Candidate, United States Senate, 2010

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 6, 2008

Member, Coalition for Free and Open Elections

Experience, Self-Employed Stock Trader

Member, American Humanist Association

Member, Kurt Vonnegut Society

Member, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Member, Marijuana Policy Project

Member, Mensa

Member, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

Member, New Orleans Secular Humanist Association

Favorite Actor/Actress:

Ellen Page

Favorite Athlete:

Shawn Johnson

Favorite Author:

Kurt Vonnegut

Favorite Book:

George R. Stewart's Earth Abides (or just about anything by Kurt Vonnegut)

Favorite Color:

Blue

Favorite Movie:

The Royal Tenenbaums

Favorite Musician:

Leonard Cohen

Favorite President and Why:

Thomas Jefferson because he was a great libertarian and a brave and brilliant thinker.

Favorite Quote:

"But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime." - Thomas Paine

Favorite Sport:

Women's gymnastics

Favorite TV Shows:

Breaking Bad; Trailer Park Boys; I, Claudius; Connections; The Day the Universe Changed; The Up Series; Doctor Who; Lost; The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; The Twilight Zone; Sesame Street (classic episodes only, not the Elmo-centric new ones); Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Zeke & Luther; Night Flight (1980s version); Spaced; Peep Show; Fishing With John; The Rockford Files; Columbo; Magnum P.I.; Twin Peaks; The Office (British and American versions); Star Trek: TNG; The Andy Griffith Show (only the episodes with Don Knotts); Arrested Development

Favorite Vacation Spot:

Home

Favorite Websites:

www.ballot-access.org
www.lewrockwell.com
www.snopes.com
www.antiwar.com
www.vdare.com
www.aldaily.com
www.sacred-texts.com
www.wikimedia.org
www.youtube.com
thebaldcypress.blogspot.com

Name one thing you would most like to do before you die:

Live a good life.

Personal Hero and Why:

L.D. "None of the Above" Knox. He tried to give the voters a choice.

Pets (include names):

Cats (Cuddles and Noir)

Priority Issues:

Bring our troops home and stay out of foreign wars.

Enact fairer and more open election laws.

End corporate welfare.

Repeal the federal prohibition of marijuana.

Protect our civil liberties.

Keep the government out of our private lives.

Lessen the concentration of power in the federal government and return decision-making to the state level, the local level, and (most of all) the individual level.

Reason for Seeking Public Office:

Too often, the partisan differences that exist in Congress, and in popular political discourse, are only disagreements as to whether the intrusive government programs that we have will be the Republican kind or the Democratic kind.

A choice between Republican paternalism and Democratic maternalism is not a real choice. I'm running so that voters who are dissatisfied with both major brands of power-hungry opportunists can, instead, cast a vote for personal freedom.