ANNOUNCEMENTS

The party convention is just 3 weeks away, on March 19th. We have assembled a terrific slate of speakers for you: Josh Templet from SURJ to update us on their legislative progress; Ken Krawchuk, former PA chair and gubernatorial candidate; State Senator Colin Bonini, Delaware's most Libertarian Republican; James Lark, Libertarian extrordinaire, and our regional representative to the national committee; and our friend Spear Lancaster, former MD gubernatorial candidate. In addition, you will hear updates from party members on various local topics of interest. And finally, there will be the important business of

LIBERTARIAN VIEWPOINT

The last two weeks of January where a terrible time for Delaware Libertarians to live through! The biggest and best fiasco had to be the Delaware Compensation Committee salary report. As I am sure you all know, the state government has this terrific scheme wherein a 'nonpartisan' committee comes up with salary increase recommendations for the legislature and all the top officials. The sweet part is that unless the legislature votes to reject the report in it's entirety, the increase go into effect automatically. This years report had raises for the Governor and Lt Governor, in particular,

LIBERTARIAN VIEWPOINT

I am rather under the weather at the moment, and to make things a bit easier, I intend to 'steal' most of this column. However, I can't let pass unnoted a small article in today's paper "Codey calls for a delay in N.J. gas tax increase". This harks back to my August column (which is not on the web site at the moment, but should be soon de.lp.org then click news/newsletters/more) about blatantly playing politics with taxes. It is easiest to just quote (Acting Governor Codey) "..the Transportation Trust Fund is something we are going to tackle but we are

LIBERTARIAN VIEWPOINT

Lots of interesting stuff in the newspapers over the last few weeks. If you have been reading this newsletter for any length of time, you know of my 'interest' in sewer systems. So, I enjoyed the News Journal week long series on sewage problems, which clearly demonstrates the state, county, and city governments are incompetent to run them these systems! Of course, their excuse is always lack of money. That despite the fact that the state is projecting a healthy surplus this year, and New Castle County is sitting on 200+ million in reserve funds. What can you do with

The election is over. Thanks to our candidates for the efforts. Most were just paper candidates, but everyone of them prepared solid answers for the newspaper questionnaires. In addition, of course, we had two 'real ' candidates: Frank Infante for Governor, and Dave Wood for State Rep.

Well, none of our guys won. What a surprise. There may be a way to get people to vote for someone that is not a Democrat or a Republican, but no one but Ross Perot has been able to do it in my lifetime (and he was helped just a tad by being able to spend 10's of millions of his own money.)

LIBERTARIAN VIEWPOINT

The election is just a few days away, and of course, my primary emphasis here should be a good rousing GOTV effort. Before I get to that however I want to explore a few other ideas. First is that this campaign between the two big guys (parties more than people) really has disgusted me. Perhaps because I come to the LP from the Right, I see the Democrats as the worst offenders. In particular, the way they have worked to convince everyone, especially minorities, that the Republicans would be standing at the polls with dogs to keep them from voting if the Democrats didn't

LIBERTARIAN VIEWPOINT

The election is just a few days away, and of course, my primary emphasis here should be a good rousing GOTV effort. Before I get to that however I want to explore a few other ideas. First is that this campaign between the two big guys (parties more than people) really has disgusted me. Perhaps because I come to the LP from the Right, I see the Democrats as the worst offenders. In particular, the way they have worked to convince everyone, especially minorities, that the Republicans would be standing at the polls with dogs to keep them from voting if the Democrats didn't

Welcome to the September edition of First State Libertarian Online. I hope you find this newsletter useful, and urge you to forward it to anyone you think might be a "closet libertarian." The more people who know what we are about, the better chance we have to be effective. If you received this from a friend, please subscribe! To subscribe or un-subscribe, simply send a message to fslol@cssi.org.

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LIBERTARIAN VIEWPOINT

Welcome to the August edition of First State Libertarian Online. I hope you find this newsletter useful, and urge you to forward it to anyone you think might be a 'closet libertarian.' The more people who know what we are about, the better chance we have to be effective. If you received this from a friend, please subscribe! To subscribe or un-subscribe, simply send a message to fslol@cssi.org.

And speaking of this, I apologize for broadcasting an "un-subscribe" message to the entire list! I am still learning.

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LIBERTARIAN VIEWPOINT

The legislature's mad rush to the end of the session provides so much material to comment on that I don't know where to start! (And that ignores the wealth of comedy from the states around us.) So, instead I'll just discuss politics this month.

Last month, I commented that many of us feel that this could be the year (for a third party upset.) Never the less, I was very surprised to hear on a recent talk show that Delaware is among a handful of usually Democratic states that are actually in play this election! What this means is even if Michael Badnarik doesn't win Delaware's four electoral