Libertarian Party of Michigan

Correct? It's Dutch, so the J sounds like a Y, so it's actually pronounced de Jong.

okay so there we go we'll let him say it and um he is running for the michigan house rep and for district 78 you're the chair of the libertarian party of michigan's lansing affiliate previous state comms director and previous national party social media contributor welcome to the show my friend so how you been doing

I've been doing good.

One of the other bona fides that I forgot to mention is I'm actually a locally elected.

Y'all up there in Michigan, I've interviewed several of you guys.

Y'all seem to be doing a lot, and y'all have a lot of candidates.

And here recently, the Libertarian Party of Michigan came out and disavowed their gubernatorial candidate, Anthony Hudson.

He won the nomination, and now they've disavowed him on September 27th.

He teaches constitutional law at Cooley Law School and served on the State Board of Education from 1999 to 2002.

Warren was nominated by the Republican Party and also endorsed by the Libertarian Party of Michigan.

He spoke with Morning Edition host Doug Tribou.

You've served on the Oakland County Circuit Court for nearly 24 years.

[laughs] Supreme Court candidates appear on the ballot without any party affiliation listed.

However, the candidates for the court are nominated by political parties.

Democratic nominees and appointees currently hold a six to one majority on the Supreme Court, and you have been nominated by two parties, the Michigan Republican Party and the Libertarian Party of Michigan.

If that's not a first in Michigan politics, it's certainly very, very rare.