—Michigan Libertarian
February 2010, Volume 39: No. 2
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In This Issue

Greeting
From the Chair
From the Political Director
Taxpayers Against Waste
The Scott Brown Election in Massachusetts
Supreme Court “Citizens United” Ruling ‘Generates Discussion’
Seize the day! Michigan Taxpayers to Greet State of the State

Quote of the Month
Photo/Cartoon of the Month

Book/Movie
Past Blast
Feedback
Calendar

Welcome
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Welcome to the February 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]

Liberty took a few steps forward last week. I was glad to see the 60th Democrat vote for ObamaCare defeated in Massachusetts’ special Senatorial election, although I remain skeptical that the big government Republican Scott Brown will be much of a champion of liberty. At least his election seems to have given pause to the liberals trying ram healthcare through the Congress.

I was also one of those applauding the Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case that struck down certain campaign finance laws outlawing political activity by corporations or unions.  (It looks like free speech won to me, but I do recognize the differences of opinion within the party. See Brian Wright’s article below.) .

From the Glad It’s Here category: The 2010 National Libertarian Convention web site is up and running at www.gatewaytoliberty.com. The convention, May 28-31 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an exciting opportunity to meet Libertarians from around the country, help chart the Party’s course, and elect new national officers. If you’re a member who would like to be considered for one of our 39 delegate slots, talk to your affiliate leaders or contact our LPM Secretary Julie Mack at secretary@mi.lp.org to get your name on the list. This year the convention planners have set a minimum registration fee ($99 or $49 after rebate) for delegates and alternates who attend. This fee covers fixed per person costs for putting on the event. It’s stirring a bit of controversy; if you have concerns please let me know so I can pass them up.

I look forward to seeing many of you at the April 17 Candidate Training Session in Brighton and the May 22 State Convention in Okemos. Thank you all for your work for liberty. This is our year to restore freedom to Michigan!


From the Political Director
by Bill Hall
politics@michiganlp.org
616-460-9516
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Candidate Training Seminar April 17

Mark your calendar! Our Candidate Training Seminar on the afternoon of Saturday, April 17, at the Holiday Inn Express in Brighton is coming together very nicely. So far our speakers include Hazel Park City Councilman Andy LeCureaux on “Targeting Your Message to Voters,” Small Government Alliance PAC Director Tim O’Brien on “Working the Media,” and Attorney Leonard Schwartz on “Campaign Finance Compliance.”

As we get closer to April 17, we will announce more speakers and the full agenda. This program is free to all potential Libertarian candidates. Please RSVP to me at my email address set forth above, so we will have enough materials for all participants. And if you have any skill with video equipment, we are looking for a camera person and editor to film the seminar and edit it for distribution on the Internet and via CDs. Please contact me if you can share your film-making skills.

Candidate Recruitment

We are continuing our Libertarian candidate recruitment efforts. So far 119 people have contacted us, expressing an interest in running for office on the Libertarian Party ticket. We are looking for more volunteers to help follow up and recruit additional candidates. Please drop me an email or give me a call if you are willing to help out.

Candidate Support

In addition to our Candidate Training Seminar on April 17, we have volunteers lined up to write issue summaries for candidates and begin assembling template websites for our candidates. However, there is much more to do. We need help building and maintaining our candidate database, providing nomination and campaign finance materials to candidates and laying out template brochures and slate cards. If this is something you think you might be good at, then please send me an email or give me a call.


Taxpayers Against Waste
by Leonard Schwartz
Leonard@LeonardSchwartz.us
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Fred Collins and Leonard Schwartz created an Oakland County ballot question committee -- Taxpayers Against Waste. It will oppose ballot questions that increase waste and support ballot questions that reduce waste.

TAW's first project is opposing a $168 million ($430 million including interest) bond proposal in the Berkley School District, which includes Berkley, Huntington Woods, and northern Oak Park. It will be on the ballot on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The Website for this project is www.BerkleySchoolTax.com.

Please support Taxpayers Against Waste.

TAW will do a literature drop on a date to be determined. To volunteer for the literature drop, contact Fred Collins, Fred@BerkleyLine.com.

Contributions should be mailed to:
Taxpayers Against Waste
13711 Victoria
Oak Park, MI 48237-1409

Corporations and other businesses can contribute money to ballot question committees. Because taxes affect profitability, businesses can deduct contributions to TAW as business expenses.


The Scott Brown Election in Massachusetts
by Jim Babka [main]

The following article is courtesy the Downsize DC organization, an organization that former LP presidential candidate Harry Browne helped to form. DDC has developed and continued to refine a system for writing effective letters to Congress on the issues of the day…

January 20 Downsizer-Dispatch
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A Big Government Republican politician, Scott Brown—successful US Senate candidate in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts—saw the massive public opposition to the healthcare bill, and decided to pander to it. He did this in spite of his own long history of supporting Big Government schemes, including the health insurance mandates inflicted on the people of Massachusetts by Republican Mitt Romney.

The result of Brown's flip-flop on healthcare is that he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in last night's Massachusetts special election to fill Edward Kennedy's vacant U.S. Senate seat. This means that Democratic leaders no longer have the votes in the Senate to block a filibuster.

Now it will be almost impossible for the Senate to approve a version of the healthcare bill that's acceptable to the House of Representatives. And House Democrats are already saying that there's little chance they'll approve the version of the bill previously passed by the Senate.

The healthcare bill is dying. It may already be dead. But, as the German philosopher Friederich Nietzsche once wrote, "That which is falling, let it also be pushed." Victory is near. Let's not come up short. Run the race all the way through the finish line. Send another letter to Congress opposing the cancerous healthcare bill. (https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/114)

You can copy or borrow from this letter:

START LETTER

Please take note of these facts:

  • A Republican, Mitt Romney, inflicted health insurance mandates on the people of Massachusetts. These are the same kind of mandates that Democrats now want to impose on the entire country.

  • A Democrat, Edward Kennedy, was the godfather to current Congressional healthcare schemes.

  • The big government healthcare schemes of both Republicans and Democrats, of Romney and Kennedy, were soundly rejected in the special election to fill Kennedy's vacant U.S. Senate seat.

The people of Massachusetts did not want these schemes. The American people do not want them. Pay attention! KILL THE HEALTHCARE BILL!

END LETTER

You can send your letter using DownsizeDC.org's Educate the Powerful System (https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/114). We're winning. YOU ARE WINNING! Please also make a contribution to further the work of YOUR Downsize DC Army, now more than 29,300 strong. (https://secure.downsizedc.org/contribute/)

Jim Babka, President & Perry Willis, Vice President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

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Supreme Court “Citizens United” Ruling ‘Generates Discussion’
Reported by Brian Wright [main]

On Thursday, January 21, 2010, the US Supreme Court, overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, in a case that could have been judged narrowly, ruled broadly (http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf) that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

And the Shinola hit the rotating blades of left, right, and in between.

Big-government leftists were apoplectic that the balance of political power would tip from Democratic public-employee organizations and labor unions to Republican fat-cat business machinery, while big-government rightists cheered the ruling because, well, fat cats deserve government dispensation as much as those (real) welfare bums.

Libertarians seem to be divided, even sharply:

The “corporation”-friendly (or less concerned) look at the ruling as a victory for free speech—the case was a conservative nonprofit corporation Citizens United (CU) suing the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) for prohibiting CU from showing a documentary called “Hillary: The Movie.” It's hard to make a proliberty argument that CU shouldn't be able to skewer Hillary... or on the other side that a (noncompulsory) labor union should be prohibited from criticizing, say, Dick Cheney.

The “corporation”-hostile (or wary) libertarians see the corporate blank check initiated by CU vs. FEC as another sleazy-insider stoking of the money power… that does nothing to give equal treatment to third parties. In the Libertarian Party of Michigan (LPM), both sides have been in evidence. In Lansing, a group of members led by Will White issued a news release on January 22:

“…Calling the recent Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited corporate funding of electioneering “another serious violation of the Constitution,” some Michigan Libertarians have begun a movement to impeach Justice Kennedy, the chief author of the opinion and the only sitting justice who also sided with the majority in the 2005 Kelo decision on eminent domain. That decision gave government the power to seize private property and give it to corporations promising higher tax revenues. These decisions show the court, and Kennedy in particular, has forsaken the rights of the individual in deference to big business….”

Others in the Libertarian Executive Committee (LEC) disagreed with the Lansing group, and the following release on the LPM Website was issued on January 23:

The Libertarian Party of Michigan applauds the recent Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case that strikes down certain campaign finance laws outlawing political activity by corporations or unions. Libertarians believe campaign finance laws are restrictions on free speech and should be repealed. They recognize that individual rights to political speech also pertain to groups of individuals however they may be associated. "Besides," as Libertarian Party of Michigan State Chair Emily Salvette noted, "campaign finance laws are just symptoms of 'Big Government' disease." Her suggestion: "Shrink government back to its Constitutional limits so it isn't interfering in the economy. Then business and unions won't bother buying politicians’ support with campaign spending."

As LPM Webmaster qua journalist on this story, the writer is trying to maintain his impartiality in the confines of this article. His research includes the following reference items:

  1. the New York Times article describing the decision
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html?emc=eta1

  2. an Institute for Justice column endorsing the ruling
    http://www.ij.org/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=3053&Itemid=165

  3. a homespun brief history of the corporate law in America
    http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/corplaw.htm

  4. an analysis from Glenn Greenwald in Salon.
    http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/22/citizens_united

But for whoever is interested in the writer’s editorial on the ruling, please refer to this column on the Coffee Coaster Website for February 1 (http://brianrwright.com/Coffee_Coaster/01_Columns/2010/100201_Citizens_United.htm).

Whatever develops in the freedom movement as a consequence of last Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, I think most of us will agree it’s good that the big issues about the proper relationship between the state and “the corporation” are aired out and hammered flat. The discussion has been put off for far too long.

The CU ruling does not appear to reign in the FEC or help eliminate the burden of the onerous campaign finance laws upon the disenfranchised political parties. The FEC seems to remain nothing but a series of hoops that third parties have to jump through… designed to maintain the two-party monolith. Duh. Did the ruling add a hoop, remove one, or do nothing much at all hoopwise?...


Seize the day! Michigan Taxpayers to Greet State of the State
Referred by Terry Peck (peck_det@hotmail.com) [main]

The following letter from former state representative and current Michigan Taxpayers’ Alliance leader, Leon Drolet (very libertarian guy), was received by the Webmaster and other LPM persons. Here’s an excerpt:

On February 3, Governor Granholm will present her eighth State of the State Address to Lansing lawmakers.

Every year, the State of the State Address is a mini-holiday for Lansing's government class. I've been to six State of the State Addresses as a former state lawmaker, so I know the routine: there are fancy receptions prior to the Governor's speech featuring rich hors d'oeuvres and premium bars. Politicians dress in their finest clothes and bring their families and friends to the Capitol to attend the parties. Every state representative gets to bring a special guest - usually a big financial donor - to sit next to them in the House chamber during the governor's speech. It is all very nice.

You are not invited.

You see, the State of the State Address isn't about you or your family. Much of the Governor's speech is about the government's budget, not YOUR budget. When Governor Granholm talks about helping the economy, she means giving special tax breaks and subsidies to politically connected and politically-correct companies while raising taxes on every family and business that doesn't have a solar-powered windmill and a healthy lobbying fund.

But what would happen if Michigan's citizens decided that the State of the State should be about them - the people—and not about the government class? What would happen if hundreds—maybe thousands—of people drove to Lansing that evening and protested outside the Capitol Building?

Let's find out!

Let's seize the day of February 3rd away from Governor Granholm and the political class in Lansing.

PS: The protest starts in front of the Capitol Building at 6:30PM and the 'State of the Citizen Address' starts promptly at 7:00PM. Go to www.makelansinglisten.com for more information. For the full text of the letter from Leon Drolet please access this page: http://www.mitaxpayers.org/seize_the_day.html

Could be an historic moment. The Michigan Libertarian is happy to pass along Mr. Drolet’s letter as a public service. The more the merrier!


Quote of the Month
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David Thoreau



Cartoon of the Month
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Courtesy www.sangrea.net

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



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
Avatar
Flags of our fathers... and our brothers

James Cameron's Avatar is a masterpiece, not only of cinema, but of literature. The breadth and depth of his conceptions—the symbolism, the insights into the human condition, the tension between machinery and living organisms, the grand vision of a benevolent (yes, natural libertarian) future, not to mention the everlovin' technology and its execution—are simply overwhelming. They take my breath away. I could not do justice to this magnificent creation with a 100-page treatise, but let me try to sketch a few key impressions... [full review] [main]


Book Review
Liberty and Tyranny
by Mark Levin

From the Acknowledgments: ... "And to my friends Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ed Meese, and Mary Matalin for their constant inspiration and support. I also want to acknowledge the champions of liberty—the great philosophers, scholars, visionaries, and statesmen—on whose shoulders we all stand.... "

Wow! And I thought I knew what blasphemy was.

To include Rush, Sean, Ed, and Mary—thank heavens he left out Ann Coulter—on the same page of "champions of liberty"—e.g. progenitors Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Sam Adams, et al, and those stars who have come along after, all in some fashion associated with the libertarian movements of their day (Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, Rose Wilder Lane, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Ro Paul… and so many more)—is to confess a complete misunderstanding of liberty.. [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 September issue of 1975. Click on this link for the full PDF version of this newsletter. (http://michiganlp.org/Past%20Newsletters/Michigan%20Libertarian%20Vol%203.8%201975%20Sept.pdf)

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:

From: Ben Bachrach
Subject: Libertarian Common Sense Plan To: e-newsletter@michiganlp.org
Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010

I would like to thank Bill Hall for presenting a "Libertarian Common Sense Plan" in the January Issue of the Michigan Libertarian (http://www.michiganlp.org/ENewsletters/201001/201001_ML.html#4).

"Fair, Open, Honest" are three easy-to-remember watch words that can be used to judge political issues and candidates. I will be using "Fair, Open, Honest" to make political choices and will encourage others to do the same

Regards,

Ben Bachrach

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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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 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 speakers Tom Shull and Patrick Wright of the Mackinac Center. Reservations $40 per person in advance, $45 at the door; make check payable to LP of Washtenaw County and mail to Sam Adams Dinner, 9249 Nature View LN, Ypsilanti MI 48197. Contact James Hudler, 734-475-9792, or Larry Johnson, michlibertarian@comcast.net


February 9 – Libertarian Party of West Michigan meeting. 6:30 p.m., Perkins Restaurant at 5121 28th St. SE, Cascade Township. Contact Bill Gelineau  freedomlover59@hotmail.com


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. Oakland residents interested in running for office as a Libertarian are strongly encouraged to come to this meeting. Contact Jim Fulner, LPOC Chair, fulner@gmail.com. Also, Michigan Libertarians interested in re-writing a section of the Michigan Constitution are invited to contact Nathan Allen at trustynathan08@yahoo.com, 248-891-3003.


February 17 – **NEW DATE** Libertarians of Macomb County Monthly Meeting - LMC now meets on the 3rd Wednesday 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 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


March 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


March 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


March 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


March 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.


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


March 9 – Libertarian Party of West Michigan meeting. 6:30 pm at Perkins Restaurant, 5121 28th St. SE, Cascade Township. Contact Bill Gelineau freedomlover59@hotmail.com


March 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


March 10 – LP of Oakland County Caucus - 6:30 pm dinner, 7:30 meeting. Sila's Restaurant, 4033 W. 12 Mile (2 blocks east of Greenfield), Berkley. The county caucus will open for nominations of candidates for public office in Oakland County. Contact Jim Fulner, LPOC Chair, fulner@gmail.com.


March 17 – Libertarians of Macomb County Monthly Meeting - LMC now meets on the 3rd Wednesday 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


March 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


March 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- 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 28 - 31 – National Convention of the Libertarian Party – St Louis, MO. Join Libertarians from around the country to shape the Party’s policies and strategies through bylaws and platform debate and election of national party officers. Info and registration at www.gatewaytoliberty.com. 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

The Michigan Libertarian ONLINE is distributed on the first of each month. Send calendar events and news articles by the 25th of the prior month to:
e-newsletter@michiganlp.org

Note: The final print edition of the Michigan Libertarian is available online at http://www.mi.lp.org/Past%20Newsletters/ Michigan%20Libertarian%2038.2%20summer%202009.pdf


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The Michigan Libertarian is published/posted on the first of each month. Send calendar events and news/articles to e-newsletter@michiganlp.org by the 25th of the prior month.

The Michigan Libertarian is one of the longest-running Libertarian newsletters in the country, debuting in 1973 shortly after the founding of the Libertarian Party of Michigan. The "new" Michigan Libertarian (a predominantly online version) debuted on August 1, 2009 and replaced the monthly LPMOnline and the printed-and-mailed ML.  We will post on the Website and deliver via email on the first of every month. A printed version of the new Michigan Libertarian will be sent free to anyone who signs up, which you may do at the LPM web site www.mi.lp.org (or www.michiganlp.org).

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