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LIBERTY PLEDGE NEWSLEITER TOP SPEAKERS AT NAT'L CONVENTION MAY 1989 There has been an excellent response to the advance registration package offered by BACK TO THE CAMPUSES! our 1989 National Convention hosts. More than 300 are In the 1960's, the Libertarian expected to attend the four day movement started on the campuses. event in Philadelphia from Aug. Twenty years later, it is time 31 to Sept. 3rd. Top draws are to recruit another generation of Dr. Charles Murray, the campus libertarians. The LP has nationally renowned sociologist, set this as a priority for this and Dr. Walter Williams, the Fall. nationally prominent economist and libertarian author. Also, Don Ernsberger and Andre Marrou Nobel Prize nominees Leon Louw have started work on a plan to and Frances Kendall, from South have at least 150 campus Africa, are going to be there to literature tables this Fall. By speak on Thursday. The Gala the end of the year, the target Banquet will feature awards and is for 50 official "Young Cong. Ron Paul, while three Libertarian" clubs to be special breakfasts will feature operating on campus, with another Jim Lewis, Russell Means, and 50 in the formation stage. Andre Marrou. Do you know of a libertarian See the latest copy of your LP student willing to set up an NEWS for convention details and information table on a campus? prices, or write to "Proclaim Please have him/her get in touch Liberty Associates," P.O. Box with the LP's national office for 338, Warminster, Pa. 18974 full information on how to proceed. There will be no cost TAX PROTESTS SCORE to the students (thanks to your on-going generous support) for April 13-17 was Tax Protest time this table. around the U.S.A. for the Libertarian Party. LP activists, BUDGETS RESTORED TO COMMITTEES organized and coordinated by Andre Marrou, came through with At the last NatCom meeting, the at least 86 separate protest LNC restored funding to several events, with several picked up by projects that had been defunded UPI. On page 4, see the UPI in December 1987. Outreach, photo in a California paper of Media Relations, Affiliate the Pennsylvania LP's "Lady Parties, and Campaign '90 Godiva" ride in Philadelphia! received backing. Outreach has acquired 10,000 REASON subscriber PLEDGES SHOW BIG INCREASE! names for a test mailing; the Media Committee is going to A big reason for the financial survey 1,000 media contacts health of the Libertarian Party regarding the lack of reporting is the support shown by our on LP vote totals last year; the Pledgers. Pledges rose from a Affiliate Party Committee is total of $7700 in January '89 to sponsoring an Eastern tour by more than $12,000 as of May 20th. Field Coordinator Paul Jacob to The number of pledgers rose from revitalize several weak state 488 to over 700. We appreciate parties; and Campaign '90 is the confidence shown in the LP's planning candidate workshops for leadership and projects! an early start on 1990 campaigns. • ing the major decisions in their lives. the majority party on Capitol Hill and Libertarians plan registration drive Senator Alan Simpson, the premier Re- Mr. Thomas will not. FIVE CITIES TIMES/Arroyo Grande, CA/c: 15,800 At a news conference here this morn- publican in the state, says a sense of per race — more than aounie tne Wyoming Deflates the Political Experts powerlessness exists here along with ing, Mr. Thomas called Mr. Vinich "a LOS ANGELES — A Libertarian NEW YORK TIMES/New York, NY/c: 1,080,000 "a fierce provincial pride." candidate who owes his life blood to the voter registration drive will be the percentage increase of any other Mr. Vinich, while conceding that his "Out-of-state power brokers are unions," which have contributed heav- Focus of the party's annual tax pro- California party." By R. W. APPLE J r. ily to Mr. Vinich's war chest. Sensing A special House ad "hits hard," refused to pull it off the trying to decide out future for us test this year. Vernon said, "Roughly one-quar- Special to The New York Times air. Partly as a result, most top politi- again," Mr. Vinich said, sounding like an opening in the troubles of the Demo- ter million Californians voted CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 24 — the populist he has always claimed to cratic Speaker of the House, Mr. The goal is to double Libertarian cians here, as well as those in Washing- Libertarian last year. Our job will be George Bush got a lot of mileage out of race teaches ton who have been following the race, be. Thomas said that the election of Mr. Vi- Harty voter registration by the 1990 his Willie Horton commercial in 1988, expect Mr. Thomas, the 56-year-old "Rollins talks too much," Mr. nich would represent "a sharp ideologi- general election. to double the number of registered so John Vinich, who's involved in an outsiders some general manager of the Wyoming Thomas said, and he made it clear that cal turn toward the Jim Wright majori- At a recent meeting of the party's Libertarian voters by locating and ty." election in Wyoming this year, thought Rural Electric Association, to win a it was time for the heavy thinkers in Long Term Planning Committee, registering those folks who sup- he'd try something similar. lessons. relatively narrow victory. Washington to get their hands off. The Democrats had their turn ported Libertarians in the election." Mr. Vinich, a Democrat seeking the Frank Greer, Mr. Vinich's media But no sooner had that flap begun to shortly afterward. Gov. Mike Sullivan John Vernon, newly elected Chair- state's lone seat in the House of Repre- consultant who designed the crime ad- fade when another one began. Mr. Vi- said the state "can go nowhere if we man of the Libertarian Party of Cali- To start the registration drive. sentatives in a special election Wednes- vertisement, is not the only strategist nich was hurt in an automobile acci- don't have a route into the power struc- fornia, said, "California congres- Lib,..:tarians erected tables at various Mr. Vinich, the 38-year-old minority day, ran a television commercial that to be accused of costly blunders in this dent on April 8 and had to spend five ture" in Congress. Teno Roncalio, a 73- sional races in the 1988 general locations last weekend. leader in the State Senate, also oper- year-old former Congressman, said sought to picture his opponent as soft contest. It has not been a good cam- days in the hospital. Republican poll election showed a vote increase over Founded in 1971, the Libertarian on crime. It focused on the opponent's ates a bar and a restaurant in the small paign for the Washington "experts," takers, hired by the Republicans, Mr. Vinich was young enough at 38 to mining town of Hudson in central Wyo- Party is America's third largest and vote for a law allowing some felons to who have learned the hard way how began to tell people they interviewed build up a lot of valuable seniority. And 1986 of 28 percent for the Peace and serve part of their sentences in county ming. He is considered an able legisla- much Wyoming resents big shots from by telephone that there had been three State Treasurer Kathy Karpan said he Freedom Party, 24 percent for the fastest growing political party. More jails rather than in the state peniten- tive operator, but he also has a reputa- far away. people, not two, in the Vinich car, and had "matured and moderated" in re- Democrats, and 18 percent for the than 400 Libertarians ran for elec- tion as a political wild man. Until the tiary, which was full. The first victim was Edward J. Rol- that the "mystery man" was a union cent years. Republicans, while the average vote tive office in 1988. Persently, more commercial started running, he lins, the co-chairman of the National boss or politician from the East Coast. It didn't work. The problem was that seemed to have moderated his image, 'Evolution of Sleaze' for Libertarian congressional candi- than 100 Libertarians hold public Craig Thomas, Mr. Vinich's Republi- Republican Congressional Committee. Issues Take Back Seat office in the United States. but the ad stirred up old liabilities. Stung by losses in special House elec- But The Star-Tribune, the only state- dates was up a whopping 69 percent can rival for the seat vacated by Dick Mr. Thomas disavowed the rumor Cheney when he became Defense Sec- tions in Alabama and Indiana, Mr. Rol- wide newspaper, is so disgusted by the A Handy Symbol lins, new to his job, said he was staking campaign, but it left him squarely on campaign that it refused to give its retary, is a rugged ex-marine with no the defensive, until the Vinich commer- known record as a coddler of crimi- "Vinich is the Ted Kennedy of Wyo- his reputation on winning the race in support to either of the major party ming," said Scott Farris, the top politi- this state. He added, to Mr. Thomas's cial gave him a chance for a comeback. candidates. "The acid of negative nals. Almost no one in this spectacu- There has been almost no real cam- larly scenic but thinly populated state, cal reporter for The Casper Star-Trib- horror, "Wyoming is something I've campaigning,"it said in an editorial on une. "He's the guy who all the Republi- had my hands on since Day One." paigning on the issues, of which there Sunday, led it to endorse Craig Simplified Tax Form Choice Ahead? where most people know most other are plenty in a state in chronic eco- PRESS COURIER/Oxnard, CA/c: 19,715 people, believed Mr.