{"id":35050,"date":"2017-03-04T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T00:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/transhumanist-wants-to-run-for-california-governor-under-libertarian-banner"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:22","slug":"transhumanist-wants-to-run-for-california-governor-under-libertarian-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/transhumanist-wants-to-run-for-california-governor-under-libertarian-banner","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanist Wants to Run for California Governor Under Libertarian Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A6hQYXFly1I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Libertarian Republic covering my libertarian run for California Governor:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kfairfield4\"><strong>Kody Fairfield<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After realizing his chances to be President were over, <strong>Zoltan Istvan <\/strong>of the Transhumanist Party, has decided to take his platform and run for another elected office, and under a different political party.<\/p>\n<p>Istvan didn\u2019t have much of a chance at being president, but that didn\u2019t stop him from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/11\/01\/zoltan-istvan-transhumanist-party\/\">campaigning as the Transhumanist Party\u2019s candidate<\/a> to promote his pro-technology and science positions. Now, he\u2019s setting his sights a bit lower, and with a different party. Istvan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/zoltan-istvan-california-governor-libertarian-555088?rx=us\">announced this morning<\/a> that he plans to run for governor of California in 2018 under the Libertarian Party, explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/13\/zoltan-istvan-california-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/Engadet.com\">Engadet.com<\/a><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <em>Newsweek <\/em>article Istvan wrote, \u201cWe need leadership that is willing to use radical science, technology, and innovation\u2014what California is famous for\u2013to benefit us all. We need someone with the nerve to risk the tremendous possibilities to save the environment through bioengineering, to end cancer by seeking a vaccine or a gene-editing solution for it, to embrace startups that will take California from the world\u2019s 7th largest economy to maybe even the largest economy\u2013bigger than the rest of America altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thelibertarianrepublic.com\/transhumanist-run-california-governor-libertarian-banner\/\">https:\/\/thelibertarianrepublic.com\/transhumanist-run-califor...an-banner\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Libertarian Republic covering my libertarian run for California Governor: By Kody Fairfield After realizing his chances to be President were over, Zoltan Istvan of the Transhumanist Party, has decided to take his platform and run for another elected office, and under a different political party. Istvan didn\u2019t have much of a chance at being [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,39,412,5,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-genetics","category-geopolitics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58503,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050\/revisions\/58503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}