Kurt Evans to run as Libertarian in US Senate Race. Libertarians now have as many candidates as the Dems.

Unsuccessful US Senate candidate Kurt Evans is a little older than he was when he ran in 2002, and received a few more than 3000 votes.   But he’s looking at giving it another shot.

According to David Montgomery at Political Smokeout, this former independent US Senate candidate is looking to run under the libertarian banner:

Evans, 43, said in an email to the Argus Leader that he would run for Senate as a Libertarian.

A Wessington Springs native, he’s employed as a distance education facilitator in the Wessington Springs school system.

Read that here.

What’s changed since 2002? Not Much, but he’s got a bit more of a legal record since then, if you recall the restraining order issued against him in 2003:

A judge has issued an order prohibiting former U.S. Senate candidate Kurt Evans from approaching or contacting a star player on South Dakota State University’s women’s basketball team.

Circuit Judge Rodney Steele of Brookings issued the protection order Sept. 22 after listening to testimony from Evans and Brenda Davis, who has alleged that she became scared after Evans approached her. The judge found that Evans had stalked Davis.

and….

In her application for a protection order, Davis said Evans called her at home last spring, showed up where she worked, contacted her by e-mail and began showing up at organization meetings she attended.

“He continually feels the need to contact me and explain himself to me. He showed up on campus after he was told not to. He makes me uncomfortable, and I am scared that he is unstable,” Davis wrote.

Evans, who described himself in last year’s campaign as a “Bible-believing Christian,” said he decided to take some time off after the Senate race. He said he met Davis when he began taking part in campus church organizations, but he said he left her alone after she told him April 9 that she already had a boyfriend.

Read it all here.

Now, ten years later, Evans wants to be the libertarian’s choice for US Senate. What’s the takeaway from this?  Not much, except we hope he’s on more solid footing than he was back then.

But there is the other takeaway.   If you count Blogger Ken Santema’s interest in running as a Libertarian for Secretary of State, this places them on equal footing for the number of interested candidates for the 2014 elections as the South Dakota Democratic Party.

Republicans 15, Democrats 2, Libertarians 2.