Nevada has kept its LP ballot status for another election cycle (two years).

Nevada ran a Unified Federal campaign. We had a website, www.voteforachange.us, that featured a unified federal platform. We had candidates for the one Senate seat and the three congressional House seats that were contested. Two of the four candidates garnered enough votes to maintain our ballot access.

We printed a single brochure for the federal candidates, and regretted during the campaign that we did not print enough of them.

The campaign in Las Vegas, which is the largest population center in the State and two of the three House races, was characterized by "Vote for a Change" street rallies. At these rallies brochures were hand delivered to motorists and pedestrians. Signs and even Revolutionary War era "Betsy Ross"  American Flags were featured prominently. Some good press publicity was generated, as well as thousands of brochures hand delivered.

In Northern Nevada and the rural areas we inserted the brochures and sometimes LP Viewpoints into newspapers, and did newspaper advertising. In addition, Reno made use of public access television on Sierra Nevada Community Access Charter Channel 16 and also bought some radio advertising. We  organized our own candidates night in Elko Nevada, where we invited Congressman Gibbons (R)  to a debate. He was apparantely afraid to face us. Our Senate Candidate Tom Hurst and myself  the House Candidate for the rural areas made numerous personal appearances. (In Nevada one House seat covers 16 of the seventeen counties, while Clark County -Las Vegas-holds two House seats.)

The League of Women Voters invited Libertarian Candidates to their debates. We used their example to criticize the exclusion of our candidates from  other venues. This garnered quite a bit of good publicity in Las Vegas, where the House races were close enough to at least be interesting. Since the Democrats once again did not run more than a paper candidate against Jim Gibbons in the rest of the state, there was no other opportunity for debate there. We had to rely on our own resources, which are unfortunately slim.

Nevada supported the Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik well. We had two excellent fundraisers for him. It was energizing to see the ads that were run on television by his campaign in Nevada. Unfortunately, he did not garner much of a vote, about .03%. Also, none of our federal candidates can claim to have helped in an upset. The incumbents all won pretty comfortably.

Apart from the federal campaign, we did not have many legislative candidates. All were in Clark County. We hope to have a full slate for the Gubernatorial election cycle coming up in 2006. We are keeping the website www.voteforachange.us as a means of encouraging more candidates who will be active in that race to "cowboy up".

In non partisan races, we had a primary victor in Jeff Bobeck of Nye County for Pahrump Town Board.  Unfortunately, he came in third of four candidates in the general election for two seats, but did well, garnering 21.4% of the vote. In Reno, Michelle Buck got 9% of the vote in a city council try in the primary.