Scott PowersJanuary 2, 2020
5min987
Charged in South Carolina with kidnapping his wife and children at gunpoint
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Scott PowersJanuary 2, 2020Scott PowersOctober 24, 2017
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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 PowersMay 9, 2017
3min190
Republican Bobby Olszewski raised more than $21,000 in April, his first month, in a campaign that now will be abbreviated to just a few months to win the seat opening up for House District 44. Olszewski is one of three candidates who had filed for the HD 44 seat before Republican incumbent state Rep. Eric […]
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 […]
Mitch PerryMarch 9, 2017
3min834
Randy Wiseman, a small business owner from Mount Dora and the former chairman of the Lake County School Board, will formally announce his run for Governor of Florida on the Libertarian ticket in 2018 this Saturday in Lakeland. Wiseman served as the Lake County School Board chairman from 1994 to 1998, while also running for Mayor […]
Mitch PerryOctober 14, 2016
2min223
Another poll of Florida’s U.S. Senate race shows Republican incumbent Marco Rubio with a solid lead over Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy. The Public Policy Polls survey released Friday afternoon shows Rubio leading Murphy, 44 percent to 38 percent. Libertarian candidate Paul Stanton gets 6 percent. Removing Stanton from the list of available choices doesn’t improve things much for Murphy. In […]
Mitch PerryOctober 14, 2016
4min794
Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy are poised to participate in the first debate of the Florida U.S. Senate race Monday night in Orlando, but independent candidate Steven Machat is still pushing to get himself, Libertarian candidate Paul Stanton, and the three other non-party-affiliated candidates on the big stage as well. In papers filed with the 11th Judicial […]
Scott PowersAugust 30, 2016
1min707
Libertarians have rejected goat-blood-drinking, LSD-dropping, neo-nationalist candidate Augustus Sol Invictus of Orlando and picked Paul Stanton of Deland to be their nominee this year for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. Stanton beat Invictus 74 percent to 26 percent in Tuesday’s Libertarian Party primary for the U.S. Senate. Stanton, a computer programmer and “pro-peace” Army veteran, entered the […]
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. […]