# Brian Peltier, Libertarian for PA House District 60: Open Fields, Defend the Guard, and Ballot Access

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Podcast: [Consequential Actions Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/consequential-actions-podcast-7101158)
Published: 2026-08-05T13:14:48+00:00
Episode link: https://jeffkellick.substack.com/p/brian-peltier-libertarian-for-pa
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His Opponent Ran Unopposed — So He Needed Double the Signatures A game warden walks onto a Pennsylvania farm. No warrant, no complaint, no reason given. For nineteen years, Pennsylvania’s own Supreme Court held that the Commonwealth’s constitution permitted exactly that. On July 21, 2026, that court reversed itself, and it did so unanimously. This week we have been tracing Sir Edward Coke and his insistence that the common law controls the crown. Today I sit down with a man asking Pennsylvania’s legislature to accept the same limit on itself. Brian Peltier is the Libertarian candidate for Pennsylvania’s 60th House District, covering Armstrong and Westmoreland counties. He spent 24 and a half years in the Navy, worked as a regulatory agent at Naval Reactors, and after twelve moves decided to stop moving and raise cows, sheep, goats, chickens, and turkeys outside Leechburg. His daughter serves in the Navy now. His campaign motto is Protect the Land, and that background matters this week, because Coke’s four grievances in the Petition of Right — taxation without consent, imprisonment without cause shown, soldiers quartered in private homes, and martial law over civilians — map almost exactly onto the four things Brian is running on. We open on Iran, where Brian’s naval background does work no historian can do for us. A blockade is an act of war, he argues, because a population starved of goods and supplies has no means left to act. We follow that from a closed strait to the price of fertilizer, to the price of hay, to what his neighbors will pay for groceries this fall. Then to war powers: the sixty-day clock, the ceasefire that resets it, and Defend the Guard, which withholds a state’s National Guard from federal overseas deployment absent a congressional declaration and…

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