lc 2.7 The Liberty Pledge News '88 EXCITEMENT GROWING Dear Monthly Pledger, I have some great news concerning the Hedbor renewed your monthly pledge at a higher amount Family in Vermont. Eloise Hedbor is expected to be due to the crucial election year ahead of us. Some named Chair of the Vermont State Advisory Commit- pledgers have even doubled their pledge for 1988. tee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. This is a Thank you. The Libertarian Party has no more valuable office for a Libertarian to hold. Eloise will support, energy and activism than we can give to it. have the ear of the media to articulate the Libertarian Freedom is as essential as oxygen. We must win this approach to civil rights. Congratulations Eloise! battle but without you we don't stand a chance. But that's not all. Jim Hedbor has decided to run I don't want to break any promise we've made for U.S. Congress. Jim made an excellent showing concerning fundraising appeals, but I have to let you in 1984 with 4% of ,the vote in a 5 way race. He was know that we are witnessing a tremendous opportunity endorsed by 4 newspapers in the state including to make the Libertarian Party grow and prosper. the Burlington Free Press, Vermont's largest daily. If your pledge comes to an end this year — please Jim is a great spokesman for liberty and has renew it. The Liberty Pledge program is the most already begun to get a campaign team together. He cost-effective fundraising program we have. And it hopes to raise $35,000 and has a true chance to win. allows us to plan ahead, which is crucial. I hope you'll consider raising your pledge in this BIG PLANS important campaign year. Going from $5 to $10 a We have big plans for this election season. month or $15 to $25 or $50 to $100 can make an in- We're responding to more inquiries than ever credible difference in the number of people we can before and selling memberships to an ever increas- bring into the Party this year. ing number of them. In the month of November we We would not have this golden opportunity before gained 275 new members! us were it not for the support you have given us now Of course, it costs money to send out literature and and in the past. As we work to spread the freedom to have someone selling memberships and pledges to message this year, I hope you'll do the very best you those who call the 800 line. And additionally we are can. With your help, we can make it happen. committed to putting about $40,000 into ballot drives in the next 6 months. But freedom isn't free — we For freedom, have to invest in it with our time, money and energy. No one knows this better than you. I know you're already a significant investor in the Libertarian Party. And although we've agreed Paul Jacob not to fundraise from some Liberty Pledgers, I know National Director that you are our most reliable supporters. We need your best effort in 1988. P.S. Please check the Ballot Access update on the Without our even asking, many of you have back page. The Liberty Pledge News is produced monthly for members of the National Libertarian Party's Pledge Program, Independ- ence '88 and the Torch Club. It is also distributed to State Party Chairs and National Committee members in appreciation of their contributions and to make availible information on Headquarters activities and Libertarians in the news. Clippings and other items of interest are greatly appreciated. Libertarian Party Headquarters * 1528 Pennsylvania Ave., SE * Washington, DC 20003 Can we be of help? Want to raise your pledge? Call 1-800-682-1776. Durnam gun (NU) Dec . 1 , 1987 Arkansas Gazette Dec. 7, 1987 Libertarian: U.S. spending should be cut 40% Libertarians BrpAUL BONNER Congress-watchers have noted what 'bad 'times usually lead to, goes up, but the quality doesn't Sun staff writer that' in Paul's four terms as a Re- and that war. - go up, the distribution doesn't go select publican- congressman from the "Most .wais are caused by eco- up.". It- was something of a home- Houston-area 22nd ' District, nomic reasons." Higher defense spending only coming for' Libertarian . Party Paul's libertarian politics made The intermediate7rangermissile makes hammers more expensive, presidential- candidate Ron Paul, for strange bedfellows. His oppo- treaty betWeen the'United States and more money for welfare only director stumping at Duke University last sition to 'foreign military assis- and the SOViet Union is some- produces greater social depen- night. tance often put him in company thing Paul "would have thine uni- dency, he said. Former Arkansan Duke was where Dr. Paul with dovish liberals whose social- laterally a long time ago." And the IRS comes off as the earned his medical degree in istic leanings were anathema to ultimate bad guy: named to post 1961 and where his son Randy is him. In fact, Paul -would essentially "Do you want government tc in his fourth year of medical After losing his Senate bid end U.S. protection of Western protect your liberties or do you school. against Phil Gramm, R-Tex., in Europe. He said there'S no justi- wantgovernnnent to be a thief?" ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Paul .Ja- And it was where Paul 1985, he resumed practicing med- fication for the United States Calling abolition of the nation- cob, formerly of North Little Rock, expounded a theme he hopes will icine. -This year Paul took the assuming the Tole of, klobal po- al income tax "a good hccomplish- was named' executive director of find acceptance especially _with plunge and resigned from the Re- liceman anyWhere,- including the ment for a first administration," the Libertarian Party Sunday, the young adults — that govern- publican Party. Paul still prac-. Persian Gulf, which .he said is in Paul said 'he would compensate third anniversary of his arrest for ment's power must be drastically tices obstetrics and gynecology in noway vital to the SVetifitk-Of the for the loss of revenue by slash- whittled down to avoid national United States. ing national spending at least 40 not registering for the draft. Lake Jackson, Tex. near Jacob, 26, of Woodbridge, Va., depression and involvement in Houston, but-on a limited sched- Combatting communism is best percent. foreign wars. ule. done by a' foreign . policy that Paul also calls for erasing drug was prosecuted in Arkansas and Paul, 52, speaking to about 50 doesn't get people in developing laws from the books, saying that served five months in a federal people, mostly students, said the countries angry at the United Paul said he left the Republi- only ...drug dealers profit from prison at Segoville, Tex., before Libertarian Party, which nomi- States and by-ending export sub- keeping .drugs illegal and that being released on probation. For- nated him for president in Seat- can Party because he was disillu- sidies that help communist coun- keeping drugs illegal encourages tle, Wash., this fall, bases its sioned with Reagan's record on tries. more drug use. If the cost of mar- mer Representative Ron . Paul radical . proposals for individual cutting spending. "If you want to do away ,with ijuana, cocaine and heroin were (Rep., TeX.), testified on Jacob's A jump toward big govern- communism,- quit funding them," lower, he contended, users behalf at his trial. Paul is now the autonomy, free trade and mili- THE DURHAM SUN/Kevin Kelster tary isolationism on two basic ment could follow the recent Paul Said. wouldn't have to sell to others to Libertarian Party's presidential stock market crash, just as it did moral premises: support their own drug habits: candidate. in the 1930s, he said. That consol- But Paid reserved his sharpest Persuasion, logic and boycotts Paul addresses students "Number one, we promise nev- idation 'of governmental power barbs for -American monetary are the' only apprOved tools foi Jacob was appointed near the er to initiate force or violence led to World War II, he said. The and fiscal policy, :providing a social change, according to the But, he said, the problem with cott. end of the Party's two-day na- against our neighbor, and num- same thing could happen again, good illuStration of the aptness of Libertarian philosophy. Paul racial segregation in America But he said social legislation is tional meeting at Orlando. ber. two, we believe in volunta- he said. the Libertarian Party's mascot= eschews legislation forcing inte- was that in some instances blacks not the answer. The Party's national committee rism in everything we do. But in "The depression could be the porcupine: gration, saying people have a were denied their constitutional "Governmental coercive slashed funds from more than 20 a free market, you have to do worse than the '30s," Paul said. It "If yita throw money 'at some- right -Of 'personal- liberty to dis- freedom of assembly and free- programs will never work," he what you agree to do." could be longer. It could lead to thing, what happens? The cost criminate. - dom of speech to protest and boy- said. (cont. next page) Presidential Nominating Conven- Oh, I've had my flings: Frank Sinatra, when I was Libertarian Party A hero showing grace in defeat "By now you know what that means," he said with a girl; later, Mickey Lolich, pitcher for the Detroit tion, held in Seattle the first week in September.