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Michael Seebeck is an activist and party leader, currently affiliated with the Libertarian Party of Colorado.  He informally goes simply by "Seebeck", because as he puts it, "When my wife yells, 'Mike!' in a crowd, a dozen heads turn.  But when she yells, 'Seebeck!' everyone knows she means me."  His close friends and respected colleagues also refer to him by his first name.  He has been married to his wife, Lidia, for 20 years.  
Michael Seebeck is an activist and party leader, currently affiliated with the Libertarian Party of Colorado.  He informally goes simply by "Seebeck", because as he puts it, "When my wife yells, 'Mike!' in a crowd, a dozen heads turn.  But when she yells, 'Seebeck!' everyone knows she means me."  His close friends and respected colleagues also refer to him by his first name.  He has been married to his wife, Lidia, for 21 years.  


Michael first heard of the Libertarian Party in 1988 at age 15 in Cañon City, CO, when the neighbors around the corner had yard signs for Dr. Ron Paul all over their lawn.  Michael went over to figure out what it was all about, and received his first dose of the Libertarian Party.  He liked what he heard and placed pamphlets under windshields at his local church.
You can find his profile here on LPedia by simply searching for "Seebeck"
 
In 2000, Michael and Lidia, now living in their current home in Midway, CO, noticed an ad for the Libertarian Party of El Paso County, Colorado in the local newspaper and decided to check them out, based on Michael's recollection of 1988.  They were greeted warmly at the door by the core of the county party and their mentors, the Geltemeyers and Glidewells, and almost immediately found themselves volunteering for the campaign for county commissioner for their own district, meeting candidate and friend Steve D'Ippolito.  Over the next three years they would become very active in LPEP, helping to make the affiliate the national role model at the time for what a local affiliate should be--all in the very birthplace of the Party.
 
In 2001, Michael ran for his local school board, opposing a bond issue that the school board president admitted was base on numbers that were fabricated.  Michael spent all of $50 on the race and came in fourth for three seats, out of five candidates, earning 32% of all votes cast, but he was able to defeat the bond issue, saving his district taxpayers some $46 million.
 
In the aftermath of 9/11, Michael called into the afternoon radio talk show on KVOR in Colorado Springs, and through an accidental cut-off of his cell phone, was invited to debate the host on the demerits of the Partiot Act.  After Michael soundly defeated the host in-studio, the host took Michael under his wing and Michael became a fill-in guest host up through late 2003.
 
In 2002, Michael was elected to both the Outreach Director and Media Director positions with LPEP, as well as the Media/Information Director in LPCO.  He also earned two Lights of Liberty Triathlete awards from the Advocates for Self-Government, becoming the first Colorado LP member to earn the Triathlete Award.  That year, Michael drove the LPEP's float in the Colorado Springs Festival of Lights Parade, with Lady Liberty in the back waving to the crowd while party members passed out party business cards with candy canes stapled to them.  This outreach gained LPEP exposure to 130,000 people in person and another 250,000 on local television.  No political party had ever been in the parade before, and none since.  The 2002 election saw Michael and Lidia supporting 8 separate campaigns simultaneously, including Michael managing the campaign of Jeff McQueen for Colorado state Senate 17.  In three weeks time, with only one letter to the editor, one radio appearance, and three debate appearances, Jeff earned 9.1% of the vote in the race that decided control of the state Senate, with the winner's margin only being 0.46%.  At the same time, Michael was dealing in his LPCO role with the fallout of the Rick Stanley U.S. Senate campaign fiasco, including a failed attempt to remove Stanley from the ballot, which resulted in a censure by the LPCO, and which ultimately led to Stanley going to prison for several felonies.  Lidia was engaged as well in successfully helping LPCO and the Green Party defeat HB03-1142, which would have destroyed the LPCO.
 
In April 2003, Michael stepped down from all of his positions in both LPCO and LPEP at the state convention, which he assisted LPEP in running.  Four days later, while at the local LPEP meeting, Lidia started labor, and their son John was born the following afternoon.
 
In December 2003, the Seebecks relocated to Riverside, CA, for a new job.
 
(to be continued)

Revision as of 21:25, 6 March 2019

Michael Seebeck is an activist and party leader, currently affiliated with the Libertarian Party of Colorado. He informally goes simply by "Seebeck", because as he puts it, "When my wife yells, 'Mike!' in a crowd, a dozen heads turn. But when she yells, 'Seebeck!' everyone knows she means me." His close friends and respected colleagues also refer to him by his first name. He has been married to his wife, Lidia, for 21 years.

You can find his profile here on LPedia by simply searching for "Seebeck"

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