The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the U.S. The Libertarian party is dedicated to strictly limited government, a pure free market economy, private property rights, civil liberties, personal freedoms with personal responsibilities, and a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade. Libertarians of South Central Kansas (LSOCK) are an affiliate of the Libertarian Party of Kansas (http://www.lpks.org/) We meet every Tuesday night (except holidays) from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at Cathy's Westway Cafe located at 1215 W. Pawnee (just west of Seneca Street) in Wichita, Kansas. All who support personal responsibility and individual liberty are invited to attend!
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Finally Some Progress!

Dear Fellow Libertarian,
Libertarian activists around the country are ecstatic about this year’s elections results:
  • “The best election results I’ve seen in 41 years.”
  • “It almost doesn't get any better than this. Can't wait for the future.”
  • “Freedom is happening all around us.”
  • “I've spent the last two months inviting Ron Paul people into the LP – and they’re coming!”
  • “I'm ready to grow the party!”
It’s no wonder why these Libertarians are so pumped. 2012 was a great year for Libertarian Party candidates. And a great year for liberty.
Just look at some of our candidates’ results. Their accomplishments.
1,255,791 Votes for Gov. Gary Johnson.
2012 Libertarian Presidential Candidate Sets a New LP Record for Highest-Ever Vote
  • Gary Johnson Shattered Ed Clark’s 1980 Vote Record of 921,128 Votes for President of the United States.
  • 2012 Libertarian Presidential Ticket of Gov. Gary Johnson and Judge Jim Gray More Than DOUBLED the 2008 Vote Total of Bob Barr and Wayne Root.
  • They More Than TRIPLED the 2004 Libertarian Presidential Vote Total of Michael Badnarik and Richard Campagna.
Item: Republicans Blame Libertarian U.S. Senate Candidates Andrew Horning and Dan Cox for Republican U.S. Senate Losses in Indiana and Montana. Each Libertarian Candidate received more votes than the Republican candidates lost by.
Item: Republicans Blame Libertarian U.S. Congressional Candidate Dan Fishman for Republican Loss in Massachusetts.
Item: 2012Libertarian Votes Give LP Ballot Access in 30 States + the District of Columbia.   Saves LP over $400,000 in 2016 Petitioning Costs.
Item: 7 Libertarian Candidates Each Get Over One Million Votes
  • Gov. Gary Johnson for President: 1,199,824 votes
  • Mark W. Bennett (TX) Court of Criminal Appeals: 1,326,526 votes
  • William Bryan Strange (TX) Court of Criminal Appeals: 1,313,746 votes
  • RS Roberto Koelsch (TX) Texas Supreme Court: 1,280,886 votes
  • Jaime O. Perez (TX) Railroad Commissioner: 1,122,792 votes
  • David Staples (GA) Public Service Commission, District 5: 1,082,481 votes
  • Tom Oxford (TX) Texas Supreme Court: 1,030,735 votes
Question: Why are these Libertarian Party campaign results even more spectacular than they look?
Because an overwhelming onslaught of Money and Media were unleashed against us. 
Money Fact: Republicans and Democrats Spent $2 Billion on the Presidential Campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Libertarians raised and spent $3 Million for the Presidential Campaign of Gov. Gary Johnson.
Romney and Obama Outspent Gary Johnson 667 to 1.
Media Fact:  News Media Showered both the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama Campaigns With More Than 1,000 Times the News Coverage that they Devoted to Gov. Gary Johnson and his Libertarian Presidential Campaign.
With these facts in mind, aren’t our 2012 Libertarian Party Election Results even more amazing?
Adding to our Libertarian Party progress, voters across the country voted overwhelming in a libertarian direction on ballot initiatives – on taxes, on the ending the insane Marijuana Prohibition, and more.
America is more ready than ever for liberty.
Would you like to take advantage of this 2012 campaign momentum NOW? To use it, magnify it, amplify it, multiply it – to recruit, educate, and activate  tens of thousands of new members of the Libertarian Party  – starting NOW?
If we begin now, you and I can turn this 2012 momentum into a “snowball effect” for the next four years – and set in motion a freedom avalanche in 2016. A Libertarian Party Too Big to Ignore, Too Big to Exclude. 
What We Can and Must Do Now
To amplify and magnify the effect of more members and more money, we must provide our Libertarian Party activists and candidates with the right Tools and Training and Coaching to do the job.
'Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, feed him for a lifetime.' – Proverb
We want to teach our Libertarian Party candidates and campaign workers 'how to fish,' so they can run great LP campaigns time after time, year after year. And so that they can teach other LP candidates 'how to fish.'
Candidate Training from Experienced, Skilled Libertarian Party Experts.
Campaign Training from Proven, Seasoned Libertarian Party Campaign Experts. Libertarian Party campaigns face radically different obstacles and challenges than Republican and Democratic campaigns. We need guidance from those who have successfully navigated them.
Libertarian Solutions, Not Just Positions. Running for office is like interviewing for a job. What will the candidate DO if she is elected? Our LP candidates need to offer simple, credible libertarian solutions to high taxes, high spending, and Big Government programs and policies - and show voters the huge, immediate, direct benefits to them and their neighbors. This is a master key to being taken seriously.
Fundraising Training. By the most successful, most effective LP fundraisers.
How to Recruit, Train, Motivate, and Nurture Dozens of Volunteers for Your Libertarian Party Campaign. Whether it's a statewide or local campaign, volunteers make the difference.
Door-to-Door Campaigning. A Libertarian Party candidate can be elected with less than 1,000 votes in over 30,000 elective offices in the United States.
One-Time Seminars, One-Time Training is NOT enough to make sure our candidates regularly, repeatedly do what they learned.  They need practice, practice, practice. We can create online, internet tele-trainings – that our candidates can work with any hour of the day or night.
Will you help us teach LP candidates 'how to fish'? Will you help us provide the tools and training now for our 2014 and 2016 LP candidates? Will you help us coach our LP candidates to keep practicing their 'fishing skills'?
580 Libertarian Party Candidates ran for office this year. But, if you help now, in 2014 and 2016 we can run over 1,000. And, if you help now, they will be better-funded, better-trained, better-equipped - and together we can elect more and more Libertarians to office.
We need you. Help us help you get the Libertarian Party elections results in 2014 and 2016 that you got a glimpse of this year.
If you can donate $5,000 or $2,500 now, will you please do it now?
If you can give $1,500 or $1,000, or $850 or $500 to this high-leverage, high-payoff project, will you please do it now?
If you can give $240 or $150,  $75 or $50, you will make a huge difference. Whatever you can afford, it helps. Will you please?
Please either click and donate now or mail your donation to the address below with "I’m on board" in the memo.

Carla Howell, Executive Director
Libertarian Party 
P.S. Don’t let this 2012 Libertarian campaign momentum run down, or grand to a halt. Help us harness it and use it to build the Libertarian Party. To recruit, educate, activate tens of thousands of new LP members. To help us provide the LP Tools and Training needed to make more and more Libertarian breakthroughs in 2014 and 2016. Please make your most generous donation of $250 or $150 or $85 today. You’ll love the results.

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