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MacBride now asked to address the convention, and essentially declared he would accept anyone the convention gave him. Little did we know as we rose to applaud, another contender had just recently arrived in New York, after a hasty red-eye flight from his California home. (It would be the first of several times when David Bergland helped bail the LP out of a tricky situation.) He was now presented, in all his leisure suit and gold-chained glory, with a modified-Afro permed hairdo, and saying all the right things we had been wanting to hear, about diversity and openness. | MacBride now asked to address the convention, and essentially declared he would accept anyone the convention gave him. Little did we know as we rose to applaud, another contender had just recently arrived in New York, after a hasty red-eye flight from his California home. (It would be the first of several times when David Bergland helped bail the LP out of a tricky situation.) He was now presented, in all his leisure suit and gold-chained glory, with a modified-Afro permed hairdo, and saying all the right things we had been wanting to hear, about diversity and openness. | ||
When the vote went forward this time, Bergland won with a clear majority. Although some folks considered they had maybe been jobbed out of presenting a real broad-based ticket this time, David’s soft-spoken but clear presence, and his credible “rad” credentials, smoothed over the hurts and we went forth with our LP ticket, to fumble along and get the half-percent of the vote that became almost a given for most of the next three decades. - (submitted 11/17/17, | When the vote went forward this time, Bergland won with a clear majority. Although some folks considered they had maybe been jobbed out of presenting a real broad-based ticket this time, David’s soft-spoken but clear presence, and his credible “rad” credentials, smoothed over the hurts and we went forth with our LP ticket, to fumble along and get the half-percent of the vote that became almost a given for most of the next three decades. - (submitted 11/17/17, Steve A. Trinward) | ||
==Libertarian Executive Committee== | ==Libertarian Executive Committee== | ||