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	Libertarian National Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While most delegates to the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention are tied to particular candidates, delegates to the Libertarian National Convention are free to choose, as was previously the case for the larger parties.
		Perhaps the biggest difference between Libertarian National Conventions and those of the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States is that the Libertarian Party does not accept taxpayer money to pay for its convention.
		The Libertarian National Convention is held every two years by the United States Libertarian Party to choose members of the Libertarian National Committee, and to conduct other party business.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarian_National_Convention (331 words)

	Libertarian Party of Georgia - News Story
		Traditionally, the national convention has been on or near July 4.
		The Libertarian National Committee has long had its eye on Georgia for this honor.
		He recognizes that convention delegates come in two types: those who find the by-laws and platform debate exciting and are eager to participate, and those find the debate boring are eager to avoid it.
	www.lpgeorgia.com /news_102401.html (642 words)

	Richard Campagna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Campagna was chosen at the 2004 Libertarian National Convention along with Libertarian presidential nominee Michael Badnarik.
		In mid-2003, Campagna became the first candidate to enter the race for the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential nomination (the Libertarian party chooses its presidential and vice-presidential nominees in convention on separate ballots).
		Richard V. Campagna of Iowa City, Iowa was the vice-presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Campagna (260 words)

	An Oklahoma Caucus in Indiana by R. Lee Wrights
		In an overall positive experience the one flawless gem in a treasure box of memories mined from the Libertarian National Convention of 2002 was the convening of the Oklahoma Caucus.
		National conventions should be revivals of a sort, and attendees should come away from them feeling rejuvenated and reassured.
		In May I had declared my candidacy for an at-large seat on the Libertarian National Committee, so naturally I knew I was going to Indiana to campaign.
	www.rationalreview.com /rationalreviewold/archive/rleewrights/rleewrights080102.html (908 words)

	Voters should consider third parties
		Libertarians like to describe themselves as “socially liberal,” yet “fiscally conservative.” That is, they agree with Democrats on social issues such as gay rights and drug law reform, but lean toward the right on economic issues like free trade and the federal income tax (overall, this puts them in the middle of the political spectrum).
		Initially thought of as a long shot in the Libertarian presidential primary, his adeptness at articulating his beliefs was what propelled him to the candidacy.
		Militarily, Libertarians see war as an option of last resort, and were generally opposed to the invasion of Iraq.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /viewpoints/articles/2004/10/02/voters_should_consid.php (619 words)

	Libertarian National Convention - Wikipedia
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	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarian_National_Convention (144 words)

	Libertarian Party of Henry County
		The first Libertarian National Convention was held in June 1972 in Denver, Colorado where Dr. John Hospers was nominated to be the new party's first presidential candidate.
		The Libertarian Party stands for free-market economy and the abundance and prosperity it brings; a dedication to civil liberties and personal freedom that marks this country above all others; and a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade as prescribed by America's founders.
		The Libertarian Party (On the web: www.lp.org) is the third largest political party in the Unites States.
	www.henrylp.org /lp.html (398 words)

	Libertarian 2004 National Convention, May 27-31, Atlanta, GA
		Delegates to the national convention are allocated among the 50 states and DC based on the number of members belonging to each state party and to a lesser extent on the 2000 vote.
		In his column in the May 2004 issue of Libertarian News, Nolan writes that his experience as a talk show host as gives him the skills "to relate to listeners and present libertarian ideas in ways that are interesting and entertaining." (see also May 2003 interview).
		Actively seeking the Libertarian presidential nomination are Gary Nolan, a radio talk show host from Cleveland, Ohio; Aaron Russo, who has produced a couple of major motion pictures ("The Rose" starring Bette Midler, and "Trading Places" starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy); and Michael Badnarik, a computer programmer from Austin, Texas.
	www.gwu.edu /~action/2004/parties/lpconv0504.html (662 words)

	Beyond Government by Harry Reid
		This is a chronicle of the 1987 Libertarian Party National Convention in Seattle, Washington from within the Russel Means campaign for the presidential nomination.
		The convention was in the Sheraton in the middle of downtown Seattle.
		At the convention there were a lot of buttons with no words but only a picture of a feather.
	www.elzey.com /lp/reid/reid47.htm (1339 words)

	Nuketown's Libertarian Science Fiction Home Page -- Nuketown
		Essences, Orcs and Civilization: The Case for a Cheerful Libertarianism: Brin gave this speech at the 2002 Libertarian Party National Convention.
		He also gave the keynote speech at the 2002 Libertarian Party National Convention.
		Prometheus Delivers Libertarian Fire to Humanity: Prometheus is the quarterly newsletter of the Libertarian Futurist Society (www.lfs.org), an organization dedicated to promoting free market, individualistic, and classical liberal values in speculative fiction.
	www.nuketown.com /features/libertariansf (2127 words)

	3/18/2004 - Tennessee Libertarian Presidential Nominating Convention Here April 2-4 - Breaking News - Chattanoogan.com
		Tennessee’s 22 delegates to the Libertarian Party’s national convention, to be held May 27-31 in Atlanta, will be selected.
		Two of the Libertarian Party candidates for President of the United States are scheduled to address the convention, which will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn on Chestnut Street.
		Libertarians, Republicans and Democrats are the only three parties in U.S. history whose slates of candidates have received over a million votes for U.S. House of Representatives in a single election, it was stated.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_48238.asp (375 words)

	2004 Libertarian National Convention
		In order for Bylaws changes to be considered by the convention, a change to the agenda must be requested and approved by the convention, or a suspension of the rules during the convention must be moved and approved in order for such changes to be considered.
		Speakers will address the convention while the Secretary is tabulating the results of each vote.
		The Bylaws Committee, according to the Bylaws, is not allotted any time during Presidential Nominating Conventions.
	www.lpconvention.org /agenda.shtml (156 words)

	Santa Clara Libertarian Aug1998 - National Convention Report
		About 800 Libertarians from around the country participated in the convention, which was held in the nation's capital from July 2-5, 1998.
		He promised that, as national chairman, he would continue the Project Archimedes membership growth program and quadruple the LP's membership by 2000, keep the current team at the National LP headquarters, and expand the party's activist training and Libertarian education programs.
		Approved capping the number of delegates at future conventions at 1,500, of which 1,050 would be allocated according to state party membership and 450 would be allocated according to presidential vote totals.
	www.sc.ca.lp.org /scl/9808-national.html (1460 words)

	Asbestos Den: Libertarian National Convention: Blogging from Afar
		This weekend is the National Libertarian Convention, where delegates from across the country meet to set the party's platform, elect party leadership, and the candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States.
		By the time I started paying attention to Libertarian news again, the fact that the convention would be held this weekend caught me by surprise.
		I'd been a delegate to the convention representing Maine in the 1998, 2000, and 2002 conventions.
	www.asbestosden.org /2004/05/libertarian-national-convention.html (295 words)

	Boot Boortz!, by Justin Raimondo
		He has no place at the Libertarian Party national convention for the simple reason that, in the battle to preserve what is left of our old Republic, he is on the other side of the barricades.
		Or call the National Libertarian Party, at: (202) 333-0008, or contact members of the Libertarian Party National Committee.
		Libertarians of any and all stripes must surely know that someone who believes what Boortz believes is no friend of freedom.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/jspecial112603.html (666 words)

	Libertarian Party holds national convention in Atlanta
		Although the convention didn't officially begin until Friday, May 27, hundreds of delegates and party officials were showing up early to participate in classes, organizational meetings and other events peripheral to the convention -- enough that Libertarian National Committee Chair Geoffrey Neale started jokingly "worrying" that there won't be room for everyone who shows up.
		Libertarians tend to take more votes away from Republican candidates than Democratic candidates...’’ a statement denied by Libertarians, who agree Libertarians are likely to be excluded from the bi-partisan debates.
		The Libertarian platform calls for the elimination on all restrictions a/o laws on immigration and the possession of firearms.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1144711/posts (1672 words)

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		LIBERTARIAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN SALT LAKE CITY James A. Long [The author is a member of GLIL and of Libertarians for Gay and Lesbian Concerns and was a delegate from Virginia.
		Second, each candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination will be expected to have prepared his or her own platform, to be voted up or down with the candidate.
		First, the nominating convention was moved from Labor Day of the year before the election to July 4th of the election year.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/orgs/GLIL/newsletter/1993/10.93 (1429 words)

	Libertarian Party National Convention - on C-SPAN LIVE!
		Libertarian Party National Convention - on C-SPAN LIVE!
		Earlier on this thread I made a generic comment about Libertarians being basically pro-terrorist because their defining issue is marijuana, and not more than 10 minutes after my comment there is a pro-marijuana video being shown at at the Libertarian convention.
		The social-conservative libertarians are not part of the Libertarian party, thus the appearance that libertarians are similar to left-wingers.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1144742/posts (3335 words)

	Reason
		The convention was held in the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, a hotel sporting a cool wide-open atrium with pill-capsule elevators climbing and descending the outside of the central shaft.
		Then there was indefatigable San Francisco libertarian activist Starchild visually letting his freak flag fly, alternately appearing in druid's robes with staff, a tight silver half-vest and short shorts with pink platform boots and fairy wings, and some straightforward leopard-skin drag.
		Badnarik has a very libertarian message about restricting the government strictly to its explicitly Constitutional duties, a message that LP delegates loved to hear; but his natural tendency is to deliver it in a style far more legal, philosophical, and historical than political in an everyday sense.
	www.reason.com /links/links060304.shtml (2539 words)

	David Brin's Official Web Site: Keynote for the Libertarian Party National Convention, July 5, 2002 (article)
		This transcription -- of a keynote address delivered to the Libertarian Party National Convention in Indianapolis on July 5, 2002 -- is the best-edited of more than a dozen of these unconventional consultations.
		A Keynote for the 2002 Libertarian Party National Convention
		David Brin's Official Web Site: Keynote for the Libertarian Party National Convention, July 5, 2002 (article)
	www.kithrup.com /brin/libertarianarticle1.html (3224 words)

	Libertarian Party National Platform
		Adopted at the Libertarian Party National Convention, July 1996, Washington, DC.
		As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives, and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.
		We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.
	www.lpnevada.org /platform.htm (215 words)

	2004 Libertarian National Convention
		They have two very comprehensive websites, with all sorts of information, quotes and references to their libertarian political philosophy, including this one: “Patriots are not “revolutionaries” trying to overthrow the government of the United States.
		Well-known to the LPPA, Poker Face (Paul Topete, Dennis Beidler, Brett Griffiths and Rich Valentine) has played at their state conventions (among many other venues, private and public, in several states) and comes highly recommended by LP activists there.
		They played a Freedom Rally at the National Monument in Washington, D.C. in November 2002 before a huge crowd.
	www.lpconvention.org /poker.shtml (321 words)

	Libertarians for a Boortz-Free National Convention Petition
		The Libertarians for a Boortz-Free National Convention Petition to Libertarian National Committee and 2004 Convention Coordinator was created by Members and Supporters of the Libertarian Party and written by Thomas L. Knapp.
		We, members and supporters of the Libertarian Party, object to the scheduled appearance of talk radio host Neal Boortz as a speaker at the Libertarian Party's 2004 National Convention.
		This petition will be presented to the Libertarian National Committee at its December 13-14, 2003 meeting in St. Louis, MO, with all signatures gathered to date appended.
	www.petitiononline.com /noboortz/petition.html (304 words)

	2004 Libertarian National Convention
		The 2004 Libertarian Party Presidential-Nominating National Convention will take place over Memorial Day Weekend at the beautiful Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
		This Convention has something for everyone: delegates and non-delegates, members and non-members, "newbies" and old-timers!
		In addition to the Business Sessions, there will be a whole weekend of Great Speakers: at all the Meal Events, some in the Main Convention Hall (where the business takes place) and at the various Workshops that take place concurrent with the Business Sessions.
	www.lpconvention.org (215 words)

	2004 Libertarian Party National convention: Antiwar, Party of Peace, Carol Moore, Karen Kwiatkowski, Dr. Mary J. Ruwart
		Libertarians are generally known as scruffy dressers, but Starchild, a California delegate (from San Francisco), drew attention with his fashion changes, alternating from fairy, to catwoman, to Druid.
		Antiwar libertarians tried to "boot Boortz" as a speaker, or in the alternative, to balance his talk with a peace panelist.
		Although Kwiatkowski has been a "registered libertarian" since 1994 and "voted Libertarian in the last three elections," her charges have been respectfully received by conservatives and progressives alike, from The American Conservative to In These Times.
	www.hollywoodinvestigator.com /2004/lpcon2.htm (1941 words)

	Must a Christian be a Libertarian?
		In 1985, the Libertarian Party National Convention was held in Philadelphia.
		Adapted from a speech delivered to the 1996 Libertarian Party National Convention, in Washington, D.C., on the 4th of July.
		Instead of saying that the Libertarian Party does not take positions on moral issues, it should affirm that virtue is only possible in a free society, that a free society best induces virtuous behavior, and that the candidates of the Libertarian Party will, if elected, promote virtue through non-coercive means.
	www.self-gov.org /christian/thies.html (2582 words)

	LP of Michigan: Libertarian Party of Michigan
		Following that, we will enjoy the political satire of libertarian comedian Tim Slagle, who has performed at the Libertarian National Convention and was featured on MTV and Showtime.
		The Libertarian Party of Michigan is the Michigan affiliate of the Libertarian Party of the United States.
		The Libertarian Party is the only political party dedicated to both individual freedom AND responsibility.
	www.mi.lp.org (327 words)

	The Libertarian Party of Massachusetts: Letter From The Chair
		The convention also offers other opportunities including meeting nationally known Libertarian personalities such as Dr. Mary Ruwart, Sharon Harris, pro-gun sheriff Richard Mack who is running for governor in his state, outgoing and former national Chairmen Geoff Neale and Jim Lark, and many more.
		In May, I had the privilege and honor of leading the Massachusetts delegation to the 2004 Libertarian National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
		The hotel's convention facility was first class and the glass elevators racing up and down the 50 story atrium were impressive.
	www.lpma.org /nletter/chl0406.htm (1120 words)

	Scoop: The Libertarian Candidate for President
		On May 30, 2004, at the Libertarian National Convention in Dallas, Texas, Michael Badnarik out-witted, out-debated his two opponents, and won the nomination as the Libertarian candidate for the presidency of the United States.
		Libertarian's, in case you were unaware, are strict Constitutionalists.
		Badnarik, the Libertarian Party is the largest third party we have; larger than all the other third parties put together.
	www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/HL0408/S00139.htm (1453 words)

	LP News December 1999 - Libertarian National Convention gets theme: "America's Future"
		The Libertarian Party has decided on a theme for the 2000 presidential nominating convention, set prices for convention packages, and announced the first three of more than two dozen speakers.
		The theme for the convention -- which will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Anaheim, California from June 30-July 3 -- will be "America's Future: Liberty, Responsibility, & Community," said LP National Director Steve Dasbach.
		She is also founder of the Libertarian Campaign Managers Association in Michigan, and a leader in Michigan's Brass Roots gun-rights group.
	www.lp.org /lpn/9912-convtheme.html (602 words)

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