VERMILLION Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate Jim Gray will speak at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion at 11 a.m. Sept. 12. He will speak in the Muenster University Center Pit Lounge

The USD College Libertarians will host Gray as he makes a campaign stop at the University of South Dakota. After his speech, Gray will be available to answer questions from students and the media until 1 p.m. The event is free to attend and open to the public.

Judge Gray is the running mate to former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. Campaign bumper stickers, posters, yard signs, and pamphlets are available at the event. The College Libertarians have free copies of the book After the Welfare State, internship information and, student-libertarian conference information available to students.

Judge Grays speech at USD will expose South Dakotans to an ideology that is quickly growing in popularity around the country, says College Libertarian President Brad Omland. The liberty movement is especially popular with college students.

Gray was the presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, Calif., from 1989 to 2009. He also ran for U.S. Senate against incumbent Barbara Boxer (D) in California with the Libertarian Party in 2004. Gray is an outspoken critic of drug laws and the War on Drugs. He is the author of Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About it A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs. He is featured in the 2007 film documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope.

Gray resides in Newport Beach, Calif. He is married and is the father of three children.

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