Gary Johnson
Gary Earl Johnson ( born January 1, 1953 in Minot, North Dakota) is an American politician. He was a Republican from 1995 to 2003 Governor of the State of New Mexico and was the candidate of the Libertarian Party for the 2012 presidential election.
Life
Gary Johnson joined as a political newcomer in the race for the nomination of the Republican Party for governor. He was much talked about in the primaries among other things, his unconventional and rather liberal views on drug policy of the United States. As his opinion, the state drug policy devoured too much money, you should think about a " decriminalization " and regulation of drug use. His political agenda is close to the Libertarian Party. His term as governor was, accordingly, marked by a policy that is little state. He used his veto power in 200 of 424 bills alone in the first six months in office.
In the 2002 elections, he did not run for the post, due to the statutory provision that a governor in New Mexico may hold only two terms. As a result, the Republicans lost the governor's mansion to the Democratic Party. At the present time he has held no public office.
Presidential nomination in 2012
On April 21, 2011 Gary Johnson announced his candidacy known for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election via Twitter. In the fall of 2011, he could participate in the first televised debate of the Republican candidates. Of the next three debates Johnson was ruled out by the organizing television station, after which he answered the questions asked there with a video on Youtube. Johnson limited his campaign almost exclusively on the state of New Hampshire. Even before the primarys he gave on December 28, 2011 to withdraw from the race for the nomination for the candidacy of the Republican Party known and explained to compete for the nomination of the Libertarian Party.
On 5 May 2012, he was then placed by that party as a candidate for the presidential election. His running mate for vice-president is Jim Gray, a former district judge from California.
Political positions
Gary Johnson's political program includes libertarian and classical liberal positions and connects from a conservative fiscal policy with a liberal social policy .. It rejects an interventionist foreign policy and state intervention in the economy.
Johnson is a supporter of the right to abortion, but criticized the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, because the individual states should decide about this question. It supports a liberal drug policy and opposes restrictions on the right to bear arms from.
After Johnson's view, the armed forces of the United States should focus on national defense. In his budget, military spending should be reduced by 43 percent.