No, its not the famous actor Laurence Olivier – he’s not with us anymore. But there is another 
Olivier running for California’s top spot – and this one is the former Mayor of Bellflower, Art Olivier (pictured). Today, Olivier announced his candidacy for the Libertarian Party nomination for Governor of California. Olivier is a pretty big deal with the Libertarians, I guess — apparently he was their party’s nominee for Vice President in the 2000 national elections sharing the ticket with Harry Browne, who recently passed away.
Olivier, a husband and father of four, is the former Mayor of the City of Bellflower in Los Angeles County. In reading about his announcement, there are a lot of things he says that make a lot of sense. That said, in the United States, we pretty much have a two party system, and if you aren’t a Republican or a Democrat, you need not apply for partisan office. That said, minor party candidates do take away votes that would go to major party candidates — not enough to elect them, but enough to possibly effect the elections of others.
It is worth taking a quick hop over to Olivier’s website – this link will take you to his "issues" page where he has a lot of ideas worth reading about. I feel like I have read a lot of them before — oh yeah, I subscribe to Reason Magazine! (Don’t worry, I don’t think he has an issue paper on the decriminalization of prostitution up on the site.)