Governor Johnson's Fiscal Responsibility?
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Posted 2012-02-14 10:17
by Karl Denninger
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Governor Johnson's Fiscal Responsibility?
 

Fiscal responsibility starts at home.  A man who wants to be President but not only goes $200,000 into debt within his own campaign but also gets sued for non-payment by fundraisers has no room to talk about submitting "balanced budgets" as President.

If you remember back in 2008 I made the same sort of comments about John McCain, who was six figures in debt himself -- on credit cards.  Now we're seeing the same thing among other candidate who claims to be "fiscally responsible."

Sorry Governor, no $ale, and I'm sure that Libertarians will be very happy to know that you are both soliciting us for money to pay off your failed Republican campaign but also think you deserve the Libertarian Presidential nomination on the back of a claim of fiscal responsibility and a 43% budget cut while you are unable to actually balance your own campaign checkbook.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBaGpPQSZws

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Mr. Johnson should just step aside now.

The Libertarian Party does not need a LINO at the helm.

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Karl I haven't seen you on video in a while and I must say the production quality of that video looks much improved over years past. Nicely done.

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I think Johnson is trying to give Libertarians a bad name.

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We'll see if he succeeds. As a voting delegate for the convention, I intend to do my damndest not to allow that to happen.

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Is he as the candidate personally responsible for the debts incurred as a candidate? If he is I have no problem with him being in the hole. Gov Johnson is worth a few million and can cover it. What I do have a huge problem with is if he is stiffing vendors. If you're worth north of 10 million and running for office you damn well better honor the debts you incur even if it means dipping into your personal funds. He sounds like a horses ass to me.

Looks like I may have to vote for Bugs Bunny again.

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The "debt" is in fact owed to various vendors and workers. FEC rules prohibit me from using the report to itemize it by person, but court filings are fair game when someone sues.

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Another piece of **** career politician, making a career at the expense of others. IMO Johnson made a run at it at the expense of who ever he can and will continue to do so until it ends. Well the (R) ran dry, so do the (LIB) thing and "hope" to get a run at it at, with no shot and get bailed out by banks, to shut up the (LIB) at their expense and pay of the (R) creditors. And Johnson lives at the expense of others and can continue to be a career politician, and continue to grow in wealth at the expense of others. And the the big banks kill the (LIB) party which is the only threat to justice. I listened to every word in that 2010 blogtalk between Karl, and Johnson back then. And if I remember right it was an hour long compared to the 30 minutes now. Karl, spoke and gave him over a dozen opportunities to respond and he gave the typical career politican BULL****. Karl gave him the bait over the real issues that need to be addressed IMO and he did the old BLAH BLAH BLAH, typical career politician BS. Math will take care of all of this in the end, I vote for math. Not career politician BS. I AM SO SICK OF THIS!!!! [X] Bill Still.
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Karl, I noticed your new studio setup right away. Looks great!
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if you google "governor johnson" already KD pops up six down on google!

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