This Change Sucks

24 Feb, 2010 in LPstuff Products, LPstuff Updates by

Reads: This Change Sucks
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Conservatives jeer Bob Barr for his principles regarding terrorist suspects

24 Feb, 2010 in Libertarian Updates by

Last Friday, 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr spoke at the CPAC conference in Washington, DC. According to several sources, the conservative crowd booed when he said that waterboarding is torture, and that civilian trials may be preferable to military tribunals. According to the Huffington Post:

“There is nothing magical about a military tribunal,” Barr said, as boos from the audience began cascading around him. “They don’t have, necessarily, better lawyers than in a civilian sector. I think I have a lot more faith in our U.S. attorneys who are non political, than my colleagues on the other side of this debate do. We can try them. We should try them. That is precisely… what our law provides for. And if next time we are faced with a situation we say: ‘Oh, you know, we want to have them go to the military. Let them torture them for a while. It’s not enhanced interrogation techniques. Waterboarding is torture. How would you like to be waterboarded? Try that!”

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149 elected Libertarians, help find more

16 Feb, 2010 in Libertarian Updates by

Dear Friend of Liberty,

Nationwide, there are 149 Libertarians holding elected public office. 36 of them are partisan offices, and 113 are non-partisan offices. You can view the entire list here.

If you know of an elected Libertarian who is not on this list, please email us atinfo@lp.org. Please include the words “elected libertarian” in the subject line.

We sometimes use political terms that may not be completely familiar to people who don’t follow politics daily. Partisan elections are those where the candidates appear on the ballot with a party name, such as “Libertarian” or “Republican” or “Democrat,” next to their names. Most races for governor or U.S. Congress, for example, are partisan. On the other hand, many states have non-partisan elections for local offices such as city council or school board, which means, among other things, that the candidates aren’t associated with a political party on the ballot.

Because election laws vary so much from state to state, it’s not always easy to decide who should be on our list of elected Libertarians, particularly when it comes to non-partisan races. Additionally, we give quite a bit of leeway to the state affiliates to decide who is or is not considered an elected Libertarian. In any case, below is an approximation of the criteria used to determine if someone qualifies to appear on the list of elected Libertarians compiled by the National Libertarian Party:

For partisan offices:
a) In the elected official’s most recent election for his or her current office, the party designation that appeared on the ballot with his or her name was “Libertarian”; or b) the elected official is currently registered to vote as a Libertarian.

For non-partisan offices:
The elected official must be a current dues-paying member of the National Libertarian Party.

Again, please let us know if you see that somebody is missing who maybe should be listed. If you have questions or need clarification, let us know.

Perhaps you know of someone who is already elected to a non-partisan office who has Libertarian leanings, and you could convince him or her to join the Libertarian Party.

Many local offices are up for election this coming spring. If you are interested in running for an office, please fill out our candidate form here.

Sincerely,
Wes Benedict
Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee

P.S. If you have not yet become a member of the Libertarian Party and
wish to do so, please click here and join the only political party
dedicated to free markets and civil liberties. If you need to renew,
please click here. If you would like to make a contribution separate
from membership, please click here.

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Newsletter

12 Feb, 2010 in Newsletters by

Here in the heartland and across the country, we are a month into the “silly season”; that period where concerned citizens worry about new and original upcoming tortures because legislatures are in session across this vast country. What mischief will they concoct this year?

During “good” times (you know, those times where there is lots of money to distribute) they ponder which friends to reward and which enemies to punish. Alas, in most states, these are not “good” times. They are bad times. In fact, for most, they are very bad times!

Which friends do our legislators punish less than others; which enemies do they pull the rug out from under? These are tough questions. We should be more sympathetic with the plight of our elected representatives.

But, we’re not.

Instead, we are actively supporting some energized volunteers who are developing a creative plan for this election cycle.

What is in the plan? We’re glad you asked, dear reader.

We shared some of that last week and we will share more in future weeks. For this week, we are setting our sights on achieving “Major Party” status which we believe will insure future invitations to debates and other political functions preceding an election. In this state, it requires 5% of the vote in the governor’s race.

This is a modest goal. We don’t seek to win the governor’s race. … at least not this election cycle. We’ll save that goal for a future race.

We have nine months for this plan to work. We don’t suppose the outcome will be as certain as a nine-month plan your editor worked out with his wife twice in the past. But, we’re fairly certain it will be fraught with about the same amount of anxiety.

We’re anxious to share plans and goals Libertarians across the country have.

Now for the weekly TidBits:

*Some people get all the luck. Weather along the East Coast makes their residents among the luckiest, in at least one sense. With most government offices shut down, at least for these few days, they can’t do too much harm.

*In another act of wanton dollar destruction, the Senate voted to raise the national debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion, to a total of $14.3 trillion.

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Missouri Libertarian has strong showing in special election

5 Feb, 2010 in Libertarian Updates by

Libertarian Patty Tweedle received 22% of the vote in yesterday’s special election for Missouri State Representative (District 62). Tweedle’s only opponent was a Republican.

Ballot Access News editor Richard Winger points out that Tweedle had almost as much support as the 2008 Democratic Party candidate for that office. In 2008, the Democrat received 27% of the vote.

The Libertarian Party congratulates Patty Tweedle on her strong showing.

Repost from LP.org

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