{"id":207193,"date":"2026-06-23T20:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207193"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:46:59","slug":"libertarian-political-club-being-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/23\/libertarian-political-club-being-formed\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian Political Club being formed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; The 2026 Paulding County Fair saw a new organization with the arrival of the Libertarian Party of Ohio. Christopher Elder, Libertarian candidate for Ohio House District 82, spoke with people as the first Libertarian candidate from Paulding since 2000. District 82 includes all of Paulding, Putnam and Van Wert counties, along with some of Defiance County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are here to offer a new option for people who feel like they don\u2019t belong in either of the two major parties,\u201d Elder said.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PauldingCountyFair2026_Group.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207194\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pictured from left to right are Christopher Elder, candidate for Ohio House District 82; Payton Amweg, Elder&#8217;s campaign manager, Zach Hall, Chair of LP State Central Committee; a volunteer, and Tom Pruss, Vice Chair of LP Ohio and candidate for Secretary of State.<em> Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The booth was also manned by four other Libertarian candidates for statewide offices: Don Kissick and James Mills for governor and lieutenant governor, Bill Redpath for Secretary of State, and Bill Redpath for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThanks to the amount of interest in a third-party option in the area, we are moving forward with starting a Libertarian Political Club right here in Paulding County,\u201d Elder shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on joining the new club, interested parties should contact Elder at 419.670.1831 or elderforoh82@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information PAULDING &#8212; The 2026 Paulding County Fair saw a new organization with the arrival of the Libertarian Party of Ohio. Christopher Elder, Libertarian candidate for Ohio House District 82, spoke with people as the first Libertarian candidate from Paulding since 2000. District 82 includes all of Paulding, Putnam and Van Wert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 14:24:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207195,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207193\/revisions\/207195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}