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In 2019, Wenke made it his personal mission to make the [[Cattaraugus County Libertarian Party]] the “top performing fringe third party all across the entire United States” after noticing how well received the founding meeting for the county party had went. He made it a goal to run as many “Libertarian exclusive” candidates for local and county office as possible, having noticed that the majority of county Libertarian parties across the entire state of New York were well on their way to simply cross-endorsing Republican and/or Democratic candidates for office, thereby treating the Libertarian line like a pawn line. | In 2019, Wenke made it his personal mission to make the [[Cattaraugus County Libertarian Party]] the “top performing fringe third party all across the entire United States” after noticing how well received the founding meeting for the county party had went. He made it a goal to run as many “Libertarian exclusive” candidates for local and county office as possible, having noticed that the majority of county Libertarian parties across the entire state of New York were well on their way to simply cross-endorsing Republican and/or Democratic candidates for office, thereby treating the Libertarian line like a pawn line. | ||
In July of 2019, Wenke hosted presidential candidate Vermin Supreme and organized a rock concert at Napoli’s Pizza of Olean on behalf of Mr. Supreme alongside regional alternative rock band [[Dredneks]] which consists of libertarian anarchists and includes libertarian-esque subliminal messaging in its lyrics. | In July of 2019, Wenke hosted presidential candidate [[Vermin Supreme]] and organized a rock concert at Napoli’s Pizza of Olean on behalf of Mr. Supreme alongside regional alternative rock band [[Dredneks]] which consists of libertarian anarchists and includes libertarian-esque subliminal messaging in its lyrics. | ||
Wenke ran for Cattaraugus County Coroner while serving as county chairman, knowing all the while that he was completely unqualified for the position. Using two campaign slogans, “Any Schmuck Can Run For Coroner” and “Running For County Executive From The Coroner Position” (Cattaraugus County did not and still does not have a democratically elected county executive, the county seat in Little Valley has a county legislature manager elected by the county legislators), Wenke used his local name recognition to remind everyone that as long as we have a government that anyone should be able to run and get have a chance to get elected to any office, no matter how qualified or unqualified “the armchair politicians” think you are. Wenke’s unqualified stature for this particular office immediately resulted in moderate uproar among residents in the county, worried that an eccentric personality with significant regional name recognition may have actually stood a chance at getting elected to a serious public position such as coroner. Wenke used the coroner run as a pseudo-county executive run to talk about county issues and libertarian solutions for them. Republican opposition to Wenke attempted to publicly humiliate him by digging up pictures from Wenke’s FetLife account and posting them all over Facebook. Wenke’s response was to post a picture of himself in bdsm gear, with his coroner campaign sign, and a piece of paper that read “People on welfare can’t afford expensive bondage gear!” as a way to fire back at “the haters”. Wenke ended up receiving 3% of the vote, drawing comparisons to [[Gary Johnson]]’s 2016 election turnout and the “We Are The III%” slogan. | Wenke ran for Cattaraugus County Coroner while serving as county chairman, knowing all the while that he was completely unqualified for the position. Using two campaign slogans, “Any Schmuck Can Run For Coroner” and “Running For County Executive From The Coroner Position” (Cattaraugus County did not and still does not have a democratically elected county executive, the county seat in Little Valley has a county legislature manager elected by the county legislators), Wenke used his local name recognition to remind everyone that as long as we have a government that anyone should be able to run and get have a chance to get elected to any office, no matter how qualified or unqualified “the armchair politicians” think you are. Wenke’s unqualified stature for this particular office immediately resulted in moderate uproar among residents in the county, worried that an eccentric personality with significant regional name recognition may have actually stood a chance at getting elected to a serious public position such as coroner. Wenke used the coroner run as a pseudo-county executive run to talk about county issues and libertarian solutions for them. Republican opposition to Wenke attempted to publicly humiliate him by digging up pictures from Wenke’s FetLife account and posting them all over Facebook. Wenke’s response was to post a picture of himself in bdsm gear, with his coroner campaign sign, and a piece of paper that read “People on welfare can’t afford expensive bondage gear!” as a way to fire back at “the haters”. Wenke ended up receiving 3% of the vote, drawing comparisons to [[Gary Johnson]]’s 2016 election turnout and the “We Are The III%” slogan. | ||