Austin Petersen

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Austin Petersen (2013)

Austin Wade Petersen (born February 19, 1981 in Independence , Missouri ) is an American editor and politician of the Republican Party . He was editor-in-chief of the online magazine TheLibertarianRepublic . He is currently running for the Senate of the United States in Missouri.

Life

Petersen graduated from high school in 1999. He is a graduate of Missouri State University in the subject Art (Fine Arts). Later he was production manager at FreedomWorks and department manager at FAO Schwarz Spielwaren .

From 2004 to 2008 had Petersen several appearances in films and stage works in the whole United States .

Petersen worked for the Libertarian National Committee as a volunteer coordinator in 2008 and was later promoted to director of public relations . He was a member of a social media campaign for Andrew Napolitano and his new television show FreedomWatch on the Fox Business Network . The show was discontinued in 2012. Petersen made several appearances on RT (Russia Today) Fox News.

Petersen applied for the presidential candidacy of the Libertarian Party in October 2015 . He lost to Gary Johnson in the primary.

Senate election 2018

On July 4, 2017, Petersen announced that he would run for the US Senate as a Republican against the Democrat Claire McCaskill .

His supporters ( endorsement ) include actor Mark Pellegrino and former Republican MP Bob Barr from Georgia .

Political positions

Petersen sees himself as a constitutional libertarian who also pursues a conservative platform. He is a strong advocate of gun ownership and Amendment 2 to the United States Constitution . In 2013, he hosted the Toy Gun March in Washington, DC , promoting safe and responsible weapon carrying. Participants brought water guns and other toy guns. The event was also used as a protest against Obama's attempt to severely restrict gun ownership.

Petersen is anti-abortion . In the event of his nomination for President of the United States, he proposed that the Penny Plan be submitted to Congress . The aim is to reduce government spending and its debts by cutting one percent of the spending per government agency and at the same time rebuilding the current tax system, which he believes is directed against the working population. Petersen wants to limit the state tasks to its core functions with a lower flat taxation. The rest of the work should be funded on a voluntary basis if possible, through tolls or lotteries like the Mountain Road Lottery launched by George Washington .

Controversy

In the summer of 2015 Petersen fell into an Internet radio show into an argument with the presenter during which Petersen among others, the pyramidal bunch of pussies in which I swim regularly boasted ( the pyramid pile of pussy did I swim in on a regular basis ).

When asked about this dispute by Glenn Beck , he defended himself by saying that he had defended an acquaintance whose honor the presenter of the Internet radio show had injured by sending a nude photo.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/about/
  2. ↑ Why I'm running as a Republican for US Senate . In: Austin Petersen for US Senate . ( austinpetersen.com [accessed July 21, 2017]).
  3. ↑ http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/about/
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2204011/
  5. ↑ 01/20 / 15Austin Petersen on Fox Business Responding to Obama's SOTU ( Memento from June 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/02/09/fox-business-channel-cancels-freedom-watch-with-judge-napolitano/
  7. ^ Judge Andrew Napolitano ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ https://www.rt.com/shows/big-picture/prisoners-vote-military-strike-498/
  9. ↑ https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/169224-global-battle-western-media/
  10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BUR9pdgCw
  11. ↑ https://www.google.ch/?gws_rd=ssl#q=austin+petersen+candidacy
  12. ↑ 75% of the American people see widespread government corruption ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ 2016 Presidential Candidates ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Austin Petersen: Austin Petersen Announces Bid For Missouri US Senate Seat in 2018. Accessed July 21, 2017 .
  15. ^ Austin Petersen for US Senate . In: Austin Petersen for US Senate . ( austinpetersen.com [accessed July 21, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Mark Pellegrino Endorses Austin for Senate . In: Austin Petersen for US Senate . ( austinpetersen.com [accessed July 21, 2017]). Mark Pellegrino Endorses Austin for Senate ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.austinpetersen.com
  17. ↑ Former Congressman Bob Barr Endorses Austin Petersen . In: Austin Petersen for US Senate . ( austinpetersen.com [accessed July 21, 2017]). Former Congressman Bob Barr Endorses Austin Petersen ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.austinpetersen.com
  18. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/toy-gun-march-washington_n_3536655.html
  19. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm0VN93vHnM
  20. ↑ Platform ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ The One Cent Solution ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VuyHvaqd3w
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Austin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Austin Wade
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American editor and politician (Libertarian Party)
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Independence , Missouri