Scott Kohlhaas
“Equal rights for all, not supremacy for a few.”
In 1978, Scott Kohlhaas was a 19-year-old student at Westminster College in Missouri when the Carter administration reinstated Selective Service registration. He joined the Libertarian Party that same year. He has not left it since — 48 years of membership, party leadership across three jurisdictions, and four U.S. Senate campaigns, all carrying the same argument he arrived with: no government has the moral authority to compel a human being into military service, and America’s endless foreign wars are costing lives no politician will ever be held accountable for.
He’s an Anchorage resident, self-employed political consultant, and former Chair of the Alaska Libertarian Party (2003–2006). He also served as Chair of the Missouri and D.C. Libertarian Parties and Executive Director of the LP of Illinois. Before any of that, he served as an elected member of the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly in Washington, D.C. He is running in 2026 because of the U.S. strike on Iran: “I felt it was my duty.”
Pro-immigration, anti-war, pro-choice — in that order and without apology. The 2014 Anchorage Daily News called it exactly right: “pro-choice, anti-war, and for open borders.” Nothing has changed.
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In 2014, he ran not for personal ambition but to protect the party’s ballot line from being used as a spoiler vehicle for a Republican-aligned candidate, telling the ADN at the time: “I didn’t want to run. I felt I had to, to protect the brand name of the Libertarian Party.”
On the PFD, he is direct: “The PFD is given to Alaskans to compensate for our inability to own the land and the resources in this state. Politicians have proven they cannot be trusted to deliver the proper dividend to our citizens without stealing to fund their wasteful spending.” He has called for a one-time full payout of the Permanent Fund before politicians can further erode it.
On the national debt: he cites not just the $37–38 trillion headline figure but the over $100 trillion in unfunded entitlement liabilities behind it. His fix is the same one he has always proposed: cut spending, starting with the military budget. He does not consider tax increases an acceptable solution.
Scott studied at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and later at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is married to Melinda Kohlhaas. He can be reached at scottkohlhaas15@gmail.com or 907-337-3171.
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