Libertarian Adrian Wyllie Goes After Rick Scott and Charlie Crist

Adrian Wyllie, the favorite for the Libertarian nomination to challenge Gov. Rick Scott, went on the attack on Wednesday, going after the two chief candidates in the race.

Wyllie ripped into Scott as a big-spending, big-government, progressive Republican governor but he also took aim at former Gov. Charlie Crist, the favorite for the Democratic nomination despite spending most of his political career in the GOP. Wyllie portrayed Crist in the same terms he used for Scott, calling the Democratic front-runner a big-spending, big-government, progressive former Republican governor.

As he continues his bid, Wyllie is trying to hold to libertarian positions on both economic and social issues. Calling for major cuts to the state government, Wyllies proposed budget would reduce the state budget to below $52 billion.

I am proposing a 30 percent cut to the state budget, Wyllie said. Most of that will be to noncritical services, and will simply eliminate waste, inefficiency, unnecessary bureaucracy, corporate welfare and, in a few cases, outright fraud.

But if conservatives will cheer Wyllie on fiscal issues, social and religious conservatives will have problems with some of the Libertarian candidates positions such as same-sex marriage. Wyllie has vowed, if elected, to eliminate the states traditional marriage laws.