By Dr. Tom Stevens, campaign manager for Libertarian presidential nomination candidate Carl Person, on Liberty Lion:
Empire State Libertarians, Downstate Libertarians, Long Island Libertarians, Stonewall Libertarians and the Objectivist Party of New York boycotted Liberty Fest II, which was held on September 10, 2011 from 4:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at Club Amnesia located at 609 West 29th Street in Manhattan. Organizers Gigi Bowman, Ian Cioffi, Danny Panzella and Amanda Trbovich charged each attendee $30.00 if they purchased their tickets at the door for an opportunity to hear 25 speakers talk for 5 minutes each. In addition, they charged $195.00 for people who wished to attend a luncheon with a few of the guest speakers.
While Gigi Bowman, the Suffolk County Libertarian Party’s State Representative, found room for 25 speakers, including convicted criminal Chris Cantwell (who failed to get on the ballot as the Suffolk County LP’s candidate for Congress in 2010), she could not find five (5) minutes for Carl Person, a Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate who lives in Manhattan. Because of this slight, the Libertarian Party of Queens County also did not promote or attend Liberty Fest II.
Carl Person, a member of the Libertarian Party of Queens County, also did not purchase a ticket. However, he and an entourage of campaign supporters owned the street in front of Club Amnesia handing a multi-colored campaign flyer to almost all Liberty Fest II attendees, which contained a 22-point critique of President Obama’s American Jobs Act Speech before Congress on September 8, 2011. The flyer contained a comprehensive analysis of why President Obama’s proposals won’t work followed by Carl Person’s alternative program for putting Americans back to work in long-term private sector jobs created by the small businesses of our country.
Dr. Tom Stevens, Campaign Manager for Carl Person, said:
This was a great opportunity for Carl to reach over 750 pro-liberty activists with his consistent message of how he will create over 10 million new jobs with his proposals to allow all small businesses to have their first three employees treated as independent contractors, by opening up educational opportunities so that new careers such as Assistant To Small Business Owner can be created, and by allowing small business owners to raise capital. Given that Carl founded the Paralegal Institute, which trained thousands of people to enter a promising new career, there is no doubt he knows what he is taking about when he speaks of the potential for the new job title of Assistant To Small Business Owner.
Carl received extremely favorable feedback from those he spoke to outside Liberty Fest II and I would venture to say they will remember his practical solutions to create jobs without intrusive governmental interference far longer than they will remember what was said by any of the 25 speakers inside Club Amnesia who spoke for 5 minutes each over a loud speaker projected throughout a large and crowded club.
To be fair to Gigi Bowman, the co-organizer of Liberty Fest II who denied Carl Person an opportunity to speak, she did mention he was welcome to purchase a $30.00 ticket and attend as an observer. Mr. Person declined her invitation.
Original post has been updated at Liberty Lion.
I’ll try to remember to update it here later.
If anyone else gets to it first, I’d appreciate it.
Well, now you have 🙂
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