HUGE WIN FOR LIBERTARIAN PARTY IN NYC!!!Libertarian Dan Halloran wins City Council Seat in New York City
Dan Halloran was elected to the Queens City Council in District 19. He was nominated by the Republican, Conservative, Independent and Libertarian parties. Dan is simultaneously a Libertarian Party member and a registered Republican. He serves as State Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus.
Note - Dan Halloran has just become the highest elected official for the Libertarian Party in the entire Nation. He also has the distinction of serving on the largest city council as a Libertarian Councilman in the entire 36 year history of the Libertarian Party. Previously Libertarians have been elected to City Councils in Flagstaff, AZ, Juneau, AK, Moreno Valley, CA, and Birmingham, AL. Currently, LPers serve on city councils in Springfield, MO and Indianapolis.
In Iowa two Libertarians were elected:
Roger Fritz was elected Mayor of Roland.In Georgia Libertarian Party members racked up 1 victory and a number of high percentage near misses. From the LPGA:
Bill Lynn was elected as an Alderman in Davenport.Meanwhile, Nick Taiber got 46% running for City Council in Cedar Falls. He advances to a runoff on December 1.
Karen Richardson (photo) was re-elected to the John's Creek City Council.In North Carolina, Matt Drew (photo) got 27% in a runoff election for City Council in Durham. He was running against a longtime Democrat incumbent, and had beaten 3 other candidates to advance to the run-off.
Chris Neill, running for Mayor of Marietta, got 14%.
Richard Segal, running for City Council in Douglasville, got 41%.
Jeffrey Sexton, running for City Council in Leesburg, got 22%.
Kellie Weeks, running for School Board in Gainesville, got 32%.
Dr. Thomas Smoot, running for School Board in Valdosta, got 24%.
Michigan:
Mark Byrne narrowly missed re-election to the Port Huron City Council.Besides Matt Drew's race in Durham, Libertarians ran for Mayor of two other major US cities:
Tom Hren got 8% running for City Commission in Big Rapids.
Andy LeCureaux was re-elected to the Hazel Park City Council.
Joseph Dobrian got 0.2% running for Mayor of New York City. (5th place out of a field of 8).Continuously updated election results for the Libertarian Party at www.lp.org
In Minnesota, Christopher Clark got 3.0% running for Mayor of Minneapolis.
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The problem is that the Libertarian Party needs to organize itself better. Libertarians have never had an opportunity better than the present to emerge and create a legitimate 3rd party option.
-Thomas Craig
www.AmericanTusk.com
There are black people in the libertarian party? I can't comprehend this...
Well there's no question that the Libertarian party is getting bigger and bigger. Yet it's just not enough that's pretty clear. I mean most people will say "Wow 3% of the vote for mayor and a city council job. Yet if you look at Ron Paul,Barry Goldwater,Gary Johnson,Jeff Flake, and Paul Broun you'll agree with me that we are getting bigger and we do have some high ranking guys. We need a Libertarian leaning president and that will come eventually, because both of the two parties are collapsing. I'll vote republican in every election except when it comes to guys like Bloomberg or in minor election, but in big elections I'll always go red. Yet in 2012 my vote will be for the Republicans yet I'll go Libertarian in the primaries.
The 19th century Democrats were the original libertarians who followed Jefferson, Madison on to Cleveland, while the 20th century Democrats follow Rousseau to Marx, as expressed by Obama when he said THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ARE THE INTERESTS OF INDIVIDUALS. America was founded on Individual Freedom which led to the free market and great prosperity, as cited in THE CHANGING FACE OF DEMOCRATS on Amazon and www.claysamerica.com.
It's not in the liberal media's interest to promote the Libertarian Party in any way. To do so, would give Republicans a more reasonable moderate image. Their goal is to portray Republicans as "limited government extremists."
Thus, the almost entire news blackout of the LP.
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