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==History== | ==History== | ||
The Libertarian Party | |||
===1971—1973: Beginnings=== | |||
The Libertarian Party was established in 1971 and soonafter many states started to work to form state parties. In New York, the party became known as the "Free Libertarian Libertarian." In the June—July 1972 edition of [[The Libertarian Record]], Murray Rothbard reported that he joined the Academic Advisory Board for the party. Founding members of the party include [[Ed Clark|Edward]] and [[Alicia Clark]] and [[Jerome J. Klasman]]. Clark served as the Temporary State Chairman as early as April 1972, when Guy Riggs was running for State Assembly, as one of the first Libertarian candidates in the state. Two other Libertarians ran as candidates in 1972: [[Walter Block]] for State Assembly and [[Gary Greenberg]] for U.S. House. In late October, Riggs suspended his campaign after he recieved only 900 out of the required 1,500 petition signatures to get on the ballot. It was reported that his campaign recieved nationwide attention including a network radio commentary. Riggs' campaign committee went on to form the [[Mid Hudson Libertarian Club]]. | |||
The first meeting of the [[Mid Hudson Libertarian Club]] was held in late September 1972. By this time, [[Jerome J. Klasman]] was Temporary State Chair and was guest speaker to the club's first meeting. | |||
Klasman served as second chair from 1972–1973. In [[1973]], it ran a slate of candidates in the New York City municipal elections including [[Fran Youngstein]] for mayor and [[Gary Greenberg]] for Manhattan district attorney. The LPNY has run statewide candidates regularly since [[1974]] when its candidate for governor was [[Jerome Tuccille]]. | |||
<blockquote>"It is a measure of the state of the Free Libertarian Party of New York that our marathon annual convention (March 29-31) was scarcely enough to finish the Party business. This despite a preceding Special Convention at which we wrangled over the party logo and chose delegates to the National Convention in Dallas in June, and despite the fact that the Convention began every morning promptly at 10:00 A. M. and lasted through special caucuses and post-mortems until after the bars closed at 3:00 A. M. Yet we concluded with no resolutions on issues and no platform. these being put back to yet another mini-convention at the end of April. Three conventions in two months begins to resemble the unfortunate and frenetic Peace and Freedom Party of 1968, which reached a crescendo of almost continuous conventioneering before its rapid demise." | <blockquote>"It is a measure of the state of the Free Libertarian Party of New York that our marathon annual convention (March 29-31) was scarcely enough to finish the Party business. This despite a preceding Special Convention at which we wrangled over the party logo and chose delegates to the National Convention in Dallas in June, and despite the fact that the Convention began every morning promptly at 10:00 A. M. and lasted through special caucuses and post-mortems until after the bars closed at 3:00 A. M. Yet we concluded with no resolutions on issues and no platform. these being put back to yet another mini-convention at the end of April. Three conventions in two months begins to resemble the unfortunate and frenetic Peace and Freedom Party of 1968, which reached a crescendo of almost continuous conventioneering before its rapid demise." | ||
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<blockquote>"Meanwhile. New York's Free Libertarian Party has had its annual spring convention. Your editor is living in California for the spring, and so was not able to attend, but from all reports the convention was almost remarkably smooth and harmonious, free of the factionalism and of the barely suppressed hysteria of the year before. In a personal triumph, the able but formerly widely attacked Gary Greenberg has been elected state chairman."<br/><div align="right">— The Libertarian Forum, April 1975</div></blockquote> | <blockquote>"Meanwhile. New York's Free Libertarian Party has had its annual spring convention. Your editor is living in California for the spring, and so was not able to attend, but from all reports the convention was almost remarkably smooth and harmonious, free of the factionalism and of the barely suppressed hysteria of the year before. In a personal triumph, the able but formerly widely attacked Gary Greenberg has been elected state chairman."<br/><div align="right">— The Libertarian Forum, April 1975</div></blockquote> | ||
===1987—present=== | |||
In 1987, a new publication, [[Free New York]], was created as a newsletter for the party. | In 1987, a new publication, [[Free New York]], was created as a newsletter for the party. | ||