tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48170277912763321432024-03-05T05:28:49.220-08:00Libertarian HistoryKnow the history so you don't repeat it.Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-60356158343117980562022-10-30T08:19:00.004-07:002022-10-30T08:21:37.994-07:00Finally - An Explanation of Edward H. Crane, III, Not at all what I expected.<div><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Edward Harrison Crane's Family History</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nothing shocking in the Crane Family past. But interesting insights on what might have sent Crane in his chosen direction. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">About
Edward Harrison Crane, III,starting with Ed's great-grandfather. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Father:
Thomas Crane, born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man" target="_blank">Isle of Man</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mother:
Elizabeth Jones, Bourbon Co. Kentucky</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Informant:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth T. Crane (The wife of Edward Harrison Crane, M. D.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Dr.
Edward Harrison Crane, Senior (I)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Dr.
Edward H. Crane, Senior, was a physician and surgeon. Practice in ears, eyes,
nose, and throat. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Born: </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">18 December
1875, in Massillon, Cedar County, Iowa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Burial:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6 May 1946, Inglewood
Cemetery, Inglewood, CA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Date
of Death: 2 May 1946, at 1:25PM.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Married: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333331; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marriage: 9 Oct. 1906, Iowa</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Spouse:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth Thom Crane</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Elizabeth
Thom Crane </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Born:
<span class="lifespanandgenderl15g5mhy">27 July 1881, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="ellipsiscsse139x152">Correctionville,
Woodbury, Iowa,</span></span><span class="lifespanandgenderl15g5mhy"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="lifespanandgenderl15g5mhy"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Died:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>31 July 1951</span></span>, Los Angeles, CA.<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Residence
at time of death: 8617 Rindge Avenue, Playa del Rey</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">(Ed's grandfather moved several times during his career and moved to Venice, CA, where his son was practicing medicine in later life. Eventually, he and Elizabeth Thom Crane, moved in with their oldest son, Edward Harrison Crane, Jr. and his wife, Mary Barbara Greene Crane) <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Bio
from <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20226078/edward-harrison-crane">FindaGrave</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">“Dr.
Edward H. Crane, brother of C. E. Crane passed away in California on May 2,
1946.<br />
<br />
Edward H. Crane was born in Monticello, Iowa, and reared on a farm near Battle
Creek, Iowa. He passed away after an illness of 7 weeks in the Good Samaritan
hospital in Los Angeles following an operation for gallstones at the age of 70
years.<br />
<br />
He took his medical course at Iowa City, Iowa, and post graduate work at
Harvard. He practiced at Odebolt and Cedar Falls, Iowa.<br />
<br />
He specialized on the eye, ear, nose, and throat for the past 25 years.<br />
<br />
He retired from active practice in Inglewood, California, where his son, Dr.
Edward H. Crane, Jr., and his two daughters, Mardo and Mrs. Betty Warner live.
His son, George Thom, was killed overseas just before the war ended.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The couple had four children:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Mardo
Clarivelle Crane(Eldest, born in 1908)<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Dr. Edward H. Crane, Jr. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Elizabeth Crane (Mrs. Betty Warner)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56754995/george-thom-crane">George
Thom Crane</a>, born 4 February 1914. Died 15 August 1945 on Cabu Island in the
Philippines. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is buried at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1976551/manila-american-cemetery-and-memorial"><span id="cemeteryNameLabel" itemprop="name">Manila American Cemetery and Memorial</span></a></span></p> <p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mardo lived in Los Angeles, when she was not flying, and never married. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mardo
Clarivelle Crane</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Born:
10 Sep 1908, California</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Died:
<span class="info">13 Mar 2000 (aged 91)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="info"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Education:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UCLA, majoring in physical education and psychology and a Masters Degree
from Columbia.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="info"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Career: </span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mardo was a member of the Women Airforce
Service Pilots during World War II. She was in WASP class 44-1. Mardo is also
known for starting the "Powder Puff Derby" women's air competition in
1947. Her other activities related to flight and women are long and impressive.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mardo
was in aviation all of her life and was also a prominent member of the <a href="https://la99s.org/"><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/la99s\.org\/new-horizons\/mardo-crane\/\0022 ";">Los
Angeles 99s</span>.</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">She earned her pilot
license in 1933. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">When the war broke out,
she joined as a test pilot for WAFS/WASP (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying
Service/Service Pilots). After the war was over, she enlisted in the U.S. Air
Force, retiring from the military as a 1st Lieutenant.</span> <span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">There is a biography about
Mardo at the <a href="https://la99s.org/new-horizons/mardo-crane/">Los Angeles
99s</a></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikcKp6WRrCv2ZttHCJY2P88v_RYqIbau9iJFbzmvVF4u9Rko8uZxlie8BNgnwSZZjS0zT8m51o3k57jjs0kElxmTjnOLEFoBlvcnjE1e1x_0K61ombcpQ4KIQhp7gC6WD_k_2Q3eYtF9shDVHx9cYytrCfSFsSs34zGRrykjf-bC373AzU1LIBrikC/s563/Pic%20of%20Marlo%20Crane%20WWII.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mardo in the pilot's seat" border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="563" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikcKp6WRrCv2ZttHCJY2P88v_RYqIbau9iJFbzmvVF4u9Rko8uZxlie8BNgnwSZZjS0zT8m51o3k57jjs0kElxmTjnOLEFoBlvcnjE1e1x_0K61ombcpQ4KIQhp7gC6WD_k_2Q3eYtF9shDVHx9cYytrCfSFsSs34zGRrykjf-bC373AzU1LIBrikC/w337-h274/Pic%20of%20Marlo%20Crane%20WWII.jpeg" title="Mardo in the pilot's seat" width="337" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> Mardo in the pilot's seat</span><br /></div><div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Ed Crane's father was II.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Dr.
Edward Harrison Crane, Junior, (II)</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Born:
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1910, Iowa, United States</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Died: 1997</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Married:
12 June 1938 to Mary Barbara Greene</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Mary
Barbara Greene:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Born </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">22
August 1917, Huaa, Hawaii</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Died: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">29
February 2009, Ashland, Jackson, Oregon</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">One
child of the marriage:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Edward
H. Crane</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Here is Cato's Ed, who never mentioned his Aunt Mardo and was a serial sexual exploiter of women and led the charge away from action using the free market. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Edward Harrison Crane, (III)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born: </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">born 15 August 1944 in Inglewood, CA </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">College: Attended the University of
Redlands 1962 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transferred to the University of
California, Berkeley in 1963. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earned an MBA from the
University of Southern California.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Career: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worked as a money manager in Los Angeles until discovering the far more lucrative career provided by the Kochs in 1974. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b> </b></span><br /></p></div>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-2559808746566835732022-07-12T08:18:00.002-07:002022-07-12T08:18:25.938-07:00Commentary for The All Powerful and Omni-Potent Cult of the Sperm ...and other emotionally satisfying myths The Myths of Science and Their Agenda <p> See the <a href="https://freedomfems.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-all-powerful-and-omni-potent-cult.html" target="_blank">article</a>, written when I founded the Women's Institute for Individual and Political Freedom around 1998. The graphic below was created to illustrate the article. If you have a photo of Bruce, Lagasse, who you get to know a little in the commentary, please share the picture with me. I'm putting up a short biography for him here. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvUek3sx3nKUpmbuMTJZ8cY0T_pZwwDf9zPezqkCOahIdfGk7KahpNDveusPfGx5leuerrMi5djJNqC59Eak-80Rsjj5V9Bmz5LInV_fFW0Avlsd0m3jN-n98pGCv47kExO-LZ__rrwyI25NcRgS9JYSWrS0a2LCoHhsbdSFCsiG-UxeV36EVuSOx/s600/Aristotle%20and%20hands.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvUek3sx3nKUpmbuMTJZ8cY0T_pZwwDf9zPezqkCOahIdfGk7KahpNDveusPfGx5leuerrMi5djJNqC59Eak-80Rsjj5V9Bmz5LInV_fFW0Avlsd0m3jN-n98pGCv47kExO-LZ__rrwyI25NcRgS9JYSWrS0a2LCoHhsbdSFCsiG-UxeV36EVuSOx/s320/Aristotle%20and%20hands.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>I first met Bruce Lagasse soon after I joined the Libertarian Party. Ed Wolford signed my first membership card, he being the person in charge of state memberships, I think he was Secretary. I had first met Ed when we were both passing out literature for Barry Goldwater, Jr., who was then running for Congress around 1968 - 1969. I was delighted to find he and his new wife, Cynthia Gant-Wolford, were members and did not live very far from us. Us includes my then husband, Ronald Edward Kellett, who soon after this took part of my name and became Ronald Edward Foster, over my objections. </p><p>At the time I first joined our first daughter, Dawn Ellen, later her name changed at her request to Pillsbury, had been born and I was, again pregnant. Ron joined the LP too, but never renewed or became active. </p><p>The saga of Ron will be told elsewhere, but soon. </p><p>The forthcoming book, which will include the poetry I wrote but did not share with Libertarians - though a part of these were about Libertarians, justice, freedom and other related themes, will be included in the book, the working title of which is Just Desserts. The choice of title will be explained before the book is published for sale. </p><p>Now, the Commentary, a story about Bruce. Over the years he confided in me. I was a good listener and had, by then recognized he was well meaning and true to his own values. </p><p>COMMENTARY</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #073907; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The All Powerful and Omni-Potent Cult of the Sperm ...and other
emotionally satisfying myths<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #073907; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Myths of Science and Their Agenda <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #073907; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Lo, many years ago, when I had more recently left the
Libertarian Party behind me as an activist, I ran across the intriguing
Aristotelian Theory you will read, title above, written in response to the
observation made, reported and then installed as fact in practice and law. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">My own experiences with gender bias in the Libertarian
Party began with a short discussion on the issue of freedom of choice with a now
deceased gentleman named Bruce Lagasse. At
the time, Bruce was editing California’s State Newsletter. I had been persuaded to organize the collating
parties for this monthly event. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">At the time, I had been pregnant with my third child
for about 9 months. I knew perfectly
well the common assumption was that this meant birth would soon take place. But
since each of my previous pregnancies had gone a full 11 months my experience
told me there was still a while to go. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bruce arrived with the printed newsletter, stamps for
out of area recipients, rubber bands for grouping by zipcode and the printed
labels to be applied. Two LP members had
arrived to help out and consume the Region 11 Cake, which I had, only five
minutes before taken from the oven. The
aroma permeated the kitchen and dining room before curling into the living room,
where the collation party would take place.
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Being an observant fellow Bruce immediately said to
me. <i>“Haven’t you had that baby yet?” </i> I responded, <i>“No, obviously not. And since the other two took 11 months I
assume this one will also linger for a month or so.”</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bruce poopooed my judgement and told me to go to the
doctor and get it done. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bruce, you should know, lived and died a bachelor and
likely never saw an infant unless those were mine. No one else in the LP, with one exception,
had a small child, and she was not an activist so did not encounter Bruce. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Changing the subject, I shared with Bruce that I had
arranged for a midwife to help with the birth, which would take place in our
home. Shock registered on his face<i>. “You have no right to do that!”</i> he exclaimed.
I informed him this was my body and my baby and yes, I did. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bruce countered, demanding to know if Ron, my husband,
was going to let me give birth at home. I
told him I was willing to let Ron give birth anyplace he liked if he decided to
have a baby, though given his biological preprogramming I did not think this
likely. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Putting up with Ron sleeping through the birth of my
last baby, the year before, and grumbling about it when he was forced by the
nurse in the hospital to wake up when I refused to have any medication for the
birth, which was imminent, brought a brief silence from Bruce, which allowed
the cake to be served. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">“No medications?”</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> The shock was palpable on his face. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">My previous baby had been born with Lamaze
Method. This one was Bradley
Technique. At the time I was training to teach Bradley
Technique.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As this dialog went on, I had put out the orderly piles
of pages to be collated, gotten drinks for the collators, and let them know the
cake would not be cut and served until after the newsletter work was
finished. No chocolate fingerprints on
the newsletter, that I would not tolerate.
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bruce, with a satisfied look on his face told me I
had nothing to say about where I gave birth.
This was not an issue of rights, but a medical issue. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I fixed him with a stare and said, <i>“Really?”</i>
sarcasm dripping slightly off my tongue. Bruce would later be served a very
small slice of his favorite Region 11 cake and not be allowed to take the rest
home with him. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ayn was born at home two months later, 13 months
younger than her sister, Dawn. I was
alone at the time, a good friend of mine had picked up Dawn and would keep her overnight. Ron was out in the garage, occupied with his
collection of spare parts, bolts and his welder. He was not missed. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">After her birth Ayn turned her head and looked at me,
making a deep growling sound. I have
never heard another baby make a sound like that. Not wanting to stretch the still pulsing umbilical
cord, I eased a wrapping blanket around her and brought her up on my belly. Raising her head slightly her attention was
arrested apparently by my breast. Her
legs began kicking motions and her eyes and mouth were wide open. Slowly, still careful of the cord, no longer
pulsing, I repositioned her close to my breast,
ready to assist her. Not necessary, it
seems; she grabbed on like a cat on a mouse and settled in enthusiastically to
nurse for a good long time falling asleep with her mouth still poised close to
my breast.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It was a wonderful birth. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJ_yEpYtYgyP65zyvcBbj1FT2HqYN4qdAW8wqIWzgYoaGfWWS8pyzrX1pS-Mrhnden3liaycEc_zDciRJjsdlL7PlzHoedagKbaHUYgXQpoQqs5tBzQoYvb_mb7pA6PAn05oCexzEBHyp2FWhl_1hMYaV83SS10wnGu9zBsR_KIiKdfcfj9iroWB_/s793/Dawn%20as%20child.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="793" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJ_yEpYtYgyP65zyvcBbj1FT2HqYN4qdAW8wqIWzgYoaGfWWS8pyzrX1pS-Mrhnden3liaycEc_zDciRJjsdlL7PlzHoedagKbaHUYgXQpoQqs5tBzQoYvb_mb7pA6PAn05oCexzEBHyp2FWhl_1hMYaV83SS10wnGu9zBsR_KIiKdfcfj9iroWB_/s320/Dawn%20as%20child.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dawn Ellen and Ayn Suzanne </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> About Bruce</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">After several years as Editor of the CA Newsletter Bruce
was elected Chairman of the California Libertarian Party in 1978-1979. Elected
as a member of the Libertarian National Committee between 1979-81 and chaired
the California Libertarian Judicial Committee between 1996-2000. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bruce’s assumptions about women were sometimes funny, but
at other times outrageous. I last talked
to him not long before he died in 2015 and always considered him a friend. But A is still A. Bruce gifted me with the poster he had made of himself on his Everest Adventure, which I cherished. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-34038604099520835042020-11-29T11:27:00.005-08:002021-06-20T07:41:14.209-07:00Exploring the actual agenda of the Libertarian Party Nationally. <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> What do you think about Dan Fishman being Executive Director for the Libertarian Party?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read his campaign website and then this link to <a href="https://freemarketfreedom.com/lp-dialog-one" target="_blank">FreeMarketFreedom</a> where we document our encounter with his willingness to deceive us, frustrating any chance the LP had to achieve a tangible change for the free market through electoral action in 2020.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Do we have a right to challenge candidates if we see them making missteps which compromise their message or ability to present the Libertarian Message? Absolutely. After decades of hazy statements and an abject failure to use the media available, we are going to ensure this never happens again. The real history on presidential campaigns have been documented by George Phillies and more will appear here. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">We cannot achieve freedom without the facts. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Below is one of Dan's statements on issues. More are available on his campaign website. If it is removed we will rebuild it and make the URL available here. Dan is clearly a slightly smaller government advocate, leaving others in control of your life. </span></p><div id="title-crumbs" style="background-image: none; color: #003965; font-size: 16px; padding: 5px 10px 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.fishmanforcongress.com/a-different-look-at-issues" style="color: #551a8b;">A Different Look At Issues</a> > </span></div><h3 align="left" id="sites-page-title-header" style="background-image: none; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 10px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span color="rgb(0, 57, 101) !important" dir="ltr" id="sites-page-title" style="background-image: none; outline: currentcolor none medium;" tabindex="-1"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The New Middle East</span></span></h3><div class="sites-canvas-main" id="sites-canvas-main" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003965; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; min-height: 150px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 15px;"><div id="sites-canvas-main-content"><table cellspacing="0" class="sites-layout-name-one-column sites-layout-hbox" style="margin: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 691px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><tbody><tr><td class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-content-1" style="padding: 10px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>terms of note: the Diaspora is all the jews who do not live in Israel. A Haggadah is a prayer book used during Passover</i>
Foreign aid has been described as taking money from poor people in this country and giving it to rich people in poor countries. From The Shah to Saddam Hussein to Hosni Mubarek, we paid them all. Arafat at his death was worth $1 Billion..<br /><br />What did that money buy? Was Arafat a friend to either the United States or Israel? Or was he a crook? Is our foreign policy in the Middle East a legacy of supporting criminals and despots? I have high hopes that democracy will transform the Middle East. I hope the Arab Spring is the beginning of something wonderful for the entire world. But those governments that fell -- the old governments that were suppressing democracy -- all received foreign aid from the United States government. And the new governments and the people there know that.<br /><br />Saudi Arabia does not allow women to inherit property. In Yemen husbands are allowed to rape their wives. The new Egyptian constitution revokes womens rights in favor of Sharia. And we give tacit approval to all of this by continuing to supply foreign aid and weapons to these countries. I find it unconscionable that my tax dollars are supporting this war on women. <br /><br />Now hang on to that thought.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br />Alan King famously said “A short summary of every Jewish holiday is ‘They tried to kill us. We won. Let's eat.’”<br /></span><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />As an American Jew I recognize what Israel is. In addition to being our ancestral homeland, Israel is the place where we will never allow anyone but ourselves to be responsible for our security. Let the rest of the world rage at our actions -- we must ensure that we do not vanish from this earth in the face of enemies who are dedicated to that cause.<br /><br />We’ve seen in the last 3 years what happens when a President is in the White House who is not a friend of Israel. Obama is not an enemy of Israel, but he’s not a friend. And that’s ok because Israel is the place where we do not want to depend on the goodwill of anyone. Israel is where we will always chose self-reliance. If we ended </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all </span><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">foreign aid to all countries, Israel loses less than the combined aid to all Arab nations. Israel is currently handcuffed trying to appease an (at best) indifferent President. I do not want Israel to be restrained in issues of national security. An Israel free from ties to the US Government would be free to act as it saw fit.<br /><br />And the Diaspora recognizes its obligation to the state of Israel. We will make up voluntarily the money that Israel loses from the US. I freely accept and honor an individual commitment for myself to help Israel. I would not ever want to volunteer another to service however, because this obligation must be taken freely. As we read in our Haggadahs: <br /><br />‘</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The wicked son says? "What is this service to you?" By saying, "to you," he implies "but not to himself." Since he has excluded himself from the people at large, he denies the foundation of our faith.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I raged against American tax dollars going to Hamas in April of</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this year. I must however recognize that a Palestinian American might find it objectionable to have tax dollars supporting Israel. Lets end </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all </span><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US sponsored foreign welfare. Let the Diaspora support Israel fully. Let those who choose to do so support Hamas. And let us not be forced to support with our taxes nations whose ideas are abhorrent to both Jewish and American sensibilities.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-29050013740793192272020-11-03T18:00:00.003-08:002020-11-03T18:02:59.681-08:00LNC/STAFF CONTROVERSIES - by Carol Moore<p> </p><div align="center">
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</span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">With Relevant Documentation and
Opinion</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 7.5pt;">September 19, 2002
version</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="file:///C:/AA-WEBPAGES/CMNETWEB/CMSecretary/controversies.html#postscript"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Postscript 2004</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#dirty"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Dirty Politics?</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Emerling"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Emerling v. Marrou</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#CLM"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Committee for a Libertarian Majority</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Conflicts"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"> LNC/Staff Favoritism</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Arizona"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Arizona Libertarian Party</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Clark"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">LNC v. Tamara Clark</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Cisewski2"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Lawsuit v. Gene Cisewski</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Hype"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Fundraising Hype</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | <a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#TUNIWICZ"><span style="color: blue;">Tuniewicz Resignation</span></a> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Ethics"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Ethics Amendment</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Willis"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Willis Admits Lying</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Hawks"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">War Hawks Dominate LNC</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#staff"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Political Obtuseness</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#StrategicPlan"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Strategic Plan</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Schmerl"><span style="color: blue;">Schmerl Proposal</span></a> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/newlibertarians.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Cloud-Howell-Israel/New Libertarians</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> | </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Resignations"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Winter/Dasbach Resign </span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">| </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty/convention2002report.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Carol Moore's LIBERTY Article on 2002
Convention</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="dirty"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">DOES GROWTH FOR GROWTH'S SAKE LEAD TO DIRTY
POLITICS?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: #E8E8F0;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Many charge that over the last eight years the
ruling Libertarian National Committee ("LNC") faction and their
national office staff have "grown" the party at the expense of
principles and especially ethics, sometimes to the financial benefit of
themselves or their cronies. There have been a number of controversies over the
years that seem to support many of these charges. (Feel free to </span><a href="mailto:carol@carolmoore.net"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">contact
me</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> to correct any
erroneous factoids.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Few people would
dispute the general propositions that liberty can be marketed in mainstream
ways, that professional individuals should be paid at least close to market
rates and that political battles can be fierce. What is charged is that
these individuals have consistently employed dishonest means to these
ends. They don't seem to trust libertarians to accept their strategies or
their pay rates on their own merits and therefore punish those who challenge
them, attempting to trick, bully or intimidate libertarians into submission.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Detractors have labeled
this evolving but ever-controlling faction by the names of its leading members
or more generally called them "the partyarchs" or "the powers
that be." I label the worst of them <i>apparatchiks,
i.e., </i>manipulative operatives using organizations for their own
purposes, as described in the article </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/empirerisingscum.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">The Empire of the Rising Scum</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Below are very general
outlines of sixteen of the main controversies that have afflicted the
Libertarian Party over the last decade. Linked to them are relevant
documents or opinion pieces by various party activists. Note that former
LNC Secretary John Famularo also presents a </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/BCI/timeline.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Libertarian Party Historical Timeline</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> with links to available documentation on
many of these controversies. I link to some of his documents. LNC member
Joe Dehn also has a </span><a href="http://www.dehnbase.org/lpus/library/misc/controv.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Controversies page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> which includes a briefly annotated
timeline and information on three major controversies.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> This evidence and opinion is
not meant to be conclusive, only suggestive of the kind of problems complained
about over the years. It is not necessary to know the full details of every
controversy to understand that consistent patterns of revelations of credible
accusations only destroy trust in the Libertarian Party as a voice of
liberty. We must rule in our apparatchiks, not let the Libertarian Party
become known as one were self-serving apparatchiks rule!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Emerling"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1992: EMERLING (CLOUD)'S ATTACKS ON ANDRE MARROU</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Michael Emerling (now
Cloud)</span><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">is a well-connected speaker and professional
fundraiser. As Chief of Staff for 1992 Libertarian Party
Presidential candidate Andre Marrou, Emerling reported to the LNC in early 1991
that Marrou was engaging in financial fraud and should be removed as the LP
candidate. Perry Willis had previously criticized Marrou for not doing
things Willis' (and evidently Emerling's) way.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> LNC members interviewed
Marrou for several hours asking him detailed questions and found that he was
experiencing some financial difficulties and that there may have been some
misunderstanding about use of a credit card but nothing to justify dropping him
as the Presidential candidate. However, Emerling kept attacking Marrou,
even sharing his accusations with anti-party groups like the Republican Liberty
Caucus, to the extent that even Steve Givot was called him an "enemy of
the party." This attempt to unseat the Presidential candidate because he
would not do it "their way" is typical of the Willis/Emerling-Cloud
modus operandi that would continue through the years. </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#Marrou"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See April 1992 Chair report and e-mails</span></i></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. See also </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/BCI/CloudTrashesMarrou.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">San Francisco Chronicle</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="CLM"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1992-93: "COMMITTEE FOR LIBERTARIAN MAJORITY" ATTEMPTS
TO IMPOSE STRATEGY</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> The
Committee for a Libertarian Majority ("CLM") was formed in 1992 by a
number of LNC members, including (circa 2002) current LNC member Steve Givot
and current staffers Ron Crickenberger and Steve Dasbach. It met secretly
in Atlanta in early December, 1992, one week before the December 1992 LNC
Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. It adopted a detailed Mission Statement and plan
which it "sprung" on the National Committee and passed with little
discussion. Much of the content was non-controversial, but the call for
eliminating the membership certification and turning the platform in to a
vague, short term program sparked controversy.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">
However, the 1993 National Convention squashed the Committee for a Libertarian
Majority's plans; the group dissolved soon after. A </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/dumpgivot.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">"Dump Givot" campaign</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> resulted in Steve Givot being defeated in
his bid to be voted back on the LNC. However, other LNC members were
re-elected, including Steve Dasbach as Chair of the party. In 1998
Platform Committee member Givot convinced the committee to consider a
streamlined platform that deleted references to abolishing significant laws and
agencies. His efforts resulted in some minor streamlining that
effectively prevented the Convention from making some important updatess.
It annoyed me so much that I ran against him for Secretary--he beat me by only
37 votes on the second ballot. </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#CLM"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See CLM Goals, Strategies, Bylaws Changes and
relevant E-mail Debates</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Cisewski1"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1993: STEVE DASBACH REPLACES GENE CISEWSKI WITH PERRY WILLIS AS
NATIONAL DIRECTOR</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In the September of
1993 new LNC Chair Steve Dasbach selected experienced activist Gene Cisewski to
be the new National Director. Dasbach hired Arizona resident Perry Willis
as temporary Interim Director while Cisewski wrapped up his affairs in
Wisconsin. As John Famularo documents on his timeline web page, Cisewski
was on the job barely a month when Dasbach fired him </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/BCI/SDfiresGene.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">by memo</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> and hired Perry
Willis--who had just finished moving all his personal possessions and his
girlfriend to DC. While a </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/BCI/BWantGene.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Bill Winter memo</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> painted a sorry picture of Gene's efforts, many believe
Dasbach and/or Willis were intent on making Willis National Director, no matter
what Cisewski's qualifications. See </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/BCI/PWjobrequest.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Perry's summary</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> of
his views on this, a defacto resume promoting his own candidacy. (When
Willis resigned several years later it was discovered Dasbach had signed a
secret contract with him assuring him severance pay and moving expenses even if
he resigned.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> This incident sparked
an ongoing rivalry between Gene Cisewski and the "partyarch's."
Cisewski went on to form the Liberty Council Political Action Committee, work
for several high profile campaigns, become chair of the Libertarian Party of
DC, as well as Coordinator of an active and semi-independent Council of State
Chairs. He twice ran energetic campaigns for LNC Chair, against Steve
Dasbach and then David Bergland.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Conflicts"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1994-2000: LNC/STAFF FAVORITISM/CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS REGARDING
PRESIDENTIAL AND PARTY OFFICE CANDIDATES</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Individuals as varied
as Rick Thompkins, Richard Cowan, Gene Cisewski, and Jacob Hornberger have
charged that LNC, and especially staff members, made it clear to them in
various subtle, and not so subtle, ways that their competing with favored
candidates was not welcome. This is a thread running through several of
the incidents described below. Jacob Hornberger has a number of web page
articles about this and related controversies at </span><a href="http://www.jacobghornberger.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.jacobghornberger.com/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Harry Browne has finally replied to these and other charges
in his own </span><a href="http://www.harrybrowne.org/2000/Controversy.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">"Controversy" page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. Hornberger also </span><a href="http://www.jacobghornberger.com/ethics1.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">replies</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> to Browne.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In summer of 1994
Richard Cowan of NORML, tax protester Irwin Schiff and Harry Browne announced
they would be seeking the 1996 Libertarian Party presidential nomination.
Rick Tompkins announced the next spring. (Browne seems to have been brought in
by the discredited Michael Emerling Cloud, who kept a low profile on his
involvement before turning the campaign over to LNC member Sharon Ayres.
He came back in as a fundraiser later in the campaign.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Some alleged prejudice
against non-favored candidates. Richard Cowan quit, claiming Willis'
attitude made him feel he would not get fair treatment. Tompkins alleged
the national office seriously delayed sending him delegate labels. But
favoritism towards Harry Browne was the main complaint. First, Perry
Willis proposed the national office provide services for pre-nomination
campaigns and immediately arranged at least two receptions for Harry
Browne. Steve Dasbach allowed Perry Willis and Communications Director
Bill Winter to do paid work for Harry Browne. When the LNC moved that
such work could be done only with the LNC's approval, Willis started doing so
secretly since he felt he would be forced to chose between working for Browne
or the party. (More </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Willis"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">details</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> of this incident below.) </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/BCI/timeline.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Complete time-line at John Famularo's web page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In the spring of 1998
Jacob Hornberger proposed that the 1998 LP Convention pass a new bylaw that
would prohibit Libertarian Party candidates paying cash or gifts, both before
and after nomination, to members of the Libertarian Party National Committee,
the national Libertarian Party staff or their close relatives for consulting,
advising, fundraising, managing, etc. any national presidential political
campaign. Ken Bisson, Chair of the By-Laws Committee, led the
charge against the amendment. The Convention did not pass the bylaw amendment;
members believed that disclosures of conflicts of interest was sufficient to
prevent problems. See Hornberger's </span><a href="http://www.jacobghornberger.com/bylaws.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Great Bylaws Debate</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> page as well as further details </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Ethics"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">below</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> According to
Famularo's web page, staffers also tried to influence the election of party
officers. Before the 1996 National Convention national staffers Perry Willis
and Bill Winter, counter to the Policy Manual, circulated a statement that they
would quit if Gene Cisewski was elected Chair of the national party.
After member complaints about this, staffers were more circumspect in opposed
Cisewski in 1998. Staffers Kris Williams and Dan Smith distributed Bergland
for Chair literature and trashed Cisewski to delegates, claiming, among other
things, that he would fire all the current staffers if elected, something which
would disrupt operations. In 1998 one staff member trashed Cisewski
to me personally and recommended I vote for David Bergland. However, as
soon as I announced for Secretary, staff members refused to discuss anything
about the races with me, claiming that it would be a "conflict of
interest"! Bergland won and made Steve Dasbach his new National
Director.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In March of
1999 LNC Treasurer Mark Tuniewicz reported on LPUS he had gotten reports that
an unnamed presidential candidate (assumedly Browne or his operatives) was
trying to get state chairs to "put unusual restrictions on who they will
allow to speak as presidential hopefuls at their state conventions." </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#Favoritism"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See the e-mail, plus a list of other complaints</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. Later that year LNC member Ken Bisson
proposed that no presidential candidate be listed on the LP web site unless
they paid $2,000 to the Libertarian Party; the proposal was not passed.
In 1999 some members also complained that the national office was using Harry
Browne's 1996 campaign book as a premium for contributions made to the LP. They
felt it promoted Browne, who everyone assumed was certain to run for the year
2000 nomination.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Jacob
Hornberger, who announced in April of 1999 that he was forming an exploratory
committee to run for President in 2000, began making the same claim.
Harry Browne stated he did not receive any money from the sale of the
book. On May 28, 1999 Chair David Bergland ruled: "The use of Harry
Browne's book as a premium for contributions, whether for Archimedes mailings
or otherwise, is completely proper until such time that Harry Browne announces
that he is seeking the Party's nomination as its presidential candidate.
The National Director [Steve Dasbach] is authorized to exercise his judgment on
whether or not to use the book for that purpose and in what manner."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Two weeks
later, Hornberger abandoned his exploratory committee sighting
"irreconcilable conflicts of interest between his duties as President of
the Future Freedom Foundation, and those of being a political
candidate." Some believe Hornberger genuinely felt that the cards
were stacked against him and running was a waste of time.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Harry
Browne did not formally announce until February of 2000, during which time the
LP staff was free to continue distributing his book to new contributors.
Don Gorman ran against Browne, as did Jacob Hornberger who inexplicably revived
his presidential campaign a few days before the 2000 convention.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> One allegation of
LNC-related interference with Browne competitors is that Massachusetts Chair
Elias Israel, who became an LNC reprsentative in spring of 2000, announced at
the the December 1999 LNC meeting that he opposed putting libertarians who
didn't meet certain criteria running against Harry Browne in the Massachusetts
primary--a privilege granted to him by the State of Massachusetts. One
criteria, which he exercised against Don Gorman, was that they had to be
national party members, which Gorman was not. Even though Gorman quickly
joined the national party, and was assured by Massachusetts activists he would
be put on the ballot, he did not end up on the ballot. (</span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#Favoritism"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">December 1999 LNC Mintues and two recent e-mails</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> shed light on this story.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> As we shall see
in the </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/newlibertarians.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">New Libertarians</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> section, many feel some LNC members and
staff members (especially LPNEWS, in its articles and advertising polilcy, have
been promoting Carla Howell as the 2004 candidate ever since the year 2000
convention and election. In December, 2001 the LNC formalized the Duties
of the Political Director to include preferential treatment of state candidates
with pre-nomination aid "with the express written permission of the state
chair." Needlesstosay, many worry this will give the LNC and
national staffers power to reward cronies and punish critics. (</span><a href="http://archive.lp.org/lnc/lnc20011208.min.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See LNC draft minutes</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Ethics"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">DIRTY TRICKS AND THE ETHICS AMENDMENT</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> The 1998
Libertarian Party Convention rejected Jacob Hornberger's new bylaw that would
prohibit Libertarian Party candidates paying cash or gifts, both before and
after nomination, to members of the Libertarian Party National Committee, the
national Libertarian Party staff or their close relatives for any national
presidential political campaign work. However, Hornberger for an LNC
Policy Manual amendment that would submit the LNC to the same ethical
constraints that the LNC had imposed on its subordinates.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In an April
2001 </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#Ethics"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">e-mail</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Hornberger discusses not only the personal attacks on him
for filing his request for an amendment to the LNC Policy Manual, but what
seems to have been a dirty trick pulled on him. Sometime after the 1998
national LP convention, LNC Alternate Barbara Goushaw approached Hornberger and
said she might consider supporting him over Harry Browne as the year 2000
Presidential candidate. Goushaw later arranged a speech during his visit
to Michigan. In both cases, he reminded her of his position on LNC neutrality
in pre-nomination races. Nevertheless, in 1999, after Hornberger announced
the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, Goushaw sent him a $600
check. He promptly returned her <i>original check</i> for $600
to her.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Nevertheless, as part
of her LNC Campaign Finance Disclosure Statement, Goushaw claimed receiving
"payments totaling $600.00 from the following LP candidates, their staff,
organizations, or campaign-related third-party entities: Jacob Hornberger for
President." Steve Givot, who Hornberger claims is the "most
vociferous opponent of the Ethics Amendment and of the Request for Financial
Disclosure," was quick to jump on Hornberger, writing in a critical
e-mail: "As a presidential nomination contender, Mr. Hornberger hired LNC
member Barbara Goushaw and paid her $600 to work for his campaign to win the LP
presidential nomination. That also violates the ethical standards that Mr.
Hornberger publicly embraces."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Hornberger
discusses the effect of such obvious tricks and intimidation tactics:
"There are of course some people whose integrity is impeccable serving on
the LNC. What are the chances that they would call for a censor of Goushaw and
Givot for their deceitful and malicious misconduct against a member of the
Libertarian Party? None, because the good and honest people on the LNC are
terrified that Goushaw and Givot (and others like them on the LNC) will do this
sort of thing to them!"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In another </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#Ethics"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">e-mail</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">, Hornberger claims that his Amendment <i>was</i> discussed
at the </span><a href="http://archive.lp.org/lnc/lnc20010421.min.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">April 21, 2001 LNC Meeting</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> in Washington, DC. However,
the <i>still </i>Draft Minutes on the site, done by Secretary Steve
Givot, of course, make no mention of this. Hornberger wrote: "My
sources on the LNC advise me that for some reason, LNC Secretary Steven I.
Givot intends to delay for several weeks the posting of the minutes of this
particular meeting on the LNC meeting archive web site:
http://archive.lp.org/lnc However, this is a run-down of what I think took
place, based on what I have learned from reliable sources. 1. The LNC chose not
to take any vote on the Ethics Amendment, which means, of course, that no one
can determine where individual LNC members publicly stand on the issue.
However, a reliable source on the LNC advised me that there were three LNC
members who were fiercely leading the fight against the Ethics Amendment behind
the scenes before the meeting: Steve Givot, Colorado, who is current LNC
Secretary; Ken Bisson, Indiana, who reputedly wants to be LNC
Vice-Chairman in 2002; and Elias Israel, Massachusetts, who reputedly wants to
be LNC National Chairman in 2002."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Arizona"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1995-2000: LNC INTERFERENCE IN ARIZONA DISPUTE</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In the
early 1990s the Arizona Libertarian Party ("LPAZ") experienced deep
divisions. One faction, led by Peter Schmerl and Michael Emerling Cloud
supported taking government campaign funds and backed Harry Browne.
Another, more "hard-core" faction opposed taking such funds and
backed Rick Tompkins.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Opponents
charge the Schmerl/Cloud faction first tried to take over the Arizona party in
1995 by taking advantage of the fact the LPAZ had long acted outside of
compliance with Arizona law on electing party officers. He and his allies
formed a party that would comply with these laws, Arizona Libertarian Party,
Inc. ("ALP, Inc."). As soon as Schmerl's party got it's
official state file number and statement of organization, he wrote to the
LPAZ's bank on his attorney letter head and asked them to turn the money over
to him, effectively embezzling it. The LPAZ raised hell, got their money
back--but was too kind hearted to charge him with embezzlment or complain to
the Arizona Bar Association. (Which many of them later regretted.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Schmerl then
proposed "reconciliation" at the next LPAZ convention. But he
tried to pack the convention by using disputed proxies and by registering
Republicans as libertarians . When this attempted takeover failed,
Schmerl launched law suit after law suit demanding the state of Arizona stop recognizing
LPAZ because it was out of compliance with the law.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> While the
LNC originally supported LPAZ, Schmerl and Cloud's cronies on the LNC continued
lobbying for the LNC to disaffiliate LPAZ and designate the ALP, Inc. the
affiliate party. Eventually they accomplished this in 1999 through an LNC
decision that a mail ballot of national members would decide which state to
affiliate. However, because LPAZ did not join the Unified Membership Plan
("UMP"), many of its members were not members of national.
Moreover, there are charges that Schmerl enrolled a number of non-libertarian
Republicans in the party for the purpose of voting for ALP, Inc. The
Schmerl faction and ALP, Inc. won the mail ballot. Disgusted by these
voting irregularities and the LNC, the LPAZ decided not to appeal to the
Judiciary Committee.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> George Phillies in his
book F</span><a href="http://www.cmlc.org/cmlc/funding.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">unding Liberty</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> points out that the LP bylaws specific parties can only be
disaffiliated "for cause." A break off faction declaring it is
the "real" party is hardly sufficient cause and the LNC may have
encouraged more such splits in the future through its actions.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Nevertheless, a
lower court found in favor of LPAZ as the official party, which gave it the
right to choose the year 2000 Presidential candidate. The LPAZ offered to
make Harry Browne their candidate, contingent upon receiving an apology from
the LNC. The LNC refused and instead spent $130,000 trying to get Harry
Browne on the ballot, even though they petitioned after the deadline.
They hoped an Arizona court would support their effort, but the court refused
to do so. Harry Browne was not on the ballot in Arizona in 2000.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> The ALP, Inc.
continued its lawsuits until the Arizona Supreme Court agreed that the LPAZ's
failure to follow state law invalidated its claim. That left ALP, Inc.
free to try to gain ballot status as the recognized affiliate, since many of
the "hard core" Arizona libertarians do not want to dance to the state's
tune. Dozens of activists left the party over this and new activists
suffer from the continuing division. </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#Arizona"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See links to LNC meeting decisions, chronologies
of Schmerl embezzlement and other acts, statements from LNC and LPAZ members
and part of the Appeal Court opinion depriving LPAZ of state recognition as the
official party, other links.</span></i></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Clark"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1995: LNC CENSURES TAMARA CLARK</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">
Tamara Clark, a two-time state chair and former LNC member, had been an
extremely effective and high profile libertarian candidate in Nevada.
Clark had received some financial aid from the LNC in 1994 for two Nevada
campaigns, both of which she had to suspend due to major party interference and
personal problems. When she moved to Arizona she ended up on the wrong
side of the Arizona schism. (She served as State Chair in both states.) The
Schmerl cronies on the LNC demanded Clark give a detailed accounting of the
money. She claims it had not asked this before of others who received
money. Clark refused, explaining that some of her vendors were doing business
without a license and she feared the AZP, Inc. faction, which had snitched to
the state of Arizona on LPAZ libertarian's refusal to obey state law, would
similarly snitch on her vendors. At the April, 1995 LNC voted to censure
Clark for this failure to report. </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#Clark"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See Clark's side of the story</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Cisewski2"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">1998-2000: LAWSUIT AGAINST GENE CISEWSKI</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Gene Cisewski
challenged the "partyarchs" in his races for Chair in 1996 and 1998.
During 1997 and 1998 he also did a number of mailings in his work for the high
profile Murray Sabrin and Steve Kubby campaigns and for the Liberty
Council. He was one of the few people who seriously challenged the
Cloud/Willis campaign and fundraising machine.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> After Cisewski
lost the July 1998 Chair race, LP staffers charged he had made unauthorized use
of Libertarian Party data bases which he previously had rented. The
listing of evidence of unapproved uses in the attorney's chronology is not very
impressive. (That the final out-of-court settlement included large penalties
should Cisewski publicly challenge the validity of the "evidence,"
leads one to further suspect the evidence. Moreover, it did not forbid
him from renting LP state mailing lists, which usually include all of the
national party members.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In mid-November a party
representative informed Cisweski of the "circumstantial
evidence." He replied, claiming the problem was "either due to
the LNC's incompetence in maintaining its 'seeds' or fabricated for political
reasons," according to the LNC's attorney's chronology. A few days
later </span><a href="http://archive.lp.org/lnc/lnc981212.min.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">the Libertarian National Committee voted</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> unanimously to pursue legal action against
him. Cisewski's failure to respond adequately did not help his case and
gave the party an excuse to refuse to engage in binding arbitration when he
requested it.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In early 2000 Cisewski settled out
of court for $1,000 immediately and $10,000 after five years. The lawsuit cost
the Libertarian Party $48,000 in attorney's fees and, doubtless, a number of
disgusted member failures to renews. Many people still think this was a
trumped up case, or over-reaction to a Cisewski staffer's error and that the
partyarchs took advantage of this to try to destroy a challenger.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> While Cisewski did take
a break from the party, as of April 2002 he was actively working on the Ed
Thompson for Governor campaign in Wisconsin and had just been elected to the
Iron County, Wisconsin, Board of Supervisors after defeating a 4-term incumbent
by capturing more than 60% of the vote. </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html#Lawsuit"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See the LNC attorney's listing of facts and the
final settlement agreement.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Hype"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2000: SIX YEARS OF CLOUD-WILLIS-BROWNE FUNDRAISING HYPE CAUSE
CYNICISM</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> A number of members
have complained that the Cloud-Willis-Browne modus operandi over six years of
fundraising consisted of big and exciting promises which raised large amounts
of money that paid campaign staffers generously, without producing anything
like the promised results. Former big contributor Mike Nixson listed a number
of such examples in a </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/BCI/nixonLTR.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">1997 letter</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">March 1995: "Our Plan to force Clinton to
demand LP inclusion in the 1996 TV debates"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">May 1995: "Our plan to get 5% of the
primary vote in New Hampshire. $270,000 in TV ads"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">July 1995: "Our plan to use the City Vote
to achieve national publicity"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Sept 1995: " Our plan to distribute 6
million flyers to City Vote voters"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">October 1995: "Our plan to get Harry
Browne's book on the New York Times best seller list"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Feb 1996: "Our plan to produce a
professional and powerful National TV ad and recruit 100's of CEOs"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">March 1996: "Our plan to get into the 1996
TV debates" by convincing the Federal Debate Commission (to let Harry
Debate)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">June 1996: "Our plan to get double digits
in national election polls"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">August 1996: "Our new plan to get into the
TV debates using talk show endorsements and radio ads"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">October 1996: "Our plan to
"saturate" CNN with TV ads and to produce a professional 30 minute
video or TV ad placement"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">
Particularly criticized was the </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html#Hype"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Browne Campaign's April 2000 announcement</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> it had suspended its campaign for
financial reasons--which it blamed on </span><a href="http://www.jacobghornberger.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Jacob Hornberger</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">'s criticisms, including in letters to Browne contributors.
However, money poured in and Browne re-started his campaign.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Many
libertarians bought the excuses for the Browne campaign's failure to deliver on
promises of publicity, network television commercials and high vote totals in
1996. (Like many people who supported Browne, I was not happy with this
pattern, but still found him a good candidate in many respects. Also, the
fact that he continues to speak out strongly for military non-intervention even
after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks indicates to me that he is
willing to take principled positions even if it may loose him some following and
cost him financially.) Browne continued the same pattern during the year
2000 race and got even fewer votes than in 1996. Some claim this pattern
of hype is a large part of the cause of the drop off in Libertarian Party
membership since the year 2000 election. Longtime activist George
Phillies was so disgusted he wrote a whole book called </span><a href="http://www.cmlc.org/cmlc/funding.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Funding Liberty</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html#Hype"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See a cynical analysis of Cloud/Willis/Browne
motives</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. </span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Harry Browne also replies to these charges on
his </span><a href="http://www.harrybrowne.org/2000/Controversy.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">"Controversy" page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="TUNIWICZ"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2001: RESIGNATION OF LNC TREASURER MARK TUNIEWICZ</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In
March, 2001 two term LNC Treasurer Mark A. Tuniewicz resigned effective April
21, 2001, the date of the upcoming LNC meeting. He also revoked his
membership certification ("the pledge") and canceled his life
membership in the Libertarian Party. His doing so forced the National
Committee to accept his resignation since the Libertarian Party Bylaws require
that officers must be members of the party.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">
Tuniewicz promised to give an official explanation, but never did
so. He did around that time send an e-mail to LPUS
complaining about the staff's consistent refusal to give him timely financial
reports. This despite new LNC chair Jim Lark's loosening the restrictions
David Bergland had placed on Tuniewicz' "interfacing directly with
the staff and/or the accountants and/or the FEC consultants," as John
Famularo put it, Another National Committee member
speculated Tuniewicz worried that the Internal Revenue Service might soon
find irregularities in LP reporting for which Tuniewicz would be legally
responsible if he remained Treasurer. However, in September, 2002, when
National Director Steve Dasbach gave his resignation after new Chair Geoff
Neale and re-motivated Treasurer Deryl Martin discovered definitive financial
irregularities, Tuniewicz sent another post reminding everyone: "In April
of 2001, I expressed grave concerns to the National Director and the LNC over
financial reporting issues. Much of the reports I'd been requesting had
to do with accounts receivable, which from the recent minutes I see have not
been properly booked & reported since after I left. The national
director's lengthy response cited his lack of awareness that a problem
existed." </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html#Resignation"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See relevant e-mails from Tuniewicz, Famularo,
Lark and others.</span></i></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Willis"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2001: WILLIS ADMITS LYING TO LNC ABOUT BROWNE WORK IN 1995-96</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Jacob
Hornberger and others continued to hammer away at Willis-Browne conflicts of
interest based on the evidence revealed 1995-96. Given no new evidence,
most people (including myself) felt it was a closed issue. However, even
as the LNC debated in the fall of 2000 and early 2001 whether to join on to
Harry Browne's new effort, </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/RealCampaignReform.org"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">RealCampaignReform.org</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">, a lobbying effort and law suit to abolish the
Federal Election Commission, questions continued about the campaign's poor
performance and whether this lawsuit was just another fundraising
venture. (See Jacob Hornberger's </span><a href="http://www.jacobghornberger.com/caper.asp"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">The Great FEC Fundraising Caper</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> and Browne's </span><a href="http://www.harrybrowne.org/2000/Controversy.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Controversy page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> That debate
became irrelevant, however, when John Famularo distributed to the April, 2001
LNC meeting a copy of a February, 1996 invoice Perry Willis had sent Browne
friend Jack Dean for work done on fundraising letters for the Harry Browne
campaign. Willis sent it to Dean so the LNC would not discover he was working
for Browne behind the LNC's back. (Famularo found the invoice on LP
computer files he had access to during work for the party, as he explains in an
e-mail. He held it back in part because it was evidence that Willis and
Browne had committed felonies, including conspiracy, in causing the Browne
Campaign and Libertarian National Committee to file false campaign and IRS
reports.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Surprisingly, a
month later Perry Willis issued a 20-page "</span><a href="http://www.lp2000.com/BCI/PWconfess.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">confession</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">"
admitting that he conspired with the Brown campaign to work for it secretly and
claiming he did it for the good of the Libertarian Party. Harry
Browne admitted in a private an e-mail to former Chair Mary Gingell
knowing and approving of Willis' actions.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> The Libertarian
National Committee launched an investigation, despite the best efforts of LNC
members Ken Bisson and Elias Israel to hamper its effectiveness. (Draft minutes
of the meeting went up on the </span><a href="http://archive.lp.org/lnc/minutes.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">LNC minutes web page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> only in mid-February 2002.) In an unofficial report,
LNC member Joe Dehn revealed soon after the meeting they included:
"censuring Perry Willis for doing this work and for denying it;
prohibiting employment of or contracting with Willis or organizations
controlled by him for five years; requiring that other organizations with which
Willis is associated be treated as external organizations when renting the
mailing list or advertising in LP News; declaring the matter closed unless
additional evidence is presented; admonishing Harry Browne and Jack Dean for
their participation; calling on Browne, Sharon Ayres, David Bergland, Michael
Cloud, and Jack Dean to denounce Willis' violation of policy; rescinding the
approval for LNC participation in Browne's proposed lawsuit against the FEC
censure Perry Willis; limiting his ability to use the LP mailing list and
LPNEWS advertising."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> As I detail
on the </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/controversies.html#Willis"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">New Libertarians page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">, Elias Israel derided the investigatory efforts
and opposed strong sanctions against Willis, Browne and their associates.
As reported in <i>Liberty Magazine</i>, Michael Cloud refused to cooperate
with the investigation and characterized the affair as a petty inquisition and
"star chamber proceedings."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> See full </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/bradford.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">R.W. Bradford timeline and report</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> and </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/BCI/timeline.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">John Famularo's Timeline web site</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> for full details. </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html#Willis"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See Gingell-Browne exchange, Famularo's
explanation for delaying release of the incriminating document, Joe Dehn's
understanding of the decision reached, and comments of Steve Kubby</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. Harry Browne includes comments on this
incident in his </span><a href="http://www.harrybrowne.org/2000/Controversy.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">"Controversy" page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Hawks"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">2001: PRO-INTERVENTION AND PRO-STATE OF ISRAEL HAWKS DOMINATE LNC</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> At the August of
2001 LNC meeting in Las Vegas, two LNC members put forth a resolution that
given escalating conflict in Middle East nations, the LNC should reiterate the
Libertarian Party's position that military aid and troops should be withdrawn
from the region. (One of them had asked me to write it, per debates on the LPUS
discussion list.) LNC member Elias Israel charged that the proposal seemed to
him to be "anti-Jewish" and he was "a little
offended." Member Ben Scherry stated he disagreed with the
LP's non-interventionist position and that the United States had a duty to
protect Israel which would be destroyed without America's help. After
these heavy intimidation tactics, the resolution gained only 3 votes out of 18
members. (See Georgianna Geyer's article "</span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/newlibertarians.html#Geyer"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Pro-Israeli, Anti-Arab Campaigns Could Isolate
America</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.")</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> At the October 14th LNC
meeting Elias Israel, touting the support of Ken Bisson, proposed (even as he
assured members he wouldn't "force" it on them) that the LNC support
the U.S. government taking "forceful action against terrorists." The
resolution passed with no "no" votes and only one abstention.
It included the controversial statements: "Such criminals must be rooted
out and destroyed before more innocent people die. Their training camps and
weapons must be eliminated. Their supply infrastructure must be shattered."
It also noted: "Every precaution must be taken to minimize injury or death
to innocent civilians and non-combatants -- in Afghanistan and in other
nations."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> This statement
obviously supports the U.S. government bombing any part of any nation where
those suspected of terrorist connections or intent are living, working or
passing through--and without a Constitutional declaration of war, which our
platform clearly calls for. Many libertarians felt that the resolution,
and some related press releases and other statements from the national office,
violate the Libertarian Party Principles and Platform by supporting an
unconstitutional war, undermining our claim to be a principled
non-interventionist party. Angry libertarians immediately formed two
different list serves which quickly merged into Libertarians for Peace.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> At the December 2001
meeting longtime LNC member Joe Dehn proposed a non-intervention
resolution. The hawks voted this one down as well with 9 "no"
votes. This time there were three "yes" and five abstain
votes. For full details of the relevant resolutions and notes and quotes
from the LNC debates go to the </span><a href="http://www.secession.net/LIBS4PEACE/articles.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">articles section of the Libertarians for Peace</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> web site. See also Carol Moore's
article on </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/mideastissuesandemotions.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Middle East Issues and Emotions</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Party's main outreach leaftet--the "New Political Party" leaflet--is
typical of the misleading and amateurish quality of too much of what comes out
of the national office. (One wonders how many people are surprised to learn
what seems to be a "new political party" is 30 years old!) I am sure
everyone has their favorite embarrassing national party story, be it something
at a national convention or seen in a mailing, LPNEWS or a press release read
over the Internet. I personally remember the minor controversy at the 1998
Convention where well known anti-Semite Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby had both a
table and a full page advertisement for their often lurid publication <i>The
Spotlight</i> in the convention's official handbook. Staffers
explained it was their "free speech right."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> National
staffers must embarrass celebrities who join the party with the front page
stories in LPNEWS their photos splashed on the fold over address
page. Some high profile members even find their photographs have been
used on the envelopes of LP fundraising letters! I still cringe when I
think of the photo of African-American activist Roy Innis dancing across the
front of one envelope.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Staffers also
seemed to be totally politically obtuse when they gave front page coverage to
Jewish Defense League ("JDL") head Irv Rubin joining the party in
2000. Savvy political activists know that JDL members had been imprisoned
for bombings in the 1970s and linked to bombings and even murder, including in
Rubin's home town Los Angeles, in the 1980s; one member committed mass murder
of Palestinians at a Mosque in Israel in 1994. A simple Internet search
would have revealed these facts. As well as JDL's statement on its </span><a href="http://www.jdl.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">web page</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">: "JDL upholds the principle of Barzel --
iron -- the need to both move to help Jews everywhere and to change the Jewish
image through sacrifice and all necessary means -- even strength, force and
violence." Well-known writers Justin Raimondo and Lew Rockwell immediately
excoriated the LP for boasting about Rubin's membership.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In summer of
2001, when Rubin started talking about running for Congress or California
Governor as a libertarian, several libertarians raised a ruckus, despite
accusations of anti-Semitism by a couple of California libertarians. I
myself put up an </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/sfm/jdl.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Irv Rubin/JDL "expose"</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> web page linked to my larger article on
leftist activist violence titled </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/streetfightingman.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">The Return of Street Fighting Man</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> It is unknown if
these critiques influenced Rubin's decision on running for office.
However, it looks like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks may have
convinced him to turn (or return) to terrorism. In December, 2001 the FBI
arrested Rubin and Earl Leslie Krugel on charges of planning to bomb the King
Fahd Mosque in Culver City, CA and the field office of Congressional
Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA). Allegedly an informant who became
alarmed at the plans alerted the FBI who taped conversations about such
plans. Rubin and Krugel were indicted in January 2002 and charged with
conspiracy, conspiracy to use a destructive device, attempted arson, attempted
arson of a United States government facility, possession of a destructive
device in furtherance of a crime of violence and solicitation to commit a crime
of violence. If convicted both face life in prison. Rubin claims he was
"set up" but the national staff has not come to his defense.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Finally, in writing and
distributing press releases, the national Libertarian Party seems to adhere to
the philosophy that if you can't make news, you can at least make jokes.
The titles of some of its more infamous joke press releases include: "Five
good reasons why Saddam Hussein should have been Speaker of the House,"
"Libertarians urge: Pull the plug on silly Alabama law that bans
vibrators," "News from the future: Jenna Bush launches another
airstrike on Iraq," "Gin-Soaked Jenna Bush. Her problem is not the
boozing; it's a power-drunk federal government," "Why we should say
'Cell No!' to new laws banning cell phone use in cars," and
"Government should end its jihad against Indian sports team names."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Of course, the subject
matter of some are verge on the offensive, such as: "Why rapists will love
the anti-gun agenda of Sunday's Million Mom March,"
"Bureaucrats' outrageous new claim: Higher beer taxes prevent
gonorrhea," and "Proposed law in Mississippi would (ahem) get a grip
on public priapism." <i>[Note: priapism means male sexual
erection] </i>The emphasis on sex jokes make the press releases sometimes
quite puerile! Can the press take seriously any organization that issues
such press releases?</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> After the September 11,
2001 attacks, but before the October 14 pro-war resolution, Libertarian Party
press releases were sensible and <i>libertarian</i>. One was titled
"Frightening numbers: 49% in new survey support 'special IDs' for
Arab-Americans." After the October 14th National Committee
pro-war resolution some press releases began to parrot President Bush's blatant
pandering to patriotism and fear--and went further, even displaying blatant
anti-Arab sentiment. Titles include: "Let's cut off tax funding for
colleges that prohibit showing the American flag," "Repeal gun
control laws that leave us defenseless against evil terrorists," "Why
did police arrest 734,498 pot-smokers, instead of tracking murderous
terrorists?", "Unbelievable: EEOC forces airport security to hire
foreign Arabs from terrorist nations." (Could staff have been trying
to please pro-state of Israel hawk and Chair "front runner" Elias
Israel?) </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html#Political"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See particularly obnoxious excerpts from some of
these press releases</span></i></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">. Or
go to the </span><a href="http://www.lp.org/press/archive_index.php"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">LP's national press release list</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In April and May 2002
the LP sent out two press releases ostensibly calling for the US to withdraw
from the middle east and for the US to end the war on terrorism. However,
these points were made only after six or seven paragraphs of veritable rants
about terrorism in Israel! (See </span><a href="http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=574"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">April 4</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> and </span><a href="http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=578"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">May 1</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> releases.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> In contrast, see
the </span><a href="http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=255"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">solid press release</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> the Libertarian Party put out after the
1998 national Convention passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of
Bill Clinton. (Those who proposed the resolution told me my call for such
action during my Secretary nomination speech before the 1998 Convention
inspired them.) Since the LP was the first party to call for Clinton's
impeachment, it actually made news and received concomitant national publicity.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="StrategicPlan"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">CONCERNS THE "STRATEGIC PLAN" IS BEING USED AS A
"NEW LIBERTARIAN" POWER PLAY</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Strategic planning
to set goals and plan strategies and tactics to achieve them is a necessary
part of any organizations functioning. The Libertarian National Committee
has engaged in such short term planning over the years. However, one must
wonder if the "Strategic Plan" initiated in early 2001 and approved
at the December, 2001 LNC meeting is merely another "</span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation1.html#CLM"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Committee for a Libertarian Majority</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">"--like attempt by Steve Givot, Michael
Cloud, Elias Israel and their allies to gut the Libertarian Party platform and
to pass Bylaws that might entrench their personal control of a
majoritarian-oriented party.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> The Strategic
Planning process was initiated by Steve Givot who also facilitated the series
of meetings. Needlesstosay, many people doubted his ability to be a
neutral facilitator. </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/newlibertarians.html#Israel2"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Elias Israel's repeated appeals</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> for closed Strategic Planning Committee
meetings, which members would be barred from witnessing, caused
controversy. The first meeting was conducted secretly but outcry from
members ensured the rest were open. </span><a href="http://www.dehnbase.org/lpus/library/spt/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See the final Strategic Plan report.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Even if Steve
Givot was a neutral facilitator during the Strategic Planning process, there is
no doubt that now that it is over it is back to "politics as usual"
for Givot. A few weeks before the December LNC meeting he grilled me repeatedly
via e-mail, blind cc-ing LNC members, on whether I, as a candidate for the
Platform Committee, was willing to follow to a tee the mandate of the Strategic
Plan. At the December LNC meeting Steve Givot stated confidently
that the 2002 Convention could suspend the rules and adopt some or all of the
new platform he envisions. And he twice talked about the need for a Bylaw
to allow the LNC to expel people from the national party. This makes one
wonder just how Givot and friends intend to enforce the most controversial
aspects of the Strategic Plan.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> The Strategic
Plan's final six goals themselves are non-controversial. However, several
strategies have potential for great mischief if they are used by factions in a
controlling way to downplay principles or discourage activism:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">#3: If "redevelop the LP platform,
presenting both direction and destination" means deleting references to
the laws, taxes and programs we would repeal and stressing interim positions,
it could demoralize principled libertarians, especially if those who want to
run campaigns on more radical platforms are discouraged from doing so.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">#5: "Codifying" relationships
between the national and state parties could become divisive if it means a
contract forcing states to accept a Presidential candidate who they believe did
not live up to libertarian standards; such a contract could attract well
financed quasi-libertarian candidates who know they only have to win the
biggest states and the rest would be forced to accept the candidate.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">#8: "Target races and allocate
resources for maximum effectiveness" and "coordinate campaign
activities within and among campaign levels" could have a demoralizing
affect if the national staff uses its money and power to convince state parties
to accept national's preferred candidates, despite any contrary desire of local
activists. The LP will never raise funds like the Demopublicans and <i>need</i> our
grass roots activists.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">#18: "Focus resources to achieve the repeal
of drug prohibition" could become a problem if it was done more on
the bidding of well-heeled drug legalization contributors than LP members or if
too many members or potential candidates become annoyed by the focus on that
issue </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html#Strategic"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">See related e-mails</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">;</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">#19: "Develop an awareness that political
success requires adequate resources of all sorts" could become a problem
if it means that members or candidates with money use it as an excuse to
disrespect the efforts of those who contribute substantial time and energy.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> LNC At-Large
member Lois Kaneshiki, in an article entitled </span><a href="http://lp2000.com/LMK01/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">The LNC’s Strategic Plan
-- What Went Wrong</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">, criticizes the
process. She believes the LNC exceeded its authority in coming up with a plan
to change the platform and bylaws -- a criticism also made of Committee for a
Libertarian Majority. She believes the LNC wasted "$93,000 and six
and a half weekends spent in hotel rooms" to come with a plan that is
basically a “'let’s do more' version of what is already being done."
She believes the LP has not "decided if we want to recruit members, sell
our philosophy, or get Libertarians in office. It is not at all obvious that we
can do each of these things at the same time, or that we should continue to
try."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> While I myself do
not agree with Ms. Kaneshiki's strategic emphasis, I do think it is important
to explore more explicitly the </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/strategy.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">strategic alternatives</span></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">,</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> as I do. I believe these were not explored because
those promoting the process already knew what they wanted the Strategic Plan to
do: tame the platform, grow the membership, and attract monied
quasi-libertarians, in part to run the party as a cash cow for themselves
and/or their cronies.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Schmerl"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">LNC TO TURN NAME "LIBERTARIAN PARTY" OVER TO PETER
SCHMERL?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> As we have seen,
Arizona Libertarian Party, Inc. Chair Peter is quite willing to use
misrepresentation, lawsuits and cronyism to get his way. Therefore many
libertarians were suspicious when one of Schmerl's friends put forth a proposal
at the March, 2002 LNC meeting that effectively would have given Peter
Schmerl full control of the use of the name "Libertarian Party."
Called the "Resolution Granting Use of the Name Libertarian Party to The
Libertarian Party Foundation" -- the resolution read in relevant
part: <i>Libertarian National Committee, Inc. hereby grants perpetual use
of the registered trademark "Libertarian Party" to Peter G.
Schmerl, his successors and assigns, in his capacity as incorporator of the
Libertarian Party Foundation, provided such foundation is granted 501(c)(3) by
the Internal Revenue Service and so long as such status is maintained, and
provided such foundation creates and maintains bylaw provisions making the
Chairman of the LNC an automatic ex officio member of the foundation's board of
directors by virtue of his office with all the rights and privileges given
every other member of its board;</i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Given Schmerl's
propensity to use law suits to get his way, it is easy to see how he might have
interpreted this as meaning Schmerl now enjoyed possession of the name
Libertarian Party for ALL uses and not just his one approved one, as long as he
went along with other provisions. He thereby could license use of the
name for someone who wanted to set up the Libertarian Party Lobby or the
Libertarian Party PAC. And it could cost the LP tens of the thousands of
dollars to disprove this.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> At the meeting
some members argued that according to the Bylaws the party could not confer
ownership of the name on anyone for any other purpose. According to Joe
Dehn, "There seemed to be a lot of sentiment that the whole thing had been
sprung on us without sufficient preparation and without time to investigate all
of the implications -- and a particular concern that our General Counsel had
not had a chance to review the proposal -- and so there was a reluctance to
spend a lot of time debating the specifics. Points like this will have to be
debated if/when this or a similar proposal is presented again, or if the LNC
decides to come up with a general policy for "chartering" LP-related
organizations. The LNC directed the Chair to gather information relevant
to such a process and report on it at the next meeting."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Those of us who know
about the kinds of abuses described above cannot help but wonder if a
Schmerl-crony controlled LNC will go ahead and pass this resolution during one
of the two July LNC meetings. And they wonder if this is the sort of
thing we will see more of if the "New Libertarians" take power in the
party. (Note: This nefarious plan evidently was abandoned and was not brought
up at the Indianapolis meetings.) See the</span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html#Schmerl"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;"> full resolution and full Joe Dehn comments</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a name="Resignations"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">BILL WINTER AND STEVE DASBACH RESIGN</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">
Communications Direct (and LPNEWS editor) Bill Winter gave his notice a couple
months before the July 2002 Indianapolis Convention, effective after the
Convention, but agreed to stay on on a month-to-month basis until a replacement
was found. Some LNC members claimed that he had been caught in one two
many inaccurate statements to the LNC. (In both July 2002 LNC meetings
the issue of the unknown level of LPNEWS accounts receivable loomed
large. See my </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty/convention2002report.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">report on the convention</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">.) Other people opinined he was but the
first rat deserting the sinking ship.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> On
September 18, 2002 National Director Steve Dasbach gave notice, citing LNC
members having lost confidence in him. Of course, this was due to a long
series of mismanagement problems (like the above and others discussed in my
Convention report), capped by new revelations that Dasbach, through either
incompetence or intention, had withheld important financial data from the LNC:
like the LPNEWS accounts receivables, the fact that he had used Convention
money for general operating purposes, that the actual debt from the convention
was unknown, and the new revelation that the LNC owed staffers over $100,000 in
vacation and other time. The </span><a href="http://archive.lp.org/lnc/ec/20020821.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">August 21, 2002 LNC Executive Committee meeting minutes</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> and the </span><a href="http://archive.lp.org/lnc/lnc20020921.rpt.tr.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;">Treasurer's September 2002 report</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> provide further details. (See <a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary/documentation2.html"><span style="color: blue;">Dasbach resignation letter</span></a>.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Postscript:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Since I've noticed this page still gets a lot of
hits, for some reason!, I decided to do a quick postscript and share a few
updates. First, I'd like to note that despite assailing the office
staffers above, I do believe the Libertarian National Committee and especially
Chair Jim Lark exercised ineffective oversight, often over-taxing
staffers and encouraging them to exceed their capabilities.<br />
Also note that after Texan Geoffrey Neale
became Chair in 2002 he and his Treasurer discovered the party to be over
$200,000 in debt. However, with the help of their new National Director,
and better oversight, they have managed to pay off the debt and hopefully will
be on to better things. Like NOT inviting Neale Boortz to speak at any more
National Libertarian conventions, especially since he endorses FBI spying on
peace activists (including libertarians) who oppose the War on Terrorism and
the Iraq War! (See </span><a href="http://www.radicalbuttons.com/bootboortz.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">radicalbuttons.com/bootboortz.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty/replytoboortz.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">carolmoore.net/libertarianparty/replytoboortz.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> ) <br />
Fighting the right wing neoconservatives obviously
trying to subvert the party remains my focus, be it on Women's Rights,
abortion, government spying or non-interventionist foreign policy.
See </span><a href="http://www.libertarians4peace.net/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">libertarians4peace.net</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><a href="http://www.pro-choicelibertarians.net/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">pro-choicelibertarians.net</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> However, I'm also still in there encouraging
libertarians to make their main strategy nonviolent secession. See my
relevant article right at the top of </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty."><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">carolmoore.net/libertarianparty.</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I also want to congratulate Steve Dasbach for
retaining his good temper despite the many aspersions cast upon him over the
last couple years. Hopefully, he's learned any necessary management
lessons. I congratulate him for continuing to forge on for liberty in
running </span><a href="http://www.garynolan.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Gary Nolan's campaign</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">. Get Nolan buttons from me at </span><a href="http://www.topicalbuttons.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">topicalbuttons.com</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> and feel free to link to the site or
to </span><a href="http://www.radicalbuttons.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">radicalbuttons.com</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> which has a greater selection of naughtier buttons.<br />
As for Bill Winter, who was always a charming
and helpful LPNEWS ad person but an often annoying LP NEWS editor, he's now
gone on to new adventures. Of course, he offered a parting shot in his
last LPNEWS editorial sure to anger party gadflies: "How can we make
sure that LP leaders are qualified to do their jobs? And how can we weed out
those Libertarians who through incompetence, inexperience, or personality
defects sabotage the party's progress?"<br />
LP 2004 candidate for Presidential nomination Aaron
Russo's unnecessary personal attacks on candidate Gary Nolan sufficiently
annoyed me I ended up doing a whole page on </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty/russo-v-nolan.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">that controversy</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">. Plus another on the </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty/convention2004report.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">2004 LP convention</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">. See my </span><a href="http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Libertarian Party</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> page for whatever I'm up to or reporting now.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">[and women] to do
nothing." </span></i></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Edmund
Burke</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-4528128253401490632020-09-26T12:19:00.001-07:002020-09-26T12:19:59.146-07:00Real Libertarians Fight Back<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBDVHeFXHqY-mapGlgsG8phDZQ5hbDiQKhtvHqcMcQb_-L2Gnh3HWOhwdMD7uv4pMIWPMfh6yKA6BDfUAuySrc16aSZjjUaqQBuNscd7h-bxOPtxpy2WbQiw4KRMfpO-IuJqjkeM2tuBE/s1600-h/GeorgePhillies.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBDVHeFXHqY-mapGlgsG8phDZQ5hbDiQKhtvHqcMcQb_-L2Gnh3HWOhwdMD7uv4pMIWPMfh6yKA6BDfUAuySrc16aSZjjUaqQBuNscd7h-bxOPtxpy2WbQiw4KRMfpO-IuJqjkeM2tuBE/s320/GeorgePhillies.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066344958809760978" border="0" /></a>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> In effect, the LP had been converted into the private property of the same clique who had ousted the Crane Machine. The group followed the same patterns of self-dealing, top down management, deceptive practices, and overweening arrogance. Another round of the same behavior would be repeated in the largest State organization of the LP, the Libertarian Party of California. That continues to this day.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> The following is just one incident in a reaction against the Berglandista that eventually ousted them entirely from any positions of respect in the LP. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US">
</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US">
</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center" lang="en-US"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">=====LP of Pa. Board of Directors resolution passed 3:01pm 9/23/2001====</span></span></p> <p>"Whereas, certain individuals associated with the Libertarian Party conspired to violate National Libertarian Party policy, libertarian principles, and normal standards of business ethics, and</p> <p>Whereas, we have in the past supported, promoted and endorsed these individuals by our official actions and in our publications and appeals, and</p> <p>Whereas, we have an obligation to keep our membership informed;</p> <p>Therefore, we the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania withdraw any expressed or implied endorsement of any of these individuals or organizations or projects in which they are involved. The individuals are, in alphabetical order:
Sharon Ayres
David Bergland
Harry Browne
Michael (Emerling) Cloud
Jack Harris Dean
Perry Willis</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style=""><span lang="en-US"> The grip of the Berglandista on the LP was finally wrested away by a determined coalition of activists at the 2002 Convention in Indianapolis. The Berglandista candidate for National Chairman, Eli Israel, went down to defeat, opposed by Geoff Neale from Texas and George Phillies of Massachusetts. George, a professor of physics, would be the central force in excising the Emerling influence from his own state several years later. Stubbornly refusing to be silenced he, like the energizer bunny, just keeps going. Phillies lost, but took enough votes to deny election to Israel.<span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style=""><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today, four years later, the LP remains disjointed and without a strategic vision that connects to a plan of action. However, it remains an effective meeting point for people seeking personal freedom and political alternatives and, as with all life, there is yet hope. If the LP assembles a strategically sound plan, taking into account the need for governance and a community model based on persuasion, building at the most local level, it holds the potential of becoming itself a model for the solution. </span></span></span> </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> An effective model for action would focus power on the most local level, building the state and national components entirely as support and networking points through which such useful functions as an effective mediation system would operate with transparency. This could be done entirely online, allowing the National Office to be eliminated or decentralized. The Presidential campaign could then be handled by a candidate who would focus attention on local organizing by providing a charismatic presence. If the local organizing accomplishes what it well could there would be acceptable candidates. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style=""><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size:100%;">The national site would, in effect, be a collection of resources using a vetting system for information that would disallow the predatory inclinations of such figures as Ed Crane, Michael Emerling, and Perry Willis. </span></span></span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b> </b><span style="">Through its origination of 'idea tools,' the LP changed the direction of politics in America. Those tools include privatization (Bob Poole of Reason Foundation), outsourcing, deregulation, and others intended to make the process more efficient. However, efficiency is neither a substitute or equivalent for freedom though many have confused these things.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Additionally, these ideas were not used as originally anticipated because, as with all ideas, they were sold through such outlets as Cato as tools that actually served to decouple profit and accountability and could be enforced through legislation. These did not, therefore produce the benefits of a free market but rather allowed for the optimization of profit by corporations that also used the legislative process to minimize or even eliminate their potential for liability. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> The issues of Global Warming, which is now acknowledged to be supported by overwhelming evidence was evaded for the last 30 years in large part through the actions of Cato, which assumed the role of objective third party while accepting most of its funding from the oil industry. Cato performed similar services on issues related to women, dismissing all issues that go to the foundational, Constitutional difference between the rights of women, which are only supported through legislative action, and of men, which are guaranteed through the Constitution.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not trying to get you. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> The chain of events that drove the Libertarian Movement to its present condition was not all by design. Those involved failed to examine the past dispassionately. It is always hard to question the actions of those we accept as heroes, though doing so is essential since we are all only human. Many were soon so emotionally and financially invested in the 'system' they had created that questions brought into doubt their own egos and financial well being. Some had secrets to hide. It was all too human, as are all human enterprises. But to excuse the past is to ignore the need to build a better future, and that none of us can afford to do. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> The underlying mythology of Objectivism is pointedly pro-business and anti-woman, ironically enough since Rand was herself a woman. Over the years those who were most impacted by Rand's work have either confronted the contradictions or lapsed into antagonism towards those who do question. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Ideas always have consequences, which is one of the reasons we need to be careful about how well the ideas that represent action match the action to be taken. To this day libertarians bemoan the absence of women who are willing to invest time and money in the LP. Never have they thought to question if this decided preference might reflect a real problem internal to the LP itself. If the car doesn't run when by all you know it should you had better check the engine. You might be missing the crank shaft. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> On the issue of global warming it is curious that a movement that endorses accountability ignored the need to ensure that if global warming was real then the consequences would impact all of us while the profit for creating the conditions would be specific to certain industries and individuals. That doubtless comes from romanticizing business and ignoring the deceptive and unethical practices so prevalent in large corporations today. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Bill Hunscher and Roger Mac Bride, both now deceased, would not be surprised. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Life is itself a joke on all of us. </span></span> </p>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-20972055549889036352020-09-26T06:25:00.003-07:002020-09-26T06:25:54.002-07:00Mark Hinkle - Bought for $1,000<p>by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster</p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiipVD2MbulaACL4SsEKoVacMi1i7C6QstzE_4IwXOo1gWtPgfG_G6HY61P5y9_Mu6IgDPaJEBHy-ZfMOCPpivIcdSTCvEIyci267t3tybEWAfivzUFxwHzLYXzAvSlWWEUDD9BhkOf9EM/s1600/Mark_Hinkle_Photo_200x150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #a72b08; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiipVD2MbulaACL4SsEKoVacMi1i7C6QstzE_4IwXOo1gWtPgfG_G6HY61P5y9_Mu6IgDPaJEBHy-ZfMOCPpivIcdSTCvEIyci267t3tybEWAfivzUFxwHzLYXzAvSlWWEUDD9BhkOf9EM/s1600/Mark_Hinkle_Photo_200x150.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">I met Mark at a State Executive Committee Meeting while serving as a state officer. I believed our relations to be friendly and founded in mutual respect. I was therefore shocked when the following incident took place in 1998 while Mark was Chairman of the LPC.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">In January of 1998 my then husband left me. Craig Franklin was not then or later an LP activist. Craig's interest in all politics is focused on finding an audience for his songs.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">Divorces happen all the time. Groups normally ignore private matters and do not take sides since they expect the couple to say uncomplimentary things about each other.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">I had signed up to attend the LPC convention, being held in Los Angeles, purchasing two full packages for myself and my daughter, Dawn. The next day I received a call telling me I was not allowed to attend. I was told the decision was made personally by Mark Hinkle. I called Mark directly to ask his reasons. Mark refused to accept my phone calls. I contacted an old friend who called Mark on my behalf.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">The original decision was grudgingly rescinded. Mark, instead of apologizing, threatened me if I “caused any incident.” He again refused to either tell me what had been said or who had said it, something I believe he was obligated to do since he had inserted himself, uninvited, into my private life. I would not have willingly shared what was happening with Mark except for his extraordinary action in telling me I could not attend the convention of a political party I had served as an officer, Southern California Vice Chairman, for many years.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">I later learned indirectly Michael Emerling Cloud had told Mark I was crazy and intended to disrupt the convention. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mark had accepted a donation of $1,000 for the LPC from Franklin just before he instructed paid staff to tell me I could not attend. Craig paid Michael Emerling Cloud $6,000 in the same time. I have copies of the canceled checks, produced during subsequent discovery.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mark Hinkle's arrogance, his curious means of raising funds, and assumption of unilateral powers in matters over which his elected role gave him no discretion, disqualifies him for the position of National Chairman. Let him occupy his time in his present role as Libertarian Candidate for the 15th State Senate district special election instead.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">Over the years I have heard an variety of stories, slanders, Craig has told about me. I have some on tape now, thanks to a few friends who understood the entirely unwarranted damage done to my reputation by the actions of Franklin and Cloud and the failure of anyone in the LP to ever ask me if any of these covert allegations were true. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">The experience refocused me on what is now recognized as a source of the problems with all of our institutions, the systemic abuse of power. Today I am in the process of starting work with several professionals, including a psychiatrist, a specialist in the field and about to publish a book on psychopathy, we are starting a resource center which will document how the condition has impacted politics, finance, all human institutions, and the personal lives of everyone a resource center</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">The previous year I had saved Craig from his non-filing of taxes. <a href="http://melindapillsbury-foster.blogspot.com/" style="color: #a72b08; text-decoration-line: none;">The article is here.</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">While I do not approve of taxation it is a fact the IRS treats not filing as a crime. As an individual I have the right to decide when and on what grounds I will make any stand for freedom. When Craig asked me to marry him one of the conditions was that he file past returns, he had never filed, and remain compliant. Craig committed fraud. He does not deny this publicly because it is provable. He has slandered me privately because he is a psychopath and slander and libel are normal techniques for the 1% of the population who lack a conscience. The lack of conscience in psychopathic individuals is neurological. For more on this visit the <a href="http://hare.org/" style="color: #a72b08; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare.org</a>. The characteristics of Psychopathy are available at <a href="http://www.lifestealers.org/Characeristics-checklist.html" style="color: #a72b08; text-decoration-line: none;">LifeStealers</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">I have publicly stated that Craig fits within the description of psychopathy using the Hare Guidelines. He does not contest this as he knows it to be true. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #686868; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-bottom: 0in;">Next Piece of the Story - What Cloud and Craig did in their continuing attempts to dispose of me and my disabled son. <u style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f20b0b; font-family: Neuton; font-size: 20px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><a class="wz-link internal-link" data-attached-link="{"type":"Pages","url":"id1537663423787","title":"Throw Momma"}" href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/throw-momma" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 24px;">Throw Mama From the Train</span></a></u></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-color: white; color: #44b86b; font-family: Neuton; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f41a00;"><span class="theme-text-color-4-4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black;">Craig Franklin & Dan ODowd's Original Conspiracy</span></span></span></em></div><div><br /></div>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-86462736950880756862020-09-14T09:28:00.002-07:002020-09-14T09:28:55.332-07:001976 Presidential for Halloween - The kids loved it. <p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The kids Trick-or-Treated various neighborhood, with us in close oversight. The correct protocol was followed. The kids yelled, "Trick 0r Treat!" then, after the goodies were delivered the two fold piece of literature was presented to them. Some were amused; others clearly surprised. A few laughed. It was fun for me and the kids though. I'll get around to scanning the inside when I can. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_puK1hvdPp1JjPIZVcoZ0a79QRUipCC_UkuYeIwWEW3cR66WnKiQTCRojZ6K6KO2yQ1it4eNXRfMog5Vly7Xwzwwvs-uyZWoavKHuvhXSX8KyS-NVHtoZ8H4Hg36VvI-18HgWn6WFvmM/s1212/Literature+-+Halloween+1976+Caught+in+a+web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="485" height="1220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_puK1hvdPp1JjPIZVcoZ0a79QRUipCC_UkuYeIwWEW3cR66WnKiQTCRojZ6K6KO2yQ1it4eNXRfMog5Vly7Xwzwwvs-uyZWoavKHuvhXSX8KyS-NVHtoZ8H4Hg36VvI-18HgWn6WFvmM/w489-h1220/Literature+-+Halloween+1976+Caught+in+a+web.jpg" width="489" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-13683731130182714382020-09-14T09:16:00.003-07:002020-09-14T09:16:52.973-07:00The Stationary <p> The one piece of the stationary I found was in wretched condition so I reconstructed the letter head. </p><p>Still makes me smile. 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David Fraser Nolan (November 23, 1943 - November 21, 2010)<a href="https://libertarianism.fandom.com/wiki/David_Nolan#cite_note-0">[1]</a> was an <a href="https://libertarianism.fandom.com/wiki/United_States">American</a> activist and politician. </div>
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The push to scrap the state income tax – billed as a grassroots movement – is heavily bankrolled by an odd-ball collection of libertarians who don’t even pay taxes in Massachusetts, including a crackpot who’s likened Homeland Security to the “Gestapo” and a “Biblical capitalist” who thinks paper money should be eliminated.</div>
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The Committee for Small Government – the self-described “grass roots organization” backing the Question 1 ballot initiative to abolish the state’s income tax – collected almost 60 percent, or $211,000, of its $364,000 total from out-of-state donors, a Herald review shows.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Michael Widmer, head of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, which opposes the measure, slammed the Committee for Small Government for raising most of its dough from out-of-staters with no stake in the outcome. <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2008/09/16/kooks-cast-fuels-anti-tax-crusade/">MORE</a></span></div>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-6917278810705789092019-08-19T14:54:00.003-07:002019-08-19T14:54:42.280-07:00Funding Liberty - No More Libertarian Disinformation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-78133906274610039292019-08-19T14:36:00.003-07:002019-08-19T14:47:05.648-07:00David Bergland - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://libertarianhistory.blogspot.com/2015/02/1981-eart-smith-for-los-angeles-mayor.html">Earl Smith for Mayor of Los Angeles Flyer </a><br />
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-12962464260800431802019-08-18T16:03:00.000-07:002019-08-18T16:05:46.987-07:00Minority Outreach Program - David Bergland's Brain Child<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In retrospect, I thought it was incredibly ironic that Dave Bergland would attempt to assert control over a local campaign while he was National Chairman. But even in 1981, the National Party was getting exalted ideas of their competence to made decisions for us. </div>
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See the <a href="https://libertarianhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/david-bergland-letter-to-melinda.html">Letter </a>Dave wrote to me. My official response was published widely but was polite. We ignored him. </div>
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Dave was a nice guy and I'm glad to have chatted with him before he died, but he did not possess the moral or ethical standing to assert the right to make this kind of determination. </div>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-15203580911858242732019-08-18T15:52:00.001-07:002019-08-18T16:03:50.379-07:00David Bergland - Letter to Melinda Pillsbury-Foster on Earl Smith, LP Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I told Dave he was all wet, though I used very polite language. See <a href="https://libertarianhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/minority-outreach-program-david.html">Minority Outreach Program Validation Form.</a> I passed them out at the convention. Unfortunately, it appeared this was to subtle for those who supported Dave.<br />
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-86862607604901700932018-07-07T23:06:00.000-07:002018-07-08T13:20:18.842-07:00Solvency Day - Feed the Starving John Fund<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was Janice Vargo's idea, coming in the aftermath of the nastiness of Shirley Gottlieb's attempt to try Melinda for Behavior Unbecoming an Officer. Clearly, given the charges invented in her fevered mind she had missed entirely the fact that even if charges were true there was nothing scandalous about them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the charges were entirely untrue. Melinda did not even learn about them until she read the torrid document. It took only long enough to read the charges for the LPC Executive Committee to determine they had no merit and censure Shirley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That year Melinda had managed multiple Libertarian Campaigns, started continued raising funds for an campaign office for all Libertarian candidates on Westwood Blvd., in West Los Angeles, and served as Southern California Vice Chairman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.pillsbury-foster.com/solvency-day-pay-john-fund">Solvency Day</a> was held to pay off the debts owed to John Fund by the Libertarian Party of California. In keeping with the tenor of the entire year it was a Roast of Melinda. A contest contrived by Janice, bless her soul, accompanied the mailing for the Roast. </span></div>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-27255260628851950222018-06-29T13:22:00.001-07:002018-06-29T13:24:07.749-07:00History of the Republican Liberty Caucus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In 1994 I attended a conference/convention of the Republican Liberty Caucus which took place in Gatlinberg, Tennessee with my then husband, Craig Franklin. While we were there Roger McBride, who I had known since 1974, asked me to put on the next conference in Santa Barbara, where we were living. He introduced me to a young man who he explained was working for him named <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">Eric Rittberg. Later, Eric began using the last name Dondaro, his born name. Rittberg was the name his adoptive parents had given him. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">Eric was to provide accurate lists and assist me in publicizing the event but over the next weeks Roger made it clear he did not trust Eric and wanted to put the RLC on a firm footing, which he had decided was not possible with Eric involved. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Eric had represented to Roger, who conveyed to me, that the RLC possessed a working list of supporters numbering around 3,000. But when I did a mailing to this list, an expensive undertaking in 1995 since this had to be through the post office, I was surprised to find the number of working addresses was actually only a few hundred. In the meantime, Roger had died and so was not easily available for advice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Confronting Eric with this caused a blizzard of screams and denials on his part. By then, I had found speakers and paid the deposits for the conference site, at a nice hotel in Santa Barbara. I considered cancelling but then decided to continue. It was clear Roger was not going to receive the recognition he so deserved from either the Libertarian Party or anyone else in the Freedom Movement. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Although the line up of speakers was great attendance was thin. However, several people of note came forward and for a short time we worked on continuing Roger's legacy. Their names were Dr. Jeffry Singer, Phoenix, Arizona, Michael McCroskey, Gatlinberg, Tennessee, Tom Rawles and his wife, Linda Rawles both of Phoenix Arizona. Excuse me if other names have been lost. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The Santa Barbara Conference began with a memorial service for Roger McBride. His long time friend and co-founder of Reason Foundation MCed the memorial service where excerpts of Roger's favorite works were read.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">I later learned Eric had denied he was only a paid assistant to Roger, who was then directing the development of the RLC. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "baskerville" , "palatino" , "palatino linotype" , "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">I suggest you read the articles below and consider the impact individuals who see the Movement as a means to ends other than freedom have on the work.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/ron-paul-weirdo-magnet/333811/">Another Look at Ron Paul's Dismissed Staffer</a></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small;">This piece of history has been too long glossed over. Now, google Eric Dondaro Rittberg. Roger did not receive the credit he so richly deserved. This was not just because of Eric, however. The Movement failed to appreciate him also because they had become accustomed to joining asking for donations and formulating 'policy' for government instead of looking to how a free market creates freedom for everyone when it is used with a focus on human investments and not through a mask of deceit. </span></span></div>
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The national RLC was formally organized in April 1991 when the 1976 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Roger MacBride called a meeting of like-minded Republicans. The RLC held its first national convention in July 1991 and Eric Rittberg, who had been active earlier in the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee, was elected its first National Chair.</div>
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Subsequent RLC National Chairs in the 1990’s included Clifford Thies, the Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah University in Virginia, Roger MacBride, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Chuck Muth, former executive director of the American Conservative Union and of the Nevada Republican Party, was elected RLC National Chair in 2000, followed by California State Assembly Communications Director Douglas Lorenz, Los Angeles radio commentator William Westmiller and Dave Nalle of Texas, who is the Senior Political Editor of Blogcritics Magazine. The current Chair is Matt Nye of Florida, an IT consultant and a Republican leader in the Sunshine State.</div>
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The RLC National Convention is held biennially in odd-numbered years, where national officers are elected and delegates hear from prominent Liberty Republican thinkers and elected officials. National conventions have been held in Gatlinburg, TN, Alexandria, VA, Las Vegas, Atlanta, San Antonio, Fresno, Orlando, Jacksonville, Arlington, VA, and Austin, TX. Portland, Maine will host the 2015 National RLC Convention.</div>
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The National Republican Liberty Caucus grants Charters for state RLC organizations which have representation on the RLC National Board through elected Regional Directors.</div>
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RLC National endorses Liberty Republican candidates for President, United States Senate and House in primaries and general elections, contributes to their campaigns through the RLC-USA Federal PAC and provides grassroots supporters. State chapters endorse gubernatorial and legislative candidates and contribute directly from their own state PAC.</div>
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Candidates seeking RLC endorsement fill out an issues survey and are asked to sign The Liberty Compact which reads:</div>
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Members of Congress who have signed the The Liberty Compact include Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona, Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah, and Representatives Justin Amash and Kerry Bentvolio, both of Michigan, Tom McClintock of California, Adrain Smith of Nebraska, Scott Garrett of New Jersey, Jim Jordan and Steve Chabot, both of Ohio, Mike Mulvaney of South Carolina, Jimmy Duncan of Tennessee, John Chavetz of Utah and John Shadegg of Arizona."</div>
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LIBERTARIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE<br />August 30, 1981, Denver, Colorado</h1>
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<pre> Members present:
Alicia Clark,* Chairman
Sheldon Richman, Vice Chairman
Frances Eddy, Secretary
Vivian Bauers,* Treasurer
David Bergland,* Prior Chair
Michael Emerling, at-large
Kent Guida, at-large
Mary Louise Hanson, at-large
Chris Hocker, at-large
Dick Randolph, at-large
Andrea Millen Rich, at-large
Murray Rothbard, at-large
Judy Clarke, Alternate, Region 1
Mike Hall*/Jim Vernon, Alternate, #2
Bill Evers, Region 2
Dale Pratt, Region 2
Craig Armstrong*/David Brazier, #3
Joan Vanderslice, Region 5
Paul Grant, Region 6
Lynn Crussel, Region 7
Jim Johnston, Region 9
Leslie Key, Region 10
Sandy Burns, Region 11
Alan Lindsay, Region 12
Howie Rich, Region 16
Lee Webber, Alternate, Region 17
Michael Burch, Region 18
Clark Hodge, Region 19
(Eric O'Keefe, National Director)
Members absent:
Stephen DeLisio, Region 1
Gary Palm, Region 4
Linda Taylor, Region 8
Matthew Monroe, Region 13
David Walter, Region 14
vacant, Region 15
Jim Lewis, Region 17
Alternates not participating:
Sara Baase, Region 2
Dan Wiener, Region 2
Westley Deitchler, Region 4
Joe Minella, Region 5
George Mercier, Region 6
Gordon Rogers, Region 7
Arnold Souba, Jr., Region 8
Tom Verkuilen, Region 9
Sheryl Loux, Region 10
Tom Bogel, Region 11
Roger Bissell, Region 12
Honey Lahman, Region 13
Frank Bubb, Region 14
vacant, Region 15
Michael Kessler, Region 16
Linda Janca, Region 18
Todd Crowder, Region 19
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1. CALL TO ORDER, MINUTES, AGENDA:</h2>
Chairman Alicia Clark called the post-convention meeting of the
Libertarian National Committee to order at
6 p.m., Sunday, August 30, 1981, at the Hilton in Denver, Colorado.
She indicated she would be sharing her duties with the Vice Chair and
would work out a plan to delegate authority.
Bill Howell was appointed parlimentarian for the session. It was reported
Bill White is interested in being permanent parliamentarian.
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Dick Randolph moved that the minutes of the August 26, 1981 National
Committee meeting be read along with those for this meeting at the next
National Committee meeting. The motion passed.
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Several changes were made to the agenda: Report of State Chair Caucus
(Emerling) was added; the Treasurer's report was moved up to item 2b
(Bauers); item 7 was deleted (Bauers); Judicial Committee election was
moved up to 4a (Bergland); item 11 and rest of item 12 were placed at
end of agenda to cover if time allowed (Bergland); Libertarian Congressional
Committee report which had been tabled at the 8/26/81
meeting to this one was deleted (Hocker).
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2. TREASURER'S REPORT:</h2>
Bauers plans to prepare a Treasurer's report soon
to update the one prepared by O'Keefe and distributed at this and the
8/26 meeting. Bauers motion that the Libertarian National Committee
increase the current debt limit to $65,000 and this authority extend
only to present outstanding loans passed. Crussel asked that her vote
against the motion be recorded in the minutes.
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3. INTRODUCTION OF NEW NATIONAL COMMITTEE:</h2>
Those participating in the meeting introduced themselves.
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4. STATE CHAIR CAUCUS REPORT:</h2>
Arizona State Chair Buck Crouch read the following resolutions passed
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1. We are unalterably opposed to the party again drifting into debt
without specific approval of the National Committee.
2. We recommend maintaining National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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3. We request the publication of Nat Com minutes with the individual
voting records in LP News. Also, all votes of substance should
be roll call votes.
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4. It is hereby resolved that the caucus of state chairs are in favor
of moving toward individual party affiliate representation on Nat Com.
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5. We the members of the 1981 Caucus of State Chairs unanimously propose
that at every regular convention a meeting be established on Tuesday
night of the convention week for the express purpose of discussing
problems unique to state chairs and their organizations. The purpose
of this meeting is to provide information to the current standing
committees.
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6. We the members of the 1981 caucus of state chairs unanimously resolve
that the National Committee and the National office be reminded that
it is a requirement of the resolutions of the party that all state
chairs be sent copies of all mailings to the Nat Com members.
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Randolph and Pratt requested that Nat Com members received a written copy
of the State Chair Caucus report along with the names of participants and
their voting records to the extent that information is available. Burns
recommended that all state chairs be sent copies of the resolutions and
Crouch indicated they will be reprinted in a proposed state chair newsletter.
Key moved that the report of the State Chair Caucus be referred to a committee
so that committee's report could be considered at the next meeting.
Bergland's friendly amendment to place this item on the agenda of the next
meeting with the expectation that the State Chair Caucus report will be
available before then was accepted. Emerling's motion to close debate
passed as did the main motion.
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5. SUSPENSION OF RULES:</h2>
Evers' motion to suspend the rules to introduce a
resolution on libertarian draft resistance failed 9-9-3.
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HRich's motion to reintroduce consideration of the
resolution on libertarian draft resistance passed after the Vice Chair
read the proposed resolution. Evers moved to adopt the resolution,
changing in the fifth whereas clause "a delegate to this Convention"
to "a delegate to the 1981 Libertarian Party Convention" and in the first
and second resolved clauses changing "National Convention" to "National
Committee." Randolph's motion to close debate passed. After a point of
information (O'Keefe) regarding the wording "in whatever form it takes"
was noted, Randolph and Key (seconder) rescinded their action to close
debate and a vote to reopen debate passed. Hall moved to amend Evers
motion to drop the fifth and sixth whereas clauses and to restructure the
"Be it resolved" by deleting #1. Pratt suggested passing the resolution
as close to the original as possible as its supporters had tried to get
it on the floor during the convention. Discussion followed on whether
or not to include Paul Jacob's name in the resolution. Lindsay proposed
adding "insofar as it does not violate the rights of individuals" after
"whatever form it takes." Instead of accepting this as a friendly
amendment Evers suggested the wording "consistent with libertarian values"
and Lindsay agreed. Hall did not accept this proposed change as a friendly
amenement. Emerling's motion to close debate on the amendment passed
and the vote on Hall's amendment failed. Evers moved to amend his original
motion to say "consistent with libertarian values" after "whatever form it
takes." Johnston moved to change "support" to "endorse" under 1. Be
it resolved. After discussion, Key's motion to close debate passed and
Johnston's proposed change failed. Key's motion to close debate on Evers
motion passed and the following resolution on libertarian draft resistance
was accepted:
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RESOLUTION ON LIBERTARIAN DRAFT RESISTANCE
WHEREAS: the draft is the ultimate form of government control; it enslaves
young people in the name of defending freedom; and
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WHEREAS: the draft, by guaranteeing the manpower to fight unpopular wars
abroad, encourages dangerous foreign adventurism of the sort now
being practiced by the Reagan administration; and
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WHEREAS: by the government's own admission, more than half a million
eligible men have refused to comply with the government's draft
registration program; and
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WHEREAS: the Reagan administration is threatening to prosecute a small
number of such resisters; and
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WHEREAS: at least one draft-age Libertarian, a delegate to the 1981
Libertarian Party Convention and an activist in the anti-draft
movement, has been singled out for prosecution by the
Selective Service System, that Libertarian being Paul Jacob; and
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WHEREAS: his situation represents the fears of hundreds of thousands of
other young people under 22 years of age who must decide whether
or not to register for the draft;
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BE IT RESOLVED:
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1. That the Libertarian Party National Committee unconditionally
supports his right to resist, and will continue to support
his struggle against the state in whatever form it takes
consistent with libertarian values; and
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2. That the Libertarian Party National Committee supports the
right of all draft eligible youth to resist registration
and the draft.
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7. DISTRIBUTION OF CONSTITUTION, BYLAWYS, AND RULES; DISTRIBUTION OF
COMPILED RESOLUTIONS:</h2>
Bergland's motion that changes in compiled resolutions,
just handed out, be distributed with the minutes of this meeting passed.
Bergland recommended waiting for new Constitution, Bylaws and Rules to
be developed following their adoption at the convention.
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8. SELECTION OF JUDICIAL COMMITTEE</h2>
At Emerling's request the role and
functions of Judicial Committee members were reviewed. The Vice Chair
read the following list of those who had indicated a desire to be on
the Judicial Committee: Frank Horn, B. J. Wagner, Gary Greenberg, Alan
Vogel, Bill Ware, Larry Pino, Phil Carden, Ray Strong, Tom Bogel, Bill
Howell, Dave Nolan, John Mason, Sara Baase, Gary Chipman, Anne McCracken.
Randolph's motion to nominate the names listed passed. The following
people were also nominated: Craig Franklin (Emerling), Lyn Sapowsky,
Brian Donerly, and Cynthia Hilton (Bergland), Kevin Dye (Evers),
David Boaz and Janet Nelson (HRich), Tom Palmer (Pratt), Cissy Webb (Key),
Ben Olson (Randolph), Jim Clarkson (Key). Key's motion to close nominations
passed. Emerling's motion to elect the chair of the committee first
passed. The following were nominated a committee chair: Franklin (Crussel),
Olson (Randolph), Clarkson (Rich), Mason (Evers). Emerling's motion
to close nominations passed. Emerling's motion that the chair candidates or
someone on their behalf each speak for two minutes passed. Franklin and
Olson spoke on their own behalf and Key spoke for Clarkson and Evers for
Mason. Hocker's motion that except in the event of a tie for second place
the bottom two candidates be dropped after the first ballot passed.
First ballot results were: Franklin 7, Olson 3, Clarkson 7, Mason 7.
Second ballot results were: Franklin 9, Clarkson 8, Mason 8. Third
ballot results were: Franklin 17, Clarkson 2, Mason 5 and Franklin was
elected chair of the Judicial Committee. The motion to limit comments
by candidates or someone speaking on their behalf to 30 seconds passed.
Bogel and Baase were removed from the list as they are alternate regional
representatives. Key's motion that the method of voting be each LNC
member casting 8 or fewer votes, that the votes be mutually exclusive,
and that the 8 nominees receiving the greatest number of votes be
elected passed. The results were: Clarkson 13, Boaz 12, Palmer 12,
Greenberg 11, Nelson 11, Horn 10, Mason 10, Webb 10 and elected to
Judicial Committee. Other votes were Howell 9, Vogel 9, Nolan 8,
Donerly 6, Carden 5, Olson 5, Chipman 3, Dye 3, Hilton 3, Pino 3,
Strong 3, McCracken 2, Sapowsky 2, Ware 2, and Wagner 1.
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9. MANAGEMENT REPORT ON LP HQS:</h2>
Before leaving, Bergland drew the committee's
attention to the report prepared by Stephen Davis, recommending members
pick up a copy and study it. He plans to bring it to the Chairman's
attention and suggested a small committee be formed to consider it.
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10. SUSPENSION OF RULES:</h2>
ARich's motion to suspend the rule to consider the
Speakers Burear's item next passed.
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11. SPEAKERS BUREAU:</h2>
ARich moved that the LNC continue to allot funds for the
Speakers Bureau through January 1982 at the rate of $800 a month. Evers
amended the motion to have the speakers bureau send National Committee
members a list of the 465 speakers and the locations of the bureau.
Pratt's proposed friendly amendment to send a report on speakers bureau
activity rather than the list was not accepted. Evers amendment passed.
Key's motion to extend discussion 2 minutes passed 14-6-1. Emerling's
motion to close debate passed and ARich's motion passed.
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12. AGENDA RECONSIDERED:</h2>
After assurance from O'Keefe that discussion of the
Mailing List Committee was not urgent Randolph's motion that we eliminate
all items except 5, 10 and 13 and that we adjourn by 8:30 p.m. passed.
Randolph's motion to spend five minutes on item 5 and five minutes on
item 10 passed.
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13. HEADQUARTERS REPORT:</h2>
O'Keefe reported ballot drive assistance has top priority.
Drives are now underway in three states. Randolph moved that
$5,000 per month for the remainder of the year be authorized to states for
ballot drive assistance. Hocker amended the motion to change $5,000 to
$10,000 to be spent as the discretion of the National Director. After
discussion as to where the money would come from Randolph's motion
passed as amended.
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14. SUSPENSION OF RULES:</h2>
Emerling's motion to suspend the rules for five
minutes to reach a clear understanding as whether the New York party
has committed to a $90,000.00 forfeiture agreement, and if they have,
who is accountable, responsible, New York or the National Party passed.
ARich said it was her understanding that New York State Chair Gary
Greenbreg signed the contract for either of two dates with a clause
that we would be liable for $90,000 if the convention was not held then.
Evers moved that the LNC not be held liable for any debt incurred
through forfeiture of the New York convention. Grant said it was his
understanding that at a New York state caucus New York state chair
Gary Greenberg answered a question by saying it was his thought that
the national party would be liable for a forfeiture. Grant's motion
to extend debate three minutes failed. Grant requested that it be included
in the minutes that he is strongly opposed to the LNC avoiding
responsibility for managing the financial affairs of the Libertarian
Party. Evers motion failed and Emerling requested a roll call vote.
After brief discussion, Evers moved that a request of three members
shall be enough to require a roll call vote. The motion passed and
Emerling and at least two others requested a roll call vote. The results
were 10-14 with Rothbard, Crussel, Evers, Pratt, Grant, Vanderslice,
Emerling, Brazier, Hanson and Eddy voting yes and Randolph, Webber,
Vernon, ARich, HRich, Key, Burch, Lindsay, Hodge, Hocker, Guida, Palm,
Burns, and Johnston voting no. ARich indicated she would ask the New
York state chair to send us a convention report. Grant's motion to have
a copy of the signed contract sent to Nat Com members passed.
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15. SUSPENSION OF RULES:</h2>
Burns' motion to suspend the rules for three
minutes to discuss plans for national to aid local candidates failed.
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16. NEXT NATIONAL CONVENTION:</h2>
Hocker received no affirmative response to his
question as to whether anyone was intending to suggest in the near future
that the site of the next National Convention be moved away from New York.
Randolph motion to extend the meeting five more minutes passed.
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17. NEXT NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING:</h2>
Randolph's motion that we accept the
Maryland Libertarian Party's proposal distributed at the meeting for
the next National Committee meeting to be held November 7 and 8 in
Bethesda, Maryland passed.
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18. The meeting was adjourned</h2>
at 8:35 p.m., Sunday, August 30.
<i><strong>Respectfully submitted,</strong></i>
<br />
<i><strong>Frances Eddy<br />Secretary</strong></i></div>
Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-72417545403018376472015-02-12T16:29:00.004-08:002015-02-12T16:29:22.468-08:00Roger MacBride <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Roger's ideas for liberty were founded in the ideas of his adopted grandmother, Rose Wilder Lane, a beacon for freedom heard and understood by multiple generations<b>.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dan Dougherty was our candidate for governor in 1982. The All Stars again played ball in the San Fernando Valley. <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MTgzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ezIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=4719%2C4910420">Article on Dan</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Certificate made by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, then Southern California Vice Chairman for the LPC. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A Libertarian
Meeting Flyer made by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster for the Libertarian Party
of West Los Angeles, then Region 12, for January 27, 1977 </span><br />
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-40209760664421247792015-02-12T16:01:00.000-08:002015-02-12T16:01:29.741-08:001981 - Eart Smith for Los Angeles Mayor Flyer <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Flyer
for a fundraiser at the home of Jeff Mandell to benefit the campaign
of Earl Smith, a Libertarian candidate for mayor of Los Angeles.
Saturday, April 11, 1981, made by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, then Sout</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">hern
California Vice Chairman for the LPC and founder and funder of the
Libertarian Office in Eagle Rock, later moved to Westwood Blvd. </span><br />
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817027791276332143.post-87995123226933221502014-09-22T11:28:00.002-07:002014-09-22T11:28:51.537-07:00What Now? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
Libertarian Party came into existence because the hunger for freedom
was already large in the minds and hearts of Americans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Americans are still hungry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Libertarian Party was intended to be a tool for reclaiming local control, individual rights, and a judiciary which provides dispassionate justice for all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Within our communities we can care for each other through our churches and other organizations. But we need freedom to accomplish our goals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because the LP was hijacked, its trust extinguished, by the Kochs in the early 80s, there remains an unmet need for a political party which represents the nexus between right and left, is proactive on such issues as the lack of accountability by such corporate interests as Koch Industries and against the regulatory infrastructure which, today, is taking aim on Americans who assert their right to live free from governmental over sight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Only when all political factions come together, creating traction for action, will be have the needed power to take back our live, renewing local control of our communities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Can the Libertarian Party become that tool for freedom? You tell me. </span></div>
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