Holtz! for Congress


Don't Waste Your Vote

Incumbent Rep. Eshoo has won her last four elections by a 2-to-1 margin. Don't waste your vote ratifying Eshoo's predetermined victory. Don't let the entrenched parties take your vote for granted.

Instead, cast a clear and unambiguous vote for the policies of the 21st century: personal freedom and responsibility, free and fair markets, and smart environmentalism.


Each U.S. Child Owes $94,000

Each U.S. citizen owes $94,000 in government debt and unfunded liability:
$24,000 Federal debt
$ 5,000 State/Local debt
$31,000 Social Security liability
$30,000 Medicare liability
$ 4,000 Federal pension liability

Privatize Social Security and Medicare, and replace them with a de-federalized per-state safety net for the poor.



Shannon Holtz: $94,000 in debt

98% of Congress wins re-election, buying votes with debt and promises that Shannon will have to pay for. To Rep. Eshoo I ask: is your incumbency important enough to bill Shannon $94K for it? Can't you win office without buying votes?

I'm a Yahoo! engineer and Libertarian running for Congress against 7-term incumbent Anna Eshoo in Silicon Valley.


I've been a software engineer on the Peninsula since 1990, first at Sun Microsystems and now at Yahoo. My wife Melisse is a California native and a financial analyst at Genentech. We have two daughters living at home in San Carlos and a baby boy living in our hearts.


Check out my website at marketliberal.org. If you can pass a short quiz there on my positions, and still say you won't vote for me, then


I will send you $2


Also at marketliberal.org:

 * Detailed platform
 * Candidate comparison
 * TV news coverage
 * Campaign weblog
 * Candidate chat
 * Frequently Asked Qs
* Special interests I stand up to
* Our threatened environment
* Our children's mortgaged future
... and much more!


brian@holtz.org 650-654-6589
23 Whitman Ct., San Carlos CA 94070


The Libertarian Difference


Democrats think government should be our nanny. Republicans think government should be our chaperone. Libertarians think government should just be our referee and lifeguard.

Democrats interfere with our economic freedoms. Republicans interfere with our personal freedoms. Both parties buy votes from selfish special interests.

Libertarians are neither left nor right, neither liberal nor conservative. Libertarians advocate both economic and personal liberty.  Libertarians want to get the Republicans out of your bedroom, and the Democrats out of your wallet.

Admit it -- your views are closer to modern libertarianism than to bankrupt liberalism or obsolete conservatism. So why waste your vote reinforcing the old-fashioned polarization between left and right?  The only wasted vote is the one that doesn't express your principles.


What Libertarians Stand For


Libertarians think government should

  • prevent coercion and fraud,

  • protect the environment,

  • provide a safety net, and

  • regulate roads/pipes/wires,

but otherwise recognize the freedom and responsibility of peaceful honest adults to control their own bodies, actions, speech, and property, working and playing together as they see fit.


Market-Smart Environmentalism


Charge polluters for the cost of their pollution: auction emissions licenses, tax dirty fuels, etc. Profit-seeking firms will then have a permanent and automatic incentive for improving the environment.

Yahoo-like typeface use protected under Eltra Corp. v. Ringer, 579 F.2d 294 (4th Cir. 1978), and is not a claim that Yahoo! or its management has endorsed me.