{"id":682,"date":"2012-09-09T07:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T07:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=19869"},"modified":"2012-09-09T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T07:51:21","slug":"gary-johnson-in-charlotte-during-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/gary-johnson-in-charlotte-during-dnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Johnson in Charlotte During DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/gary-johnson-in-charlotte-during-dnc\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"263\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary-johnson1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"gary johnson\" title=\"gary johnson\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19876\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/gary-johnson-was-in-charlotte-during-dnc\/attachment\/gary-johnson-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19876\" title=\"gary johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary-johnson1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As the Democratic National Convention occupied most of the headlines this week, another candidate for President was also in Charlotte.\u00a0\u00a0 Gary Johnson attended several events in the Charlotte area which included a <a href=\"http:\/\/norml.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NORML<\/a> demonstration and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teaparty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tea Party <\/a>event about a half hour away from the DNC.\u00a0 The marijuana reform advocate seemed to enjoy his status as a third party candidate and possible spoiler for either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama.\u00a0 Johnson said &#8220;I really do wish I was known as a spoiler on both sides, that the notion that people really do care about the fact that we are in endless wars, the fact that we do care about civil liberties, that we have a growing police state.&#8221; While third party candidates have little chance of winning the presidency they can bring attention to their cause.\u00a0 Many feel that Ralph Nader and Pat Buccanan had a significant impact on the 2000 election.\u00a0 Both candidates should probably be fearful but Mitt Romney his campaign in particular seem worried about Johnson upsetting their chances for the White House.\u00a0 Attorneys for the Romney campaign have been filing legal challenges in many states including important swing states such as Virginia, which could be the key to the election.\u00a0 Mr. Johnson is a former Republican and may still have support from voters in the party who are not energized by Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyjohnson2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">For more on Gary Johnson and his upcoming appearances click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"263\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary-johnson1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"gary johnson\" title=\"gary johnson\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19876\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/gary-johnson-was-in-charlotte-during-dnc\/attachment\/gary-johnson-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19876\" title=\"gary johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary-johnson1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As the Democratic National Convention occupied most of the headlines this week, another candidate for President was also in Charlotte.\u00a0\u00a0 Gary Johnson attended several events in the Charlotte area which included a <a href=\"http:\/\/norml.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NORML<\/a> demonstration and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teaparty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tea Party <\/a>event about a half hour away from the DNC.\u00a0 The marijuana reform advocate seemed to enjoy his status as a third party candidate and possible spoiler for either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama.\u00a0 Johnson said &#8220;I really do wish I was known as a spoiler on both sides, that the notion that people really do care about the fact that we are in endless wars, the fact that we do care about civil liberties, that we have a growing police state.&#8221; While third party candidates have little chance of winning the presidency they can bring attention to their cause.\u00a0 Many feel that Ralph Nader and Pat Buccanan had a significant impact on the 2000 election.\u00a0 Both candidates should probably be fearful but Mitt Romney his campaign in particular seem worried about Johnson upsetting their chances for the White House.\u00a0 Attorneys for the Romney campaign have been filing legal challenges in many states including important swing states such as Virginia, which could be the key to the election.\u00a0 Mr. Johnson is a former Republican and may still have support from voters in the party who are not energized by Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyjohnson2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">For more on Gary Johnson and his upcoming appearances click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[469,210,52,470,409,294,56,9,51,299,411,471,70,472,1,3,473,474,475,61],"tags":[3043,2788,2632,3044,2987,2872,2636,2631,2877,2989,3045,5,3046,3047,3048,3049,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}