Regarding endorsements, as Jim Holliday pointed out to me, we are
prohibited by party bylaws from endorsing a candidate not running as a
Libertarian. That has come up as we have been contacted about
endorsing another "new" party's candidate, noting their similar
position on the war in Iraq, the war on Drugs, and the apparent war on
civil rights such as habeus corpus and protection from illegal search
and seizure.

There is still some mulling of the situation and if there is something
we can do and its supported by the candidate, I'll make sure that word
is gotten out as appropriate. I know its late in the election cycle.
If we can work something out it may help boost vote totals for both
candidates and parties.

I have just finished listening to the entire News Journal hosted
debate of today in the race for attorney general. I make note that
Mr. Wharton cited studies and statistics that support a right to carry
law and challenged anyone to find studies that successfully
challenge those studies or places them in doubt. Otherwise, he says
he supports a change to a shall issue provision rather than the status
quo, which would be more in line with the Libertarian position. Mr.
Biden supports no changes to current gun law. On most other issues I
thought they were similar, with only nuanced differences. I think Mr.
Wharton's experience reflected positively.

They did not use the question I submitted.

George Jurgensen
Chair, LPD