Gary Johnson for President Crowd Surfs

Word is starting to roll out about Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson's Salt Lake City Crowd Surfing Event yesterday.  What started out as a free, public, packed, standing-room-only, Townhall of 200 attendees ninety minutes and one innocent inquiry later may have witnessed the only known POTUS Candidate Crowd Surfing event EVER.

As Gary spoke for the first half hour, you could feel his enthusiasm for liberty and ending government largess in a plethora of areas: war, debt, drugs, marriage, and spying.  He comes across pragmatic in his approach dealing with liberty-oriented solutions and pround of his veto record as the former twice-elected Governor of New Mexico. 

He mentioned one bill he veteod was to force pet shop owners to exercise their pets.  While he personally favors pet exercise, he doesn't want to pay for the pet exercise police.  It is this passion--even insatiability--for reducing spending that caught my attention early on when Gary was in the GOP debates prior to his exit last December to run on the Libertarian Party ticket. 

The balance of the time was spent in answering questions from the public on topics A to Z with a line that never ended. (Excerpt video)

This is an exciting time for Gary as the two monopolistic parties have candidates very similar in ideology.  Whether Gary is the next president or not, with every percentage of vote Gary gains, he wins.  He commented that he was in this commitment through 2016 so while not a formal announcement, you can expect that Gary will not be absent four years from now.

SLC Townhall With Presidential Candidate Gov. Gary Johnson



Don't worry--you won't have to pay $1000 to meet with a candidate on the ballot for President.  In fact, it's free!  How fitting for a candidate who so unabashedly promotes freedom.

For those of you who don't know Gov. Gary Johnson (website) well, let's cover a bit of ground quickly.  Gov. Johnson is a former two-term Republican Governor in the blue state of New Mexico.  As Governor, Gary cut taxes & spending using both veto and line-item veto hundreds of times so the man not only has electability but chutzpah.  Indeed unlike Romney or Obama, he's promised to submit a balanced budget to Congress in his first year!  Awesomeness!!!

Gary's great on protecting our Constitutionally-protected civil liberties, ending the drug war, bringing home the troops from Afghanistan, and not instigating a war with Iran.

With Romney falling in the polls, those who seek to rid our country of the tyranny under Obama should take heed of this rare opportunity.  He's one of only four candidates nationwide that are on enough printed ballots to win the presidency (Green Papers--the four candidates are highlighted in yellow) and yes, he's on the ballot right here in Utah under the Libertarian Party ticket.

The Gary Johnson townhall tomorrow (Tuesday) night 7-9pm at Challenger School off 13th East in Salt Lake, just east of the Bees Stadium.  Facebook lists the public event under "Gov. Gary Johnson - Salt Lake City Townhall".