Local Libertarians stay energized, engaged in elections

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Local Libertarians haven’t given up their efforts to get into office in the 305. Well, other than the one seat they have now on the community council in Fisher Island.

In the last couple of months, ssince the election in April of new leadership, the Libertarian Party of Miami-Dade Libertarian Party has adopted a new constitution and a new set of bylaws. They also announced the candidaccy of Breanna Kirkland for Homestead City Council against current Councilwoman Patricia Fairclough.

On Thursday, a group of Libertarians from Miami-Dade, Fort Lauderdale, and Boca Raton paid $100 a piece to gather at the Coconut Grove home of Sacha and Abigail DuBearn for the inauguration of Robert Fernandez, who owns a construction company, and Marcos Miralles, a college student and failed Hialeah Council candidate in 2013, as chairman and vice chair of the Miami-Dade party.

Fernandez said the county party needs to take a different course than the rest of the Libertarian Party because of Miami’s unique position as a gateway to the Americas and international trade.

“Miami issues are our issues, Fernandez said. “National and state party will never understand us. It’s up to us and us alone to fight for Miami.”

Vice-Chairman Miralles, who ran for Hialeah council at age 19, underlined the importance of alliances with other political groups to push the libertarian agenda forward.

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Pierre Crevaux, the party’s local campaigns manager, always has something to say and took aim at the corruption that permeates local politics as a weakness that could, possibly, create a window for the party to get in.

“It’s time for us to send a strong message to our corrupt politicians. Whether they’re in Hialeah, Miami Beach, Miami or Homestead, it’s time for us to send them a strong message, a message that says ‘we won’t tolerate you anymore,” Crevaux said. “We won’t tolerate you and we’re going to be the ones fighting against you from now on.”

Roger Stone — a veteran Republican consultant, former advisor to former President “Tricky” Richard Nixon and self-admitted “hitman” for the GOP — was also there to promote his possible candidacy to the Senate seat vacated by Sen. Marco Rubio, who is running for president.

“If the extreme right-winger Ron DeSantis gets the GOP nomination and if the extreme left-winger Alan Grayson is nominated by the Democrats, folks, we’ll be the moderates in this race,” he said, “We’ll be the centrists and that’s a message that’ll take us far in Florida.”

That’s counting on that not one but both perceived front runners, Democrat Congressman Patrick Murphy and Republican Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, lose their respective primaries.

Also at the meeting Thursday:  Miami City Commission candidate Rosa Palomino, who is running with eight other wannabes for the seat vacated by Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, and Paul Preste, a wealthy doctor from Boca Raton who has been approaching Libertarian and independent circles about a potential presidential run. Both former Republican New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and former Democratic Virginia Senator Jim Webb have been rumored to consider the Libertarian’s presidential nomination.

  Libertarian Party, Roger Stone