- Upcoming Events
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August 21, 2001 - 7:00 PM
- Libertarians of Allegan County monthly meeting. The short agenda includes news about our County Commission, the LPM petition drive, and possible libertarian candidates.
- Location: Change of location for this month. Meeting is at the Dutkiewicz home. Address is 3901 Papoose Trail, Allegan. Call for directions.
- Contact: Rick Dutkiewicz Phone: (616) 673-5503 E-mail: rdoogie@datawise.net
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August 22, 2001 - 6:30 PM
- LP of Oakland County General Membership Meeting. Public welcome. Meet for dinner at 6:30pm, business begins at 7:30pm
- Location: Sila's Restaurant, 4033 W. 12 Mile Rd, Berkley. Sila's is 2 blocks west of Greenfield on Twelve Mile Road.
- Contact: Chris Pellerito Phone: (248) 373-9411 E-mail: LpocChairChris@aol.com
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August 23, 2001 - 7:00 PM
- The Ballot Access Restoration Committee meets the second and fourth Thursday every month -- until we submit petition signatures to the Bureau of Elections to be certified to once again be able to run Libertarian candidates in partisan races. All LPM members are welcome to attend and help with both the planning and execution of our petition drive.
- Location: LPMHQ, 619 E. 9 Mile, Hazel Park (just east of I-75)
- Contact: Nancy O'Brien Phone: (313) 562-5778 E-mail: nobrien321@home.com
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September 3, 2001 - 7:30 PM
- Meeting of the Andy LeCureaux for Hazel Park City Council Campaign.
- Location: LPM HQ, 619 East Nine Mile Rd., Hazel Park
- Contact: Dave Collver Phone: (248) 542-9274 E-mail: DCCollver@aol.com
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September 11, 2001 - 7:30 PM
- LP of Oakland County Executive Committee Meeting. All dues-paying members are welcome. Business begins at 7:30pm.
- Location: LPM Headquarters, 619 East Nine Mile in Hazel Park, just east of I-75.
- Contact: Chris Pellerito Phone: (248) 373-9411 E-mail: LpocChairChris@aol.com
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September 12, 2001 - 6:30 PM
- Libertarians of Macomb County monthly meeting. Drinks and dinner at 6:30 PM, business begins at 7:00 PM.
- Location: Miles World Resturant, 17689 Masonic, Fraser, MI 48026, 810-415-4500.
- Contact: Diane Barnes Phone: (810) 774-1625 E-mail: dbarnes98@aol.com
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September 13, 2001 - 7:00 PM
- The Ballot Access Restoration Committee meets the second and fourth Thursday every month -- until we submit petition signatures to the Bureau of Elections to be certified to once again be able to run Libertarian candidates in partisan races. All LPM members are welcome to attend and help with both the planning and execution of our petition drive.
- Location: LPMHQ, 619 E. 9 Mile, Hazel Park (just east of I-75)
- Contact: Nancy O'Brien Phone: (313) 562-5778 E-mail: nobrien321@home.com
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September 17, 2001 - 7:30 PM
- Meeting of the Andy LeCureaux for Hazel Park City Council Campaign.
- Location: LPM HQ, 619 East Nine Mile Rd., Hazel Park
- Contact: Dave Collver Phone: (248) 542-9274 E-mail: DCCollver@aol.com
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September 19, 2001
- Monthly meeting of the St. Clair County affiliate.
- Location: Figaro's is located at 1503 11th Street, Port Huron, MI 48060. TX: (810) 987-3588. Join us for dinner at 6:00 PM. Business begins at 7:00 PM.
- Contact: Richard Friend Phone: (810) 982-7178 E-mail: rfriend@advnet.net
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September 26, 2001 - 6:30 PM
- LP of Oakland County General Membership Meeting. Public welcome. Meet for dinner at 6:30pm, business begins at 7:30pm.
- Location: Sila's Restaurant, 4033 W. 12 Mile Rd, Berkley. Sila's is 2 blocks west of Greenfield on Twelve Mile Road.
- Contact: Chris Pellerito Phone: (248) 373-9411 E-mail: LpocChairChris@aol.com
- More
- For more events, see the online calendar at:
- http://www.michiganlp.org/lpmonline/events.php
- Freedom Banquet 2001
by Ghazey Aleck
The Clare-Gladwin Libertarian Party will be holding its
annual Freedom Banquet on October 20th, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. at
the Town & Country Restaurant in Clare.
The featured speaker will be Michael D. LaFaive of the
Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Mr. LaFaive is a policy
analyst and research project manager at the Mackinac Center.
The topic of his speech will be Entrepenuers Versus The
State.
LaFaive is the author of dozens of articles,
opinion-editorials, and studies on fiscal policy issues such
as unfunded federal mandates, privatization, free trade, and
economic development. He has served as managing editor of
Michigna Privatization Report and frequently appears in
major newspapers and on talk radio programs across Michigan.
LaFaive teaches at Nothwood Institute and before joining the
Mackinac Center, he worked for Michigan Governor John Engler.
Also speaking ath the event will be Stephen M.
Townsend, president of the Liberty Leadership Council. His
a former Libertarian candidate for Midland County
Commissioner and Tri-Cities Libertarian Party Chair.
Townsen will speak on Individual Activism & PACs.
Tickets are $15 per person for the banquet or $20 per
person to be entered into the 50/50 drawing. The dinner
will include a large buffet and cash bar. CGLP will be
holding a silent auction and there will be door prizes.
Interested persons should contact Ghazey Aleck at (989)
386-2699 or e-mail him at ghazey@alecklawfirm.com.
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- Dream Cruising for Signatures
by Greg Dirasian
The Libertarian Party of Oakland County was helping to
keep the dream alive at the Woodward Dream Cruise on
Saturday August 18. In a major petitioning push, LPOC
members and friends staged a party at 11 Mile Rd and
Woodward in Berkley and spent the day petitioning.
Approximately 35 volunteers showed up to petition and
give out lemonade to the overheated pedestrians. Many
volunteers rode the free shuttle bus to distant parts of the
Dream Cruise to continue gathering signatures. By the end
of the day, our signature count increased by almost 1700.
When the numbers were tallied for the end of Phase II
on Sunday, Oakland County had collected 4,834 signatures.
Total volunteer signatures collected thus far statewide was
12,679. The LPOC has collected over 38% of all the
volunteer signatures collected to date. Not bad for an
affiliate that represents only 20% of the members in the
state. Although we are close to our target, our biggest
event is behind us and I am calling on all volunteers to
redouble their efforts for these final days of the petition
drive.
Our hearty congratulations to the LP of Shiawassee
County, which has met and exceeded its goal. LPOC's quota
is 10,688. Our signatures plus donations total 6,945. At
the end of Phase II, we should be at two-thirds of our quota
or 7,161. We are behind by 216. At this time, I have
written a check for $216 to put us on target. We challenge
all other affiliates to meet and/or exceed their targets!
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- Brass Cajones Awawrd Dinner
The annual Brass Cajones banquet put on by Brass Roots
is next Sunday, Aug. 26, at Vladimir's located at 28125
Grand River at 8 Mile in Farmington Hills.
Cocktails at 4:30, dinner 5:30.
This year's awards will be presented to:
Neal Knox: Veteran Activist and Columnist, Founder of the
Firearms Coalition, Former Executive Director of NRA-ILA,
Founding Editor of Gun Week.
Christopher Dingell: State Senator (D-7)
Prize Drawings and DJ will follow the Awards Program.
Dinner is $30 per person. Cash bar.
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- Petitioning Opportunities
Ted Nugent In Concert- Tuesday August 21- DTE Energy
Music Theatre in Detroit.
Michigan State Fair - Tuesday, August 21st through Monday,
September 3rd - state fairgrounds, Detroit - call (313)
369-8250 for more info
Bath City Festival - Friday, August 24th and Saturday,
August 25th - downtown, Mt. Clemens - call (810) 465-3337
for more info
Hollywood Nights in Saginaw The address is 108 N. Niagra
Saginaw show starts at next Saturday 9:30 August
25th...(the old On stage Nightclub). Reggae Show "The
Process"
The Sun Messengers - Friday, August 24th @ 7:30pm -
Riverfront Gazebo, Mt. Clemens
The Byrds - Saturday, August 25th @ 7:30pm - Riverfront
Gazebo, Mt. Clemens
2001 Irish-Mexican Fiesta - Sunday, August 26th - Corktown
and Mexicantown, Detroit - call (313) 967-9898 for more info
Aug 27, 3:00-12:00 is the Bronco Bash in Kalamazoo
31st Annual Frontier Days will bring thousands of people to
the town of Charlotte from Wednesday, September 5th through
Sunday, the 9th starting at 10:30 AM. For more info about
Frontier Days, check out
http://www.charlottefrontierdays.com.
Sturgis Toy Run- Saturday September 8 2001. Sturgis, Mi.
St. Joseph County Grange Fair- September 16-22. Centreville
Darwin's waiting room, Nonpoint, reveille in concert-FREE
SHOW LPD N.Precinct parking lot at Oakland and Larch Streets
in Lansing. Friday August 31.
Tool in Concert- Tuesday September 11- Van Andel Arena in
Grand RApids.
Tool in Concert- Sunday September 16- Palace in Auburn Hills
Godsmack and Reveille in Concert- Thursday September 20- at
the Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek
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- BARC UPDATE
by Nancy O'Brien
The Phase II checkpoint has passed and we are still a
long way from where we should be. The total signatures
checked and logged in as of Sunday, August 19 is 16,627. We
should be to 34,000 by now.
There hasn’t been enough interest from members of the LPM in
becoming paid petitioners. I will therefore be contracting
with paid professionals for the lion’s share of the
signatures we still need to get. However, that doesn’t mean
you should stop petitioning! Remember, every dollar we
don’t have to spend for paid signatures is money we can use
for radio advertising, candidate promotion, or any number of
other projects that will further the cause of freedom. If
you don’t want to stand out on street corners, drop in on
long lost friends and relatives. Surely you can think of a
few more people you haven’t gotten to sign yet.
We had compiled the stats on individual and affiliate totals
but discovered some database problems (resulting in
conflicting numbers) that we couldn’t fix in time for this
posting.
Volunteers Still Needed
If you have a few hours to give to the effort and don’t want
to petition, we still need help in the office with checking
signatures against the state’s registered voter database. We
need to check a large enough sample to determine our
validity rate. This will determine how much of a cushion we
need for the inevitable bad signatures which are a part of
every petition drive.
How important is this? Well, if we guess too high, we may
end up collecting thousands of signatures more than we need.
How would you like to think the 500 signatures it took you
the entire summer to get ultimately weren’t necessary? Then
again, if we guess too low, we could come up short of the
number required by the state for regaining our ballot
access. Since coming up short is not an option, we will
allow for a generous cushion. But collecting thousands of
unnecessary signatures beyond what is needed is too great a
waste of our resources and yours. The greater the sample we
check, the more we can be sure of what the state will find
when they check their sampling of our completed petitions.
In addition to helping us determine our validity rate, doing
this checking has an additional benefit. Some of the
signatures are discovered to be invalid, not because the
signer isn’t registered to vote but because they made
mistakes when signing. Employing the Qualified Voter File
software in conjunction with CASS Certification software has
enabled us to correct many of these mistakes, thereby
turning invalid signatures into valid ones.
Checking signatures using the QVF database isn’t hard; it’s
just time consuming. If you can send e-mail and work a
search engine you have enough computer skills to do this
job. We have two computers in the office that have the
program. We have installed a keyless entry lock on the back
door of HQ that will allow you to get in to work anytime of
the day or night. And in fact, if you have Microsoft Access
2000 on your home computer, we can give you the database
program. Once you are trained, you can do petition checking
at home. Training takes about a half hour.
If you can help, please contact me at nobrien321@home.com.
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