About the Campaign

Mike ter Maat for President

Mike ter Maat

Mike ter MaatFree-Market Economist &Pro-Market Police Officer

@terMaatMike
Mike served as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 2024 and campaigned for the LP's presidential nomination from 2022 to 2024 on a platform centered on boosting the money families earn and retain.  This program included reducing government spending, dismantling the inflation machine, sunsetting the regulatory state, separation of science and state, and a foreign policy of strength through peace.  Mike advocated for a Gold New Deal between us and the government we would tolerate, based on individual rights and the decentralization of public-sector authority
 
Mike campaigned in 2021-22 as the Libertarian candidate in the special Congressional election in Florida’s District 20 on a platform centered on rejecting the government’s management of the COVID regime.  Mike was an early 2020 opponent of government shutdowns of private businesses, government vaccine passports, and vaccination mandates under threat of exclusion from society and employment.
 
Mike’s first career included working with banks as a commercial loan officer, with the White House Office of Management and Budget as a financial economist, and with other federal and international agencies as a consulting economist.
 
From 1992 through 2002, Mike was an advocate in Washington for free markets and greater competition in the financial services industry.  In 2002, he founded a professional education and strategic consulting business which he successfully ran until 2009.
 
In his second career, Mike served as a police officer in Broward County, Florida, from 2010 to 2021, including five years as a training officer. 
 
Mike has taught economics at three universities, substituted at dozens of public schools, and traveled through thirty-five countries. He has a wife, two kids and two stepdaughters, two dogs and one truck, a BS in Aeronautical Engineering and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MS and PhD degrees in Economics from The George Washington University.

Meet the 2024 Presidential Campaign Team

Landon Cahow - Web Manager

Landon Cahow

Web Manager

@LandonCahow

Current web asset manager and veteran of the 2024 Mike ter Maat for President campaign. Broward County precinct captain for the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign. Former IT project manager for non-profits Downsize DC and the Zero Aggression Project. Landon is a commercial and political web development specialist and marketing consultant.

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Hannah Clausen

Social Media Manager

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John Georgopoulos

Media Director

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Eric Moore

Relationship Manager: Florida, Georgia, Alabama

(305) 299-7172

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Joseph Molnar

Relationship Manager: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania

(727) 831-8450

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Justin Taylor

Relationship Manager: Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee

(479) 847-4603

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Jeff Hutt

Field Director - Relationship Manager: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona

(281) 870-6934

Our Campaign Advisory Team

Michael Smith Affiliate Liaison

Michael Smith

Advisory Committee Chairman

Former chair of the LP of Broward, Florida. Former campaign manager for Mike ter Maat for Congress (FLCD20) and campaign team member for Merceydes Morassi for Broward School Board. Local coordinator for Jorgensen-Cohen campaign.

Russ Paige

Russ Paige

Intellectual Property Attorney

Past activist for non-governmental solutions in baseball stadium construction projects in California and campaigner for Ken Cuccinelli for governor of Virginia. Russ led this campaign’s investigatory visit to the Arizona-Mexico border to meet with law enforcement, CBP, border ranchers and libertarian leaders.

Dan Cardwell

Dan Cardwell

Attorney, Financial Services

Executive Committee Member, Libertarian Party of Broward County, Florida. Dan is a long-time activist for bodily autonomy and LP evangelist. Volunteer for Mike ter Maat for Congress.

Joshua Hlavka

Joshua Hlavka

Former Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Florida

Host of the Swamp Creatures podcast, Josh has served as vice chair of the LP-Florida, volunteer for Mike ter Maat for Congress and member of the executive committee of the LP of Broward County.

Eric Waterman

Eric Waterman

Head & Neck Surgeon

Repeatedly voted “Top Doctor,” by Seattle Met and Seattle Magazines, past president of the Northwest Academy of Otolaryngology and formerly chief of staff at Valley Medical Center in Seattle. Eric is an active libertarian fundraiser and frequent attendee of LP state affiliate conventions on behalf of this campaign.