Document:LP News 1974 January-February Issue 18: Difference between revisions

[[Libertarian Party of Lousiana|LOUISIANA LP]] will hold its state convention this month, and plans to field at least two candidates for public office. [[Libertarian Party of Lousiana|LPC]]'s members in the 4th Congressional District have been active in a fight against a school tax proposal in Bossier Parish.

[[Libertarian Party of Maryland|MARYLAND LP]], which began organizing only this summer, is now the 5th-largest state LP group, yet describes its situation as "just beginning to pick up momentum." A tax protest planned for December l8th had to be postponed until January 15th because of weather; over 100 people outside the party's membership had replied favorably to the announcements for the December l8th scheduling.

[[Libertarian Party of Minnesota|MINNESOTA LP]] held a dinner on December l6, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party; speakers included Michiel van Notten of Holland, who spoke on the progress of the libertarian movement in other countries.

[[Libertarian Party of New Hampshire|NEW HAMPSHIRE LP]] has sent a petition to the State Legislature condemning censorship, and is supporting an effort by Nashua School Board member Alan Thomaier to make Nashua schools independent of Federal aid/control. [[Libertarian Party of New Hampshire|NHLP]] also plans to campaign against US involvement in the MidEast War.

[[Libertarian Party of New Jersey|NEW JERSEY LP]]'s 1973 gubernatorial candidate, [[John Goodson]], received over 3,000 votes, despite diversion of a major portion of the [[Libertarian Party of New Jersey|NJ]] members' efforts to the NY Mayoralty race. Goodson ran 4th out of 10 independent candidates, and two other independents who ran on tax-cut or tax-repeal platforms pulled another 4,500, indicating enough potential support to make [[Libertarian Party of New Jersey|NJLP]] the state's third-largest party, after the Dems and GOP. [[Bob Steiner]] is confident that he can handily defeat American Party candidate Howard Freund in his upcoming Congressional race; Freund is

[[Libertarian Party of New York|NEW YORK'S Free Libertarian Party]] has reported final results on last November's campaign; top vote-getter was [[Fran Youngstein]], who got 8,8l8 votes, or 48% of the total for the five small parties (eat your hearts out, Marxists!). [[Gary Greenberg]] ran close behind, with 8,301; he was on the ballot in Manhattan only. Gary's share of the Manhattan Attorney General's race was 3.65%, and he pulled better than 6% in some districts; in two of the city's 13 assembly districts, Gary outpolled the Conservative line. In other races, [[Tom Avery]] pulled 5,903 votes city-wide for Comptroller, and [[Bill Lawry]] got 2,898 for City Council President. [[Lou Sicilia]] got 2,507 in Manhattan, running for Borough President, and [[Paul Streitz]] received 1,480 for Councilman at Large from Manhattan. [[Libertarian Party of New York|FLP]] sent out a press release on the anniversary of [[Roger MacBride]]'s historic Electoral Vote last year, and is now gearing up for '74; membership has grown from 160 to 270 since last May.

[[Libertarian Party of Utah|UTAH LP]] is beginning a program whereby every member will (hopefully) write at least one "letter to the editor" every week; this is one of the best ways to get our ideas out, and to gain recognition for the LP.

[[Libertarian Party of Washington|WASHINGTON LP]] was another of the many state LP groups which staged anti-tax demonstrations at IRS offices during the December 16-18 period; theirs was preceded by a press conference on November 27, to assure good media coverage.