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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Libertarian throws hat in governor’s race (Andrew Horning) Andrew Horning hates politics. So he writes on his MySpace page, which he named “Liberty or Bust.” So why has this medical product development consultant and frequent columnist for the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and talk radio host and guest decided to run for governor of Indiana as a Libertarian? “Have you ever hated something so bad you want to find out where it lives and beat it with a stick?” he asked. “It’s like when you have something messing up your life, causing you a lot of grief, and you just figure it’s time to roll up your sleeves and do something about it. Even if it’s a really ugly thing like running for public office.” Horning, who lives in Indianapolis, could recite a laundry list of policy issues he’d like to change. There’s corporate welfare, which is unlawful per our state constitution. After Indiana went broke during the canal building boom, a new one was written in 1851 to specifically prohibit any government credit being used on behalf of individuals or corporations — something that was already unconstitutional. There are also states’ rights, which Horning says no one stands up for anymore. States, he says, should be sovereign entities that voluntarily comprise the United States. But the federal government has become so omnipotent that it almost doesn’t matter what laws are passed on the state level; it’s the feds that will ultimately determine policy. Of course the most prominent issue currently roiling Indiana is property taxes. Horning, who previously ran for governor as a Libertarian in 2000, led his first public campaign against them in 1999. But the underlying issue in all of this is not our tax code. It’s the lack of oversight we invest in our government. “We do not operate under the rule of law,” Horning said. “Politicians do not obey laws. It’s a paradigm shift now, I understand. Most of us think now politicians are the law. But that’s antithetical to everything this country was crafted to be.” Government that’s ungoverned dots human history, from Caligua to Hitler and Stalin. But Horning also cites high points like the Magna Carta, the English charter that led to constitutional law. “Whenever government is governed by law, you have a flourishing of society,” he said. “Whenever you put a leash on that junkyard dog we call government, you have improvement in civil society.” And yet with Big Brother’s tentacles creeping ever further into our everyday lives (the next push being socialized health care), Horning knows he faces an uphill climb with his strict constitutionalism. “I’m not fooling myself about whether voters are going to have an epiphany and understand they don’t have to take what’s given to them by the major parties,” he said. “I’m not expecting any major tidal shift. What I’m doing is presenting the option. Voters always have the option. The whole point of the democratic process is to allow the possibility of a peaceful revolution.” In fact Horning voices no confidence that the death march toward fascism will wane anytime soon. “Hope is what I run on,” he said. “It’s up to voters whether they choose change in a real sense, or whether they choose to decide what they’ve always done and hope for different results. If people vote for me, they will have indicated that that’s what they want. And if that’s what they want, we can get it. We know it works. All we have to do is do it. To think what we’re doing now is pragmatic is what’s actually nuts.”
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#1. To: andrewhorning (#0)
Your honesty is refreshing!
Sounds like an American. An American that just might have a fire in his belly.
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