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'''Gerard Lewis''' was an At-Large Committee Member of the [[Libertarian Party of New York]]. | '''Gerard Lewis''' was an At-Large Committee Member of the [[Libertarian Party of New York]]. | ||
Lewis was a longtime [[Howard Stern]] listener who would frequently attend Stern's live events when Lewis lived on Long Island (he moved to Buffalo in 1989).<ref name=":0">Cox, David. Telephone interview with Gerard Lewis. November 7, 2019.</ref> When Howard Stern announced on March 21, 1994 that he would be seeking the [[Libertarian Party of New York]]'s nomination for Governor, Lewis joined the party to attend the annual state convention.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
Between joining the party and attending the state convention, Lewis signed up new state party members under his own initiative, and attended the local [[Niagara Frontier Libertarian Party|Niagara Frontier chapter]]'s convention on March 30, 1994 to speak on Stern's behalf. <ref name=":0" /> | |||
Lewis drove to the [[New York Convention 1994]] in Albany and attended both days, including the banquet on Saturday night. Lewis voted for Howard Stern for the governor nomination on day one.<ref name=":0" /> He was one of only a handful of Stern fans who stayed for the business meeting on day two, where Lewis was elected as an At-Large Representative to the party.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
Lewis left the state committee after [[Howard Stern]] dropped out in August of 1994.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
==Organizational Positions== | ==Organizational Positions== | ||
;[[Libertarian Party of New York]] | ;[[Libertarian Party of New York]] | ||
*At-Large Committee Member (1994—1995) | *At-Large Committee Member (1994—1995) | ||
==References== | |||
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[[Category:New York Party Activists]] | [[Category:New York Party Activists]] | ||