with some door to door in Batesville, home of Hillenbrand Industries, and the place where I first got those subterranean homesick blues lo those many years ago. I was born in Batesville during the Cuban Missle Crisis. When my time comes, my people will probably plant me up on Stipps Hill in a Hillenbrand box. This was the place to wrap it up. So there I was, walking the

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The final contracts in the Barger for Senate ad campaign have been written, and the last check signed. Here are the ads: Social Security Copyright I was particularly pleased to have ads during the season premiere of South Park on October 27, and to have been in some small way a sponsor of the series premiere of Drawn Together. In the end, I managed to squeeze my modest budget to get ads on a

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Supposedly, "the people" own the airwaves of America. In practice, this arbitrary commie nonsense actually means that the GOVERNMENT claims ownership, and the right to manipulate and censor any expression that they don't like. This comes out particularly with regard to exactly the kind of political speech that is most important to our republic. From the LA Daily News: In a complaint to the

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Editor John Estridge published this profile in the October 27, 2004 Brookville Democrat: Local's run for Senate Biblical in nature Brookville is known for the four Indiana governors who once called the town between the rivers home. Al Barger may be the first Franklin County resident to make a run for U.S. Senator. He is listed on the Libertarian ticket, trying to unseat Democratic incumbent

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As a Libertarian, naturally I'm highly supportive of 2nd Amendment gun rights. Evan Bayh, however, is not. A lot of this difference no doubt comes from our different family traditions. In the mid '60s, my family built Barger's Lakeview Market out on Highway 52 in Franklin County. One of my first memories was watching Uncle Bill wiring the lights in the apartment part of the building, which

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Perhaps the most fun one event I've been at in this campaign season was the rally on the Statehouse steps in Indianapolis on Friday, 10-27. I was on a mission to shave the animals, but we'll get back to that. This rally was in protest against the new-terrain I-69 proposal that's been on the boards for some years now. Kenn Gividen, our Libertarian gubernatorial candidate, has made opposition to

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I had a good old time chatting with Abdul in the Morning on Indianapolis talk radio WXNT. In the first place, I should get some kind of medal for being dressed and functioning and most of a hundred miles from home at 6:30 AM. I'll just say I'm not usually a morning person. This was definitely worth getting up for, though. Abdul and me seemed to be working on the same wavelength. "Where have

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Here's a little something you can do between now and election day to help me, Al Barger. Print up a few (or a bunch) of one of these flyers, and hand them out to your Hoosier buddies. I've got two of them. The nicer, fancier one is a two-sided three panel brochure. DOWNLOAD IT HERE. Note that is a WordPerfect document. Print the two pages back to back on one regular sheet of paper. Fold

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I was on the morning show at WHBU radio in Anderson with host Leland Franklin from 7:00 to 7:30 am Tuesday, October 19. For starters, I got some brownie points for knowing something about the somewhat obscure topic he was discussing just before I came on. Specifically, it was Jeannie C Riley's birthday, and I happened to know more than her one hit, "Harper Valley PTA." For one thing, there was

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Questions of jurisdiction are critical in the government of our republic. Who is responsible for what issues? What things are responsibilities of the federal government, and which part of the federal government? What things are issues for state or local government? What should be left for individuals to be responsible for themselves? Yet this distinction often gets completely lost on voters

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I've just published a joint news release from the Al Barger and Marvin Scott senate campaigns. Let me add here a few comments on the Indiana US Senate debate situation strictly under my own name: It's no secret that Evan Bayh is being groomed to run for president. However, if Evan's afraid to have a simple debate with a poli sci professor from Butler and a blogger from the holler, then how's

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The following is a joint news release from the Barger and Scott campaigns October 15 - INDIANAPOLIS – Republican Senate candidate Marvin Scott and Libertarian Senate candidate Al Barger are calling on Evan Bayh to debate the important issues facing Hoosiers. “There are too many issues deserving an open-forum discussion between the candidates and it is time we stop all this wrangling and hold a

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Evansville doesn't get the attention it deserves. It's a fairly isolated area, 100 miles from any other major Hoosier population center. On the other hand, it was a glorious fall morning to drive I-64. The leaves are just hitting the fall peak. The southern Indiana hills just gave miles of vistas of beautiful orange, red, yellow, green and rich brown visions. I even had good luck with

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Comcast cable has a special public service election special called "The Candidate Show" which offered time for a direct appeal from (best I can tell) every candidate on the Marion County ballot. I taped my two minute contribution a month ago. Those of you in Indianapolis can view "The Candidate Show" on channel 76 from 7-9 PM any Monday, Wednesday or Saturday in October. To put it

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My first television ads were broadcast this afternoon. "Let's Fix This" addresses the utter economic disaster known as the Social Security system. DOWNLOAD THE AD Here's the script: Hello, I’m Al Barger, Libertarian for US Senate. I paid for and approve of this message. If we’re going to throw executives from Tyco and Enron in jail for squandering a billion dollars of investor’s money, then

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Today marks the first election pretty much EVER in Afghanistan. After all the laborious and bloody birth pangs of war, this is like watching baby take his first steps. It's a beautiful thing. I just love seeing the ballot boxes, lines of voters, and the election observers. Voter turnout was apparently quite high, including a large percentage of women. Now, like manufacturing sausages,

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The Indianapolis Star featured answers from the three Indiana US Senate candidates to a series of questions on the front of the Focus section on Sunday, October 3, 2004. CLICK HERE for the story on their website, or HERE for my backup. CLICK HERE for my personal favorite part of the deal, the caricature of the candidates that illustrated the print edition. A few notes in response to my

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Heads up! I'll be taking my campaign to the airwaves of Chesterton, Indiana on local station WDSO. This will be live on Monday, 10-04-2004 during the noon hour EST. This is a high school radio station, so I look forward to a good student interview. The broadcast signal only gets a few miles out, but fortunately you can plug in to the live broadcast through the streaming internet connection.

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Playing ball is more fun than watching it. Thus, I was pleased to spend Thursday evening at a candidate forum here close at the local county seat in Brookville rather than watching the little faux "debate" with Kerry and Bush. Ours was scheduled first, and I certainly rate it more important. Meet the Candidates was sponsored by the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the

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Darrell Smith wrote a fine profile of me for the front page of the Connersville News-Examiner. CLICK HERE In general, I am quite pleased, but I will take one little quibble. He says at one point that I "somewhat" supported the Iraq war. Now this is probably what Cool Hand Luke's warden would call a "failure to communicate." My bad, no doubt. I don't recall our interview exactly, but I

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This week, the Sunday Indianapolis Star featured column length mission statements from the three candidates for Indiana governor from Democrat Joe Kernan, Libertarian Kenn Gividen, and Republican Mitch Daniels. You can read their statements HERE. Obviously, I'm going to favor Kenn Gividen's response. I think he's got the best ideas. However, he's my brother Libertarian and buddy, so maybe I'm

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Libertarianism for me began at age 17 in 1980 with the presidential campaign of Ed Clark. The basic appeal to strictly restrict government in the name of individual freedom instantly made sense. That's for me! Yet not everyone knows or understands what libertarianism or the Libertarian Party stand for. You're with the 'libertine party?' I got a lot of that 20 years ago, far less of it now.

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The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce HobNob is THE meet and greet event of the Indiana electoral season. I don't entirely understand the food chain, but it is officially co-sponsored by the Indiana Democrat, Libertarian, and Republican parties. Local tv and radio stations have their fingers in it as well. It was a fine mix of prominent business people, members of boards and such, and many of

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I got a candidate survey with some interesting questions from an outfit called Rescue American Jobs. WEBSITE As you might guess from the very name of the group - much less the questions, they're basically promoting protectionist closed market economic strategies. As a staunch free market libertarian, I obviously wasn't going to get far with this crowd. They're pretty much coming in with

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