LPM OnlineApril 10, 2007 |
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Registration forms and information pertaining to the 2007 Libertarian Party of Michigan Convention are available at: http://lpwm.org/stateconvention This is on the Libertarian Party of West Michigan's Web page. The LPWM has been gracious enough to host this important annual gathering. The convention is on May 5th but there are discounts for people to register by April 16th. Register and renew membership directly online at: https://128bit.clickandpledge.com/default.aspx?ID=13742&cid=US&a Please remind your fellow Libertarians of this event; many people don't read LPM online thoroughly and may over-look this announcement. Important information for would-be delegates: "A person who has never been a member of the Libertarian Party of Michigan must become a member at least 30 days prior to a State convention before being allowed to vote at that convention." -LPM Bylaws- If you recently joined the national organization, you may not yet be an LPM member. So make sure to join the Michigan Party too. Dues must be current at the time of the convention to vote there. HB 4285 has passed the State House of Representatives and is on it's way to the Michigan Senate. It would make running for office difficult and risky. It's passage by the senate would be a catastrophe to our party. Call, write and email your State Senator. Urge him or her to vote "NO" on any version of this bill. This Bill threatens to force almost ALL candidates for state office to disclose personal information. This information would be placed on the internet where it would be available to con-men and identity thieves. Worse yet, it would also require the family members of candidates to publicize their personal information as well. So how to the Republocrats get out of also complying? The maximum fine is $1000, so they can use a token amount of their huge campaign funds to pay the fine and keep their personal information private. Read it for yourself at: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billengrossed/House/pdf/2007-HEBH-4285.pdf I have three verbal commitments (seen no cash yet) from presidential candidates with one wavering. Commitments so far are Bob Jackson of Michigan, Daniel Imperato of Florida, and Alden Link of New York. Christine Smith of Colorado is still wavering but I think I will get her to bite. If you know of any other candidates, please implore them to attend. Also, get your friends and fellow Michigan LPers out to meet these candidates. We now have enough attending to conduct a straw poll. I have 20 sold banquets as of right now. As it stands right now, the LEC stands to take a minor bath on the night. I expect to be able to sell 10 more dinners to West Michigan people but that still leaves about 30 for the rest of the state. Continue talking to everyone within your circles until we sell this thing. I really hope we generate some energy with this convention to help us carry forward to 2008. http://www.lpwm.org/stateconvention https://128bit.clickandpledge.com/default.aspx?ID=13742&cid=US&a= To anyone who likes to write... Excellent place to post reduction of government commentary/titleiv-d, etc!! Just post our true conservative views. http://www.rightmichigan.com/hotlist/remove/2007/2/14/235048/163/section//Diary We should OWN this! This coming week there is going to be multiple rallies held in Lansing Michigan on April 18th, 2007. Please read the following email and consider joining the rally with signs of support for giving power back to the family through the restoration of parental rights through Shared Parenting Legislation, Ending CPS Abuse by forcing jury trials with a clear and convincing evidence standard and the adoption of the Michigan Fair Tax. Shared Parenting allows children to be raised by both parents as they truly need, keeping children with their families rather then destroying their life and future without due-process will keep the state from abducting children to feed the foster care system and the Michigan Fair Tax will give individual families the ability to control the amount of taxes they pay and control the state’s use of their hard earned money. MI FairTaxers, 1) THEME OF RALLY: TAXPAYER TEABAG PROTEST (Remember the Boston tea party?) Our April 18th tax rally will have the tea bag as our theme to draw a parallel to the Boston tea party that sparked the American Revolution. Similar to our forefathers, who had to deal with "taxation without representation", we have to contend with "taxation with misrepresentation". Some politicians tell us that they are going to tax businesses rather than tax individuals, but we are smart enough to know that we pay all businesses taxes when we buy their products. Our "Tea Party" theme will help educate the public of this big lie/misrepresentation and how we are losing our jobs because Michigan companies can't compete in the global economy with our tax inflated prices. This will be the event that sparks the MI FairTax Revolution. 2) WE HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED BY "TAXSPENDERS" Last week, a Lansing reporter informed Leon Drolet, former state Rep. and spending watchdog, that a Governor’s staffer had told him that the Gov. was aware of the April 18 Taxpayer Teabag Protest planned at the Capitol - and was preparing a “surprise” for protesters. What “surprise”? Turns out that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has moved up their lobby day in Lansing to coincide with our Taxpayer Teabag Protest. They support Granholm’s plan to mandate government preschool for all children. And they are not alone. An organization called “Artserve”, which supports more tax dollars being spent on art, has also changed the day and time of their lobby day to April 18. It appears those that demand more and more spending and higher taxes will try to outdo us taxpayers that day. According to the AFT Michigan website, they are planning to bus public school teachers in from around the state. Ironic: Paid day off for public employees to counter a citizen’s protest against higher taxes. It is now even more important than ever to spread the word to all taxpayers about the Taxpayer Protest Rally! Michigan taxpayers need to show up at the Capitol in Lansing on April 18, bring a tea bag that we will deliver to the Governor, and tell Lansing politicians to balance their budget like we citizens have to do and solve the problem for the future by enacting the MI FairTax; NOT BY RAISING TAXES and driving more companies and jobs out of Michigan! Get to the Capitol around 10:00am. Rally starts at 11:00am, but you will need time to park (or unload your bus). Tax spenders are planning to hijack this rally, and demand more and more of YOUR money, apparently not concerned with the impact on our jobs and the future of our state. We cannot allow the voices of everyday taxpayers to be drowned out. Take the day off work, clear the calendar, gather your family and friends, club members, church members, etc. and organize car pools, van pools or rent busses and head to Lansing on April 18! We will be jointly sponsoring this rally with Americans For Prosperity and the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance. It will send a real message when MI FairTaxers show up in huge numbers with "MI FairTax" hand made signs. The media will be sure to give a lot of coverage to such a large demonstration and will likely put our comments on the air and in print. Frank Beckman of Michigan 's "flagship" radio station, WJR (AM 760), will be broadcasting from the event. Other radio and TV stations will likely follow suit. If the MI FairTax puts enough feet on the capitol steps, the media and the political wonks will recognize that we are a powerful political force to recon with and the MI FairTax "has legs". They will realize that the MI FairTax will be placed on the ballot so they better cover it and climb aboard the MI FairTax train or be left at a deserted station. Together we will spark the MI FairTax revolution. More information about the rally is shown below. For those of you that choose not to receive your MI FairTax messages in digest form a flyer is attached that you can print off and post where others can read about the rally. Additional information will follow. Yours in the cause, Roger MI FairTax Director (volunteer) And Darrick Scott-Farnsworth Executive Director www.AChildsRight.net www.daddy.typepad.com/ http://www.fairtaxmi.org/ [All candidates seeking the Libertarian nomination for President are welcome to submit an article to LPM online] Political Campaign Workers sought by the Daniel J. Imperato Presidential Campaign Team. We have posted to LibertyGuide.com for Media Team and Fundraising Professionals. We also need State Campaign Coordinators and County Campaign coordinators. Volunteers are always welcome! Please contact the Campaign: Submit Resume's by email. Tony Hernandez Campaign Manager Imperato for President 561-833-4420 xtn 1021 813-732-2831 cell thernandez@imperato2008.com http://www.thepeoplespresident2008.com www.imperato2008.com Kerkorian Follows Imperato's Lead on UAW Chrysler Buyout Deal Detroit, MI - April 5, 2007 - Today Billionaire Investor, Kirk Kerkorian, made a bid to buy back the automaker that he tried to buy 9 years ago, Chrysler. Kerkorian's wholly-owned investment company, Tracinda Corp., on Thursday made a $4.5 billion cash offer for DaimlerChrysler AG's U.S.-based Chrysler unit. A deal would put Kerkorian in charge of Chrysler a decade after he claims he was tricked out of potentially billions of dollars in the 1998 deal in which Germany's Daimler-Benz joined with Chrysler in the so-called "merger of equals." Tracinda in a statement said it wants "to build and strengthen" the troubled automaker and "will offer the United Auto Workers (UAW) and Chrysler management the opportunity to participate as equity partners in the transaction." Originally, the Detroit Free Press Reported that 2008 Presidential Candidate Daniel Imperato was working with "outside investors" in putting together a UAW Chrysler Buyout to save union jobs and place Chrysler equity in its underfunded pension. Then one week later Kerkorian and Imperato were spotted in the Las Vegas, albeit separately, which fueled some rumors that Kerkorian and Imperato were working together on the UAW Chrysler buyout. So that begs the question, is Kirk Kerkorian quietly supporting Daniel Imperato's plan to make Chrysler an Employee Owned Company (EOC)? Or even better is Kirk Kerkorian acting on behalf of Daniel Imperato to help support his presidential campaign and his quest to help keep good union jobs in America? A call was placed to Kerkorian's Beverly Hills Tracinda office. Kerkorian was unavailable for comment. A call was also placed to Daniel Imperato's personal office who informed i1connect that Imperato was in Detroit, home of the UAW and Chrysler. Imperato has publicly lobbied to keep automotive jobs in America as well as work with AFL-CIO leaders to help unionize and organize the labor of Latin American countries. According to Imperato, this would slow down jobs from moving out of the United States and would improve working conditions for workers in Latin America. Kerkorian, whose Tracinda was Chrysler's largest shareholder at the time of its 1998 merger with DaimlerBenz, sued the combined company in 2000. He claimed that Daimler-Benz engineered a takeover of Chrysler, then cheated him out of billions by casting the deal as a merger of equals. A federal judge rejected his claim. With a political campaign fueling Imperato, and a missed opportunity 9 years ago, it may be that politics has made for strange bedfellows once again. On the news of the Kerkorian bid, DaimlerChrysler shares climbed $3.42, or 4.3 percent, to $84.41 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange after rising to a new 52-week high of $84.75 earlier in the session. *** This release has been created by i1connect, an independent news agency.*** About i1connect: I1 Connect (www.i1connect.com) is the new online leader in global public relations and advertising. With a diversified set of offerings ranging from Public Relations, Press Releases Distribution, Advertising, Marketing, Website Development, to Investor Relations services, i1connect.com has positioned itself for a long term growth utilizing the latest in telecommunications technology. For Interviews and Media Inquiries Contact Press Department I1connect info@i1connect.com www.i1connect.com (561) 515-6177 |
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