page_title: Scott Boman
section_title: 2008 US Senate candidacy
hierarchical_section_title: Scott Boman / 2008 US Senate candidacy
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photograph of a billboard used by 2008 Scotty Boman for United States Senate Campaign in Michigan. Taken in September of 2008 off I-96 between Grand Rapids and Lansing, Michigan.
context_page_description: Scott Avery "Scotty" Boman is a Libertarian politician from Michigan. He has consistently earned among the top votes of any third-party candidate in every Michigan every election since 2000. He was chair of the Libertarian Party of Michigan in 2006.
  Described by MIRS as a Libertarian Party standard-bearer, he has been a candidate in every state-wide partisan election since 1994.
  He became the second Libertarian to be endorsed by The Detroit News when he competed in the 1997 Detroit City Council General Election on the non-partisan ballot. He was also the only Lieutenant Governor candidate to support the successful Michigan Civil Rights Initiative as the running mate of Gregory Creswell in the 2006 Michigan gubernatorial election.
  Boman moved the Libertarian Party of Michigan from fifth to third place on the 2012 and 2014 General Election ballots, by placing third in the 2010 General Election when he ran for Secretary of State. In 2019 he created a Community Advisory Council for Detroit
  He is currently the Michigan Director of Our America Initiative, and served as Michigan Director of Gary Johnson's 2016 presidential campaign.
context_section_description: Boman finished third in an unsuccessful attempt to be elected to Carl Levin's seat in the US Senate, in which he received 1.57% of the vote. His attempt was made under the Libertarian Party of Michigan ticket after winning a contested nomination at their convention over, their 2006 United States Senate nominee, Leonard Schwartz.
  Boman also participated in multipartisan efforts including the formation of the Michigan Third Parties Coalition, and reminded reporters of this at an appearance in Jackson Michigan.
caption: Boman was the only Libertarian in Michigan to use a billboard since the 1990s.
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