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Michigan Libertarian, September-October 1997 ~ MICHIGAN LIBERTARIAN NEWS LETTER OF THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF MICHIGAN Michigan Constitution Article !, Sec. 5 Every person mayfree(v speak, write, express and publish his views on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of such right: and no law shall be enacted to restrain or abridge the liberty afspeech or of the press. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1997 LIBERTARIANS NOMINATE Diane Barnes' Campaign Organizes CANDIDATE FOR SPECIAL Diane Barnes, Vice Chair of the ELECTION Libertarians of Macomb County and local chapter coordinator for the Separation of ST. CLAIR SHORES. The Libertarian Party School and State Alliance, will once again of Macomb County met in caucus on run for the State Board of Education in Wednesday, September 10, and chose Paul the 1998 election. Diane's campaign is Soyk, 40, of Sterling Heights as their expected to be the LP's "top of ticket" candidate to fill the 12th District State and a strong showing could give the party Senate seat, left vacant by the untimely "major party status". death of Senator Doug Carl. Barnes had an impressive showing in the Mr. Soyk is a Certified Public Accountant polls in '96 and hopes to acquire more working in the areas of accounting and support by running an active campaign in finance as a contract employee to General '98. Her focus will again be on parental Motors. He is currently completing his rights and responsibilities within the Masters of Science in Taxation. public school system and how to achieve the "separation of school and state". "We As a Libertarian, Mr. Soyk favors are in the process of forming our individual freedom and responsibility on committee and we've already received both personal and economic issues. He contributions for the campaign!" said will make this fundamental Libertarian Barnes. idea the centerpiece of his campaign using particular issues, such as taxation, Diane needs the help of the entire state education and gun rights to support that to acquire the 5% vote total needed to basic premise. gain major party status for the Libertarian Party of Michigan. Gaining "People only need to be reminded," Soyk major party status for the LP will help said, "that the purpose of government is put the LP on a more equal footing with to defend individuals against force and the Democrats and Republicans and will fraud. It is not about taking huge chunks regain ground lost to the upstart Reform of their paychecks to be redistributed Party when Ross Perot's vote totals gave according to the whims of politicians. It them major party status in 1996. is not about dictating to parents how they ought to educate their kids. And the If you would like to find out how you can really tragic irony," he concluded, "is support Diane's campaign, the Committee to that our government is doing such a Elect Diane Barnes will hold an organizing terrible job of their only legitimate meeting on Sunday, October 5 at 1:00 p.m. function -- protecting us against at the home of Keith and Marnie Edwards, criminals -- that we have to go to Lansing 28960 Jane, St. Clair Shores. (from I-94 to demand the right to, at least, be go e~st on 12 Mile Rd., Jane is one block perIni tted to carry the means to protect before the first light (Little Mack), turn ourselves!" right (south) and the Edwards' home is on the left). The special election is scheduled for November 25. (Continued on Page 8) PAGE 2 MICHIGAN LIBERTARIAN SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1997 DIRECTORY MICHIGAN LIBERTARIAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Michigan Libertarian is published bi- Chair Tim O'Brien 313-562-5778 monthly as the official newsletter of the Vice Chair Stacy Van Oast 810-784-8783 Libertarian Party of Michigan, 11700 Mer- Secretary Ben Bachrach 313-353-1558 riman Rd., Livonia, MI 48150. Telephone Treasurer Dave Nagy 1-800-343-1364 for information. Scheduled At-large Keith Edwards publication is January, March, May, July, Mark Heil September and November. Doug MacDonald Jim McAbee All material contained herein represents Ben Steele the opinion of the author and is not nec- JUDICIAL COMMITTEE essarily the position of the Libertarian Brett Cashman Party of Michigan. Jon Coon Bill Hall Ariicles and letters to the editor should Database Ben Bachrach 313-563-1558 be submitted by the 15th of the month of Editor Keith Edwards 810-777-7468 publication. Text should be typewritten Inquiries Marnie Edwards and double-spaced. Unsigned material will Membership Mark Heil 810-468-0509 not be used. Submissions may be edited. Speakers Keith Edwards 810-777-7468 Affiliates Coordinators Advertising is available at $5.00 per Stacy Van Oast 810-784-8783 column inch or fraction thereof for Jim McAbee 810-752-4844 camera ready copy. Campaign Fund Paul Soyk 810-977-3523 Campaigns James Hudler 313-475-9792 Submissions to the affiliate news section College Organz James Hudler should be sent directly to the affiliates LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES news editor. All other material should be Allegan Co. Krystal Dutkiewicz 616-673-5503 sent to the editor. Berrien Co. Scott Beavers 616-944-1852 Calhoun Co. Mark Owen 616-729-5550 Editor: Keith P. Edwards Ionia Co. Dick Whitelock 616-527-9263 28960 Jane IsabellaCo. John Tuttle 517-866-2365 St. Clair Shores, MI 48081 KalamazooCo. Marilyn Trump 616-383-9176 Lapeer-GeneseeJohn Hertrich 810-795-3820 Affiliates Editor: Brett Cashman Lansing area Mike Miller 517-351-0514 1931 Andover LivingstonCo. Teresa Pollok 810-229-0737 Ypsilanti, MI 48198 Macomb Co. Paul Soyk 810-977-3523 313-481-1354 Midland-Bay-Sag. Clint Foster 517-671-8257 [email protected] Midwest Mich. John Willis 616-775-1552 Northwest MI Michael Oleniczak 616-929-4817 Circulation-Marnie Edwards and Dave Nagy Oakland Co. John Robertson 248-745-6225 Ottawa-Muskegon Jeff Terhaar 616-847-0581 -'. -'. -'. Shiawassee Co. Ben Steele 517-288-5616 South Central TornSlaughter 517-784-6310 COLLEGE LIBERTARIANS Upper Peninsula Bob Black 906-875-3913 Van Buren Co. Bill Bradley 616-637-4525 Andrews Univ. Glenn Whitt 616-471-4186 Washtenaw Co. James Hudler 313-475-9792 Hillsdale Josh Mercer 517-437-5663 Wayne Co. Joann Karpinski 313-925-6917 Michigan State Ben Crawford 517-332-6813 Western MI Glenn Barr 616-452-7003 U of D-Mercy Andrea Baum 313-993-1956 U of Michigan Martin Howrylak 248-643-6653 No group in your area? Start one! Western Mich. Brian Carnell 616-345-8671 .) SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1997 MICHIGAN LIBERTARIAN PAGE 3 FROM THE CHAIR As your fearless leader, I have already /1 filed an objection to this scheme with the By Tim O'Brien nationals who came up with it. The plan will be reviewed and debated at the Decem- My fellow Libertarians of the Great Take ber meeting. I will do everything within my . er, Great Lake State, we have a small power to ensure that our delegation won't problem. The good folks at National have need binoculars and megaphones to partici- implemented a scheme they intended to be an pate in the convention next summer. incentive to state parties to build up mem- bership. Delegate seating preference at the In the meantime, there are a couple of '98 national convention in Washington, DC, things you can do as well. will be on the basis of percentage of mem- bership growth during calendar year 1997. First, when your own membership comes up for renewal, renew immediately, not after I suspect that this was a classic case of about the fourth or fifth notice. This is "it seemed like a good idea at the time," especially important if it comes up before but it wasn't very well thought through. the end of the year. Large states, like our own are put at a rather large disadvantage from a purely Second, get a membership app (there's one numerical point of view. Montana, for in- on the back page of the newsletter you are stance, currently has 71 members. Adding 7 holding in your hand) and get someone, additional members would represent a 10% spouse, child, co-worker, bowling team mem- gain. For Michigan to achieve a similar ber, to join. In fact, offer to pop the $2: percentage gain, we would have to bring in for their first year's dues, if you have over 100 members in the next three months, to. (NOTE: they must sign the non-initia- assuming we don't lose any in the meantime. tion of force statement to be counted as a member.) All of us know someone who has The introduction last year of the "Unified expressed interest in our politics and our Membership Program," whereby individuals party. If we each brought in a new member who had previously been members of state or two, this whole problem would evaporate, parties would automatically be upgraded to membership in both state and national, has I hope to lead a delegation of a hundred 01 exacerbated our difficulties. more LPM members to the national conventioI next 4th of July weekend. And I want us to The LPM opted into the UMP plan last Octo- be able to say, "Oh, we must be in the ber. As a result, our official national front row!" membership nearly doubled. Sounds good? The problem is that many of those folks were previously LPM members and not national 1998 STATE CONVENTION SET party members because they wanted it that way. If the experience of other states is The 1998 State Convention of the Libertar- any indication, when these memberships come ian Party of Michigan will be held on the up for renewal (in our case, October) some weekend of April 3-5, hosted by the Mid- may drop off the rolls.
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