2002 State Senate Campaign (GOP Primary)
With the teaching of Rich Galen and advice from my name-sake David Limbaugh, https://limbaugh2020.com/i-am-not-rushs-brother-david/ we were able to get more votes (1,994) than dollars spent ($1,535) in a two-county race.
Lost 4386 to 1994. 31% of the vote on $1,535 budget compared to opponent’s $100,000 or so he spent in our primary race. I put a limit of $50 per donor on my campaign.
https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2000-8/senate-rp.pdf
https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=13013588&default=candidate
https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=13013590&default=candidate
2010 County Mayor Race
Ran as an independent candidate against GOP incumbent that was running with no Democrat opponent. Lost 19,677 to 8,674 31% of the vote on $1,000 budget. Same $50 limit per donor.
2016 Presidential Campaign
Ran as a no-party candidate. Write-In Campaign in every state that allowed write-in candidates. Received 3 votes in West Virginia. 53 write-in votes in Tennessee.
We had 365 signatures and our 13 electors. Our electors all checked out but only 263 of the 365 signatures were registered votes. We came up 12 short of the 275 required.
E-mail from State’s Coordinator of Elections, a good man, Mark Goins
The US Constitution sets the rules at 35 years of age (check, born in 1960), natural born citizen (check, born in Huntsville, Alabama) and resident of the United States for 14 years (check, lived in the United States for all but 2 1/2 years of my life – spent those in The Netherlands). Each State has added their own rules to get on the ballot. I emailed every state that allows for write-in campaigns and had some great email conversations. Utah requires in-person delivery and a great friend has a friend that lives in the same city as their election offices and delivered them for me.
Ballot access for presidential candidates:
https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candidates
