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!
LPKS/LSOCK P.O. Box 2456 Wichita, Kansas 67201
1-800-335-1776

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

High-energy outreach pays off for Lucas Overby campaign
Lucas Overby debates on C-SPAN
Lucas Overby, LP Florida candidate for
Congress, debates Republican David Jolly
and Democrat Alex Sink on C-SPAN.
The Lucas Overby campaign is demonstrating how Libertarian campaigns on a small budget can have a big impact.
On March 11, Overby will face Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly in the special election for an open seat in Florida's 13th congressional district.
Well-organized volunteers working in teams of one to four people have been walking the district and letting voters know about Overby's campaign with a brief and positive message. Florida LP Vice Chairman Alex Snitker and Treasurer Danielle Alexandre alone have visited more than 3,000 homes and have made 600 phone calls to voters.
"Walking the district has been vital to the contagiousness of the Overby campaign," said Dana Moxley-Cummings, LPF state chair. "This is the way to win back our government."
Karena Morrison, the campaign's field coordinator, compiles voter lists and creates a map and spreadsheet of voters for each neighborhood.
Larry Potter, volunteer coordinator, then arranges for volunteers to meet at a staging location where they pick up the maps and voter data for the neighborhood they will be walking.
When a voter comes to the door, the Libertarian volunteers identify themselves as Overby campaign workers, remind the voter of the date of the special election, ask whether they plan to vote, and ask whether they would consider voting Libertarian.
"If they say 'no,' we thank them for their time," explained Alexandre. "If they say yes, we give them campaign literature, give a brief description of Lucas, and let them know he's willing to answer any questions they may have personally."
Libertarian outreach efforts have been met with gratitude and interest in the LP. Voters are impressed that unpaid volunteers are out walking for the candidate. Many have asked for more information about the LP and some have switched their registration to Libertarian.
"The voters, at least here in Florida, are angry, and they want to do something different — they just don't know what," Alexandre said. "They are so thankful that we are at their door offering a candidate who will reverse the mess the other two parties have gotten us into. They feel relief that there is another option. I can't express enough how much appreciation we get from the voters just for being out there fighting for them. It is invigorating and inspiring."
The LPF canvassing is paying off. It surely played a part in getting Overby included in a nationally-televised C-SPAN debate held on Feb. 3, in which he participated with both of his opponents.
To donate to the Lucas Overby for Congress campaign, visit: https://rally.org/lucasoverbyforcongress


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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

From Our Friend In Liberty, John Todd

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY--KANSAS 

Wichita Area Chapter Meeting

Tuesday,
February 25, 2014
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Spangles Restaurant (Meeting Room)
612 S. Broadway (Kellogg & Broadway Downtown)  
Wichita, Kansas 67202
WE STILL HOLD THESE TRUTHS
Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future
A presentation by Michael Pochek

Based on a book by Matthew Spalding, of The Heritage Foundation

American Renewal:  The Case for Reclaiming Our Future
We Americans have the immeasurable benefit, the providential gift, of having inherited a great country, built on the rock of human liberty, with a firm confidence that free men and women are capable of self-government. All nations change over time. We have wandered far for many years. Yet our constitutional faith has not been erased from our consciousness. Nor has it been defeated in our politics. Our principles always await rediscovery because the immutable truths of liberty are eternally etched on the human soul. Do we still hold these truths?      

Suggested Reading:  Chapter 11
The book has a website with a great intro video
The Session 11 Study Guide our group leader will follow is available:

The presentation will be followed by group discussion.

For additional information please contact:
John Todd, Wichita AFP volunteer coordinator

Or

Susan Estes, AFP Field Director, Kansas

The Kansas Chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP-KS) is committed to advancing every Kansan's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP-KS is an organization of grassroots citizen leaders who engage in spreading the message of fiscally responsible government, free market ideals and regulatory restraint to policymakers on the local and state levels.


Friday, February 14, 2014

From the Hays Post

Kansas Libertarians call for wisdom from Senate, governor

The Libertarian Party of Kansas is encouraging the Kansas Senate to use better judgment than they believe was demonstrated by the representatives in the Kansas House when they passed HB 2453, an Act concerning religious freedoms with respect to marriage.
Libertarian party of Kansas
The Libertarian Party has a number of serious concerns with the bill which they believe make the proposed law unacceptable for Kansas.
First, the LPKS points out that government officials and employees work for all Kansans, and that by choosing to accept a job paid for by tax-dollars those individuals have agreed to serve all citizens.
Second, the LPKS believes that Kansas businesses already have the liberty to choose who they do business with.  If those businesses make choices that are distasteful to the majority of our citizens, the free market will remove their support from that business.  More laws will not make the situation better nor move Kansas toward the Libertarian goal of “Liberty for All.”
Finally, the Libertarian Party finds this bill unacceptable because they believe it is clearly aimed at a single segment of our society.  The LPKS believes that all good laws should apply equally to all people all of the time, and this bill clearly does not meet that basic tenet of good government.
Should their call for ‘better judgment’ fail in the Senate, both of the Libertarian candidates for Kansas governor are calling upon current Gov. Sam Brownback to veto the bill.  Both Libertarian candidates say they would veto the bill if they were governor.
Tresa McAlhaney said, “As governor, I would veto HB 2453 based on the principle that it is inappropriate to use the force of law to justify discrimination by public employees.”
Her opponent, Keen Umbehr said, “We must remember that public employees are agents of the government and their actions within that role are the actions of the government.  It is not acceptable for the government to choose to provide services to some Kansans while refusing to do the same for others.  To do otherwise is contrary to the equal protection guaranteed within the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”
Regardless of which candidate wins the Libertarian nomination for Kansas governor, if Gov. Brownback does not veto this bill he will likely hear about it from his Libertarian opponent during the general election.
While LPKS Policy Researcher Stacey Davis doubts that Brownback will actually veto the bill should it be passed by the Senate, Davis hopes that Kansans understand that real Libertarians are not found within the ranks of the Republican Party.
“It has become very trendy for some elected Republicans to claim Libertarian leanings or to even claim that they are actually Libertarians, but that is simply not the case,” says Davis. “Real Libertarians understand that it is not enough to fight for the liberties that you personally agree with. Instead, real Libertarians understand that to finally break out of the political status-quo, our representatives have to commit to supporting everyone’s liberty.  That’s why I expect the Libertarian Party to remain the fastest-growing political party in Kansas.”
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Today We Fight Back

The Day We Fight BackEdward Snowden's revelations of the NSA's mass surveillance programs have spawned one of the most successful political coalitions in modern American history, aimed at slapping back Big Brother. Hundreds of diverse political organizations — as well as countless American citizens — are banding together to oppose the government's egregious violation of our Fourth Amendment rights.
The Libertarian Party urges you to join and support The Day We Fight Back (against mass surveillance) described below. Please help this effort go viral and plan to call to your congressmen on Tuesday, Feb. 11, to fight back against mass surveillance. If you own a website, please help by posting the banner below.
Let's win this one!

This Tuesday, Feb. 11, is The Day We Fight Back (against mass surveillance), and we need your help.
We understand the United States was founded upon a Constitution that protects our critical rights and is governed by the rule of law. Yet for years, the NSA has exploited secret legal interpretations to undermine our privacy rights — thus chilling speech and activism, and thereby threatening to subvert the very underpinnings of our society itself.
This Tuesday, Feb. 11, dozens of major websites and organizations are joining together to demand an end to mass surveillance. We're calling it, simply, The Day We Fight Back, and we need your help to make it as powerful as possible.
On Tuesday, Feb. 11, we are mobilizing thousands to call on Congress to:
  1. Pass the USA FREEDOM Act, which would end the bulk collection of Americans' phone records and institute other key reforms.
  2. Defeat the so-called FISA Improvements Act, which would entrench — and potentially expand — the spying.
  3. Create additional privacy protections for non-Americans.
  4. End to the NSA's subversion of encryption and other data security measures.
We're letting you know about it today because we need your help to make Feb. 11 all that it can be. We have built a banner that people can post on websites they run, in order to encourage their visitors to take action on the 11th. The banners will look like this:
The Day We Fight Back
Click here to visit TheDayWeFightBack.org and learn more. While you're there, please use the social media tools there to spread word, and if you have a website, please install the banner code to make it appear on your site on Feb. 11.


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Friday, February 7, 2014

From Our Friend In Liberty, John Todd

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY--KANSAS 

Wichita Area Chapter Meeting

Monday,
February 10, 2014
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Spangles Restaurant (Meeting Room)
612 S. Broadway (Kellogg & Broadway Downtown)  
Wichita, Kansas 67202
WE STILL HOLD THESE TRUTHS
Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future
A presentation by Michael Pochek

Based on a book by Matthew Spalding, of The Heritage Foundation

A New Republic: The Progressive Assault on The Founders’ Principles
The rise and dominance of progressive ideas among our political elite, in our colleges and universities, and in key parts of our popular culture has given us a very different understanding of ourselves and our nation. The rise of the modern administrative state, the growth of government at every level, and the increased benefits the American people expect from government have changed the idea of self-government in America.  Is it still possible to revitalize our country’s principles and to renew our liberty? To that challenge we now turn.      

Suggested Reading:  Chapter 10
The book has a website with a great intro video
The Session 10 Study Guide our group leader will follow is available:

The presentation will be followed by group discussion.

For additional information please contact:
John Todd, Wichita AFP volunteer coordinator
john@johntodd.net, (316) 312-7335 cell

Or

Susan Estes, AFP Field Director, Kansas
sestes@afphq.org, (316) 681-4415

The Kansas Chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP-KS) is committed to advancing every Kansan's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP-KS is an organization of grassroots citizen leaders who engage in spreading the message of fiscally responsible government, free market ideals and regulatory restraint to policymakers on the local and state levels. 


Wednesday, February 5, 2014

LSOCK NEWS Alert!, February 5,  2014


Libertarians Of South Central Kansas (LSOCK) meet for Supper and discussion every Tuesday at Cathy’s Westway Cafe located at 1215 W. Pawnee in Wichita, Kansas at 5:30 PM. If we have official business to conduct or a featured guest speaker, that will begin at 6:00 PM. All who support personal responsibility and individual liberty are invited to attend.

To receive the LSOCK NEWS and LSOCK NEWS Alerts! via email please contact Steven Rosile at sarasile@att.net or 316 618-1339.


Contact the Libertarian Party of Kansas or LSOCK at:


LPKS / LSOCK
P.O. Box 2456
Wichita, Kansas 67201

Ph. (800) 335-1776


On the Web please go to LPKS.org  or to the LSOCK Blog at:




Also see: Sedgwick County Libertarians on Facebook. Their meeting time and location are the first Saturday of every month at Meads Corner Coffee Shop at 1:30 PM.

Meads Corner Coffee Shop is located at the northwest corner of Douglas and Emporia in downtown Wichita.


LSOCK NEWS Alert!


Hello everyone,

David Moffett, a longtime Libertarian Party activist and dear personal friend of mine, passed away at his home Monday morning.

Services will be held Thursday morning at 11:00 AM at Three Angels Church, 4558 N Hydralic (located near 45th street and Hydralic). The church parking lot is accessed from 45th Street to the east of Hydralic.

I will give more information about David's life and involvement with the Libertarian Party in the next full edition of LSOCK NEWS.

For Liberty,

Steven A. Rosile

Editor, LSOCK NEWS