I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

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In an October 26 2009 interview with the Santa Fe New Mexican's Steve Terrell Johnson announced his decision to form an advocacy committee called the Our America Initiative to help him raise funds and promote small government ideas.

He won the Libertarian Party nomination on May 5 2012. Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1 1953) is an American politician businessman and member of the Libertarian Party. After leaving office Johnson founded the non-profit Our America Initiative in 2009 a political advocacy committee seeking to promote policies such as free enterprise foreign non-interventionism limited government and privatization.