Kansas Libertarian Switches Parties

Dennis Hawver, the Vice-Chair of the Libertarian Party of Kansas, has switched to the Republican party and entered the 2006 gubernatorial primary.

Hawver was the LP’s 2004 candidate against Congressman Jim Ryun, and received 7,391 votes (3%) in that race. In 2002, Hawver was the party’s nominee for governor and recieved 7,936 votes (1%). He finished fourth in that four-way race with a Republican, Democrat, and Reform Party candidate as his competition.

At this time, Hawver is still listed as the Kansas Vice-Chair on the LP’s website.

This comes as former Libertarian Scott Bludorn has launched a Republican primary bid for state house in Illinois.

This entry was posted by Austin Cassidy on Friday, August 19th, 2005 at 5:46 pm and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Kansas Libertarian Switches Parties”

  1. Douglas E. Says:
    August 20th, 2005 at 1:16 am

    I love that he tries to pretend there’s some huge outcry for him to switch parties. He only got 3% of the vote.

  2. George Phillies Says:
    August 20th, 2005 at 9:28 am

    “Rarely is a rat seen swimming toward a sinking ship”

    but this exception proves (that means ‘tests”) the rule

    said by or about Churchill.

  3. blue cros blue shield Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    blue cros blue shield

    clump levee girlish

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