August 2008
CALENDAR
August 7 - Metro Detroit
area
Bob Barr will be campaigning in
Michigan .
Look for details as
they become available on the website: www.michiganlp.org
August 9 - Hillsdale County
7th annual Hillsdale County Coalition
for Peace and Justice Festival. 10 am - 6 pm,
325 E Chicago St , Jonesville ,
MI 49250 . http://hcc4pandj.org Scotty Boman will have a booth at this
Festival. This will be a great opportunity to reach out to residents of the
county that gave Ron Paul 15% of their vote in the primary. Please share this
information with anyone who may live in the general area. Scotty
Boman 313-247-2052 scottyeducation@yahoo.com
August 13 - Oakland
County
LP of Oakland County
meeting - at Sila´s, 4033 W. 12 Mile (2 blocks east of
Greenfield ), Berkley .
7 pm optional no-host dinner, meeting at 7:30. Bruce Hoepner 248-414-7094
bahoeps@sbcglobal.net
August 15 - 17 -
Washtenaw County
The
Libertarian Party of Washtenaw County will be sponsoring a booth at the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival. The group could
use volunteers to help staff the booth. Please see this site for open
slots: http://michlibertarian.home.comcast.net Larry Johnson 734-320-7237
michlibertarian@comcast.net
August 28 -
West Michigan
Beer and Banter-
meeting at Pizza Hut, 28th St
(near East Beltline SE), Grand Rapids starting
at 6 pm. Topic will be determined. Special guest will be Diane Baum, activist. 6
pm free refreshments followed by 7 p.m. filming. Pizza
Hut is just east of East Beltline SE, opposite Toys R Us, downstairs dining
room.
September 4 - Wayne County
Wayne County Libertarians meet at Dimitri´s on the
Avenue, 14316 Michigan Ave. , Dearborn
at 6:30 pm. We will be
having a special "meet the WCLP candidates" evening. Dinner orders at 6:30 and meeting
at 7:30. All of our
candidates will have the opportunity to discuss their campaigns and plans for
the November elections. Gregory Scott Stempfle 248-687-1470
newsletter@michiganlp.org
September 5 - West Michigan
Filming of candidates at Grand
Rapids Media Center . Time: evening, TBD.
- Candidate
filming for any candidate of the LP, Grand
Rapids Media Center . There is
no cost to participate in this program. Contact Erwin Haas for details:
ekhaas@sbcglobal.net
September 6 - Wayne County
Dally in the Alley 2008 from 11 am to
11 pm http://dallyinthealley.com/index.html There will be a Libertarian
booth at this annual inner-city street fair and music festival. Location: just
south of WSU between Second Ave. , W.
Forest, W. Hancock, and Anthony Wayne in Detroit 48201. Scotty
Boman 313-247-2052 scottyeducation@yahoo.com
September
7 - West
Michigan
LPWM EC Meeting at 1 pm; Picnic
2-6 pm in Big Rapids. Summer Picnic and meeting of
the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Party of West Michigan. Location: Osceola Pavilion, Big Rapids. This
is an open public event - however, members are encouraged to sign up for
potluck items. Contact: Tom Hren, thomashren@yahoo.com or Bill
Gelineau, freedomlover59@hotmail.com
September 11 - 14 - Oakland
County
The LP of Oakland County will
sponsor an LPM booth at the Troy Daze
Festival. All
Oakland County
candidates are welcome to display as well as any statewide candidates. Volunteers are welcome. Troy is
the only Oakland County
community with an active Libertarian on the City Council. Join us and support all LP
campaign efforts. Bruce Hoepner 248-219-3303 bahoeps@sbcglobal.net
September
12 - West Michigan
Filming of
candidates at Grand Rapids Media Center . Time: evening, TBD.
- Candidate
filming for any candidate of the LP, Grand
Rapids Media Center .
There is no cost to participate in this program. Contact Erwin Haas for details:
ekhaas@sbcglobal.net
September
16 - West Michigan
Meet the
Candidates 6:30
pm - 9 pm - Location: Grand Rapids Community
College . Media and Public Introduction of
West Michigan Candidates for Public
Office. Contact Bill Gelineau,
freedomlover59@hotmail.com
More...
For more events, see the online calendar at:
http://www.mi.lp.org/Shared%20Documents/Calendar.aspx
READ THE MICHIGAN LIBERTARIAN
ONLINE
By Greg Stempfle
The July-August 2008 issue of the Michigan Libertarian
can be found here.
Future issues of the
Michigan Libertarian will also be distributed using this new online news
service.
If you would like to forego getting the
newsletter in the mail and would prefer to download it, please send me an email
at the address below with the words "pdf subscription" in the subject line.
The deadline for submissions will be September 8 for the next
issue.
This next issue will be the last one to go out
before the general election. I encourage all of our candidates
to submit news and stories from the campaign trail to share with our membership.
Let us know what you´re
up to!
Please send all
news, activities, and advertising to MichiganLibertarian@gmail.com
THANKS, DAVE!
Thanks to David
Yardley who sent a link to a great article in Campaigns and Elections Magazine:
Barr Set to Make Debate
Push. BTW, make sure to visit Bob Barr's
web site www.bobbarr2008.com for the latest campaign
news, and sign his petition to Congress to stop the Bill of Rights
blackout!
HELP SCOTTY WITH A
PRIMARY EXIT LITERATURE DROP
The
primary election presents a unique opportunity to reach hard-core voters. People who show up at the primary
are almost guaranteed to vote in the general election.
Here is the plan.
You will be waiting at
the polling place with Scotty Boman slim-jims. Stay clear of voters on the way
in. They will be dodging
a battery of literature and political swag on the way in. They probably won´t have a chance
to read any of it.
You greet them with a slim-Jim as they depart. They will say they already voted.
You can smile and say,
"Good! Scotty Boman
is on the ballot in November!" then hand the surprised voter a
slim-Jim.
I have
thousands of high-quality slim-Jims printed. Contact me (313-247-2052) ASAP so I can get them to you. Otherwise, you can download a PDF
(OK but not as cool as the printed version), and make your own.
PDF´s are on the file
menu, or link to:
http://files.meetup.com/1153725/Scotty%20Slim%20Jim%20v5.pdf
At the end of the day, send me an email to let me know what voting
location you covered (include districts and precincts), it will be interesting
to see what effect this has.
While many will be
straight-ticket major party voters, some are voting in the primaries to vote on
a ballot issue, judgeship, or precinct delegates. Still others want to have a voice
in which Democrat or Republican ends up on the ballot in November. That doesn´t mean they will vote
for that party in November.
For example, I know
many people (myself
included) who voted in the Republican presidential primary (Gee I bet you
wonder how I voted). Needless
to say, that doesn´t mean I am voting Republican in November.
The Days
After:
On the next couple days, you can help Scotty and protect the
environment at the same time. Many exhausted candidates and
campaign workers will leave the landscape littered with discarded sign-wires.
These are costly, however
many of the people loosing the primary will have no need for them in the
future. Here is where you
come in. By cleaning up
this unsightly resource, you will be saving the Scotty Boman campaign money.
Please only remove discarded wires from PUBLIC property
(like freeway embankments). Libertarians respect private
property.
You can either hold
onto these wires until we get signs printed, or I will be happy to take them
off your hands.
Scotty Boman
313-247-2052
scottyeducation@yahoo.com
boman08.com
GETTING RID OF THE WAR ON DRUGS IN A
YEAR
By Erwin Haas
It´s called jury nullification, the object of the Fully
Informed Jury Amendment. It´s how northern juries freed captured Southern
slaves before the Civil War. I´ll use my pulpit in Congress to trumpet message
that citizens can subvert bullies in government; their bad laws won´t hold up
in court, and that prosecution of petty possession and use indictments of drugs
offenses will fail. It will empty the jails and prisons, deprive police and
judges of power, and put politicians on notice that the looney laws that they
pass have to pass citizen muster.
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