Last month, a libertarian activist group announced their involvement in 16 New Hampshire state house elections. On Tuesday night, 13 of the 16 candidates they supported won their primaries.
“This will be an evening that I will never forget,” said Cliff Maloney, president of Young Americans for Liberty, on Facebook. “We launched Operation Win at the Door this year as a bunch of rag-tag kids trying to fix America’s woes and restore true freedom. Tonight, we bring our win count to 21 wins with 13 wins in New Hampshire this evening.”
Operation Win at the Door, a project of YAL, now touts 21 total wins since launching in May and plans to drastically up-scale their efforts.
“YAL is on track to endorse a total of 50 candidates for state legislative races in 2018 and knock on over 1,000,000 doors,” YAL said in a press release. “Ultimately the goal is to build a bench of liberty legislators and give a microphone to the principles of limited government. YAL aims to elect 250 liberty state legislators by the end of the 2022 cycle.”
Candidates must go through an extensive vetting process before they are chosen for a YAL endorsement. Just to apply, individuals must first fill out a questionnaire to explain their position on issues ranging from taxes to the legality of red-light cameras. The goal of the survey is to filter through candidates, finding people who will remain ideologically consistent after they win office.
“Every Operation Win at the Door race that YAL mobilizes door-knockers for is an opportunity to send principled, liberty-minded individuals to state legislatures across the country,” the press release stated. “Every candidate we endorse and deploy for is slated to become a champion for our ideals in every chamber they enter. We are building the future bench of liberty candidates for federal office.”
Just in New Hampshire, YAL deployed 25 door-knockers, hitting more than 75,000 houses throughout the course of one month, the press release stated.
“YAL specifically targets primary races in districts that will not need our help in the general election,” Maloney said.
New Hampshire candidates Bart Fromuth, Linda Rea Camarota, Robert Forsythe, Kevin Verville, Alan Bershtein, James Spillane, Chris True, Jeff Day, Jess Edwards, Jason Osborne, JP Marzullo, Dick Marple, and Michael Yakubovich will now be moving on to their general elections to secure their seat in the statehouse.
Maloney said YAL may come back to help if something changes, but that nearly all of their endorsements have a clear path to victory.
“YAL’s general election door-knocking deployment will begin the first week of October and run through Nov. 6,” Maloney said.
William Nardi (@williamznardi) is a contributor to Red Alert Politics. He is a student at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a former intern for the Washington Examiner.
