better for your lives. that is what carl pearson attends to do. he has shown libertarian principles are the key to restoring the free market, helping the private sector create jobs, improving education through competition and ending the foreclosure crisis. carl's message will resonate with voters. regardless of what we think in this room, the economy, jobs will top of most voters this of concerns. his message will show voters that the libertarian party is not just the party of principle, it is the party of real solutions for america. ladies and gentlemen, karl pearson. -- carl pearson. [applause] >> thank you for this

opportunity. we could actually win the election. i think we have to focus on the voters rather than trying to cater to the libertarians. we are only one-quarter of 1% of the 169 million voters in the united states. the voters are looking for help. they are losing their jobs. they cannot get employment. the cost of college is far beyond what anyone can pay for. they cannot go into bankruptcy. the homes of parents are being foreclosed upon because of student debt. the small business has been stifled. a long that idea of small business is where we should be focusing. that is where i am focused. my first business was at nine

years old when i had a paper route. i am a high-school dropout. i went to harvard law school. i a magna cum laude from long island university and it was tough getting into high school when you are -- tough getting into harvard when you are a high-school dropout. i have been through a lot of hard knocks but i have been waiting on tables, short order cooks, setting up tents at the bowling alley, delivering bulk and learning how to carry 10 bottles into arms. i still work about 18 hours a day. i could not even be here because i had to go to bankruptcy court for a client on a critical mission the other day. i had to come here late and sacrifice my on opportunities because i have professional pride and responsibility. my responsibility here to the party is to point out where you

are going wrong. i think you have got to direct your energy to the 99%. not selling yourself to the 99% of the principles as to which we are all sold already. we will not convince anybody in the room on libertarian principles, we are here because of them. what about the 99%? they had no idea that libertarian principles can provide the answer. i have analyzed what is going on, because i have been living it. i created a career field. i owned a school that was licensed, accredited, and it had student loans for 18 years. i am an attorney and all sorts of fields, taxations, securities, franchises, copyrights, trademarks,

patents, securities. i have been all over the place and i have put it altogether. small business has been regulated out of business. the three main organization types that have been getting jobs are no longer producing jobs. the military, thankfully, government, thankfully. there are no longer net employers. big business, and thankfully, has been giving our jobs overseas. the voter does not understand that the regulations are such that we in small business are not able to produce the jobs that the economy now needs. for example, on my web site for the past year, i have said we need to allow small business to advertise for capital.

nobody in this room had any idea that was illegal since the year 1933. president obama or somebody may have looked to my web site because on april 5 this year the past a bill incorporating my demand. we now are allowed for the first time since 1933 to advertise for capital. that to me is worth everything that i have put into this campaign. but there are several things more. number one, i call it the first three of three. we need to have the first three employees of any employer declared free of any regulations. any person small business in this room will know immediately that that would create millions of jobs. 20 million people like me who are self-employed. we cannot hire. we do not even put ourselves on

payroll. we will hire if the first three are free. we can create full employment in the country, but we have to know what the things are we need to do. we need to have a deregulation of payroll. most importantly, i cannot hire somebody who is a college graduate. colleges -- my all modern sense 1633 has not changed their curriculum that much. it is still history and government. if somebody comes to me and says they are a graduate and harvard, i say get out of here. you cannot help me. i need to have people trained in technology. we are not allowed to train people and technology because of the licensing laws relating to higher education and vocational education. it is illegal to set up programs to train people to go to work for small business. small business cannot train the people because they always leave. we are always in the training

business. we have to allow privately financed training programs, train the people who will go to work as the assistant to the honor of a small business and split that person's business in half. let me do what i can do and let the other person to all the technology that is swamping ever since the advent of the internet. things have changed. i am not a technician. i do not want to be. i need help. the jobs that will be available -- 20 million jobs are in the availability of $3,000 a week for somebody who can save me 20 hours a week. there is a huge amounts of economic activity that will create jobs in america but we have to deregulate small business. that is my message to you. let the public know that. they will vote for you. if you do not tell them that,

they will not have the reasoning. they will not understand why they should be voting libertarian. we can win the election, but i think we have to tell the truth and say what it is that needs to be done in the economy. if we do that, i think we will get -- we will probably get -- we could get one-third of the vote. i thank you. [applause] >> again, there will be flashing the time right down here.

>> patrick henry was 39 years old in his prime. he was one of the best speakers in the world when he spoke the words i am going to speak. i am neither one of those things. the words are so strong that i think you will appreciate them. to set the stage, the ear is 1775. the month is march. the location is richmond, virginia. the legislature is meeting in convention. less than one month later, on april 19, 1775, on the green in lexington, mass. was fired the shot around the world. then american minutemen drove back to force of the best soldiers in the world and it was the first american victory in the revolutionary war. [applause]

because of the growing threat of british navies and armies, patrick henry called for the creation of militia. the opposition pointed to the seemingly positive attitude of the last petition sent to the british government. there was no need for alarm on account of the increase of british military. on march 23, 1775, patrick henry answered the opposition. here are the words of patrick henry. no man thinks more highly than i do of the patriotism as well as abilities of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. different men often see the same subject in different lights. therefore i hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, as entertaining as

i do, opinions of characters very opposite to theirs, i will speak for my sentiments freely and without reserve. this is no time for ceremony. the questioning before the house is one awful moments to this country. i consider it a question of nothing less than freedom, more slavery. hard to be the freedom of the debate. it is only in this way we can hope to arrive at truth and fulfil the responsibility which we hold to god and our country. should i keep back my opinion says such a time through fear of giving offense, i should consider myself as guilty of treason. in an active this loyalty which i revered of all earthly kings,

mr. president, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of old. we have to listen to the song of the siren until she transforms us into peace. is this the part of wise men engaged an arduous liberty. the things that so nearly concern their temporal salvation. for my part whatever anguish or fear it may cost, i am willing to know the whole truth. to know the worst and to provide it. i have but one light of my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience. i know of no way of judging the future but by the past. judging by the past i wish to

know what there has been in the conduct of the british ministry for the past 10 years to justify those hopes which a gentleman have been pleased to solace themselves and the house. is it that insidious smile to which our petition has been my received. trust it not, it will prove a snare to your feet. suffer not yourselves to be be traded. ask yourselves, how this gracious reception of our petition -- our fleets and armies -- our fleets and armies necessary to love and reconciliation? every shot ourselves and willing to be reconciled of force must be brought in to win back our love? let us not deceive ourselves.

the last arguments to which kings resort. i ask gentleman, sir, if its purpose be not to forces to submission. has great britain and the enemy in this part of the world. they are meant for us. they can be met for no other. there are sent over to bind and revet upon us the chains which the british ministry have been so long forging. and what have we to opposed to them? should we try argument? we have been trying that for the last 10 years. have we anything new to offer upon this subject? nothing.

we have held the subject up in every light for it is capable. it has been in vain. what turns should we find a have not already been exhausted. ibc view, sir. we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm is now coming on. we have a petition. we have supplicated. to address the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. our petitions have been slighted. our supplications have been disregarded and we have been spurned. in vain after these things may

we indulge in the hope for peace and reconciliation. there is no longer any room for hope if we wish to be free. if we mean to preserve those privileges for which we have been so long contending. if we mean that not to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained. is all that has left us. they tell us, sir, that we are weak and unable to cope with a

formidable adversary. will it be the next week for the next year? willoughby when we are totally disarmed and when a british guard shall be stationed at every house? shall we gather strength by irresolution and an action? shall we lay on our backs and hog the elusive phantom of hope until our enemies have found us hand and foot. we are not week. if we make a proper use of those means that god of nature has placed in our power, at 3 millions of people armed with the holy cause of liberty. besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. there is a just god who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise our friends

to fight the battles for us. the battle is not to the strong alone. is to be vigilant. the brave. besides, sir, we have no election. if we want to desire it, it is now too late to retreat from the contest. there is no retreat but in submission and slavery. our chains are forged. the war is inevitable. let it,. i will repeat it, sir. let it come. it is in vain to exterminate the matter. -- a gentleman may cry peace. but there is no peace. the war has begun.

the crash of resounding arms. our brethren are already in the field. why stand here idle? what is it the gentleman wish? what would they have? is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? forbid it. i know not what others may fate. as for me, give me liberty or give me death. [applause] thank you very much. i got to prepare you for a little bit. i am about to take office here

peace. sometimes the reflection causes blindness. you might want to shut your eyes for just one second. my name is james libertarian burns. [applause] thank you. my friends call me jim and i hope you will too. i discover the libertarian party in 1973. in 1974 i was elected chairman of the libertarian party and nevada. it was against the law to register as a libertarian. to change that we needed to collect signatures on a petition. we could not do it. how do you build a party? my lawyer friend helps me to

legally change my middle name to libertarian and i filed to run for congress and the republican party -- primary. the word libertarian --thank you. the word appeared on the ballot in nevada for the very first time in 1974. we built the party and we got on the ballot. we did what we always did, and that is to do a lot with a little. libertarians, i want to say thank you. thank you because you are special. special because you are chosen. chosen because you made a choice. you chose libertarianism.

libertarians believe people should live as they choose so long as they do not threaten to initiate force or engage in fraud. when libertarian some is adopted, we will enter an age of peace, prosperity, and progress. you are special people because of your knowledge. are among the only people who can bring us all peace, prosperity, and progress. we are not better than anybody else. we are just people. because of our knowledge and choices, we do have it within our power to bring us all peace, prosperity, and progress. i would like to thank you very much. i would also like to see one more thing. i do not like my chances for getting elected president. i would like to speak to you again as a vice-president nominee. i need a few more of those tokens. if anybody would like to hear me

speak, please, there is still time to put them into the blue thing down there. thank you. i love the libertarian party. goodbye. [applause] >> representatives from gary johnson's campaign, please take the stage. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen, i am here today to nominate for president of the united states a ban that nobody will mistake for barack obama or mitt romney. [applause] a man who knows economic freedom is the key to prosperity

and a man who can actually defend capitalism. a man who will cut government spending to balance the federal budget immediately to avoid a possible economic calamity the likes of which we have never seen. a man who received the highest rating from the american civil liberties union on matters of votes civil liberty of any presidential candidate they examined this year. a man who recognizes the facts of the insane war on drugs in the united states and how it is tearing apart other countries. while he admits as governor of new mexico month he did not create any jobs. he did so before hand as an entrepreneur or who built a construction company to a

business that employed over 1000 people. he is an experienced job creator and does what drives job growth around the world. he is an athlete who has been to the highest point of four continents including mount everest which he climbed with a broken leg. he is a man who joined the libertarian party over 30 years ago. i am here to nominate a man who has walked his talk his entire life. a it is a distinct honor to place into nomination for president of the united states, the former two term governor of new mexico, gary johnson. [applause]

>> i am here to second the nomination of gary johnson. [applause] gary is by far the best qualified candidates we have ever had to be president of the united states. he has been a leader in every aspect of life. a tremendous small businessman, was talked about earlier this afternoon. a tremendous small businessman who grew a big business from nothing. a political persuader, and that is what we need for our libertarian candidates. we need people who can persuade

the non libertarian majority. that is what we need for a candid it and that is why gary johnson has proven he can do. [applause] running a libertarian type campaign, cutting taxes, eliminating regulations in the state of new mexico, a heavily democratic state is an unmatched feat for a libertarian candidates. he not only has been a hard core libertarian and understands, practices, preaches philosophy, but he is able to translate that into real everyday politics and real everyday persuasion to people. he has the stature, i think not only to attach himself to

millions of americans but also to crack the media. he is into public policy and the media has to respect that. he has great advantages for us. i urge you all to vote for gary johnson. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. i want to be the libertarian nominee for president. look, presidential candidate has to recognize the problem that faced this country. give the solutions that go along and only the libertarian canada will offer of the solutions to the problem we

have. and then you have to have a present made to go along with that -- you have to have a resume to go along with that. i have been an athlete my entire life. i got to be governor of new mexico for two terms. i said no to bigger government. you know they did a poll on the favorability of all the presidential candidates running and there was only one presidential candidate that was viewed favorably in his or her own state. how did it work out in the new mexico? people wave at me with all five fingers, not just one. good government was easy. it was not hard. it was easy to look at issues

first, second, third, last. politics last. people saw it. i really do think i have a wrestler may -- a resume when it comes to civil liberties. i think i have it in spades with fiscal responsibility. . .

[applause] >> next, a look at the state balloting process as delegates cast support for a presidential candidate. this is a 15-minute portion. >> every time, i'm a very straightforward person. >> he answers questions directly. he doesn't speak or talk around the question.

>> you want a person of character? gary johnson is a man of character. >> mainstream americans say, i have a law degree from harvard. i worked my way through college working as a handyman. i think the average american will look at that and say barack

obama. but if they want a man who has built a business from scratch.

>> i think it's the first--it will be the first time in a long time, i take it, right? it's ironic that we're moving towards a first-ballot nomination and the chaos o. for the first time in a while they might have something resembling. >> right. >> they're not going to let the delegates see the vote. >> welcome, i tell you what. >> that's better for us. >> i have to tell you that this is a huge opportunity for us, and we have to be there to claim it. by the way, on that note i'm going to the convention, the republican convention. >> oh, yeah, i'm going with. >> you i want to invite you all to come with me. i'm going to have signs made, huge signs.

>> they got the ballots? >> 99%. >> thank you.

>> how are you, sir? >> it's good to see you.

>> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. >> eight. >> one per person. >> all right, now, 34 votes, correct?

>> 34 names. >> they said to keep a copy. >> yes, we're excited to have gary. [background conversations]

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gary johnson. gary johnson. lee writelee wrights. lee wrights. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. gary johnson. lee wrights. >> former incomes governor gary johnson, who dropped out of the republican presidential primary last december to run on the libertarian ticket was eventually elected as the libertarian presidential nominee. after the announcement he addressed the convention, thanking his supporters and family. [applause] >> i--i humbly accept the

nomination. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] i'm going to make a pledge to all of you, and that is none of you are going to regret what happened here today. i really--i really want to thank my parents. they are both here. earl and la rain. i talked about earl last night. lorraine, she's the reason why we ended u up in new mexico. she was with the bureau of indian affairs. she was transferred there. she was the one who had me in third grade in tap dancing lessons, where there was one boy and 40 girls. i was the one boy. she had me playing the piano.

i was perhaps the best fifth grade piano player that could happen. i love my parents, and i want to thank them both. i want to thank kate, my fiancé. i'm in love, and it will be a white house wedding. [cheering] where is kate? i want to thank my sister, my sister and brother-in-law are here, lori and scott. [applause] my son eric is here. eric, where are you? eric, where is eric? eric quit his well-paying job in denver two and a half years ago to come and do this with me for two years unpaid. if that isn't about as loving a

gesture as anything i have ever received, it's that. [applause] thank you. my daughter, she gave may call. she said i'm the worst daughter in the world. i said what are you talking about? she said, i'm not going to be at the convention. i'm going to be in brazil for three weeks. she's in the aspen ballet. a bit about my daughter, she w y daughter's car broke down outside of gallup, new mexico. she had her tools with her. she knew it was the alter native. she hitchhiked into gallup and then went back and installed it

herself. [applause] my brother, scott, last night called me up and said, i watched the debate on c-span. you did great. you got your ass kicked by lee wrights. [applause] lee wrights. where is lee wrights? lee wrights? [applause] what a gentleman. what a gentleman. what a pleasure, what a delight it has been to debate lee wrights about a dozen times. [applause] >> let's get this guy elected.

[applause] >> lee wrights said it along the way, and it's true. we made each other better candidates, and i candidate thank him enough. like i say, no one, no one could have been more cordial. no one could have been more gracious. no one could have been more articulate in libertarian ideals and beliefs. [applause] so where do we go from here? this is about winning. this is about winning. this is your decision, but i want to ask you the following. that is please consider jim gray as my running mate. [cheers and applause] i believe that jim gray affords

the best opportunity to winning. i want you to know in this process we interviewed a lot of candidates as potential vice president candidates. without question i think jim gray does a better job when it comes to articulating libertarian ideals and beliefs than anyone else. i go back to the year 2000 when i met jim gray for the first time, which ended up being the first time of a dozen times that we came across each other. he was very outspoken regarding the war on drugs. i think that arguably he was more outspoken than anyone in the country on the war on drugs. he brought an expertise to this as a superior court judge in california that was just undeniable. it isn't just drugs. jim gray ran as the libertarian candidate for senate in california, and i think he does a terrific job when it comes to

articulating libertarian ideals and beliefs. because back to the criteria for candidate, that needs to be the number one criteria. this is your choice. i recognize that this is your choice, and all i'm asking you is to just give jim gray a listen. i think if you'll do that, you'll understand what we've come to the conclusion on, and that is this affords us the best opportunity to win, and believe me that's what the goal needs to be, is to actually win in november. [applause] thank you very, very, very much. thank you, thank you. [cheers and applause] >> the convention delegates then shifted their focus to select

gary johnson's running mate. here is a look at the vice president nomination process along with remarks from the eventual winner california court judge jim gray. >> i ask the delegates to please turn off your cells or put them in vibrate mode. >> ready? >> my phone is off. >> ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you every, good afternoon. mr. chairman, as of 10 today, there are 631 delegates and two alternates registered for a

total of 632 votes. the quorum is 253. majority, 316. two-thirds, 421, and seven-eighths 552. on behalf of the credentials committee, i move to have the roll of voters include those numbers. >> moved and seconded. any objections to accepting the committee's report? hearing none, so moved. >> thank you. >> thank you, and mr. chair, on behalf of the credentials committee, i move the additions of the following people to the voter roll. david colcutt from california, a delegate from california. jesse minion from north carolina. a delegate from north carolina. and richard skiva, from oregon, a delegate from oregon. >> is there any objection to

adding these three names to the delegate list? hearing none, so moved. all right, we follow the same process for our vice presidential candidate. as you know we already heard from our presidential nominee, gary johnson. he was given time to select his preference, and that has been announced. are there nominations from the floor for office of vice president on the libertarian ticket for 2012? >> mr. chairman. my name is jay mills. i'll a delegate from the state of washington. washington people don't hate with a passion. i move to nominate jim gray as vice president of the united states. >> jim gray has been nominated. [applause] >> i'm scotty bowman from

michigan. i nominate lee wrights for vice president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> josh capps from connecticut, i nominate jim burns as vice president of the united states. >> jim burns has been nominated. further nomination from the floor? seeing none, i will close--no, sorry. i see one more. >> i'm mary o'connor from minnesota. i nominate sam sloane for vice president. >> sam sloane. [applause] >> i'm sorry, i've been informed by the secretary that he is not eligible. further nominations? shawn fox, california, i nominate jim gray for vice president. >> sorry? >> i nominate jim gray for vice

president. >> he's already nominated. >> i take that as a second since he was already nominated. >> if you would like to nominate, please someone come to the microphone, please. >> all right, i've been informed that nominations are supposed to be in writing, so those who have done the nominating, presumably

you've already contacted the secretary. there are three names with the secretary, that he's already in possession of. submit your nomination but submit it to the secretary. j.j. jensen from the great state florida. nota. >> nota? none of the above. >> jim burns for vice president. >> another second for jim burns. all right, seeing no further nominations, nominations are closed. unless there are any objections

we'll have the nominating and seconding speeches in the order in which the candidates were nominated. so could the nominators speakers come up to the podium? and stand in queue, and we'll get the show on the road. all right, nominators for judge jim gray please come to the microphone. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my name is jim lark from virginia. i have the great pleasure of nominating judge jim gray to serve as our vice presidential candidate. [cheers and applause] as you're probably aware, jim is

a distinguished jurist having spend 20 years and more as a superior court judge. he is the author of several books, including "why are drug laws have failed," and the vot voter's handbook, "handbook to america's problems." his knowledge on the war on drugs. his ability to reach out to young people. his experience as a candidate and demonstrated ability with the media make him a superb choice as a running mate for governor johnson. please welcome david burkeland. [applause] >> thank you. it gives me great pleasure to do this job. first i want to congratulate our

presidential candidate, governor gary johnson. you heard gary this morning tell you what he thinks about jim gray. to me, that's the most important thing is that we need to have the very best team that we can possibly put out into the field to advance the cause of liberty and to seek the offices of president and vice president. i've known jim gray for quite a number of years. he was a terrific jurist in orange county, held to the highest respect, and i have to say since he got his undergraduate degree at ucla, and his law degree at usc, and since. [applause] since i got my undergrad degree at ucla and law degree at usc, i figure he's qualified.

[laughter] jim has done great work as a libertarian candidate i. in 2004 he ran against the eagle barbara boxer in california. i found jim to be always open to ideas and to learning and figuring out the best way to do the job of being a libertarian candidate. so it gives me--i'm very honored, and it gives me great pleasure to second the nomination, and to introduce jim gray. [cheers and applause]

>> my name is judge jim gray, and i am seeking your nomination to be the libertarian candidate vice president of the united states along with governor gary johnson as president. [cheers and applause] i truly thank my friends, stalwarts, jim and david. there has been a few times in history of our great land in which there has been a need so strong for third parties to rise up, and to become leaders and elect our people to office and state legislatures, congress, and the white house. i believe deeply that this is one of those times, and i believe deeply that the people of the united states of america are going to agree. in these times in which prosperity is slipping from our

grasp, the need to re-establish--re-establish the libertarian principles that made us great in the first place is enormous. we are the libertarian party. we are not a philosophical debate society. we are a political party. [cheers and applause] the purpose of a political party is what? it is to enter good and qualified candidates to support those candidates in local, state, and national elections, and then to win those elections. [applause] that's right. in fact, we have a broadening tradition in my some state of california in which when someone is a libertarian speaker and

uses that particular word, and those in the audience agree with that word, they repeat it. when we win, that's what we hear back. [cheering] that's right. soon the voters of our country will be with our help seeing that it is the federal government that has been primarily responsible for our loss of prosperity. soon the people of our country will talk with others, as i did this past week, with the manager of a bank. they have money. they do not want money. they are not able to loan money to people with a goodbyes plan, people who have good legitimate business risks, why? because of the throttling of all these regular gas stations. i talked to a lady who is manager of a bank. she said listen to this. 30% of her employees do nothing but try attempt to comply with

government regulations. soon the people of this world are going to learn what it's really like to elect libertarians to cut back regulations and bring back this prosperity. my all-time hero, milton freeman, that noble laureate, was right when he said we'll never bring back the excellence of our schools until we have choice. when we allow the parents to decide where and how their children will be educated. then we will again regain that choice, regain that excellence in our schools, and then the voters will reach out and will elect libertarian candidates to bring back that excellence. i believe that. [applause]

did you ever contemplate that we in our country would even debate we should torture somebody in our custody? did you ever contemplate that someone in our custody detained would not be afforded criminal charges against them and a trial, a fair trial in a military civilian court when the people realize that the rights, the liberties is the soul of the united states, and our soul is under attack by our very own government, they're going to reach out to libertarians to change that. [cheers and applause] clear, this unwieldy, unfair, and unworkable. it punishes people for saving money. it punishes people for investing money. it punishes our goods,

manufactured here traded and exported, it punishes those. it gives unfair trade advantages to those good that are elsewhere brought into our country as importses. who do have a vested interest in the perpetuation of the irs and this income tax system? the irs. people who are tax accountants, tax lawyers, and also critically enough who has the biggest vested interest? members of congress who give tax breaks and there by get back all of these goodies that they use for their elections. when the people, when the voters see that this failed system works against the interest of all the rest of us they will rise up and select libertarians to change that system. [cheering] in healthcare--does anybody note

a pattern here? in healthcare, p.g. o'rourke was right when he said, as we all know, if you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free. people are going to realize that the problem in this is having the government control our healthcare. they're go to again rise up and realize that we will regain excellence in our healthcare system when we regain the competition in that system. they will rise up to vote for libertarians, and libertarians will win. [cheering] republicans and democrats with their bipolar politics are leading our country away from prosperity, equal opportunity and prosperity.

i stand before you that governor gary johnson and judge jim gray will bring us back. [cheers and applause] thomas jefferson, thomas jefferson, probably the first among many libertarians said so long ago that in order to protect our democracy we must have a revolution every generation. [applause] it's been so long. it has been such a long time, but we need that to keep the special interests at bay. the special interest that will bring their way into power and sap our strength and our vitality. let me say at this time from texas to indiana, from new york to california, from sea to shining sea, it is governor gary johnson and judge jim gray that are that revolution. [cheers and applause]

governor gary johnson honored me when he asked me if i would consider to be his running mate. i can tell you that i was deeply honored. i can say right this minute that there is no one that i have met that i would rather follow and work with to attain these efforts. but when he said that i said there would be one condition. and the one condition was as he said earlier, that we would run to win. [cheering] he vowed to me that that was exactly what he was going to do. and in turn i vowed to him then and now that if you put your faith and trust in me you will never be sorry. we will never let you down. then i say to you as delegates, i vow to you that if you honor me with the nomination to be your candidate for vice

president, i will never let you down. you will never be sorry. and in fact, i say to the people of the united states of america. no matter who you are, no matter where you are or what your political views are, if you trust and honor governor gary johnson and judge jim gray to be your vice president and president, you will never be sorry. we will make you proud. [applause] we will give back to our great country, prosperity, equal opportunity, and liberty. may it be so, and thank you.

[applause] >> will the nominator and seconder for mr. lee wrights come to the microphone? >> hi, everybody, i'm john meyers. [applause] you know, when moses said to the pharaoh, he didn't say, oh, oh, this collar, this collar is a little tight. could you loosen it just a little bit? he didn't say to the pharaoh, oh, what you're whipping me with on your back, it hurts a little bit, maybe we could use plasti plastics. moses said to the pharaoh, set

my people free. [cheers and applause] i got to ask you guys a question. why did you come here today? why did you spend a walk away from your family because you know our families don't come. you spent thousands of dollars. you spent a lot of your time, and you took time off from work just to be here. i don't think anybody came here to be just a little libertarian. not just being a little libertarian. no, the people who joined this party, the people who joined this movement are people who are fed up with the two-party system that we have. the people who joined this movement have had it. those are the people we appeal to. we do not appeal to the tea party. we should appeal--well, i have a question for you because we have a growth problem in the

libertarian party. that means setting up a base. everyone knows if you set up little bases all around the country. we always talk about counties. counties where this party should grow. not from the top down but from the bottom up. [applause] mr. are not enough counties across the united states in getting gary johnson elected. that being the case who should be our target audience to start building these parties? the libertarian party problem is we can't get the one group of people we should most be able to target and get involved. who should be our first target audience? that's what i'm talking about, baby, libertarians. that's our targeted audience. those are the people who will help us get this party started. those are the people who will get us up and get us moving. it doesn't matter who we talk to

first. if we do not get to those people first, we will not have the base required to get him elected. the problem that we have is that there are antiwar people, pro pot people. anti-bank people. libertarians, these are the people we appeal to right off the bat. these are the people who we need to bring into this fold. without them we will fail. my point is simply this. ron paul. [applause] he is a great man. people ask me, what is the difference is between your party and ron paul? what do you think the difference is? besides semantics. here's the thing. ron paul, this is only two reasons why he succeeds. it's such a simple thing.

what attracts people to that man, and i can tell you it's two things. one, it's the message. the second thing is principle. [applause] we succeed on the message, but where we are failing is the principle of standing straight up for that message. in recent years--i'm sorry, i'm not trying to be mr. negative, but in recent years we have made decisions that have caused people that i know in the liberty movement who said, i can't believe you did this. i can't believe you have this guy who speaks for you all the time, and we do. we allow that. so people don't take us seriously. this is nothing wrong with judge gray. judge gray is a grate guy. but i'm saying right now if you want to appeal to ron paul

people, you show them that you elect someone like lee wrights as your vice president. someone who kicks ass! [cheering] the johnson-wrights ticket truly proves that this party has principles. a johnson-wrights ticket will bring thousands upon thousands of people that we need to set up a base so this party can grow. and boy, i thought that would have a real bang. all right. thank you, guys, very much. please, lee wrights for v.p. he deserves it. the man deserves it. we deserve it. [applause]

>> i have the honor of rising to the second nomination of lee wrights for vice president of the united states of america. [applause] in american politics it's a known fact that you choose a presidential ticket strategically. you choose a presidential ticket with balance. you choose a presidential ticket that appeals to all voters. you choose a presidential ticket who reaches out to all voters. that's how you choose a presidential ticket. lee wrights is that strategic choice. [applause] when you go to the shoe store you don't buy two right shoes. you don't have a ticket that only runs on policy. you need passion to go with your

policy. lee wrights is that passion pas! [cheers and applause] i want to say something that i heard today. from governor gary johnson. gary johnson won the nomination of our party, but lee wrights won the debates. we need that kind of debater on this ticket! we need that passion. we need that full-throated defense of liberty. like all of you, i'm from the libertarian wing of the libertarian party. [cheers and applause] we need a libertarian from the libertarian wing of the libertarian party on the ticket. and lee wrights is the original

libertarian from the libertarian wing of the libertarian party! we nominated a ticket that didn't have balance, that wasn't strategically designed to appeal to all voters. we suffered for that. we lost activists. we lost donors, and at some level we lost credibility. 2012 is the time to get that credibility back by nominating a balanced ticket of gary johnson and lee wrights. [applause] i have the honor of serving on the judicial committee, i serve with judge gray on that committee. i have nothing but praise for judge