Judge Jim Gray, the vice presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, spoke on the KSU campus on Oct 22.
Gray spoke to more than 40 students on a variety of topics, including education, the federal budget and U.S. military presence abroad.
“Please,” said Gray after being introduced and welcomed by applause. “You have to make people earn their applause.”
“You are all in debt,” Gray began his speech, referring to the federal deficit, which is more than $16 trillion. “This is really serious stuff,” he said. “We are like Greece right now, only we don’t have the EU to bail us out.”
The event was hosted by the College Republicans of Kennesaw State University (CLOKSU) and held in an auditorium in Prillaman Hall.
“It is an honor to have him here,” said Michael Zeman, vice president of CLOKSU. “I am excited to hear what he has to say and am very pleased with the turnout.”
Chuck Donovan, the 2012 Libertarian senate candidate introduced Gray by saying, “There are a lot of choices in our lives. The places where we have the most choices seem to be the places that are working the best,” Donovan said. “But when it comes to politics we’re told you only have two choices, Democrat and Republican.”
“Today the federal government has usurped so much power from the people,” Grey said. “The bureaucracy of federal government, I assure you, is really good and effective at one thing, and that is increasing the size and the power and the expense of big government.”
Gary Johnson and Jim Gray are running for office as the Libertarian Party and said they hope to receive 5 percent of the popular vote. If the Libertarian Party receives 5 percent of the popular vote, the Federal Election Commission will have to match their funds in the 2016 race with money from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
Johnson and Gray said they plan to run in the 2016 presidential election. “We hope this will be the beginning of the end of the two-party system,” Gray said. For more information on the Libertarian Party, visit LP.org. For more information on CLOKSU, visit cloksu.com.
A an error has been made. CLOKSU stands for College Libertarians of Kennesaw State University, not the College Republicans.