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Libertarian Party Weekly Newsletter

June 30 - July 6, 2013 Success has such a sweet fragrance. How does this all work? Who’s in charge? Welcome, newcomers, to our weekly missive. Shawn Smith   All we do here at LPKS Missive Central is attempt to keep up with the cascade of successful work accomplished by our members across the state. We didn’t realize it would be such a task! We have many new readers who may wonder what this is all about. But, more on that in a minute. ✤ First up, we can report that our Open Carry efforts have been wildly successful in Lenexa.  Long time readers will recall Lenexa had enacted a ban on Open Carry. LP Second-Amendment Task Force members Grant Nelson, Mike Kerner and Earl McIntosh led an effort to overturn this ordinance. They met with members of the city council and legal staff and pointed out how their ordinance was counter to state law. This past week, the Lenexa City Council voted unanimously to repeal their open carry ban ordinance. It was a quick vote with little discussion and no community input. While not all city council members were happy with the situation, they realized that with state law against them, they had a weak hand. We should to thank Lenexa's city council and mayor for working and meeting with us through this process the last year and a half. Score ONE for the tireless LPKS. ✤ Some may wonder how we accomplish so much? Or Who is in charge? Or How we set our priorities? The Libertarian Party of Kansas (LPKS) has no paid employees. We have an Executive Committee (ExCom) that consists of 8 office holders elected at our bi-annual state convention. They and others invited to attend by the Chair, meet periodically by phone or in person to discuss pressing issues and set policy. This weekend is a notable exception. The ExCom has scheduled an open meeting in Topeka on Sunday, June 30. Anyone who wants to may attend. It is at Annie's Place; 4014 SW Gage Center Drive. We will start the meeting at 1pm but the room is open for us at 12:30. Lots to eat and drink. Annie’s wants an estimate of those attending so please, if you are coming, send us an email. The meeting will begin with first reports from three newly organized committees: By-laws, Fundraising and Governor’s candidate search team.  We will also be discussing progress of county groups; outreach booths; a community drone resolution; a ballot access issue and much more. We expect the Douglas County group to have more information on a community drone resolution that can be used anywhere in the state. While this is officially an ExCom meeting and outside input is somewhat limited, it should be interesting for folks to listen in on what the leaders of the party are working on and how Ls can participate.  New LPKS state brochures will be available, just in time for our summer outreach booths. Rob Hodgkinson has generously designed and printed new state brochures as a donation to the party.  ✤ Welcome new readers of this missive. In the past month, we have added hundreds of new names and email addresses to our list. We welcome all our new readers and will work diligently to meet your expectations. It’s good to periodically remind everyone (including ourselves) of our purpose and objective.  We use email to send three different messages:  Weekly emails are one.  Free Kansan, our quarterly publication, is another.  Action Alerts are sent only to those who can assist when a situation arises. Our weekly emails keep Libertarians across the state informed about the good work Libertarians are accomplishing to promote Liberty and lead successful political campaigns. We are, after all, a political party. Free Kansan is sent out about quarterly and contains more in depth information about the various opportunities and challenges we see around the state. Here are some important things we ask our readers to do. And, they really are important. At the end of this email, to the right in the footer, you will find the county in which you live and your elected representatives. This is very important. From time to time, issues we care about come before state or county elected officials. If it is something we believe you can impact, we will send an Action Alert to ONLY those who can help.  The Action Alert will explain the situation and suggest action. You can choose to contact your representative or not. However, if we don’t know what county you live in or who your representatives are, we can’t keep you in this loop. Your full name should appear at the beginning of this email under the bullet points. Please check to insure the information we have for you is correct and let us know if it is not. We want to keep you informed. Finally, if you like what we say, or don’t like what we say, please communicate with us. We are trying to communicate with all LPKS members. We really like it when they communicate back. If you don’t want to receive these, we can remove you from the list. And, we aren’t offended ... really. Just send us an email and also tell us which communications you no longer wish to receive. Remember, we have three: Weekly Email; Free Kansan; Action Alert. Be careful: If you use the unsubscribe link at the end, you will no longer receive ANY of our emails. Professor Liberty says: Professor Liberty is unavailable this week. We look forward to his return next week.