OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Republican businessman Perry Johnson has introduced his long-shot bid for president.
Johnson, who tried to run for Michigan governor final 12 months however was deemed by the state’s elections bureau to have filed 1000’s of fraudulent nominating signatures, introduced his White Home candidacy to a gaggle of supporters on Thursday evening, his marketing campaign mentioned. Hours earlier, he had spoken on the opening day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference simply exterior Washington, D.C.
Johnson didn’t straight point out his presidential marketing campaign when he spoke on the CPAC gathering in Oxon Hill, Maryland, the place a handful of different candidates and potential contenders together with former President Donald Trump are slated to talk Friday and Saturday.
Johnson spent cash earlier this 12 months to run an advert throughout the Tremendous Bowl concentrating on voters in Iowa, the primary state to vote on the GOP presidential discipline, touting his plan to chop federal spending by 2% yearly.
The businessman earned a fortune beginning Michigan-based Perry Johnson Registrars Inc., which certifies if companies are assembly industrial requirements. He did not get on the poll for the GOP major for Michigan governor after elections officers mentioned he did not file sufficient legitimate signatures.
Staffers on the state elections bureau mentioned that Johnson turned in 13,800 legitimate signatures however that they tossed 9,393, together with 6,983 they mentioned have been fraudulent. Johnson, who was keen to spend hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on his marketing campaign for the governor’s workplace, said his rights were violated throughout the course of.
