The OfficialMon Newsletter of the Libertarian Party of Californiathly November 2000
I WANT YOU TO BE FREE by Harry Browne I am running for President because I want you to be free … • Free to live your life as you think it should be lived, not as Al Gore or George W. Bush thinks you should live it; • Free to raise your children by your values, not those of some far-off bureaucrat who sees your children as foot soldiers in a plan to create a Brave New World; • Free to keep every dollar you earn—and spend it, save it, give it away as you think best, not as the politicians will allow after they’ve spent what they want.
In practice, this means I want to: • Free you from the income tax by making the federal government so small it can handle its constitutional functions with just the tariffs and excise taxes already being collected. • Unlock the door and let you out of the fraudulent Social Security system—so you can decide how much of your income to save and what to do with those savings, and so you can enjoy a truly safe and prosperous retirement. And for those already dependent on Social Security, provide a private annuity financed by selling unneeded government assets. No longer should you have to depend on politicians for your BROWNE retirement. & OLIVIER • End the insane War on Drugs that has turned the drug business over to criminal November 7 gangs, locked up a million nonviolent Americans, spawned law-enforcement corruption, and provided a justification for destroying your individual liberty— whether or not you have any interest in drugs.
Support ALL the George W. Bush, Al Gore, Pat Buchanan, and Ralph Nader are arguing over one basic issue: Libertarian candidates which one is best qualified to run your life? Which one knows best what kind of school your – for partisan and child should attend? Which one knows how your health-insurance company should treat you? non-partisan offices! Which one knows best how to organize the economy, determine how much of your own money you should be allowed to keep, and decide what is a proper way for you to live?
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LP POSITIONS ON PROPOSITIONS ▲ 300 Candidates ...... 6, 7 The Executive Committee of the LPC has taken the following positions on ▲ Calendar ...... 4 propositions to be voted on in the November election. ▲ Chair’s Report ...... 3 NO Prop. 32: AB2305, Bond: Veteran's Bond Act of 2000. ▲ Director’s Report ...... 8 NO Prop. 33: ACA 12, Legislature: Retirement. ▲ Letters to the Editor ...... 2 NO Prop. 34: SB 122, Campaign Contributions and Expenditures. ▲ LPC Contacts ...... 10, 11 YES Prop. 35: Public Works Projects. Use of Private Contractors. ▲ Obituary – Cal Wallis ...... 9 YES Prop. 36: Drug Treatment Diversion Program. ▲ Politics As Usual ...... 5 YES Prop. 37: Fees, Taxes. New Definitions, Vote Requirements. ▲ Propositions ...... Front YES Prop. 38: School Vouchers. ▲ NO Prop. 39: School Facilities. Quick Quips ...... 3, 5 ▲ Web Sites ...... 8 Monthly LETTERS TO THE EDITOR LIBERTARIANS PROTEST BRUTALITY BULLET VOTE WILL HELP LIBERTARIANS WIN! November 2000 Libertarians made a good showing at the October The Bullet Vote is a tool we should all be familiar Editor: Betsy Mill 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police with.Whenever you are presented with a “choose Associate Editor Brutality in Los Angeles. We carried a Party banner more than one” scenario on a ballot, it is important Joseph W. Dehn III and handed out lots of flyers. (See photos below.) to vote only for the libertarian candidate. Don’t Contributors I posted photos of the event, from the initial “waste” your other votes on that issue or race. By Harry Browne assembly to the face-off against the LAPD at Parker selecting ONLY the Libertarian and denying your Mike Ford Center, at: support for the other candidates, you are J R Graham http://home.earthlink.net/~jamiranda/oct2000photos.html REDUCING the number of votes that the opponents Mark Hinkle are receiving. Erik Jay Also, check the revised Libertarian Coordination Joseph Miranda page at: Remember…when presented with a slate and Juan Ros http://home.earthlink.net/~jamiranda/libertydemo.html allowed to select two or more…select only the Lawrence Samuels libertarian candidate and leave the other options Among other things at my site, I have new Marvin Simkin blank! Aaron Starr instructions on how to write a press release, a most For instance, if you are presented with a slate of Thomas Stott useful item. Gene Trosper Joseph Miranda, [email protected] four candidates for a three member board, like the Leucadia Water Board, you will want to vote only COMMENTS ON THE LP PLEDGE for me (Mike Ford) and leave the other two choices Mailing Address I am one who thinks of the pledge as not just “a blank, thereby simultaneously increasing my vote LPC Monthly central tenet” but THE ONLY foundation for count and reducing the vote count for the other 4244 Mt. Hukee Ave. everything my party advocates. Taxes can’t be candidates. San Diego CA 92117 collected unless the tax taker is willing to initiate The bullet vote is a powerful tool…learn it, know E-mail Address force. Drugs can’t be prohibited unless the it, live it. And get the word out. Using it we can [email protected] enFORCEment people are prepared to initiate force. increase our representation on school boards, water Crime CAN be punished because the victim does boards, fire districts, city councils and so on. Fax Number NOT initiate force, but rather RESPONDS to an (858) 565-8901 attack using force in self defense. If you are at all unclear on this, phone me. Mike Ford, (760) 942.9448 Online Edition “Government” is the word we use for initiating http://www.ca.lp.org/lpcm/ force. “Liberty” can be defined as not initiating HEAR LIBERTY ANTHEM! force. I am a longtime LP member and have a CD of original DECEMBER Deadline I think the wording of our pledge is difficult for music including one song that could be the first “liberty PRINTED Issue readers to absorb on the first pass, but my efforts to anthem” of the new century — I’M NOT November 15, 2000 “simplify” or “clarify” it usually fail under careful SUPERMAN — with the following chorus: “Don’t scrutiny. you tell me how to live my life, and I won’t tell you LPC Monthly is the official M Simkin, [email protected] what you gotta do; you know that no one here is newsletter of the Libertar- qualified to rule the other members of the zoo...” If ian Party of California. you want to hear it and have an MP3 player, head Opinions contained herein I hereby certify that I do not believe in or do not necessarily represent advocate the initiation of force as a means over to http://www.mp3.com/ErikJay and check it out! official party positions un- of achieving political or social goals If you like jazz, there’s some of that, too! less indicated. Erik Jay, [email protected] LPC Monthly is published twelve times a year. Send materials for publi- cation to LPC Monthly’s mailing address. All sub- missions are subject to editing. Deadline is the fifteenth day of every month. Send changes of address to national office: Libertarian Party 2600 Virginia Ave. NW Suite #100 Libertarians joined with about a thousand others to protest police brutality in Los Angeles on October 22. Washington DC 20037 The LP contingent marched to Parker Center (and dodged some rubber bullets) to make their point. Joseph Miranda, [email protected]
2 LPC Monthly November 2000 LIBERTARIAN PARTY UPDATES From the Chair: Thank You! We, as a Party, set two main internal goals this year: 1. Increase our dues-paying membership to 7,000 Our generous donors and pledgers will be 2. Increase our monthly pledge base to $6,000 per month. honored in the next printed issue Goal 1: The September LPC membership was 6097. With the focus (December) of this newsletter. on the elections, we have not directed sufficient resources toward To join our Monthly Pledge Program, membership growth. Now that the elections are over, we must contribute to Operation Breakthrough, or concentrate on membership growth once again. MARK HINKLE make a general contribution for party Goal 2: The September monthly pledge base was $4,672.15 coming operations, please contact Juan Ros at from 223 individuals. Thanks to the recently concluded tele-marketing campaign, and (818) 782-8400, or the generous response by our membership, the new monthly pledge total is $5,432.15, E-mail: [email protected]. plus additional pledges being passed through to the local regions. By the time you read this, the November 7th elections will be history. Like all elections during the Libertarian Party’s history, there will be wins and losses. A few candidates QUICK QUIP will win, most will not. Some of the propositions that we supported and opposed will go Profit is the antidote to poverty … so, isn’t our way. It’s unlikely that everything will go our way. it a hoot that the elected politicians chose to fund their so-called “war on poverty” That being said, we should avoid the post election depression that often comes to political by making war on profit? That’s like activists, especially after a presidential election year. A quick review of our progress over fighting syphilis with a war on penicillin, the last four years is quite impressive. Let’s review our progress at the national level, the or fighting AIDS by outlawing condoms! state level, and then the local scene. J R Graham Since we have the same presidential candidate as four years ago, it’s clear that significant [email protected] progress has been made. Harry Browne has appeared on a number of nationwide TV shows. He’s included in a number of polls. They’ve produced TV ads…and shown them nationally. The LNC has the largest budget in its history. We have more candidates than INTERNS/VOLUNTEERS ever before. We have more elected and appointed office holders than ever before. Our WANTED! dues-paying membership has more than doubled and voter registration numbers have Help the Libertarian Party of never been higher. California On the California front, four years ago we were a part-time volunteer organization with a If you live in the Los Angeles area, you $71,000 budget. Today, we have a full-time Executive Director, Juan Ros, a part-time assistant, are invited to volunteer or intern with Alex Goldbert, two part-time contractors, and an office. We’ve quadrupled our budget to the LPC! Contact LPC Executive $305,000. We had 2,100 members then, and now 6,097. Four years ago, we were worrying Director Juan Ros at (818) 782-8400, about losing ballot status. Today, we have 94,538 registered libertarians (an all-time high). E-mail: [email protected]. That’s over the required 1% needed to maintain ballot status. We’re mentioned in the media over 1,600 times so far this year. Just another record year for the LPC. Paid Advertisement Locally, in 2000, we ran 305 local candidates, with a few reelections and some more elected for the first time. 305 candidates is more than double our previous best. We have more active regions than ever before, with only a handful yet to be organized, and those in the smallest, less populated, counties. Thanks to the Unified Membership Plan (UMP), local membership, local activists, and the funds they contribute, have never been higher. So, now that the election is over, take a deep breath, enjoy the successes, learn from the failures, and get back to work. Our country’s founders struggled for years to give birth to the United States. Our battle, while non-violent, is just as large and, at time, quite daunting. However, remember the goal: freedom in our lifetime. Your participation and contributions fuel our successes. Yours in liberty, Mark W. A. Hinkle IDENTIFICATION STATEMENT 1. Title: LPC Monthly Advertise in this Newsletter! 2. Issue date: November 2000 3. Statement of Frequency: Monthly Reach over 7,000 Libertarians with your product or your message! 4. Issue Number: Issue 11 $75 for 1/8 page (3.75”x2.25”) Mail check to: 5. Subscription: free w/membership $125 for 1/4 page (7.5”x2.25”) LPC Monthly 6. Authorized Organization: $250 for 1/2 page (7.5”x5”) Libertarian Party of CA 4244 Mt. Hukee Ave. 4547 Titus Street, #214 We reserve the right to refuse ads. San Diego CA 92117 Panorama City CA 91402-4935
November 2000 LPC Monthly 3 CALENDAR NOTABLE QUOTABLE Back in revolutionary days, Englishmen John Trenchard and TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, VOTE! Thomas Gordon wrote: Election Day! Be sure to vote for the en, when they first enter into [office], have often their Libertarians in your area! Almost 300 former condition before their eyes. They remember what Libertarians are running! Mthey themselves suffered from the abuse of power; so their first purposes are to be humble, modest and just; and probably, NOVEMBER 10-12 for some time, they continue so. But the possession of power soon Student Seminar: Freedom and Civil Society, Foundation for alters their hearts. First they grow indifferent. Next, they lose their Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY. Phone: (914) 591- moderation. Afterwards, they renounce all measures with their old 7230. E-Mail: [email protected]. principles, and grow in conceit, a different species from their fellow subjects. And so, by too sudden degrees become insolent, rapacious FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 and tyrannical. So that the only way to put them in mind of their Cato City Seminar, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC. Phone: (202) former condition, and consequently of the condition of other people, 789-5229 or visit: www.cato.org. is often to reduce them to it. A rotation, therefore, in power and [office], is necessary to a free government. DECEMBER 9-10 U. S. Term Limits Foundation, Weekly Commentary #237 Libertarian National Committee Meeting, Washington, DC. Paid Advertisement Phone (202) 333-0008 Ext. 228. YEAR 2001 FEBRUARY 16–19 LPC Convention, Doubletree Hotel, San Jose. Contact: Cullene 6.9¢ Lang (916) 362-0855, E-mail: [email protected]. OR LESS AUGUST 25–26 Regional Conference. Third Annual Conference of the Regional PER MINUTE Parties, in Fresno. Contact Rodney Austin.
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POLITICS AS USUAL BIG BROTHER IS BAKING COOKIES rules, the children must take three days off reveals that the state’s milk drinkers Wired News reports that Federal agencies if they are infected with the lice to ensure actually get far less calcium from milk than are ignoring White House instructions not they do not pass them to other youngsters. residents of nearby states as a result of those to use cookies on government Web sites. But the authorities have stepped in after policies. “Consumers in nearby states are Dozens of U.S. government sites, including they discovered children were deliberately getting as much as 64% more calcium from ones operated by the Justice Department, infecting themselves. A Bulgarian the milk in their diets than Californians, on the Defense Department, and the Energy education spokesman said: “This a per capita basis,” said Audrie Krause, Department continue sending cookies to the regulation, aimed at stopping head lice director of Mad About Milk and author of computers of unsuspecting visitors. An spreading, appears to have worked against the report. “This is clearly the result of investigation by Wired News shows that us, especially when there are a lot of California’s ban on the wholesome, natural these agencies and many others appear to exams.” milk that is approved by the U.S. Food and be violating a Clinton administration The Metro (London), October 2, 2000 Drug Administration (FDA) and sold in the directive that halted the controversial other 49 states. Combined with laws that HEROIN FUNGUS: practice. Government use of cookies may prohibit retail grocers from selling milk at POTENTIAL DISASTER also run afoul of a 1974 privacy law. a discount, it’s discouraging Californians Cato Daily Dispatch, June 30, 2000 A novel weapon in the global war against from drinking as much milk as consumers Submitted by [email protected] heroin, a fungus that destroys opium in neighboring states.” poppies might lead to an ecological disaster, BUSINESS WIRE, August 10, 2000 TAXED TO DEATH scientists fear. Britain and the U.S. are New York doubled its cigarette tax to a funding researchers in Uzbeckistan to work BIG BROTHER ABUSES highest-in-the-nation $1.11—and has hit on the biological weapon, which they claim In testimony before Congress, Solveig small convenience stores in the process. could lay waste to millions of opium Singleton (author of How Big Brother Cigarette sales are off 30 percent to 60 poppies in central Asia. UN documents Began) discussed the dangers of percent since March 1, when the state added highlight the possibility that once the government collection of individuals’ data 55 cents to the price of a pack. Particularly fungus is spread, it might be difficult to because “it alone has the power of arrest hard-hit are stores anywhere near contain. There is also concern that the and prosecution, and to demand asset Pennsylvania or ones near a tax-free Indian fungus may mutate, or be used on food forfeitures. Abuses of information collected reservation. crops in offensive biological warfare. It is by government in the past, show that Reason-Express: July 17, 2000 estimated the fungus would be ready for government will not observe safeguards regular use within three years. intended to prevent the abuse of the power REGULATIONS RARELY WORK: The Guardian (Manchester), Oct. 2, 2000 to collect information.” EVEN IN GRADE SCHOOL Cato Daily Dispatch, June 30, 2000 POLICIES LOWER CALCIUM INTAKE Children in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia Submitted by [email protected] have been keeping head lice in matchboxes Putting the lie to dairy industry arguments to sell to each other – so they can get time supporting California’s protectionist milk off school. Under education department policies, a new Mad About Milk report QUICK QUIP There is no virtue in compulsory Growth Watch government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays Goal: 7,000 Sep-00 6097 himself as caring and sensitive because he Membership September 30, 2000: 6097 Aug-00 6246 wants to expand the government’s Jul-00 6174 charitable programs is merely saying that Jun-00 6216 he is willing to do good with others people’s May-00 6352 money. Well, who isn’t? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is Apr-00 6415 telling us that he will do good with his own Mar-00 6424 money - if a gun is held to his head. Feb-00 6217 P.J. O’Rourke Jan-00 6298 Dec-99 6438 Nov-99 6536 Oct-99 6430 Sep-99 6532
November 2000 LPC Monthly 5 Libertarians in NON-PARTISAN RACES ✔ Find Your Candidates! ✔ Support Your Candidates! ✔ Help Fund Your Candidates!
Alameda County [email protected] Yena Ferrara Don Osberg Melisse Lusin Peter Aguilar Phil Fortin Donald Fisk [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Paris Guy Richard Fraim San Diego County Kelly McKnight* [email protected] Neal Franks Howard Van Jepmond Erik Bergesen Lynn Badler Richard Hettish Harriet Goren [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Joyce Hiller Bill Hajdu Dee Ann Dugan John Barry Benintende Santa Barbara County Rick Horner [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kenneth Emmett [email protected] Christopher Harris Christopher Housh Carolyn Capps Michael Favorite Andrew Kelley Willa Johns [email protected] J. Melville Capps Greg Flores Helen Lechner James Kaufman James Jensen [email protected] Keith Millsap Patrick Lewis [email protected] [email protected] Thomas Dougherty Clyde Steele Loren Louthan Timothy Kershner Alan Johnson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mark Lambert [email protected] Ray English* William Wagener Joseph Miller William Little David Lee [email protected] [email protected] Kathleen Paz Karen Martin [email protected] John Flanagan Carole Wagener Deanna Peugeot [email protected] Joyce Lucas-Clark [email protected] [email protected] Glen Montgomery Santa Clara County [email protected] Michael Ford John Russell Richard Nelson Perr Cardestam Wyndham Robertson [email protected] Michael Rusth Richard Pascoe Gilbert Carroll* [email protected] Dale Frederick Richard Schwartz Gregory Russell Pauline Curiel Deanna Grasso Contra Costa County [email protected] Alphonse Rynties Leyla Hansen Kenneth Hamilton Andrew Cleary Edward Sewall [email protected] Mark Hinkle [email protected] [email protected] Richard Stamp Douglas Scribner [email protected] Joseph Henchman Joseph Crandall [email protected] [email protected] Jon Hugdahl [email protected] [email protected] Bruce Thompson Paul Studier [email protected] Damon Hyde Barbara Kowall [email protected] [email protected] Gary Molle* [email protected] Ron Nevels Chuck Valvo Reginald Thatcher [email protected] Sharon Jurist [email protected] [email protected] Michael Vardoulis Marvin Rudin Mark Laythorpe Frank Raymonde Rick Wagner James Vest [email protected] [email protected] Roy Simmons Diana Wheeler Norm Westwell Paul Simoni Robert Mendez [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ian Noble George Steffner William Wheeler Pol Vanrhee Placer County [email protected] Scott Wilson [email protected] Deborah Walkup Erik Henrikson Don Osberg [email protected] Kennita Watson Marin County Thomas Murphy Wallace Stewart [email protected] El Dorado County Robert Baker [email protected] [email protected] Leonard Salsbury Santa Cruz County Mariposa County Will Swim Bruce Strachan [email protected] [email protected] Skip Matthes Fresno County Eleanor Keuning Linda Strom Christopher Montney Jonathan Richter [email protected] Sacramento County [email protected] Wayne Orwig [email protected] Gary Bingham Monterey County David Turgeon Burnard Brady Sonoma County Kern County Robert Pack [email protected] Teri Kahn Joseph Corey Edward Brochu Refugio Rocha Orange County Stewart Gardner San Francisco County James Bryant Ronald Spradley Samuel B. Allerton James Hansen Tom D’Amico John Dennison* Mike Anfinson Helen Loretz Vernon Dahl Dennis James Los Angeles County Jeff Arneson Eric Lund [email protected] David Reis Robert Abadjian Rod Black [email protected] Philip Leveton Stanislaus County David Argall Geoff Braun* Melissa Manfre James Lowrie Ken Holman [email protected] John Braze Michael McFarland Elizabeth Spurr McCoy Mark Baldwin [email protected] [email protected] Lester Oliver San Mateo County Greg Bashem John Briscoe William E. Thompson Ventura County Rodd Bench [email protected] Jeffrey Byrnes Jackie Walden Richard Dilwith Kim Epperson David Bowers Scott Carroll Raymond Irvine San Benito County [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kate O’Brien Paul Grannis Robert A. Green J. Diane Boyd Mary Carter Christofer Olson [email protected] Elizabeth Harper [email protected] Kenneth Cummings Tanya Quin [email protected] Michael Conness [email protected] San Bernardino County Bernard Rosenberg Jack Hickey Alan Cuperus Robert Darmanesh Dale Frederick Helen Webb [email protected] [email protected] Kevin Dooley Michalene Douglas [email protected] *Election won by default, will not appear on November ballot. [email protected] Samuel Dorrington Richard Elliott Note: some districts, such as Bay Area Rapid Transit, are shared by more than one [email protected] county. Candidates are listed according to their county of residence. Donald Falkenberg Armondo Estrada 6 LPC Monthly November 2000 LIBERTARIAN PARTISAN CANDIDATES ✔ Find Your Candidates! ✔ Support Your Candidates! ✔ Help Fund Your Candidates!
US Senate Gail Lightfoot [email protected] State Assembly District 1 Josh Gilleo [email protected] US Rep. District 1 Emil Rossi State Assembly District 2 Pete Bret US Rep. District 2 Charles Martin [email protected] State Assembly District 3 Bill Thomason [email protected] US Rep. District 3 D. A. “Art” Tuma [email protected] State Assembly District 5 Gene Frazier [email protected] US Rep. District 4 William Frey [email protected] US Rep. District 5 Cullene Lang [email protected] State Assembly District 6 Richard Olmstead US Rep. District 6 Richard Barton State Assembly District 7 Bill Schoeffler [email protected] US Rep. District 8 Erik Bauman State Assembly District 10 Tom Kohlhepp [email protected] US Rep. District 9 Fred Foldvary [email protected] State Assembly District 11 Frank Manske [email protected] US Rep. District 11 Kathryn A. Russow [email protected] State Assembly District 13 Starchild [email protected] US Rep. District 12 Barbara Less State Assembly District 14 Daniel Burton [email protected] US Rep. District 13 Howard Mora [email protected] US Rep. District 14 Joe Dehn [email protected] State Assembly District 16 Richard [email protected] US Rep. District 15 Ed Wimmers [email protected] State Assembly District 17 Roy Busch US Rep. District 16 Dennis Umphress [email protected] State Assembly District 19 Steve Lundry US Rep. District 17 Rick Garrett [email protected] State Assembly District 20 Mark Werlwas [email protected] US Rep. District 19 Elizabeth Taylor State Assembly District 23 Dana Albrecht [email protected] US Rep. District 20 Arnold Kriegbaum [email protected] State Assembly District 24 Ray Strong [email protected] US Rep. District 21 James Manion [email protected] US Rep. 22 Joe Furcinite [email protected] State Assembly District 25 Jonathan Zwickel [email protected] US Rep. District 23 Roger Peebles [email protected] State Assembly District 27 David Bonino [email protected] US Rep. District 24 Juan Ros [email protected] State Assembly District 28 Roger Ver [email protected] US Rep. District 25 Bruce Acker [email protected] State Assembly District 29 Ron Drioane [email protected] US Rep. District 26 Bill Farley [email protected] State Assembly District 32 Rick Pinkerton [email protected] US Rep. District 27 Ted Brown [email protected] State Assembly District 36 Greg Bashem [email protected] US Rep. District 28 Randall Weissbuch [email protected] US Rep. District 29 Jack Anderson [email protected] State Assembly District 37 Willard Michlin [email protected] US Rep. District 30 Jason Heath [email protected] State Assembly District 38 Philip Baron [email protected] US Rep. District 31 Michael “Mick” McGuire [email protected] State Assembly District 39 Kit Maira [email protected] US Rep. District 32 Bob Weber [email protected] State Assembly District 40 Kelley Ross [email protected] US Rep. District 33 Nathan Craddock [email protected] State Assembly District 41 Colin Goldman [email protected] US Rep. District 36 Daniel Sherman [email protected] State Assembly District 42 Mark Selzer [email protected] US Rep. District 37 Herbert Peters [email protected] US Rep. District 38 Jack Neglia State Assembly District 44 Jerry Douglas [email protected] US Rep. District 39 Keith Gann [email protected] State Assembly District 47 Scott Pacer [email protected] US Rep. District 40 Jay Lindberg State Assembly District 53 Phil Howitt [email protected] US Rep. District 42 John Scott Ballard [email protected] State Assembly District 54 Dale Ogden [email protected] US Rep. District 43 Bill Reed [email protected] State Assembly District 55 Guy Wilson [email protected] US Rep. District 45 Don Hull [email protected] State Assembly District 59 George White [email protected] US Rep. District 46 Richard Boddie [email protected] US Rep. District 47 David Nolan [email protected] State Assembly District 60 Scott Young [email protected] US Rep. District 48 Joe Cobb [email protected] State Assembly District 61 David Kocot [email protected] US Rep. District 49 Doris Ball [email protected] State Assembly District 62 Henry Matus US Rep. District 50 Dave Willoughby [email protected] State Assembly District 63 Ethel Mohler [email protected] US Rep. District 51 Dan Muhe [email protected] State Assembly District 64 Phil Turner [email protected] US Rep. District 52 Mike Benoit [email protected] State Assembly District 65 Bonnie Flickinger [email protected] State Senate District 1 Jon Petersen [email protected] State Senate District 5 Carole Brow [email protected] State Assembly District 67 Autumn Browne [email protected] State Senate District 9 James Eyer [email protected] State Assembly District 68 Richard Newhouse State Senate District 11 Jack Hickey [email protected] State Assembly District 70 Bob Vondruska [email protected] State Senate District 13 John Webster [email protected] State Assembly District 71 Brian Lee Cross [email protected] State Senate District 15 Gordon Sachtjen [email protected] State Assembly District 73 Paul King [email protected] State Senate District 17 John Gibson [email protected] State Assembly District 74 Tom Hohman [email protected] State Senate District 21 Bob New State Senate District 23 Charles Black [email protected] State Assembly District 75 Gary Pietila [email protected] State Senate District 29 Leland Faegre [email protected] State Assembly District 76 David Oakey [email protected] State Senate District 31 Fritz Ward [email protected] State Assembly District 77 Mike Metti [email protected] State Senate District 33 Michael Chacon [email protected] State Assembly District 78 Dennis Triglia [email protected] State Senate District 35 Paul Studier [email protected] State Assembly District 79 Richard Cardulla [email protected] State Senate District 37 Donna Tello [email protected] State Assembly District 80 Susan Marie Weber [email protected] State Senate District 39 Rusty Nichols [email protected] November 2000 LPC Monthly 7 CALIFORNIA FULL STEAM AHEAD NOTEWORTHY WEB SITES! PRIOR TO ELECTION DAY ADVOCATES FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF HI-TECH Pulls out all the stops in homestretch http://www.self-gov.org/ http://www.techleadership.org HARRY BROWNE FOR PRESIDENT GROW THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY LPC Executive Dir– www.HarryBrowne.org http://www.GrowTheLp.org ector Juan Ros dug his heels in and attacked CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT INFO GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT on all fronts in an Register to vote: http://www.ss.ca.gov Contains graph presentations of the growth attempt to obtain as CALIFORNIA PROPOSITIONS of government and taxes, etc., with much free media for & VOTER PAMPHLETS commensurate drops in productivity, voter the LPC and LP Contains all the California propositions and turnout. candidates prior to the voter pamphlet materials back to 1944 from http://mwhodges.home.att.net/hodges.htm election. a citeable source. GUN OWNERS HOME PAGE JUAN ROS “This is one of the most http://www.scu.edu/law/pubs/Props.htm http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com important elections in CALIFORNIA LIBERTARIAN PARTY HANDGUNS recent memory for the LPC. The party has http://www.ca.lp.org/ Current list of handguns approved by undergone a massive change in policy and CANDIDATES! CANDIDATES! California Department of Justice. Effective direction, resulting in more members, more For a complete list of California Libertarian January, 2001, no handgun may be support, and more candidates. This year’s candidates sorted by county, by type of office, manufactured or brought into California election is the first opportunity we have to take and alphabetically, visit the LPC web site at unless that handgun model has passed tests advantage of that growth,” Ros said. http://www.ca.lp.org/e2000/. by the CA DOJ. Among Ros’s activities over the final few Alphabetically by name: http://caag.state.ca.us/firearms/certlist.htm weeks leading up to the election were: http://www.ca.lp.org/e2000/alpha.html HERITAGE FOUNDATION • A last-minute burst of campaign Listing by county: Good political column delivered by daily appearances for his own congressional http://www.ca.lp.org/e2000/local.html E-mail service. Sign up at campaign, including a taped candidate Listing by type: http://www.townhall.com/columnists. debate for Adelphia Communications http://www.ca.lp.org/e2000/local-type.html that reaches about 900,000 homes. Ros INS PETITIONS TO STOP CHECKPTS DRUG WAR CLOCK attacked Democratic incumbent Brad http://www.lprc.org/inspetition.htm Shows what the “War on Drugs” has cost. Sherman (24th Congressional District) http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm STEVE KUBBY TRIAL AND INFO for being disingenuous when Sherman http://www.kubby.com/AMMA.html claimed in his opening statement that BONNIE FLICKINGER FOR ASSEMBLY he was “100% pro-choice.” http://www.Flickinger4assembly.com LIBERTARIAN PARTY NATIONAL “Congressman Sherman is far from http://www.lp.org ‘100% pro-choice’: he would not give • Ros was also interviewed 11 times in LIBERTARIAN NATIONAL PLATFORM his constituents the right to choose how Includes changes made at the July 2000 to spend every penny they earn, or how October by various media outlets, including the North County Times convention. http://www.dehnbase.org/lpus/ to save for their retirement, or even library/platform/ what substances to put into their (San Diego County), Orange County bodies.” Ros also appeared at a Register, Los Angeles Times, Ventura LPC ACTIVIST RESOURCES Universal City-North Hollywood County Star, Pasadena Weekly, and http://www.ca.lp.org/act/ Chamber of Commerce breakfast San Jose Mercury News, on a variety of LP-related subjects. LIBERTARIAN ROCK WEB SITE forum and at a Cal State-Northridge http://www.libertarianrock.com candidate event. Ros’s plan for the next two weeks? Deluge • Interviews by KFWB newsradio (Los newsrooms with press releases. “I have LIGHTFOOT FOR SENATE CAMPAIGN Angeles) on two different subjects three that I am working on simultaneously, http://www.Lighfoot2000.org prompted by LPC news releases: the and ideas for a few more. Now is the time RATIONAL RECOVERY record number of registered Libertarian to do a press release blitz!” Ros said. Rational alternative to 12-step programs for voters in California and Proposition 32. And after the election? “I expect that we’ll treating addiction. As of September 8, there we 91,472 have some new Libertarian officeholders, http://www.rational.org/recovery registered Libertarians: an all-time high thanks to our candidate recruitment project VIN SUPRYNOWIC BOOK REVIEW for the LPC. Ros also appeared on the Operation Breakthrough,” Ros pointed out. Vin’s book Send in the Waco Killers – “Tony the Weatherscout” online radio “After I call each one to congratulate them Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993- show at AdrenalineRadio.com. I think I’ll take a few days off!” ■ 1998 review is at: Continued in next column http://www.free-market.net/features/ 8 LPC Monthly bookofthemonth/ November 2000 AROUND THE STATE
LP VOTER REGISTRATIONS ARE UP! The new voter registration numbers have been released, and the news is excellent. LP registrations have reached 91,472 as of September 8th, a 4.92% increase since February of this year. Registrations as a percentage of all registered voters increased to Calvin Wallis 0.60%. This is an all-time record high for the LP since achieving ballot status in early 1980! will be greatly missed This is significant because the LP continues to pull away from the 1% voter registration threshold — currently at 86,212 but expected to increase slightly in 2002 — needed to maintain ballot status if Calvin was a physician and Methodist missionary who no statewide candidate achieves 2% of the vote. This virtually continued to serve throughout his life. Even in retirement, assures our ballot status in 2002 and future elections assuming the he worked as a physician at the Methodist Retirement Center trend holds (and assuming no change in election law). where he lived. Calvin Wallis was a Life Member of the LP and long-time attendee at Region 67’s Supper Club. The Secretary of State has complete county and district breakdowns ••• of registered voters at http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_u.htm. Calvin has been a loyal supporter of the LP for several Juan Ros, Executive Director LPC decades. He knew our fight for freedom would not be easy or short. He was in it for the long haul. The progress we PETITION AGAINST THE INS make today was built upon the foundation built by the likes Let’s make some waves and have a positive effect on liberty! of Calvin Wallis. I was very sorry to hear of his passing. Sadly, Mark Hinkle, LPC Chair Visit the following link to print out a petition aimed at closing the INS checkpoints placed on our freeways and highways. http://www.lprc.org/inspetition.htm ncluding partisan candidates, I do Gather as many signatures as possible and send them my way after believe that 500 (CA Libertarian) each sheet is completely filled out. Once the elections are over candidates is an achievable goal in the and a new Congress is installed, we will submit the petitions to I 2001-2002 election cycle. Capitol Hill. Aaron Star, Gene Trosper, [email protected] [email protected]
Libertarians protested the I-15 INS (Immigration Naturalization Service) checkpoint on several occasions. This photo was taken at the first checkpoint protest. (Photo by Thomas Stott). November 2000 LPC Monthly 9 REGIONAL CONTACTS LPC OFFICERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Butte County (R04) Los Angeles County Chair Regional Reps Chair: Cullene Lang (also see following regions) Mark Hinkle East Bay (R-01) [email protected] (530) 894-5565 Chair: Rodger Rosie 17545 Chesbro Lake Dr. Frank Manske (510) 329-3046 Colusa County (R06) [email protected] Morgan Hill, CA 95037 [email protected] Contact: Yvonne Dacoda (562) 865-4089, www.lplac.org (530) 458-7690 LA: Antelope Valley (R68) (408) 921-0414 Jeffrey R. Sommer (Alternate) Co-Chair: Greg Bashem (408) 778-1115 (fax) (510) 537-3212 Del Norte County (R08) [email protected] Contact: Ronald Thompson [email protected], (661) 942-2843 [email protected] [email protected] www.lplac.org/68.htm Northern Vice Chair Los Angeles/San Fernando (707) 464-5937 Rodney K. Austin LA: Central (R64) Valley (R-61) East Bay 4515 E. Washington Ave. (R01) Chair: Mark Selzer Bernard Zimring (818) 785-0384 (Alameda, Contra Costa) [email protected]. (323) 469-5372 Fresno, CA 93702-2429 [email protected] Chair: Scott Campanara www.lplac.org/64.htm (559) 255-5561 [email protected] (801) 382-3282 (fax) Kit Maira (Alternate) www.busthead.com/eastbaylp/ LA: Long Beach/South Bay (R66) [email protected] (818) 361-5775 Chair: Audrey Carlan [email protected] El Dorado/Alpine (R09) [email protected] Southern Vice Chair Chair: Thomas Frederiksen (310) 377-8273 Ted Brown Orange County (R-30) [email protected] www.lplac.org/66.htm 9152 Arcadia Ave. Brian Lee Cross (714) 532-1755 (530) 621-2031 www.opine.org/alpine LA: Pasadena/Glendale (R63) San Gabriel, CA 91775 [email protected] Chair: Charles (Karl) Lembke (626) 614-0630 Bill Hajdu (Alternate) Fresno County (R10) [email protected] (626) 286-7837 (fax) (714) 499-9153 x9143 Chair: Jonathan Richter (818) 352-3406 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.lplac.org/63.htm (559) 434-8274 (559) 264-8875 (fax) Treasurer San Diego County (R- 37) LA: San Fernando Valley (R61) Eric Lund Glenn County (R11) Chair: Erich Miller Stephen Cicero (760) 754-1887 Contact: Harold White P. O. Box 276513 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected], (530) 934-7349 (818) 708-7925 Sacramento, CA 95827-6513 (916) 362-0855 Michael McGinty (Alternate) Gold Country (R03) www.lplac.org/61.htm [email protected] (619) 602-4767 (Alamador, Calaveras, Tuolumne) LA: San Gabriel Valley/East (R67) [email protected] Chair: Albert J. Segalla Chair: George White Secretary [email protected] (209) 728-2887 [email protected] Santa Clara County (R- 43) Sandi Webb Humboldt County (R12) (909) 305-0291 Jascha Lee (408) 267-6740 4250 Yukon Ave. Chair: Frederick J. Mangels www.lplac.org/67.htm [email protected] Simi Valley, CA 93063-1634 [email protected] LA: Southeast (R65) (805) 526-0958 Allen Rice (Alternate) (707) 443-6568 Chair: David Bowers [email protected] (408) 267-1142 www.wcinet.net/~freddym [email protected] [email protected] Imperial County (R13) (562) 862-6083 LP OFFICES Chair: Charles A. Phillips, Jr. www.lplac.org/65.htm National: The Libertarian Party At-Large Reps [email protected] LA: West (R62) 2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Ste. 100 (760) 356-4525 Chair: Eric Fine Lori Adasiewicz (916) 457-4796 Washington, DC 20037 www.opine.org/imperial.html [email protected] [email protected] (202) 333-0008 Inyo County (R14) Split from Mono (310) 836-0276 (202) 333-0072 (fax) José Castañeda (626) 458-5862 Chair: Wayne Ball www.lplac.org/62.htm [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (760) 873-5735 Madera/Mariposa (R20) www.opine.org/inyomono Chair: Jonathan Ira Zwickel State: Libertarian Party of California Joe Dehn (650) 858-1842 (650) 857-1209 (fax) Kern County (R15) [email protected] 14547 Titus St. #214 (559) 645-5512 [email protected] Chair: Ric Pinkerton Panorama City, CA 91402-4935 (661) 397-4935 www.opine.org/maderamariposa.html (818) 782-8400 Bruce Dovner (310) 327-9005 [email protected] Marin County (R21) (818) 782-8488 (fax) [email protected] www1.iwvisp.com/kernlib Chair: Tammy Austin [email protected] Aaron Starr (805) 583-3308 Kings County (R16) [email protected] Executive Director [email protected] Contact: TBA (415) 339-7887 Juan Ros (818) 782-8400 www.sirius.com/~pagangas Elizabeth Brierly (1st Alternate) Lake County (R17) (818) 782-8488 (fax) Dante DeAmicis Mendocino County (R23) (408) 272-3191 [email protected] [email protected] Chair: Ed Kuwatch [email protected] (707) 350-0665 [email protected] Administrative Assistant John Scott Ballard (2nd Alternate) www.lake.ca.lp.org (707) 459-3999 Alex Goldburt (818) 782-8400 www.mendocino.ca.lp.org (818) 782-8488 (fax) (909) 885-7799 Lassen County (R18) [email protected] Contact: TBA, www.lassen.ca.lp.org Merced County (R24) [email protected] Contact: David Eaton [email protected], (209) 723-7099 10 LPC Monthly Updates shown in bold, italic November 2000 REGIONAL CONTACTS (cont.) Modoc County (R25) Riverside County (R33) San Luis Obispo County (R40) Solano County (R48) Contact: John Howard Chair: Gene Trosper Chair: Ed Moss Chair: William Marshall (530) 233-4277 [email protected] (805) 489-4568 [email protected] (707) 425-1528 [email protected] (909) 244-2630 www.lpcslo.org www.freesolanocounty.com Mono County (R26) Split from Inyo www.lprc.org San Mateo County (R41) Sonoma County (R49) Contact: Marge Tendler Sacramento County (R34) Chair: Jack Hickey Chair: Bill Schoeffler [email protected] Chair: Gene Frazier [email protected] [email protected] Monterey County (R27) [email protected] (650)368-5722 http://members.aol.com/lpsonoma (916) 332-4805 www.LPSM.ORG Chair: Mark Dierolf Stanislaus County (R50) www.sacto.com/lps [email protected] Santa Barbara County (R42) Chair: Don DeGroat (831) 753-0507 San Benito County (R35) Contact: Colin Hayward [email protected] http://mclp.w3.to Chair: Kate Woods (805) 966-2629 (209) 524-1776 [email protected] www.sblp.org Napa County (R28) Sutter/Yuba (R51) Contact: William H. Crain (831) 693-4531 & (831) 693-4532 Santa Clara County (R43) Chair: Todd Herman [email protected] San Bernardino County (R36) Chair: Marv Rudin [email protected] (707) 224-5535 Chair: Steve John [email protected] (530) 673-2208 http://home.otn.net/hermanto Nevada County (R29) [email protected] (408) 736-5626 / 738-1353 (fax) Chair: Jon Petersen (909) 391-2749 www.sc.ca.lp.org Tehama County (R52) [email protected] www.lpca.com Santa Cruz County (R44) Chair: Ross Crain (530) 527-2676 (530) 272-9320 / 272-9259 (fax) San Diego County (R37) Chair: O. Robert Welch Trinity County (R53) www.livingfree.org/nclp/ Contact: Richard Rider [email protected] Chair: Jeanne Simmons Orange County (R30) [email protected] (831) 338-4612 [email protected] (530) 623-3185 Chair: Bill Todd (858) 530-1776 / 530-3030 (fax) www.santacruzlp.org www.trinity.ca.lp.org [email protected] www.sdlp.org Shasta County (R45) (714) 957-6833 San Francisco County (R38) Chair: Steve Preszler Tulare County (R54) www.lpoc.org Chair: David Molony [email protected] Contact: Mark Corley [email protected] (530) 222-3338 [email protected] Placer County (R31) (559) 735-0304 Chair: Priscilla Falconi (415) 820-3923 Chair www.shasta.ca.lp.org (415) 775-LPSF Party [email protected] Sierra County (R46) Ventura County (R56) www.lpsf.org (916) 784-1140 Contact: Bill Adasiewicz Chair: Saul Rackauskas www.americanliberty.org/Placer.html San Joaquin County (R39) (530) 288-3288 [email protected] (805) 987-5567 / 987-1828 (fax) Plumas County (R32) Chair: Carole Brow [email protected] [email protected] www.ventura.ca.lp.org Contact: Daniel Howe Siskiyou County (R47) (209) 759-3733 Yolo County (R57) [email protected] Chair: Ed Lain http://home.inreach.com/ewhite Chair: Eric S. 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