RON PAUL SUPPORTER, SCOTTY BOMAN, TO BE IN MICHIGAN'S GENERAL ELECTION AS US SENATE CANDIDATE

6/07/08
FROM PRESS RELEASE BY: Scotty Boman.
http://scottyboman.org

Romulus-MI. On the afternoon of Saturday, June 7th, Scotty Boman was nominated to run for United States Senate by the Libertarian Party of Michigan. The convention was in Romulus at the Best Western-Gateway.

The nomination for U.S. Senate was contested. Leonard Schwartz, the 2006 nominee for the same office and 2008 vice-presidential hopeful, ran against seven-time Libertarian candidate, Scotty Boman.

Boman, an active Ron Paul supporter from the Detroit area, had been campaigning for the Senate nomination for the past two months. Schwartz started his United States Senate Campaign at the Denver national convention, where he withdrew his candidacy for vice president after Bob Barr was named the party’s presidential nominee.

Scotty Boman is a longtime party activist and former state party chairman who captured almost 137,000 votes in his 2004 race for State Board of Education.

Leonard Schwartz has served as the party's political director, and was the party's US Senate candidate in 2006. In his 2004 race for Michigan Supreme Court, he drew more than 438,000 votes.

"Either of these men would be a voice of reason in the US Senate, and a welcome improvement over Senator Carl Levin," state chairman Bill Hall said on the eve of the convention. He continued, "Both support steep spending and tax cuts, promptly withdrawing from Iraq, and restoring our freedoms taken away by the Patriot Act, unlike their Democratic and Republican opponents."

In a press release issued the previous day Hall is quoted as saying, "Scotty and Leonard are leading the charge, but this year's state convention promises to be a great day for our party," Hall noted. "Former Congressman Bob Barr's nomination as the Libertarian Presidential candidate in Denver late last month has energized libertarians, Ron Paul Republicans and anti-McCain conservatives to run on the Libertarian ticket." Hall is expecting this year's slate of Libertarian candidates to contest all statewide offices and Congressional races, dozens of state house seats, and dozens more county and local offices. Many districts in Southeast Michigan will have only a Libertarian and a Democrat on the ballot.

In his acceptance speech, Boman praised Schwartz’s record of supporting libertarianism and the Michigan LP, and said he would nominate Schwartz for any office for which Schwartz chose to run. Ultimately, Schwartz decided to run for the 5th United States House of Representatives seat.