LSOCK News Alert

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.

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 Contact the Kansas Libertarian Party or LSOCK at:

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

Ph. (800) 335-1776

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

www.libertariansofsouthcentralkansas.blogspot.com

Also see: Sedgwick County Libertarians on Facebook for their meeting time and location.

Hello Everyone,

This alert is about Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (Leap) founder and speaker Jack Cole who is in Wichita this week advocating ending the War on (Some) Drugs and also to remind you that the LSOCK Tuesday Supper Meeting is now at Cathy’s Westway Café, 1215 W Pawnee. See the header above for more details.

Jack is from Haysville and was a New Jersey State Trooper in the 1960’s when then President Nixon ramped the drug wars way up. He has an inside perspective on the harm caused by drugs and the even greater harm caused to individuals, families and society as a whole by the attempt to prohibit them. He has appeared at our LSOCK meetings several times in the past but will be speaking at Friends University this Tuesday evening, September 24 and so will not be able to attend our meeting.

After our Supper Meeting Tuesday I plan on attending his presentation at Friends later that evening. I hope you can attend at least one of his talks, bring a friend with you when you do.

Jack’s speaking schedule is below.

Tuesday, September 24, 7 pm
Friends University, Sebits Auditorium, Riney Fine Arts Building
(2nd building south of Maple & Hiram)
Thursday, September 26, 7 pm
KIPCOR
Bethel College
Kaufman House, 2515 College Ave., North Newton, KS
Friday, September 27, 11:45 am – 1 pm
The Pachyderm Luncheon at the Petroleum Club, $10 admission
9th floor, Bank of America Building at 100 N. Broadway, Wichita, KS
Friday, September 27, 6pm
The Kansas African-American Museum, 601 N. Water, Wichita, KS
Saturday, September 28, 10 am – 12:30 pm
St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 1525 N. Lorraine, Wichita, KS
Sunday, September 29, 2 pm
Anna Murdoc’s Café, 209 E. William St. at Market, Wichita, KS

For Liberty,

Steven A. Rosile

Editor, LSOCK NEWS

Dear Friend of Liberty,
Last week, a gentleman wrote to me that he had found out at a company meeting that Obamacare was negatively going to affect him and his family and that he needed to start doing something to get this stopped. He asked, "What can I do? Where should I go? Who should I contact?"
I gave him the number to call and told him where to go — so everything should be OK, right?!
If only it were that easy.
Unfortunately, we've let government get so big and intrusive that it's not going to be easy to stop Obamacare or any other government program. Congress might pretend to try stopping parts of Obamacare, or simply rename certain provisions, but I don't think they'll really stop the substance.
It's not just our president's or Congress's fault, either. For decades, Democratic voters have asked their elected officials for more government spending on education, health care, and welfare. Meanwhile, Republicans have asked their elected officials for more military spending, more surveillance, and new taxpayer-funded football stadiums. More surprisingly to some, Republicans initiated the 2003 socialist Medicare prescription plan and the 2008 bank bailouts. Meanwhile, John Stossel informs us that Democrats start more wars than Republicans!
As famed journalist Matt Drudge recently tweeted, "It's now Authoritarian vs. Libertarian. Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties..."
People and politicians of both major parties have cooperated for more than a century to build a bigger government, program by program. There's no number to call or person to contact to stop this. Big government is not just current culture — it's now part of American heritage. The New Deal started eighty years ago and hasn't stopped. Some even say that the conservative Heritage Foundation provided the foundation for the worst aspects of Obamacare.
To actually stop Obamacare and other government programs, we have to change American culture. It's not going to be easy.
What can one person do to help?
Robert Sarvis put his life on hold and has spent more than $15,000 of his family's money running for governor of Virginia.
Gov. Gary Johnson spent more than three years running for president to help promote liberty.
The other Gary Johnson, the one from Austin, Texas, who now serves on our national board, gave $25,000 to the David F. Nolan Memorial Fund to help make our national headquarters more efficient and more effective.
We list 145 Libertarians serving in elected office (up by three from last week). You could contact a few of them at random, thank them, and encourage them to run for re-election.
Fifty people serve as chairs of our 50 state affiliates. Those are tough jobs — not that treasurer or secretary is much easier.
Perhaps you don't think you have what it takes to run for office or to run a state affiliate.
Well, you can join the Libertarian Party if you aren't already a member — or, if you are, make another donation. Then you can contact your friends and family and let them know why you joined the Libertarian Party. You can ask them to join, too. Double the LP has some tools to help with that.
We must grow our numbers to be more successful. You can sign up for a monthly pledge, which helps fund people who are trying to provide others with more tools to help grow the Libertarian Party. You can join in the lively discussions on our Facebook page to get even more ideas on how to help.
Or you can simply send me an email asking why the Libertarian Party hasn't done more to stop Obamacare.
What's it gonna be?

Wes Benedict
Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee

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National LP News!

Table of Contents:

·         Libertarian Party to incumbents: Defund Obamacare now — or risk voter backlash in 2014

·         Former Republican state committee chair-elect joins LP to run for Congress in October special election

·         Washington Times column features LP call to stay out of Syria

·         New York LP fields record 8 candidates in NYC for November election

·         June issue of LP News now available online

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!

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Former Republican state committee chair-elect joins LP to run for Congress in October special election

Henry Herford,
Libertarian for Congress,
Louisiana 5th District

Henry Herford Jr., famous among Ron Paul supporters and was the former Louisiana Republican state committee chair-elect, is running for Congress as a Libertarian.
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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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Dear Friend of Liberty,
Nationwide, there are 142 Libertarians holding elected public office. Thirty-nine of them are partisan offices, and 103 are nonpartisan offices. You can view the entire list here.
If you know of an elected Libertarian who is not on this list, email us at campaigns@lp.org. Please include the words "elected libertarian" in the subject line.
When we've sent similar emails in the past, we've learned of as many as three or four who needed to be added to our list.
Because election laws vary so much from state to state, it's not always easy to decide who should be on our list of elected Libertarians, particularly when it comes to nonpartisan races. Additionally, we give quite a bit of leeway to the state affiliates to decide who is or is not considered an elected Libertarian. In any case, below is an approximation of the criteria used to determine if someone qualifies to appear on the list of elected Libertarians compiled by the national Libertarian Party:
For partisan offices, the elected official must have appeared on the ballot with the party designation "Libertarian" or the elected official must currently be registered to vote as a Libertarian.
For nonpartisan offices, the elected official must be a current or former dues-paying member of the Libertarian Party or the elected official must currently be registered to vote as a Libertarian.
If you know of any elected officials who are not Libertarian, but have Libertarian principles, please invite them to join the Libertarian Party — the Party of Principle.™
And keep in mind, sometimes all you have to do to win an election is to file for the office. My recent home state of Louisiana has had three Libertarians win local offices because they were the only ones who filed.
It's not too early to throw your hat into the ring for Spring 2014 elections.
Yours in liberty,

Wes Benedict
Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee

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From Our Friend In Liberty, John Todd!

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY--KANSAS 

Wichita Area Chapter Meeting

Monday, September 23, 2013

7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Spangles Restaurant (Meeting Room)

612 S. Broadway (Kellogg & Broadway Downtown)

Wichita, Kansas 67202

 Susan Estes

Field Director, AFP--Kansas

Training for a new local grassroots

 activism program. 

Field Director’s presentation to be followed by

Q & A and 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

 http://americansforprosperity.org/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.

Dear Friend of Liberty,

Rob Sarvis,
LP Virginia
Candidate for Governor

Robert Sarvis is getting so much publicity by running for governor!
He’s a perfect example of how you can amplify your voice for liberty a thousand times by running for office!
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch to Fox News to Public Radio, Sarvis is there. He gets cheated out of the debates, but he’s out there in other ways. Just take a look at the list of 111 stories on his media page. Of course, the 37 campaign events he lists are impressive too.
If the Libertarian Party of Virginia had to pay for all of that publicity, instead of getting it for free from the candidate, it would cost tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars.
Now for the full disclosure: The Sarvis for Governor campaign had to pay more than $25,000 just to get on the ballot. And I believe that Sarvis contributed more than $15,000 of his own money for that petition drive.
Ouch! That’s a lot of money out of his pocket, plus a lot of time taken away from his family!
But that’s the kind of dedicated heroes we have running for office in the Libertarian Party. People willing to give their time and money to make America a freer place for themselves, for their families, and even for the stranger that may never even know about it but will reap the benefits of liberty.
Click here for our complete list of candidates in the 2013 elections. Please send a note to campaigns@lp.org if you see anybody missing from our 2013 list.
I think the number one thing you can do to promote the Libertarian Party and its principles is to run for office. Any office! Please click here to submit your name as a possible future candidate.
You don’t have to work as hard as Robert Sarvis. We’ll help you find an office that fits your time and budget.
Texas has the earliest deadline for the November 2014 elections (December 9 of this year), so if you’re a Texan, submit your name today, before it’s too late!
If you’d like to donate to the Libertarian Party, that will help us recruit and promote more candidates. The Libertarian National Committee often pays to get state parties on the ballot so that their candidates don’t have to pay for ballot access out of their own pockets.
Please run for office, or donate today. $15,000 anyone? $1,500 or $150 or any amount helps.
Thank you for all that you do.

Wes Benedict
Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee

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Dear Friend of Liberty,
I'm asking you to please make a donation to our General Fund.
If you could donate $500, $100, or even $25, that would be a big help.
I recently brought Wes Benedict back to D.C. to serve as Executive Director in our headquarters. Wes was our Executive Director from 2009 to 2011. Carla Howell has moved to the role of Political Director, where she will focus on candidates and news media.
While interest in the Libertarian Party and our candidates seems to be as high as ever, August revenue was significantly below what we would like to see to support a strong staff with necessary resources at headquarters.
Our General Fund is what we use to pay our basic operating bills like rent, staff, postage, and office supplies. It's not always the most exciting thing for donors to support, but the funds are vital for keeping our doors open, and for keeping our staff working for us.
Please click here and make a generous donation today.
Sincerely,

Geoffrey J. Neale
Chair, Libertarian National Committee
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