Boman also encouraged voters to choose Ron Paul in his opinion column , and has served as an assistant meetup organizer for the Wayne County Ron Paul Meetup Group . In 2012 he was among the four United States Senate candidates ( nation-wide ) identified by Bloomberg Businessweek as having been inspired by Ron Paul , and he was one of two such candidates quoted in Politico : " I do n't think people expected Paul to accomplish so much , " said Scotty Boman , a Senate candidate in Michigan who met Paul in 1988 when the Texan was running for president on the Libertarian ticket . " He 's been able to break a barrier and be heard by the mainstream . " He was elected precinct delegate in 2010 and 2012 . He entered the 2012 United States Senate race as a Republican . While still a declared Republican candidate , he appeared on C-SPAN as a Delegate to the 2012 Libertarian National Convention where he nominated R. Lee Wrights for Vice President . Later in May 2012 he returned to the Libertarian Party of Michigan and was nominated as their candidate for United States Senate
2012 Libertarian National Convention
2012 Libertarian National Convention
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