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Libertarian Party to incumbents: Defund Obamacare now — or risk voter backlash in 2014
The
Libertarian Party calls on members of the U.S. House and Senate to defund
Obamacare now.
“Incumbent politicians — especially Republicans with a majority in the House — will have no excuse if they refuse to fully defund Obamacare,” said Carla Howell, political director for the national Libertarian Party. “Now is the time. The president’s approval ratings are low, and voters are learning that Obamacare will impose shockingly high costs and debilitating regulations on taxpayers, businesses, and medical consumers if it takes effect.”
“If Democrats and Republicans fail to do the right thing and stop this disastrous program from unfolding, the blame for patients’ suffering and for striking a fatal blow to the fragile American economy will rest squarely on their shoulders,” she warned.
Read the rest at LP.org!
Former Republican
state committee chair-elect joins LP to run for Congress in October special
election
Henry Herford,
Libertarian for Congress,
Louisiana 5th District
In 2012, he was knocked down by Shreveport, La., police acting on the orders of state GOP officials to block his taking seat as Chair after being duly elected.
“The Libertarians will say no to foreign aid, cut OSHA, and cut FEMA,” said Herford, a retired teacher who lives in Delhi, La., at the north end of the sprawling 5th Congressional District. “I want to be known as the first congressman elected who’s a member of a party that’s for cutting out things, not increasing them. Everyone wants to go to the government and create another agency. But we’ve maxed out the credit card.”
As part of his campaign, he is seeking to abolish the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as repeal Obamacare, the Patriot Act, and the National Defense Authorization Act’s language pertaining to indefinite detention. According to the Herford for Congress campaign website, he also wants to “bring the troops home from unconstitutional and unnecessary overseas wars and deployments” and decriminalize marijuana federally while allowing states to regulate the drug.
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Washington Times
column features LP call to stay out of Syria
From "Inside the Beltway," on page 2 of the Washington Times (Sept. 6, 2013):
“Syria is not threatening our country. We have no national interest in intervening there. There are no reasons for the U.S. to support either the Assad dictatorship or the opposition warlords,” declares Liberarian Party Chairman Geoffrey Neale.
Read and share at LP.org!
New York LP fields
record 8 candidates in NYC for November election
The
Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island chapters of the Libertarian Party pulled
together to get a record eight candidates on the ballot as Libertarians for
various local offices throughout the nation's largest city this November,
reported LPNY Chair Mark Axinn. This represents the most LP candidates that
have ever run for local office during a single New York City election.
The LP does not have ballot status in New York, so it was necessary for every candidate to submit independent petition signatures — ranging from 3,750 signatures each to run for the mayor, comptroller and public advocate, to 450 signatures to run for city council in a local district.
Read the rest at LP.org!
June issue of LP
News now available online
The June 2013 edition
of LP News is now available in the LP
News archive, which contains issues stretching back for five years.
So, if you haven't seen it yet, be sure to read our coverage of the Libertarian Party's Facebook outreach success, LP candidates and electoral victory, court battles, recent press releases, Libertarian Solutions, and much more.
Hard-copy issues of LP News are mailed to sustaining members of the national LP. PDF versions of past issues are available for free at the LP News archive.
Click here to become a member and receive future issues of LP News hot off the press.
Read and share at LP.org!
Please donate today to the
Libertarian Party today. Shrink government — expand liberty.
2600 Virginia Ave, N.W. Suite 200, Washington D.C. 20037
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Libertarian Party to incumbents: Defund Obamacare now — or risk voter backlash in 2014
The
Libertarian Party calls on members of the U.S. House and Senate to defund
Obamacare now.“Incumbent politicians — especially Republicans with a majority in the House — will have no excuse if they refuse to fully defund Obamacare,” said Carla Howell, political director for the national Libertarian Party. “Now is the time. The president’s approval ratings are low, and voters are learning that Obamacare will impose shockingly high costs and debilitating regulations on taxpayers, businesses, and medical consumers if it takes effect.”
“If Democrats and Republicans fail to do the right thing and stop this disastrous program from unfolding, the blame for patients’ suffering and for striking a fatal blow to the fragile American economy will rest squarely on their shoulders,” she warned.
Read the rest at LP.org!
Henry Herford,
Libertarian for Congress,
Louisiana 5th District
In 2012, he was knocked down by Shreveport, La., police acting on the orders of state GOP officials to block his taking seat as Chair after being duly elected.
“The Libertarians will say no to foreign aid, cut OSHA, and cut FEMA,” said Herford, a retired teacher who lives in Delhi, La., at the north end of the sprawling 5th Congressional District. “I want to be known as the first congressman elected who’s a member of a party that’s for cutting out things, not increasing them. Everyone wants to go to the government and create another agency. But we’ve maxed out the credit card.”
As part of his campaign, he is seeking to abolish the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as repeal Obamacare, the Patriot Act, and the National Defense Authorization Act’s language pertaining to indefinite detention. According to the Herford for Congress campaign website, he also wants to “bring the troops home from unconstitutional and unnecessary overseas wars and deployments” and decriminalize marijuana federally while allowing states to regulate the drug.
Read the rest at LP.org!
From "Inside the Beltway," on page 2 of the Washington Times (Sept. 6, 2013):
“Syria is not threatening our country. We have no national interest in intervening there. There are no reasons for the U.S. to support either the Assad dictatorship or the opposition warlords,” declares Liberarian Party Chairman Geoffrey Neale.
Read and share at LP.org!
The
Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island chapters of the Libertarian Party pulled
together to get a record eight candidates on the ballot as Libertarians for
various local offices throughout the nation's largest city this November,
reported LPNY Chair Mark Axinn. This represents the most LP candidates that
have ever run for local office during a single New York City election.The LP does not have ballot status in New York, so it was necessary for every candidate to submit independent petition signatures — ranging from 3,750 signatures each to run for the mayor, comptroller and public advocate, to 450 signatures to run for city council in a local district.
Read the rest at LP.org!
The June 2013 edition
of LP News is now available in the LP
News archive, which contains issues stretching back for five years.So, if you haven't seen it yet, be sure to read our coverage of the Libertarian Party's Facebook outreach success, LP candidates and electoral victory, court battles, recent press releases, Libertarian Solutions, and much more.
Hard-copy issues of LP News are mailed to sustaining members of the national LP. PDF versions of past issues are available for free at the LP News archive.
Click here to become a member and receive future issues of LP News hot off the press.
Read and share at LP.org!
Please donate today to the
Libertarian Party today. Shrink government — expand liberty.2600 Virginia Ave, N.W. Suite 200, Washington D.C. 20037
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