LPM OnlineMay 29, 2007 |
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Libertarians from Region 3 (Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky) will gather at the Holiday Inn Dayton-South August 3-5 for the first-ever regional LP convention. The Region 3 Convention will focus on training for party volunteers, activists and candidates. The Leadership Institute of Washington D.C. (www.leadershipinstitute.org) will do 6 hours of training on Saturday in grass roots organizing and fundraising. National LP leaders will conduct training on organizational issues, and the National LP Chairman Bill Redpath will give a State of the LP address on Saturday afternoon. There will also be plenty of time to network with LP leaders from other states and share best practices. This event is open to everyone and especially geared toward local and state party officers, LP candidates and campaign managers. The cost for the weekend training is only $75 ($50 for students) if you reserve by July 1 ($100/$75 after). You may register at the Region 3 website www.lpr3.org. The room rate at the Holiday Inn Dayton-South is only $69 plus tax per night. The block is available through July 13, so we encourage you to reserve today. Call the hotel at 937-294-1471 and ask for the group rate: Libertarian Party Region 3. The Region 3 Convention is being organized by a committee comprised of representatives from each state: Jennifer Jeffrey, Allen County (IN) LP Chair; Nathan Allen, former LPM State Chair; Robert Butler, LP Ohio State Chair; Ken Moellman, LP of KY. The states in our region are doing remarkable work. Please join us to share what you know, learn from others, and get to know your neighboring freedom fighters. Because this is the first regional convention, it’s attracting a lot of interest from Libertarian leaders around the country. Let’s show the nation that Region 3 knows how to generate success! I look forward to seeing you in Dayton. LAZY HAZY CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER --Ken Howe, Chairman, Libertarian Party of West Michigan As summer looms and the fishing is easy, it is hard I know, to get very excited about anything political. It may be the hardest to get excited about something that some will see as an impossible dream. The dream to which I refer is that of returning to a land of freedom where men and women have their own power of choice in their daily lives and where honest men and women have rights that are inviolable. Will we ever see that place again? Some of us work for it and even more of us dream about it. But both are okay for it is summer and the fishing is easy. While we are resting, however, I want to assure you that some others are not resting. For example, Jennifer Granholm wants to increase sin taxes and raise differing types of property taxes even when the value of property goes down. She still thinks that she can sell the lie that businesses pay taxes without passing them down to the consumer. Another Democrat tactic is working toward having monopolistic energy companies in Michigan--but taxing and regulating them so heavily that they don’t “make too much profit.” This is okay for the fishing is easy. On what they like to call the right side, Republicans, now suddenly in the minority, seem to be behaving quietly for the moment. They seem to still be reeling from their showing last November when all their failings came home to roost. This is okay for the fishing is easy. What are we, those people who dream of and work toward real honest equality and fairness, supposed to do now? Well, the fishing is easy and so is that response but that will keep us remaining in the morass where we find ourselves being herded now. Waiting for someone else to take the reins and guide us out is about as fruitless as central planning could ever be. But the fishing is easy. Now is the time for planning and gathering resources and knowledge. Now is the time to determine what you are willing to do to bring about the dream of our forefathers and foremothers (lest I be accused of something) and bring to bear all we can in this next election cycle so we can begin the long journey back to the place guaranteed in our federal and state constitutions. But the fishing was easy. What is really needed and wanted is for everyone to let the members of your Executive Committee know of your talents and how you can be useful in the effort to restore our--and most importantly--your freedom. Help form workgroups and plan the activities you want to do and work for the results you want to accomplish. After all, the future is yours. Many of us will do all we can but yet we must all be involved to make “the dream” a reality. Maybe someday the fishing will again be easy. Thank you for reading. Article written on Memorial Day 2007: Well, it is that day when Americans who can think past a picnic, and the extended weekend remember the American victims of war. I remember many a memorial day when to do so was to reflect on the past rather than to lament current events. This past Thursday, Democrats voted to unconditionally support the continued carnage in Iraq with our tax dollars. I knew this would happen since last year. Please check out these links: http://www.mi.lp.org/lpmonline/archive/N20061114.php http://www.michiganlp.org/lpmonline/archive/N20061212.php Democrats and Republicans not only need to honor the dead service men and women, they need to apologize to the bereaved families for their complicity in those deaths. Then of course their are the tens of thousands of Iraqi victims of Republocratic statism. Democrats alone owe voters an apology for lying and saying they would transform the American people's opposition to the war into policy. Most Republicans were honest about their support of this war. Finally, there is the forgotten war in Afghanistan. The Taliban is making a comeback since American troops have been spread thin by the war of choice in Iraq. Incidentally, the Taliban has found a new home in Iraq, thanks to our removal of a government that was able to keep them out. New Newsletter Editor, Submission Deadline May 31st Greg Stempfle was chosen to take over editing the LPM newsletter at the last State Convention. Send all of your news, affiliate updates, advertisements, or anything else for the next Michigan Libertarian in by May 31st. Please send all material to stempfle@hotmail.com. Convention Photos Wanted If any delegates to the state convention took any nice photos, please send them to our new newsletter editor, Greg Stempfle at... stempfle@hotmail.com I would specifically like pictures of some of our speakers or of members of our party addressing the convention floor. Thanks. |
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