Badnarik and Cobb were protesting their exclusion from the presidential debates of the 2004 presidential election campaign. Louis, Missouri, on October 8, 2004, for an act of civil disobedience. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race, behind.
The bookstore has long been a subject of neighborhood complaints and police attention. Badnarik and Green Party candidate David Cobb were arrested in St. Badnarik (born August 1, 1954) is an American software engineer, political figure, and former radio talk show host. I was released at like six o’clock in the morning.” “I went inside and was hooking up with someone and the next thing I know, eight of us were against the wall with handcuffs with plastic zip ties on them,” one of the men arrested told the Blade. The statement the sheriff’s office gave the Blade says that one of their undercover female officers was solicited by one of the bookstore’s patrons. Another four were charged with indecent exposure, one was charged with indecent exposure and perverted sexual practice, and one person was arrested for solicitation of prostitution. Of those nine, only three men were charged with perverted sexual practice. The 2004 presidential campaign of David Cobb, a Texas attorney, was Cobbs second overall election campaign, having run for State Attorney General in 2002. 5 The Commission organized the debate and did not include third party candidates. The charges stemmed from the two third party candidates attempt to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates an Order to Show Cause forcing the Commission to accept third party candidates. On Tuesday, the Washington Blade reported that back in May, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office arrested nine people when it raided Bush River Books & Video store in Abington, just north of Baltimore. The 2004 presidential campaign of Michael Badnarik, software engineer and candidate for the Texas legislature in 20, began on February 17, 2003, three months after starting an exploratory committee on November 17, 2002.He spent over a year traveling the country, totaling over 25,000 miles prior to the 2004 Libertarian National Convention. Badnarik, along with Green Party candidate David Cobb, was arrested for trespassing. A raid on a Maryland adult bookstore in May resulted in some potentially unconstitutional arrests of three men for violating the state’s partially repealed sodomy law.