Skip to main content

TJ Rohr and possibly the best shot at a State Assembly seat in North Carolina


Rarely can a Libertarian run for public office as any sort of incumbent, but that's not the case with TJ Rohr of the Lenoir City Council.

He's challenging long-time incumbent Ed Starnes in House District 87, and generating real coverage in the Caldwell County News-Topic:

The race for one of Caldwell County's seats in the North Carolina General Assembly has become a three-way affair.

Lenoir City Councilman Timothy (T.J.) Rohr said he is running as a Libertarian candidate for the 87th District House of Representatives, having secured the party's nomination for the Nov. 4 general election at a recent executive committee meeting. Rohr joins seven-term incumbent Republican Edgar Starnes, along with Democrat and former Bank of Granite Chairman John Forlines Jr., on the ballot....

Known for his vigorous dissents during city council meetings that often result in 6-1 votes, Rohr said has entered the campaign with the intention of achieving victory. No Libertarian has won a seat in the N.C. General Assembly, though the party has claimed victories in other state assemblies such as Alaska and New Hampshire.

"I'm not in the race to be a spoiler or difference maker," Rohr, 39, said. "I'm in the race to win it. I definitely think I could be a better representative for the citizens and taxpayers of the county. I've got a one-in-three chance. There's only two other guys that can say that."...

"Libertarians are seen as extreme, but we are actually the middle ground," Rohr said. "We are socially liberal and economically conservative. (Democrats and Republicans) are both big government. I am small government."

Elected to the Lenoir Council in 2003 after being involuntarily annexed into the city, Rohr has championed an anti-tax position, along with taking a critical view on receiving federal and state grants for municipal projects. Rohr was re-elected last year....


Regular readers here may remember Rohr as the attorney who joined us in taking the North Carolina Bar Association to task for excluding Michael Munger from their gubernatorial debate.

If he believes he's got a chance, I'm inclined to agree.
Labels:

Comments

David said…
That is where it starts.
July 11, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Comment Rescue (?) and child-related gun violence in Delaware

In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
18 comments
Read more

The Obligatory Libertarian Tax Day Post

The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?
Post a Comment
Read more

New Warfare: I started my posts with a discussion.....

.....on Unrestricted warfare . The US Air force Institute for National Security Studies have developed a reasonable systems approach to deter non-state violent actors who they label as NSVA's. It is an exceptionally important report if we want to deter violent extremism and other potential violent actors that could threaten this nation and its security. It is THE report our political officials should be listening to to shape policy so that we do not become excessive in using force against those who do not agree with policy and dispute it with reason and normal non-violent civil disobedience. This report, should be carefully read by everyone really concerned with protecting civil liberties while deterring violent terrorism and I recommend if you are a professional you send your recommendations via e-mail at the link above so that either 1.) additional safeguards to civil liberties are included, or 2.) additional viable strategies can be used. Finally, one can only hope that politici
Post a Comment
Read more