Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, who has been ignored by most of the mainstream media in his quixotic bid for the GOP nomination for president, will be in Clearwater Monday night, December 12, at the Datex Business Center, Main Auditorium, 10300 49th Street North at 6 p.m.
Johnson will not be in Iowa Saturday night, the site of the next presidential debate, to be broadcast by ABC News. Instead, Johnson will be live-blogging the forum on patch.com from California.
Johnson has been an observer for all but two of the presidential debates this year, which hardly seems fair considering his distinguished two-term tenure serving New Mexico from 1994-2002.
And while his colleagues on the campaign trail will be trolling for votes or hunkering down in preparation for tomorrow night's debate, Johnson will be engaging in something that none of the other candidates would dare be caught doing — discussing medical marijuana policy in Oakland.
This article appears in Dec 8-14, 2011.