Scott PowersJanuary 2, 2020
5min987
Charged in South Carolina with kidnapping his wife and children at gunpoint
Tag: Libertarian Party of Florida
Scott PowersJanuary 2, 2020Scott PowersOctober 27, 2017
4min1167
Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Joe Wendt is suspending his campaign and withdrawing from active involvement in the Libertarian Party of Florida, charging Friday that he’s been the victim of threats and intimidation from within the party. Wendt’s declaration, issued by his campaign Friday morning, is the second quake to hit the Libertarian Party of Florida this […]
Scott PowersOctober 24, 2017
9min1445
The Libertarian Party of Florida is struggling again with its own principal of inclusion, this time leading to the protest resignation Sunday night of Paul Stanton, last year’s U.S. Senate candidate. Stanton submitted his resignation in a letter alleging that one of the rising stars in the state party is a white supremacist leader who […]
Scott PowersJune 5, 20174min657
Joe Wendt, a Tampa janitor who has been active in Florida Libertarian Politics since 2010, announced Monday he is filing to run for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. Wendt, 32, has claim to fame in the Libertarian Party of Florida, having finished second with 43 percent of the vote in a 2012 Soil and Water Conservation […]
Scott PowersApril 6, 2017
14min1290
Update: On Friday morning, about 12 hours after this story was originally posted, the Libertarian Party of Florida Chairman Char-Lez Braden issued the press release Augustus Invictus said he wanted, retracting statements made in a 2015 press release that had accused Invictus of supporting eugenics and state-sponsored murder. The new release indicates the party found […]
Associated PressNovember 8, 2016
7min227
Voters in sun-bathed Florida will face a decision Tuesday that could weigh heavily on the use — and cost — of solar power in the state. The solar power industry is opposed to Amendment 1, a proposal to amend the state constitution that will appear on the ballot as “Florida Solar Energy Subsidies and Personal […]
Mitch PerryJuly 14, 2016
2min613
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is polling at 7 percent in Florida, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday. But what about their Senate candidate? That won’t be decided until Aug. 30, but a new St. Pete Polls survey shows Paul Stanton leading Augustus Invictus in the Libertarian Senate primary, 22 percent-12 percent, with 65.8 percent undecided. […]
Scott PowersMay 3, 20169min478
Augustus Sol Invictus says he is on the run. Florida’s wannabe Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate claims he is being pursued by anti-fascist groups targeting him for violence, while the FBI is also after him for possible prosecution. Invictus is the uncertified candidate of the Libertarian Party of Florida from Orlando whose rhetoric and symbolism have critics calling […]
Jim RosicaMarch 6, 2016
4min1542
You can admit to drinking goat’s blood, dropping LSD and having rape fantasies, but defend a neo-Nazi and it’s No Canada For You. Augustus Invictus, the Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate from Florida, said in a press release this weekend he had been denied entry to The Great White North on his way to a Vancouver speaking […]
Scott PowersFebruary 2, 2016
5min1014
The Libertarian Party of Florida’s candidate for the U.S. Senate has admitted to frequent LSD use and released what he calls his “LSD Journals,” a long, rambling set of observations and musings that range from longings for elusive love and friendship to fantasies of rape and murder. Augustus Sol Invictus, 32, is an Orlando lawyer […]