—Michigan Libertarian
January 2010, Volume 39: No. 1
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In This Issue

Greeting
From the Chair
Candidate Training Seminar Details Confirmed
Moon announces for 5th Congressional

From the Political Director 1: Vision Statement

From the Political Director 2: 2010 campaign team
Now's the time! by Richard Hemstreet

Quote of the Month
Photo of the Month
Article: Hope and Possibility
Book/Movie
Past Blast
Feedback
Calendar

Welcome
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Happy New Year! Welcome to the January 2010 issue of the online newsletter of the Libertarian Party of Michigan, Michigan Libertarian. The newsletter is our main vehicle for sharing what's happening for Libertarians in Michigan. You may manage your subscription by going here or visiting our Web site www.mi.lp.org (same as www.michiganlp.org).

From the Chair

by Emily Salvette [main]

Happy New Year, Libertarians. While Freedom has certainly suffered disappointing setbacks in the past decade, let’s resolve to make this new one the Decade of Liberty by working hard to promote the Libertarian ideas of limited government, personal freedom and individual responsibility. This quote from Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” has always inspired me in my work to restore American liberty:

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not
only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every
spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia,
and Africa, have long expelled her--Europe regards
her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning
to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

I wish you and your families all the best in 2010 and thank you for your commitment to maintaining America as a land of freedom for ourselves and generations to come.

Details of Candidate Training Seminar Confirmed

The Libertarian Party of Michigan will hold a candidate training seminar on Saturday, April 17 from 1-5 pm at the Holiday Inn Express, 8285 Movie Dr, Brighton 48116. The seminar will cover steps required for nomination, campaign paperwork and campaigning tips. Light refreshments will be provided. It is free of charge and all potential LP candidates are encouraged to attend. Please make reservations with LPM Political Director Bill Hall, politics@mi.lp.org , so we have an idea how many will attend.

The event is being coordinated by Tim Keirnan of the LP of Livingston County and Denee Rockman-Moon of the Tri-City LP. We truly appreciate their help! (Note, this seminar was originally scheduled for March 27, but a suitable venue couldn't be found for that date.)

MIchael J. Moon declares for 5th Congressional!

As posted in the Flint News, Michael J. Moon, vice chairman of the Tri-City Libertarian Party, has announced he will challenge U.S. Rep. Dale E. Kildee for the 5th District congressional seat in 2010. Please refer to Michael's Website—especially his message to corrupt legislators—for more information.


From the Political Director: 1
by Bill Hall
politics@michiganlp.org
616-460-9516

A Libertarian vision for Michigan

How should we as Libertarians craft our campaign theme for 2010? Here are my thoughts on the subject. I would certainly appreciate yours, too. As a political party we must articulate a positive, persuasive, simple and appealing campaign theme for our candidates in 2010.

We need to ask ourselves what voters of a libertarian bent see as being wrong with our government in general at the federal, state and local level. What's wrong with government in particular, here in Michigan. And offer our solution.

Many issues come to mind. People are livid at the "too big to fail" benefits and taxpayer bail outs for those who screwed up. Many businesses, and ordinary people, took financial risks common sense should have told them they never should have taken. Big banks. Fannie Mae. Freddie Mac. AIG. The Big 3 auto manufacturers. The guy on your street who bought a home he couldn't afford, with no money down and no prospect of ever repaying his government-guaranteed loan.

Our representatives cut special deals to preserve the jobs and fringe benefits of politically-powerful unions like the UAW and MEA. The "stimulus" is a joke. In Michigan it's been diverted to preserve the jobs of government employees at all levels, not create new, productive, private-sector jobs. And union lobbyists are now working overtime to make sure special exceptions are carved out of Obama's national health care tax and subsidy plan in order to preserve their health benefits. Benefits that are already vastly superior to those of ordinary mortals who labor in everyday service and manufacturing jobs.

Bail outs aren't the only special preferences. Here in Michigan, our bipartisan Statehouse is enacting one special "incentive" (State legislative-speak for "hand out") after another to attract and shore up preferred businesses in the politically-preferred "green energy", "high-tech", automotive and film-making industries. Businesses that are incapable of making a profit in an over-taxed and over-regulated Michigan without those incentives. And any entrepreneur or business that's not in a "cool" industry, which doesn't employ or can't afford legions of lobbyists and lawyers to get their "fair share" of taxpayer money, is expected to suck it up and pay a confiscatory Michigan Business Tax. Sadly, many have closed up shop and left the State, followed by hundreds of thousands of their employees looking for jobs.

And then there's the City of Detroit. Michigan's very own Third World government. Where incompetence and corruption are King. A vision of where Jennifer Granholm and Mike Bishop are swiftly leading our entire State. [Regarding the City of Detroit, here's a video from PJTV that may be a little prosaic right-wing, but certainly nails a good share of why "Motown is Notown." --Ed.]

Whether in Congress or the State legislature, Democrats and Republicans are exploiting the misery of jobless voters and the willingness of politically-powerful special interests to do what it takes to get their way, to put their parties and candidates in the best position to preserve and expand their political power. Actually solving our problems through fair, open and honest government is the farthest thing from their minds.

So my particular vision of our Libertarian Party of Michigan 2010 campaign theme looks like this. A vision of a Michigan that is a good place to live, work and raise our families. A place where our children will want to stay and build a future after they finish college.

My vision for Michigan is a "Libertarian Common Sense Plan" where government should be:

  • Fair. No bail outs. No hand outs. No special deals for businesses, unions or individuals. Instead, cut spending now by eliminating all incentives, benefits, and programs that don't benefit the average voter or business. Cut government costs by eliminating all agencies and regulations that impede the creation of jobs and businesses, competition and personal freedom. Eliminate tax abatements, exemptions and discounts for the few preferred businesses, unions and individuals, and cut the tax rates paid by all.

  • Open. Promote transparency by promptly posting budgets, finances, proceedings, legislation and documents for all levels of government on line. Encourage participation in government by permitting registration and voting by mail, replacing onerous ballot access requirements with simple and fair ones, and eliminating campaign finance requirements designed to be exploited by professional politicians to screen out challengers.

  • Honest. Recognize that the cause of the tidal wave of political corruption washing over our nation and government is the broad scope and power of government itself. Only by restricting the scope and power of government to grant special benefits to a few can we minimize the incentive for power-hungry individuals to seek public office and special interests seeking favors to corrupt our representatives. Cutting government spending, regulations and agencies, returning to part-time legislatures and demanding ethical behavior of our representatives are key to creating a good place to live, work and raise our families.

We need to ask ourselves what voters of a libertarian bent see as being wrong with our government in general at the federal, state and local level. What's wrong with government in particular, here in Michigan. And offer our solution.


From the Political Director: 2
by Bill Hall
politics@michiganlp.org
616-460-9516

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Join our 2010 Campaign Team

We have ambitious plans to recruit, field and support as many Libertarian Party candidates as we can in 2010. That will take a lot of work from volunteers. The more volunteers who pitch in to help, the more effective our overall campaign will be.

Early in 2010, we will be focusing on two goals – Recruiting Candidates, and Providing Candidate Support. We need you to volunteer to help with one or more of the following tasks in order to achieve those goals in the first half of 2010. (Hopefully, you will be busy running your own campaign or helping out on someone else's campaign the latter half of 2010!) Please contact me to volunteer, and we will provide you with the information and resources needed to complete the task you choose.

Recruiting Candidates – Volunteers Needed

• Follow up with some or all of the 109 activists who have expressed interest in running
• Identify and solicit past LPM candidates to run again
• Identify potential candidates for key races and solicit them
• Prepare and send general LPM membership letter soliciting candidates
• Coordinate candidate solicitation efforts with LPM affiliate leaders
• Do background research on prospective candidates
• Maintain candidate database

Providing Candidate Support – Volunteers Needed

• Educate prospective candidates in how to qualify as LPM nominees
• Edit a regular electronic newsletter providing ideas and support to candidates
• Stage Candidate Training Seminar in Brighton on April 17
   o Promote seminar to prospective candidates
   o Register attendees
   o Coordinate powerpoint/Internet/technical support
   o Be a seminar presenter – nominating process, campaign finance laws, fundraising, signature       issues, media, answering questionnaires, Internet campaigning, direct mail, absentee voters,       getting out the vote
   o Prepare attendee written material packets o Videotape seminar and upload to YouTube
• Candidate Websites
   o Create template candidate website
   o Write up signature issues template template for state legislative candidates
   o Write up signature issues template for Congressional candidates
   o Collect candidate digital photos and contact information for websites
• Candidate Brochures
   o Lay out a candidate slate card
   o Add information to slate card and make available for download
   o Lay out a template state legislative candidate brochure including signature issues
   o Lay out a template Congressional candidate brochure including signature issues



Now is the time!
by Rich Hemstreet [main]

The country is moving towards us. Are we going to be ready? A Rasmussen Poll was taken that led to the following findings: “Sixty-six percent (66%) of U.S. voters prefer a smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes over a more active government with more services and higher taxes.” as was stated in the Rasmussen Report on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. That should be a clarion call to the Libertarian Party of Michigan. As we head into 2010, the next election year, we need to get our message across to the voters.

As our Libertarian Party’s National website clearly states: The Party of Principle, Smaller Government, Lower Taxes, More Freedom. It is very clear that the United States is ready for a change in direction. We need to have the passion to get our message out there. In 2010 it is going to be important to make the commitment to run as a candidate early. Likewise it is going to be crucial for volunteers to come forward and assist those willing to be candidates. And before you decide to be a candidate, you had better be fully committed to serving if elected. Count the cost very carefully. Hopefully we will be sending a number of people to Lansing and even some to Washington once the 2010 ballots are all counted.

This may not be a “good time” for you to run. You may not have run before. But we need to fill the ballot this year. I’ve decided to run, even though I have some current health and financial challenges. But I can’t just sit on the sidelines anymore. We have to start taking our country back, while we can still recognize it. So contact your local coordinator. Find out if you’re needed as a candidate, or a volunteer. Talk to your neighbors and co-workers about the excitement of being involved with a group that is dedicated to smaller government and lower taxes. Let’s hit the campaign trail running and not look back until the votes are in!


Quote of the Month
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“Michael, we don’t have a lot of time on this earth.  We weren’t meant to spend it this way.  Human beings weren’t meant to sit in little cubicles starring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and answering to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.”
— Peter Gibbons to Michael Bolton, in the movie Office Space



Photo of the Month [repeat]
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Courtesy Ron Sanderson of Webberville:

Note: Please submit photos for inclusion in the monthly newsletter by sending them to E-Newsletter@michiganlp.org



Article: Hope and Possibility
by Michael Cloud and Carla Howell
© Small Government Center

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Editors' Note: The following is a year-end article from the Center for Small Government, which tends to focus its grassroots movement in the state of Massachusetts We felt the general sentiments and case for practical activism would be appropriate here.

We are coming to the end of the year, the holiday season:

Days of hope and possibility.
Days of thanks and new beginnings.
This is a time of love and good cheer. Of gratitude and giving.
But it's also a time for reflection. 2009 was a cruel year for prosperity and freedom in America.

  • Big Government politicians bailed out reckless and irresponsible corporations. First with the $700 billion Republican package in late 2008. Then with a second $787 billion Democratic package in February 2009. That's $1.5 trillion in borrowed money. Payable by taxpayers.

  • Big Government politicians pumped $1.5 trillion of taxpayer dollars into corporations with the judgment of the Fire Marshall on the Hindenburg, or the Iceberg Lookout on the Titanic.

  • Results? Unemployment jumped from 8% to 10%. Home foreclosures continue at a blistering pace. Massive layoffs in the private sector - coupled with increased hiring of tax paid government employees! But what about the reckless and irresponsible mortgage lenders, insurance companies, and financial corporations that your tax dollars rescued? Surely they're wiser and more prudent now. Nope. They're following the same policies and strategies that got them into the mess.

  • Then the Big Government democrats decided that 50% Government Control of medical care was NOT enough. They decided to march American patients and doctors into more tax funding and more government control. It's only another $1 Trillion, they said. Though it's really closer to $3 Trillion with medical rationing, mandates, government caused increases in insurance, and more taxes.

Remember Cloud's 5th Law, "The Direction is the Destination." They are legislating us in the direction of a government-run, medical monopoly. That is their destination. BUT SOMETHING HAPPENED while the Big Government Democrats AND Big Government Republicans voted for the Trillions of dollars in bailouts, debt, 100% pork stimulus spending, and more...

  • TEA PARTIES! Private citizens. Patriots. Forgotten Americans launched Tea Parties from border to border, from coast to coast. We drew together hundreds of thousands of Americans who refuse to lie down and surrender. We spoke out. Protested. At rallies. On blogs and websites.

The cynical mainstream News Media called us "a tempest in a tea pot" - and said we were a fad. But we grew bigger and bigger each month. And we are on the move.

  • SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED... TOWN HALL MEETINGS. Forgotten American Taxpayers swarmed to Town Hall Meetings with elected officials --- and made it clear that we were NOT there to be sweet-talked into shutting up. We were there to be heard. We oppose the spending, debt, bailouts, stimulus packages, the move toward total Government takeover of medical care in America.

The arrogant mainstream News Media said this was a front-group for Republicans - despite the fact that 68% of us are registered independent voters. And the polling shows that most of us dislike and intend to vote against the Big Government Republican politicians AND the Big Government democrat politicians. The Town Hall Activist movement is growing. Networking. Facebooking. Blogging. Organizing for 2010.

  • SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED... OUR ROLL BACK TAXES BALLOT INITIATIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS. We are part and parcel of the Tea Party Movement and the Town Hall Activist Movement.

We refuse to beg and plead with the Big Government politicians for fiscal responsibility and tax cuts.We, the People...are cutting taxes ourselves. You and us.

* Our ballot initiative will roll back the Massachusetts sales tax from 6.25% to 3%.
* It will creates 32,929 NEW private sector jobs in Massachusetts
* Eliminate 17,108 unneeded tax-funded government jobs
* Attract $132.6 million in new private investment to Massachusetts
* Reduce the total tax burden by $2.34 billion
* Reduce total state government spending - which is $51 billion today - by 4.7%.
* Put $2.34 billion back in the pockets of 3,400,000 Massachusetts workers and their families. Every   year. That's an average of $688/year.
* Generate tens of millions of dollars in additional business each year for Massachusetts Retailers.   No more losing customers who drive to tax-free New Hampshire to avoid our 6.25% sales tax.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," wrote Edmund Burke.

Because YOU did something good and right, because you supported our Initiative to Roll Back Taxes, our petition signatures are certified by the Massachusetts state Elections Division. Because of you, because of the growing Tea Party Movement, because of the Town Hall activists - there is real hope and possibility for 2010. Please view the remainder of the Small Government newsletter here.



Book and Movie Review Feature
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The following review excerpts are courtesy LPM Webmaster Brian Wright's commentary and review site, The Coffee Coaster. If you would like to submit book or movie reviews please notify the editor.

Movie Review
High Noon
Quintessential (and timely) story of moral courage

This is a good time in human history to bring up the classic Western that's all about facing up to the need for taking care of business (TCB). We're back in a late-1800s budding town in the West, that wants to shed its reputation as a backwater haven for gunslinging goons and ignorant hillbillies... and become a town where "decent women" feel they can walk down the street. Hadleyville is becoming respectable mainly because Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) ran the slimeballs out of town. [full review] [main]


No TreasonBook Review
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
by Lysander Spooner

... These money lenders, the Rothschilds, for example, say to themselves: If we lend a hundred millions sterling to the queen and parliament of England, it will enable them to murder twenty, fifty, or a hundred thousand people in England, Ireland, or India, and the terror inspired by such wholesale murder will enable them to keep the whole people of those countries in subjection for 20 or perhaps 50 years to come; to control all their trade and industry, and to extort from them large amounts of money, under the name of taxes, and from the wealth thus extorted from them, they (the queen and parliament) can afford to pay a higher rate of interest for our money than we can get in any other way... [Written in the late 1860s: a man perhaps ahead of his time?—bw] [full review] [main]


Michigan Libertarian Blast from the Past
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Take a stroll down memory lane with this excerpt from one of the longest-running state Libertarian newsletters. Today, check out the March/April issue of 1988. Check out Ron Paul, 20 years younger and presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party. Click on this link for the full PDF version of this newsletter.

Newsletter editor Greg Stempfle has compiled the entire body of available Michigan Libertarian newsletters up on this page of the LPM Website.



Feedback and Letters
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To the LP of Michigan:

I am writing all the smaller parties in Michigan with one simple question: Looking up the filing requirements needed to run for State office in Michigan I find it odd that the Republicans and Democrats need a petition of only 500 signatures or $100 in lieu of a petition to run and yet independent parties need at least 1,500 signatures with no filing fee option.  

I have been in Michigan about 14 years and perhaps I have missed this - but why is that the smaller parties have not gotten together to sue for discrimination?  If this has already happened, why did it fail?  If not, isn't it time the little guy gets an equal chance?

Debby


To the LP of Michigan:

Hello I wasn't sure if this is the email I should use but perhaps you can point me in the right direction. I am involved in the medical marijuana community for compassion care,my husband is a patient. Well I we have been talking and I did a search for hours on either a Dem or a Repub that supported the MM patient or respected the law that 63% of the people voted on.

I have not found one that has gone on record who supports the patient. Can you provide me with a libertarian in the Battle Creek area that I could call and invite them to our public meetings we will be holding,as a group we want to get behind those that support us. Thank you.

Dawn


We replied to both of these queries to the satisfaction of the individuals.

We would like to hear feedback from you, real people, on any little thing, preferably with something short and punchy. Please voice your comments or opinions to the newsletter editor, Greg, via email by the 25th of the month... and we will post them.



2010 Calendar
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January 4 - Tri-City LP Monthly Meeting – group meets on the 1st Monday of the month. Dinner at 6, meeting at 7 at Damon’s, 4960 Towne Centre Rd, Saginaw Township, MI 48604 (off Tittabawassee, just west of I-675 at exit 6). Everyone interested in liberty, from Bay, Saginaw, Midland, Genesee, Clare, Gladwin, Gratiot and Isabella counties is invited. Contact Jim Fitzpatrick, Liberty2333@wmconnect.com


January 5 – LP of St Clair and Sanilac Counties Monthly Meeting - group meets the 1st Tuesday of the month starting at 6 pm at Military Street Music Cafe, 1102 Military Street (downtown), Port Huron. Contact Mark Byrne, 810-987-9856, iwantska@hotmail.com


January 5 – Libertarians of Macomb County Monthly Meeting - LMC meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month. All members of the Libertarian Party, their friends and family, and anyone interested in learning more about the LP are invited to attend. The meeting begins at 7:30 but feel free to join us for good food and conversation at 6:30 pm at the Loon River Café, 34911 Van Dyke Ave, Sterling Heights. Contact Jim Allison, jim.e.allison@gmail.com


January 6 – LP of Washtenaw County Monthly Business Meeting -7 to 9 pm at Classic Cup Cafe, 4389 Jackson Rd, Ann Arbor (In the Parkland Plaza west of Ann Arbor). Contact James Hudler, 734-475-9792, or Larry Johnson, michlibertarian@comcast.net


January 6 – LP of South West Michigan Executive Committee Meeting – 6:00 – 6:50 pm at IHOP, 1981 Pipestone Rd., Benton Harbor. Guests are welcome. Followed by: Round Table Political Forum hosted by the LP of South West Michigan. 7-9 pm at The Livery, 190 Fifth St, Benton Harbor. Visitors are welcome to participate. Contact Bill Bradley, 269-637-4525, Dan Grow, grow.daniel@gmail.com.


January 7 – Wayne County LP Monthly Meeting – 7 p.m. - Kiernans Steak House, 21931 Michigan Ave, Dearborn (at Monroe). Contact Ray Warner, 313-598-3666 January 12 – Capital Area LP Monthly Meeting – 7 pm at former LPM office, 2722 E Michigan Ave, Ste 22, Lansing (park and enter in back). Contact Will Tyler White, 517-349-3806, whitewi5@msu.edu


January 13 – LP of Oakland County Monthly Meeting - 6:30 pm dinner, 7:30 meeting. Sila's Restaurant, 4033 W. 12 Mile (2 blocks east of Greenfield), Berkley. Please join us in planning out and implementing the next phase of a Libertarian presence in Oakland County. Contact Contact Jim Fulner, LPOC Chair, fulner@gmail.com.


January 20 – LP of Washtenaw County Social/Work Meeting -7 to 9 pm at Classic Cup Cafe, 4389 Jackson (In the Parkland Plaza west of Ann Arbor). Contact James Hudler, 734-475-9792, or Larry Johnson, michlibertarian@comcast.net


January 26 – LP of Calhoun County Monthly Meeting - Executive Committee, 7 p.m. Please contact Jack Worsham for location. (269) 963-2679, WORSHAM74@aol.com


February 1 - Tri-City LP Monthly Meeting – group meets on the 1st Monday of the month. Dinner at 6, meeting at 7 at Damon’s, 4960 Towne Centre Rd, Saginaw Township, MI 48604 (off Tittabawassee, just west of I-675 at exit 6). Everyone interested in liberty, from Bay, Saginaw, Midland, Genesee, Clare, Gladwin, Gratiot and Isabella counties is invited. Contact Jim Fitzpatrick, Liberty2333@wmconnect.com


February 2 – LP of St Clair and Sanilac Counties Monthly Meeting - group meets the 1st Tuesday of the month starting at 6 pm at Military Street Music Cafe, 1102 Military Street (downtown), Port Huron. Contact Mark Byrne, 810-987-9856, iwantska@hotmail.com

February 2 – Libertarians of Macomb County Monthly Meeting - LMC meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month. All members of the Libertarian Party, their friends and family, and anyone interested in learning more about the LP are invited to attend. The meeting begins at 7:30 but feel free to join us for good food and conversation at 6:30 pm at the Loon River Café, 34911 Van Dyke Ave, Sterling Heights. Contact Jim Allison, jim.e.allison@gmail.com


February 3 – LP of Washtenaw County Monthly Business Meeting -7 to 9 pm at Classic Cup Cafe, 4389 Jackson Rd, Ann Arbor (In the Parkland Plaza west of Ann Arbor). Contact James Hudler, 734-475-9792, or Larry Johnson, michlibertarian@comcast.net


February 3 – LP of South West Michigan Executive Committee Meeting – 6:00 – 6:50 pm at IHOP, 1981 Pipestone Rd., Benton Harbor. Guests are welcome. Followed by: Round Table Political Forum hosted by the LP of South West Michigan. 7-9 pm at The Livery, 190 Fifth St, Benton Harbor. Visitors are welcome to participate. Contact Bill Bradley, 269-637-4525, Dan Grow, grow.daniel@gmail.com.


February 4 – Wayne County LP Monthly Meeting – 7 p.m. - Kiernans Steak House, 21931 Michigan Ave, Dearborn (at Monroe). Contact Ray Warner, 313-598-3666


February 6 – Sam Adams Dinner sponsored by the Libertarian Party of Washtenaw County – 6 p.m. at Haab’s Restaurant, 18 Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti 48197 (downtown, just east of Huron St). Dinner and speaker. Reservations $40 per person; make check payable to LP of Washtenaw County and mail to LP of Washtenaw County, PO Box 447, Chelsea MI 48118. Contact James Hudler, 734-475-9792, or Larry Johnson, michlibertarian@comcast.net


February 9 – Capital Area LP Monthly Meeting – 7 pm at former LPM office, 2722 E Michigan Ave, Ste 22, Lansing (park and enter in back). Contact Will Tyler White, 517-349-3806, whitewi5@msu.edu


February 10 – LP of Oakland County Monthly Meeting - 6:30 pm dinner, 7:30 meeting. Sila's Restaurant, 4033 W. 12 Mile (2 blocks east of Greenfield), Berkley. Please join us in planning out and implementing the next phase of a Libertarian presence in Oakland County. Contact Contact Jim Fulner, LPOC Chair, fulner@gmail.com.


February 17 – LP of Washtenaw County Social/Work Meeting -7 to 9 pm at Classic Cup Cafe, 4389 Jackson (In the Parkland Plaza west of Ann Arbor). Contact James Hudler, 734-475-9792, or Larry Johnson, michlibertarian@comcast.net


February 23 – LP of Calhoun County Monthly Meeting - Executive Committee, 7 p.m. Please contact Jack Worsham for location. (269) 963-2679, WORSHAM74@aol.com


April 17 (Note Date Change) – Libertarian Party of Michigan Candidate Training Session – 1-5 pm at the Holiday Inn Express, 8285 Movie Dr, Brighton 48116. No charge. Contact Bill Hall, politics@mi.lp.org


May 22 – Libertarian Party of Michigan State Convention – 9 am – 10 pm at the Okemos Conference Center, 2187 University Park Dr, Okemos, MI 48864. Nominations of candidates for public offices; election of state party officers. Contact Bill Gelineau, freedomlover59@hotmail.com


May 29 - 31 – National Convention of the Libertarian Party – St Louis, MO. Contact Emily Salvette, chair@mi.lp.org


More...

For all events, see the full online calendar on the Website:
http://www.mi.lp.org/Shared Documents/Calendar.aspx

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Michigan%20Libertarian%2038.2%20summer%202009.pdf


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