Executive Committee
| Name
|
Position
|
| Val Vetter
|
State Chair
|
| Lupe Diaz
|
Legislative
|
| Damon Dillon
|
Membership
|
| Kent McMillen
|
Public Relations
|
| Crystal Jurczynski
|
Secretary
|
| Debra Aaron
|
Treasurer
|
Mission Statement
Libertarian Party of Illinois mission is: To elect Libertarians to office and move public policy in a libertarian direction.[1]
Key Tenets of the Libertarian Party Platform
Key tenets of the Libertarian Party platform include the following:[2]
- Adoption of laissez-faire principles which would reduce the state's role in economic government. This would include, among other things, markedly reduced taxation, privatization of Social Security and Welfare (for individuals, as well as elimination of "corporate welfare"), markedly reduced regulation of business, rollbacks of labor regulations, and reduction of government interference in foreign trade.
- Protection of property rights.
- Minimal government bureaucracy. The Libertarian Party states that the government's responsibilities should be limited to the protection of individual rights from the initiation of force and fraud.
- Civil libertarianism: Support for the protection of civil liberties, including the right to privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and sexual freedom.
- Opposition to civil rights laws that regulate the private sector, such as affirmative action and non-discrimination laws.
- Support for the unrestricted right to the means of self-defense (such as gun rights, the right to carry mace, pepper spray, or tasers etc).
- Opposition to the censoring and the engineering of foreign radio pathways.
- Abolition of laws against "victimless crimes" (such as prostitution, driving without a seatbelt, use of controlled substances, fraternization, etc.).
- Opposition to regulations on how businesses should run themselves (e.g., smoking bans)
- A foreign policy of free trade and non-interventionism.
- Support for a fiscally responsible government including a hard currency (commodity-based money supply as opposed to fiat currency).
- Abolition of all forms of taxpayer-funded assistance welfare, food stamps, public housing, Health care, etc.)
- A belief that abortion is a personal issue, and should not be part of government.[3]
State Affiliates (as of March 2009)
- Bond-Fayette County Libertarians
- Champaign County Libertarian Party
- DuPage Libertarians
- Fox Valley Libertarian Party
- The Libertarian Party of Chicago
- Libertarian Party of Cook County-Northwest
- Libertarians of Western Illinois University
- McHenry County Libertarian Party
- McLean Libertarians
- Metro-Lakeland Libertarians
- Northern Illinois University Libertarians
- Rockford Area Libertarians
- Rock Valley College Libertarians
Libertarian Party of Illinois Vote Total History 2000-2008
2008 Campaigns
| Office
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
Percentage
|
| President
|
Bob Barr
|
19,645
|
0.36%
|
| Vice President
|
Wayne Root
|
19,645
|
0.36%
|
| US Senate
|
Larry Stafford
|
50,228
|
0.94%
|
2006 Campaigns
| Office
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
Percentage
|
| Congress 2
|
Anthony Williams
|
5,422
|
3.33%
|
2004 Campaigns
| Office
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
Percentage
|
| President
|
Michael Badnarik
|
32,442
|
0.62%
|
| Vice President
|
Richard Campagna
|
32,442
|
0.62%
|
| US Senate
|
Jerry Kohn
|
69,253
|
1.35%
|
| Congress 2
|
Stephanie Sailor
|
26,990
|
11.51%
|
| Congress 4
|
Jake Witmer
|
4,845
|
3.88%
|
| Congress 12
|
Walter Steele
|
4,794
|
1.67%
|
| State Rep 11
|
Jason Briggeman
|
1,770
|
3.99%
|
| State Rep 53
|
Scott Bludorn
|
3,673
|
8.22%
|
| State Rep 64
|
Jim Young
|
2,022
|
3.95%
|
| State Rep 85
|
Austin Hough
|
7,945
|
25.09%
|
| State Rep 95
|
Steve Dubovik
|
1,317
|
2.92%
|
2002 Campaigns
| Office
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
Percentage
|
| Governor
|
Cal Skinner
|
73,794
|
2.09%
|
| Lieutenant Governor
|
Jim Tobin
|
73,794
|
2.09%
|
| Secretary of State
|
Matt Beauchamp
|
78,830
|
2.24%
|
| Attorney General
|
Gary Shilts
|
87,949
|
2.51%
|
| Treasurer
|
Rhys Read
|
66,593
|
1.92%
|
| Comptroller
|
Julie Fox
|
144,066
|
4.23%
|
| US Senate
|
Steven Burgauer
|
57,382
|
1.65%
|
| Congress 1
|
Dorothy Tsatsos
|
4,741
|
2.62%
|
| Congress 4
|
Maggie Kohls
|
4,328
|
5.20%
|
| Congress 5
|
Frank Gonzalez
|
6,638
|
4.34%
|
| Congress 7
|
Martin Pankau
|
2,436
|
1.53%
|
| Congress 9
|
Stephanie Sailor
|
4,779
|
2.89%
|
| State Rep 11
|
John Yackley
|
3,371
|
12.82%
|
| State Rep 28
|
Jerome Kohn
|
1,241
|
4.21%
|
| State Rep 41
|
John Tepley
|
1,034
|
2.76%
|
| State Rep 42
|
Michael Mandel
|
1,123
|
3.28%
|
| State Rep 48
|
Chandler Hadraba
|
3,440
|
11.22%
|
| State Rep 52
|
Matthew Paul Burns
|
1,190
|
3.92%
|
| State Rep 64
|
Jim Young
|
2,214
|
7.35%
|
| State Rep 85
|
Eric Ferguson
|
4,922
|
20.32%
|
| State Rep 95
|
Steve Dubovik
|
4,191
|
14.61%
|
2000 Campaigns
| Office
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
Percentage
|
| President
|
Harry Browne
|
11,623
|
0.25%
|
| Vice President
|
Art Olivier
|
11,623
|
0.25%
|
| Congress 4
|
Stephanie Sailor
|
11,476
|
11.37%
|
| Congress 5
|
Matt Beauchamp
|
20,728
|
12.73%
|
| State Rep 34
|
R. Brian Poynton
|
1,230
|
4.04%
|
| State Rep 39
|
Elizabeth Quaintance
|
10,103
|
26.20%
|
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