GREENSBORO (Sept. 8) --Dr. Michael Beitler (pronounced Bite-ler) will announce his candidacy for the Libertarian Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate September 17 at a press conference in the Piedmont-Triad International Airport Marriott Hotel at 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Michael Munger, 2008 Libertarian gubernatorial candidate and Barbara Howe, North Carolina Libertarian Party chair will also speak at the press conference.

As a U.S. Senator, Beitler promises to dramatically reduce the size of the Federal government. "The big-spending, big-government advocates, both Democrats and Republicans, must be stopped. We are beyond the point of simply reducing government program budgets; now we must abolish entire government programs and agencies," he said.

Beitler is a business practice professor in The Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. "I tell my young students, I am ashamed of what the baby-boom generation is doing to the futures of young Americans. An inheritance of tens of trillions of dollars in debt is a disgraceful legacy," he said.

He is the host of Free Markets With Dr. Mike Beitler, an internet-radio show that airs on the VoiceAmerica Business Network. Beitler is the author of three business books used in MBA programs and Rational Individualism: A Moral Argument for Limited Government & Capitalism, a book about his libertarian political philosophy.

Beitler believes his experience as a chief financial officer in banking and his current work as business consultant will allow him to quickly see which government programs and agencies must be eliminated. "I will have a contract with the citizens of North Carolina.

If I cannot accomplish the goal of abolishing government programs and agencies, the citizens of North Carolina can fire me mid-term," Beitler promised.

Beitler has three adult children. He and his wife, Danielle, live in northwest Guilford County.