Elections
Centre County set to host 1st presidential candidate of the 2020 election on Sunday
With less than 100 days until the general election, Centre County is slated to host its first presidential candidate of the year.
Libertarian presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen is set to speak at the GodSpeed Event Center — located at 7897 S. Eagle Valley Road in Port Matilda — on Sunday. The free public event, hosted by Jorgensen, congressional candidate Liz Terwilliger and the Libertarian Party of Centre County, is scheduled to run from 5-7 p.m. with Jorgensen’s arrival expected at 6 p.m.
Jorgensen is the first woman to lead the Libertarian Party’s presidential ticket.
A 1979 Baylor University and 1980 Southern Methodist University alumna, Jorgensen is a senior lecturer in psychology at Clemson University. She has worked as a marketing representative for IBM and started her own software sales business in 1983.
A lifetime member of the Libertarian Party, Jorgensen was the vice presidential nominee with Harry Browne in 1996 when she campaigned in 38 states and appeared as a party spokeswoman on over 300 radio shows across the United States. She was the party candidate for South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District in 1992.
According to her website, Jorgensen’s “bold, practical, Libertarian” vision for the United States includes addressing federal debt, stopping involvement in foreign war, remedying health care costs, imprisonment rate, the retirement system and tariffs on American farmers.
“Big government mandates and programs created these problems,” she wrote on her website. “To solve them, we need to make government smaller — much, much smaller.”
Jorgensen and her running mate Jeremy Cohen were nominated during the party’s national convention on May 23.
Cohen started a web design company in 1999 but retired three years ago to work for the Libertarian party full time.
The host of “My Fellow Americans,” co-host of the Muddied Waters of Freedom and co-owner of Muddied Waters Media — a podcast platform — Cohen hosts two live programs every week.
On the campaign website, Cohen said Jorgensen is “the right person” to run against President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
The rally will be held outside to accommodate social distancing guidelines, and attendees will be provided with masks and hand sanitizer. The campaign asks anyone who’s feeling sick to stay home.
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