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Reactions have been sharp: The Poughkeepsie Journal ran a story with the headline "Libertarians Pick a Symbol the Needle Foes;" Reason magazine headed it "IMPORTANT NEWS"; Caliber, The Illinois Libertarian, and LP News have all noted the event; and LP founder David Nolan has proposed, in a memo to Execom members, that the Presidential Convention choose between the Llbersign with the slogan "TOWARD LIBERTY" and the Porcupine with "LIVE AND LET LIVE," as the National LP symbol. And in a letter to Gary Greenberg, Nolan urges the FLP to make the rodent its official logo, and "get rid of that Godawful 'black claw."'</blockquote> | Reactions have been sharp: The Poughkeepsie Journal ran a story with the headline "Libertarians Pick a Symbol the Needle Foes;" Reason magazine headed it "IMPORTANT NEWS"; Caliber, The Illinois Libertarian, and LP News have all noted the event; and LP founder David Nolan has proposed, in a memo to Execom members, that the Presidential Convention choose between the Llbersign with the slogan "TOWARD LIBERTY" and the Porcupine with "LIVE AND LET LIVE," as the National LP symbol. And in a letter to Gary Greenberg, Nolan urges the FLP to make the rodent its official logo, and "get rid of that Godawful 'black claw."'</blockquote> | ||
==Attempts to Adopt by National== | |||
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! Date | |||
! Motion | |||
! Result | |||
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| May 24, 1975 | |||
| Martin Jahn made a motion"THAT THE PARTY FORI,IALLY ADOPT THE PORCUPINE AS ITS NATIONAL MASCOT." | |||
| Westmiller made a motion to table and it passed. | |||
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| January 31, 1976 | |||
| "Nolan, commenting that the party should adopt some logo, moved, AND JAHN Seconded THAT THE PARTY ADOPT THE IMAGE OF THE PORCUPINE WITH THE MOTTO DON'T TREAD ON MEII AS ITS LOGO." | |||
| The motion was defeated by voice vote. | |||
|} | |||
==Future Adoptions== | ==Future Adoptions== | ||