19 Facts About Carla Howell

Carla Howell was born on 1955 and is an American politician, small government advocate and activist.

Carla Howell was the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts candidate for Massachusetts State Auditor in 1998, US Senate in 2000, and Governor in 2002.

Carla Howell then served in multiple leadership positions in the US Libertarian Party.

Carla Howell has organized tax-cut initiative ballot measures in Massachusetts and worked for the Libertarian National Committee.

Carla Howell is a great-granddaughter of William Eustis Russell, a former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Carla Howell's father worked as a business executive and her mother engaged in volunteer work in the community.

Carla Howell attended Bethany College in West Virginia for mathematics and computer science, and after graduating, became a systems engineer at Westinghouse Electric.

Carla Howell earned her MBA from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1986.

In 1994, Carla Howell joined the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts and she was elected chair of the state party in 1997.

In 2000, Howell was the Libertarian candidate for US Senate in Massachusetts against Edward M Kennedy.

Carla Howell placed third, with more than 308,000 votes, which was 12 percent of the total and one percent behind the Republican candidate.

In 2002, Carla Howell was the Libertarian candidate for Massachusetts Governor.

Carla Howell was excluded along with other minor candidates from a gubernatorial candidate debate, and their requests for an injunction were denied.

Carla Howell received 23,044 votes, more than 1 percent of the total.

Carla Howell was a staff member in the Libertarian National Committee from December 2011 until June 2017.

Carla Howell spearheaded initiatives to repeal the Massachusetts state personal income tax in 2002 and 2008.

In 2010, Carla Howell filed four petitions to create ballot measures to reduce sales taxes, and Republican Christy Mihos, who was running for Massachusetts governor at the time, sponsored the initiatives.

Carla Howell headed the Alliance to Roll Back Taxes, sponsor of a ballot initiative to cut the Massachusetts sales tax from 6.

Carla Howell's group collected and submitted 74,131 approved voter signatures in the fall of 2009, and another 14,023 signatures in the spring-summer of 2010 to qualify the measure.