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July 92 LIBERTY PLEDGE NEWSLETTER Published exclusively for members of the Libertarian Party's Monthly Pledge Program Perot Quits! Marrou the Only Real Choice for Change

In the wake of Ross Perot's announcement last week the news, which was included in a New York Times that he was not running for President, LP phones article that quoted 10 other key political figures, have been ringing off the hook around the country. including Bush, Clinton, Democratic National Committee Chair Ron Brown, and House Minority In the 36 hours after Perot's announcement, for Leader Bob Michel. example, our national 800 number logged over 2,000 calls, many from former Perot backers looking for a Many Perot backers had never been active in politics new candidate and possibly a new political home. before this year. To reach these people, the LP will send a prospecting mailing to Perot petition National office staffers were unable to handle regular circulators whose names and addresses we can obtain business as they all took turns soothing distraught from Secretaries of State in those states where Perot callers on our regular phone line and offering them has already turned in petitions. information about the Marrou/Lord ticket. Media coverage for both the Marrou/Lord ticket and LP of Los Angeles County staffer Don Meyer talked the LP has skyrocketed, with appearances on Larry with 75 callers in the first few hours, some of whom King's radio show, as well as C-SPAN's Road to the were "practically in tears." National Chair Mary White House and Viewer Call-In, planned for this Gingell received a call from a local Perot coordinator coming week. who suggested that 30% of his volunteers were likely candidates for getting involved in the LP. Ballot Drive Still on Track And in a call-in show in Tucson, Arizona, 40% of the Crucial Deadlines Approach Perot supporters who called in announced that they were now considering voting Libertarian, in the wake We are still on track for 50-state ballot status, of Perot quitting the race. especially important in the wake of Perot's actions. But it is not necessarily smooth sailing ahead. The Marrou/Lord Campaign is urging Libertarians around the country to reach out to Perot organizers, Between July 20, as this article is being written, and hoping to bring a few of these newly-minted activists August 4, we need to collect over 50,000 signatures on board in our campaign. Around the country just to meet all deadlines coming up during that time Libertarians are meeting face-to-face, one-on-one, with period. Another 55,000 will be needed shortly Perot coordinators at all levels, to tell them about the thereafter. We have over 20 paid petitioners working only real option for change in this election, and invite directly for the LP around the country, and several them to work for the Marrou/Lord ticket. petitioning firms, as well as some volunteers, but it's Within minutes of Perot's announcement, National still touch and go, and cash is very tight. Chair Mary Gingell issued a media release reacting to LIBERTARIAN PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1528 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E. • Washington, D.C. 20003 • (202) 543-1988 CHUCK ASAY -T R UNION LEADER, Manchester, N.H. — Friday; June 12, 1992

think enough is enough in this election, vote Libertar- Larry Bra dy ian " declared Windham businessman Miriam Luce files Independent lig Senate bid. yesterday to the de ht of a crowd of enthusiastic H. Ross Perot supporters on the State declaration of In- House Plaza. tent filed. Luce, who in 1990 at- Page 4 tained 14,000 votes as the party's gubernatorial nom- inee, was responsible for g ballot status in this year's MIRIAM LUCE, Page 12 MIRIAM LUCE Bain Shucks, ifwhattheywantisissues,Liber- ask. get Perottobespecificaboutissues. ian paper,communicationsdirectorRon into thenextafternoon.Allyouhavetodois in maybe80years. tarians willtalkissuesallnightlongandwell shoo-in foranotherterm." become thestrongestthird-partycandidate ion-molders areexcitedlyclimbingallover Democrat ClintonandRepublicanBush trying togetafootholdontheslippery Perot, whohascomefromnowhereto start, nominatedMarrouinChicagolastfall. At thetime,accordingtoAssociated the election,PresidentBushlookslikea the Democratsindisarray14monthsbefore much chancetobeelectedbecause,"with mostly ignored. Press, eventheLibertariansdidn'tgivehim Vegas. Andacandidateforpresident. successfully challengingthetraditionalsys- So it'sissuesyouwant? sider theplightofLibertarians,wholike Consider theLibertarians to thinkofthems I thetwo-partypoliticalestablishment,con- n thisyearofunusuallyfierceattackson In theMayissueofColoradoLibertar- Media peoplearecomplainingtheycan't That wasthen.Now,reportersandopin- The Libertarians,whobelieveinanearly Charles . Roos ,cantioned partyFnernbrsgotto terday, after attendingtheLibertarian Partyof T ancy Lord,theLibertian vicepresidential candidate, visitedAlbuquerque, N.M.,yes- -- (Denver) RockyMountainNews,June191992 a statelegislatorinAlaska. He isnowacommercial real estateagentinLas in the.i,lorldisAndreMar- Brown andBillClinton. And RossPerot.Butwho rou? Bush, PaulTsongas,Gerry tem. Pat Buchanan,George knows aboutDavidDuke, Andre Marrouwasonce Gacha! By noweverybody Fort WorthStar-Telegraph,June151992 fieonly party VIEWPOINT `let Bernafillo County's firstconvention.Lord,a former Virginialawyer, isontheLibertarianticket with former Alaskastatelegislator AndreMarron. political regularssquirm.' going tobefunthissummerwatchingthe ingly franticattacksonPerotbyopinion- makers andestablishmentpoliticiansofboth parties. "If youbelieveinAmericaFirst,Votefor States ofAmericacannowbereturnedto more amusedthanpanickedbytheincreas- the people." Pat BuchananforPresident.") nuts? is hopethatthegovernmentofUnited ton." Itgoesontosaythat".RossPerot has declaredwaronthe'insiders'andthere publisher PhoebeCourtneyofLittleton. dent: PerotcandefeatbothBushandClin- tion, No.241,of other politicalsins,favoringprotectionism. phlet ofaloyalcorrespondent,conservative guns, restrictingcivillibertiesand,among different pointofview.It'sthelatestedi- dismantling oftheBillRights." election ofPerot"asamandateforthe Many Americans,Bainsaid,wouldseethe the thirdworldofU.S.politicscomesa he signed Perotpetitions,theyshouldn'thav Marrou ontheNovemberballot. Perot mayturnouttobe,Bainsaid,it'sclear Tax Fax, he's noLibertariansince,atleasttimes, gathering signaturestogetLibertari;n he said.Instead,theyshouldhavebe. the mediaiswhippingup."Iftheyha. themselves becaughtup"inthePerotfey. QUOTE: — CarlRowan. Vote forhiminNovember?Nah.Butit's (You thinknothingchanges?Anearlier As formostoftherestus,Iguesswe're - No. 241iscaptioned:"PerotforPresi- By coincidence,fromanothercornerof

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San Francisco Chronicle, June 26 1992 Libertarian Says The Tampa Tribune, May 29 1992 She Is the Outsider Personal responsibility June Genis wants America is a nation of individuals, Mar- rou said, who should take responsibility for to fill Senate seat their own actions instead of having a pater- nalistic and wasteful government do things left by Cranston for them. . With fewer government agencies to take By Jerry Roberts ' Chronicle Political Editor money from citizens and provide services, a total free-market economy would leave Despite all the year-of-the people with more money to spend on them- woman hype about Dianne Fein- selves and give to charity. stein and Barbara Boxer, June Charitable contributions, Marrou said, Gents says she is "the woman PALM TREE POLITICS would increase, and these charities would who's really an outsider" in Cali- fornia's U.S. Senate campaigns. Ray Locker - • then provide the services now handled by the government. A 45-year-old computer pro- grammer from San Mateo County, Trade restrictions, which limit our pro- Genis is the Libertarian Party can- ductivity, would be gone. Floridians wor- didate for retiring Senator Alan If you really ried about free trade with Mexico won't Cranston's seat and believes that find Marrou to be their man; he'd let the the polarized choice offered by the BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Mexicans ship as many tomatoes and or- major party nominees provides a JUNE GENIS want change, anges here as they can sell. splendid opportunity in this turbu- No stranger to politics "Tariffs are bad by their very nature lent political year. and should be done away with," he said. "I saw what happened in the votes, even though he scares me," try Marrou "Tariffs always cause friction." primaries, and it's just an unac- she said. "I like the fact that he's - So much for the support of the agricul- ceptable choice," she said in an in- given the two-party system a kick What would it be like if a Libertarian ture lobby. terview. "We're not going to see in the posterior." got elected president? real change until people start voting for what they want, rather Among her ideas: • It wouldn't be boring. Uphill struggle than the lesser of evils." ▪ A 50 percent, five-year cut in • If Americans really want change, then the defense budget, with half the The political establishment isn't doing When liberal Bay Area Repre- Libertarian presidential candidate Andre sentative Boxer and conservative savings going to reduce the federal Marrou is their man. the Libertarians any favors. They've got to commentator Bruce Herschen- deficit and the other half returned When it comes to change, H. Ross Per- Jump through all sorts of hoops to get, on sohn claimed the Democrat and . as direct rebates to taxpayers. ot's got nothing on Marrou. "Ross Perot the November ballot. In Florida, they have Republican Senate nominations, • Cuts in federal spending, be Sure as hell is not [for change]," Marrou to collect more than 60,000 signatures from Genis decided to stop being a "pa- ginning with crop subsidies, and said. "You can't even get a position out of registered voters. per candidate" who was on the bal- extending to programs that could him." It won't be easy. lot as a protest vehicle and to make be replaced by "privatization," in . That's no problem ,with Marrou. He's a , • A chemical engineering graduate from a serious effort to "shift the dia- which businesses bid for the right fountain of positions, many of them radical MIT, Marrou is now a real estate broker . logue" in the fall campaign. to offer services now provided by in that they promise the kind of change this licensed in two of the nation's most Liber- "I woke up the morning after the government. country has never seen. tarian states — Alaska and Nevada. In the election and realized I was a- • Cuts in capital gains and oth Check these out: 1980, the Libertarian presidential candidate serious candidate," she said. "Her- er business taxes, coupled with ■ received 10 percent of the vote in Alaska. schensohn and Boxer are unac- long-term plan to "junk the entirE Marrou would abolish the Federal ceptable on a number of points." income tax system." Reserve System, which, he said, "creates He said he had his Libertarian epiphany in September 1976 — "Most Libertarians Noting Herschensohn's anti- • Legalization of "recreationa inflation at the flick of a pen." drugs," which she argues woulc • can tell you the moment when the light abortion stance and Boxer's well- • The nation's currency would be re- publicized problems with the greatly reduce government spend turned to the gold standard, which would goes on and they say, 'This makes so much trig on incarceration and a doom sense.'" House bank and her record of in- eliminate inflation. troducing spending bills, the Lib- ed-to-f ail war on drugs. "We didn't have inflation in the 19th Eight years later, Marrou was elected to ertarian said she hopes to capital- • Development of "pollutior century, and it only started after we went the Alaska House of Representatives, one ize on both overall voter discon- tax credits," which could trade or off the gold standard," Marrou said. of the few state legislatures with Libertari- tent and unhappiness with the spe- the open market as a way of re • Social Security? Forget it. ans. Now he's trying for the White House. cific choice presented in the race. moving government from environ "It's a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid scam While many Americans find a lot of the "I'm going to appeal to Republi- mental regulation. that you or I would get arrested for if we Libertarian philosophy attractive, not many cans for choice and Democrats for Although Genis is struggling ever tried to do something like it," he said. will risk this much change. We say we want fiscal sanity," she said. "I'm now for attention in the Senate race • Marrou said all immigration restric- change, but when we start hearing specif- the official moderate in the race." she is no stranger to politics. tions should be lifted. Haitians trying to ics, we tend to shy away. Marrou is nothing With Libertarians represent- A Libertarian since 1974, slit come here should be allowed in. "But I'd if not specific. ing just 60,972 registered voters in has run for the Assembly and Con stop all freebies. If they want to come here Marrou will speak today to a luncheon the state, Genis acknowledges she gress and been active in attempt: to work, that's fine." gathering of the Tampa Tiger Bay Club at has a decidedly uphill fight. to pass a bill calling for district ■ There'd be no national health insur- noon at the Wyndham Harbour Island Hotel But the unprecedented support election of county supervisors. Ir 1988, she led a referendum cam ance system in a Marrou administration. in downtown Tampa. The price is $19. for independent Ross Perot's presidential candidacy, she said, pro- paign against a 24 percent pay "The countries with socialized medicine For more information, call 839-0801. Then he's taking his campaign to the vides irrefutable evidence that raise that the San Mateo County are trying to privatize now," he said. people are fed up with the status supervisors had voted themselves Libertarian state convention in Orlando this Government intervention has driven up quo and may be ready to heed Lib- "We'll do well if people know health-care costs, but a total free market weekend, where he'll find like-minded ertarians, who see government as folks looking for change. we're out here," she said. "It's a vi system would create more competition and the key culprit in many social cious cycle. Nobody knows we'rE force costs down, Marrou said. If you're interested In Marrou and the problems and view Democrats and out there because we don't get cov "We need to remove the restrictions on' LiberDrian platform you can call Republicans as subsidized benefi- ered, and the media doesn't cover othert forms of medicine, like chiropractic, 702-434-6362 for more information. ciaries of a rigged system. us because they don't believe any vitamin therapy and nurse practitioners." "I intend to go after Perot body's interested." Libertarian blames nation's ills on major parties gathered at the annual convention of the candidacy, thowing the party's future "It is happening. People are coming Andre Marrou Libertarian Party of Maine. ballot access into question. Adam said over to our side." Marrou's name will appear on the No- he agreed to join the Libertarians in The Libertarian Party convention ap- addresses party's vember election January 1991 mainly so voters could pealed to a wide range of groups that ballots in Maine be- have an alternative to the Democratic have sought more freedom from govern- Augusta convention cause the Libertar- and Republican parties. ment interference. By John Hale ian Party was A 53-year-old Las Vegas resident and Among other things, the Libertarians State House Bureau recognized when former Alaska state legislator, Marrou would like to do away with the personal Andrew Adam, an said in an interview that his name would income tax and abolish the Internal Rev- AUGUSTA — Andre Marrou, presi- independent candi- appear on presidential ballots in at least enue Service. That would eliminate one- dent:al candidate of the Libertarian date who gathered 30 states and he was trying to make the third of the government's income, but Part:, blamed many of the nation's almost 10 percent of ballot in all 50 states. Libertarians would compensate by do- prot: ems Sunday on the big-government the gubernatorial Asked what he hopes to achieve with ing things like eliminating foreign aid policies of the Democratic and Republi- vote in 1990, be- this campaign, Marrou said, "We're and bringing all troops home from can parties. came a Libertarian building a major party. Ross Perot is overseas. "Democrats want to be your mommy. after the election. Andre Marrou not. He's into a one-man movement. "Ours is the only philosophy that Republicans want to be your daddy. We But Adam decided to abandon the Lib- We're the party of the founding fathers. wants to increase both economic rights Liber.arians want to treat you as ertarians on the eve of their state con- Thomas Jefferson said that government and personal rights," Marrou told the adults." Marrou told about 60 people vention, saying he will promote Perot's govez best which governs least. See LIBERTARIAN on Page 3 •

St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press SUNDAY, JUNE 29. ::72 5 B Libertarian Party offers voters another anti-government choice less Intrusive, said Bojarski, who By CHERYL WITTENAUER They favor legalizing victimless spoke at a very small gathering of Crimes, such as proStfillti011, not News-Press Stall Writer supporters Saturday in Hyde of a belief that government Park. Presumed presidential candi- should not legislate morality. date Ross Perot is not the only al- She was there to explain some Libertarians believe that crimi. ternative to the Democratic and of the tenets of the Libertarian nalizing drug use only serves to Republican parties. Party and drum up support for create opportunities for obscene The Libertarian Party, founded Libertarian presidential candi- profits, Bojarski said. by dissident Republicans and date Andre Marrou's sweep They also are appalled by the through Missouri July 7-13. Democrats In 1972, offers a little degradation of personal rights of both of the two major parties. Marrou, who served in the Al- guaranteed by the Constitution. But ultimately, it is an animal aska Legislature, will be in Kan. There is more censorship and unto itself. If there is one phrase sas City on July 8. Marrou was police can more easily conduct that captures the Libertarian the Libertarian Party vice presi- searches and seize property, I3M. Party's essence, anti-big govern. dential candidate In 1988. arski said. meat is it. Libertarians are conservative She said Libertarians are not And because almost no one is economically, believing that gov- pro-abortion, but they believe happy with government, there ernment should not Interfere government should not make could be a place for Libertarians. with business, said Mike Bozarth decisions for women about their of Clarksdale, Mo.. the party's 8th bodies. They are against federally "The Democrats say govern- Congressional District chairman. ment will be my mother, the Re- funded abortions. publicans say government will be They also think people should The party has until Aug. 3 to be free my father. The libertarians just to do what they want as collect 25.000 signatures of ret•is., . want .to treat me like an adult," long as they don't infringe on the tered voters in order to list Liber- rights of others or use force. said Jeanne Bojarski of Kansas tarian candidates on the ballot. City, the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate. Donna's Wayne Coy, left, talked with Bernard Reynolds during the Libertarian Party's picnic. They believe in greatly reduced 17-741, 177M1,..11M,,j taxes and a government that is Drapery Sho`p (Free Instaitati6n IrrMinflitinds King Hill Plaza both drastically scaled back and Making quality drapes for 20 years Free Parma. 6958 King Hill Ave. Helena, Mo. Ph. 369-24d5 St. Joseph

The News-Sun, June 5 1992 Ex-Grayslaker pushes Libertarian prexy candidate

Former Grayslake resident Jo company and holds an MBA from Jorgensen Is back In her home- Southern Methodist University. town for a week, helping to gather She is married to Dr. Sutton Gra- signatures on petitions to place ham II and they have two chil- the Libertarian Party on the Illi- dren. nois ballot in the November gen- The Libertarian Party offers a eral election. marked contrast to Republicans, Jorgensen, now a resident of Democrats or H. Ross Perot, she Greenville, S.C., is a Libertarian said. Party candidate for the U.S. "Liberals believe in personal House of Representatives in the freedom but not economic free- 4th District. It is her first run for dom. Conservatives believe in elected office. economic freedom but not person- The party is on the ballot in 25 al freedom. We believe in both," states, but members must get peti- she said. "We believe in freedom tions signed by 25,000 Illinois resi- — people should make their own dents by Aug. 3 to be listed on the decisions and not government. Illinois ballot. The only legitimate function of Jorgensen, 35, and a 1975 grad- government should be to protect uate of Grayslake High School, people from force and fraud." traveled home to help gather peti- Libertarians, Jorgensen said, fa- tion signatures in Grayslake and vor legalizing drugs, prostitution News-Sun Photo at a weekend civic festival in Ro- and gambling, oppose gun control Jo Jorgensen, lett, is in her old hometown Party candidate on the presidential ballot. selle. and are for privatizing the wel- collecting signatures to put a Libertarian Assisting, at right, is John Kasher. She Is president of a software fare system.