Founded in 1971, The Libertarian Party of Georgia is a state affiliate of the United States Libertarian Party.
Candidates
Notable candidates include John Monds's run for governor in 2010 and John Monds, Public Service Commission District 1 – the first Libertarian in the country to receive more than 1 Million votes (1,076,780 or 33.4%).
^Rothbard, Murray Newton (1978). For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto. Collier Books. p. 153. ISBN9780020746904. Even more remarkably, the Libertarian party achieved this growth while consistently adhering to a new ideological creed—"libertarianism"—thus bringing to the American political scene for the first time in a century a party interested in principle rather than in merely gaining jobs and money at the public trough.
