On July 4, Gatewood Galbraith filed paperwork to begin raising money in his fifth run for governor of Kentucky. Galbraith, a lawyer who has focused primarily on marijuana legalization, ran as a Democrat in 1991, 1995, and 2007, and as the Reform Party nominee in 1999, when he won 15 percent of the vote in a four-way race. He has also run for Congress and other state offices. In his 2011 gubernatorial bid, Galbraith will run as an independent, with political consultant Dea Riley as his running mate.
14 responses so far ↓
1 Thane Eichenauer // Jul 13, 2009 at 3:16 pm
2010 sure looks to be the year of the Independent.
2 Peter Orvetti // Jul 13, 2009 at 3:53 pm
The KY election is in 2011
3 Donald Raymond Lake // Jul 13, 2009 at 4:47 pm
And the alternative movement ‘break through’ [NOT] in 2008 ??????
4 Third Party Revolution // Jul 13, 2009 at 4:58 pm
We here at Third Party Revolution endorse Gatewood Galbraith in his campaign for Governor of Kentucky, along with many other third party and independent candidates seeking public offices nation-wide, ranging from local to federal levels.
5 Donald Raymond Lake // Jul 13, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Third Party: good for you. Cheap and effective strategy. Other narrow minded groups [Reform, Veterans, Libertarian] REFUSE to support extra partisan candidates, no matter how coposetic or advantageous ……..
Alliances, allies, corporation, out reach ………
6 Gene Berkman // Jul 14, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Gatewood Galbraith has run for various offices to publicize the case for legal marijuana. He has also proposed industrial hemp as a cash crop for Kentucky farmers who are overdependent on tobacco.
In 2000 he ran for Congress on the Reform Party ticket.He delivered the keynote address as the Reform Party convention that nominated Pat Buchanan. His campaign that year reflected Buchananite theme of opposing trade agreements and restoring constitutional government.
7 Donald Raymond Lake // Jul 14, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Gene Berkmann: So Gatewood Galbraith is a good guy inspite of being associated with crooks and liars Bay Buchanan and her weasely unethical brother?
8 Gene Berkman // Jul 14, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Donald: in his book “The Last Free Man in America” Gatewood expresses disapointment with how the Buchanan/Reform Party campaign turned out. He criticizes Buchanan for not running an effective campaign and giving up.
Don’t know if Gatewood privately wonders (as many of us do) what happened to the $12.6 million in taxpayers money that the Buchanan campaign received.
9 Donald Raymond Lake // Jul 14, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Gene Berkman: even before I was recruited by the [so called] reform movement, I have wondered ’bout that every day! I still get physically ill viewing the McLafflin Report.
‘Effective campaign’? Bay has her own blog. Patty does TV, print media, and all kinds of GOP consulting. VERY EFFECTIVE, for the Buchanan Banditos!
10 Steven R Linnabary // Jul 14, 2009 at 5:36 pm
The Buchanon campaign got their $12.6MM just days before the election.
I happened to be at their OH convention where they were arguing over how to spend the local share. The national campaign had already spent money on t-shirts, baseball caps, signs and bumperstickers. Most were upset that the t-shirts and caps weren’t made in USA.
IMHO, the federal money was released far too late to have been spent frugally. It couldn’t even be leveraged into independent donations.
PEACE
11 Darcy G Richardson // Jul 14, 2009 at 6:37 pm
While legal wrangling over which Reform Party faction was entitled to the federal funds undoubtedly delayed payment to Buchanan’s presidential campaign in 2000, it’s untrue that the payment was received “just days before the election.”
A check in the amount of $12,613,452 from the U.S. Treasury was received at Buchanan’s headquarters in McLean, VA, on September 15, 2000 — some 54 days before the election.
12 Steven R Linnabary // Jul 14, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I stand corrected. I wasn’t really a part of the RP, but had been invited to speak as I was running as an LP. I was speaking from memory.
That said, it was still too late to mount a credible campaign, or to even leverage into independent contributions.
PEACE
13 Donald Raymond Lake // Jul 14, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Just incredible how ‘creative’ memory gets in politics. I catch reform movement types contradicting them selves all the time. And when I correct the thugs they usually upset. And the more documentation the more folks get mad at me, in the reform movement on on this site!
Too late to run a creditable campaign [after the split convention in Long Beach]? Hmmm, never to late to open a savings account for the future!
Steve Limmabary, who are you? Really?
14 Steven R Linnabary // Jul 14, 2009 at 11:40 pm
I’m the other guy…
PEACE
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