GA, MO, NH, OH, OK, and WV LPs are having their state conventions this weekend. If anyone in any of these states is able to provide live updates please do so in the comments here. Please also post links to any twitter feeds, photos, videos, livestreams, blogging or news coverage elsewhere, etc., in the comments. Some information about the conventions can be found at http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/2014-state-conventions by clicking on each state’s name.
I have had to cancel my plans to personally be at one of these to provide coverage. More about that in the comments.
Thanks for the update Doug. Any updates from any of these other states?
Libertarian Party of Georgia Nominates 2014 Candidates
Contact: Brett Bittner, Executive Director
404.888.9468 ext. 3
[email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Marietta, GA – On March 8, The Libertarian Party of Georgia held their annual state convention in Marietta, nominating their slate of 2014 candidates. Gathering at the former location of Theatre in the Square, Libertarians from across the state came together for the annual meeting to decide who will represent them on the ballot and in the boardroom.
The 2014 candidate slate is led by founder and former CEO of the nanotechnology company, nGimat, Dr. Andrew Hunt, running for Governor. Andrew received his B.S. in Geology from Auburn University, a Master’s Degree in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In the race to replace Saxby Chambliss in the U.S. Senate, the Libertarian Party fielded the twice-elected Libertarian Amanda Swafford, making her the first female candidate for U.S. Senate nominated in 2014. A graduate of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ms. Swafford formerly served on the Flowery Branch City Council, ending her term on December 31, 2011.
In addition, Libertarians nominated Aaron Gilmer to run for Public Service Commission, District 4. Aaron is an auditor with Automatic Data Processing, and he has served as a longtime volunteer with the Georgia Aquarium, in addition to his years of experience in leadership with the Libertarian Party of Georgia.
“I’m very proud of the quality of talented candidates we fielded for the 2014 election. The hard work of our candidates and activists in the past brought more people, talent, and funding to our growing party,” said Doug Craig, Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Georgia. “This is a very exciting time to be a Libertarian, as we continue to be the only party in Georgia focused on making government smaller, reducing the burdensome taxes, and standing up for more freedom.”
Due to the burdensome restrictions in place for independents and political bodies in Georgia, there often are not Libertarians on the ballot for state legislature races. For the first time since 2010, Libertarians also fielded a candidate for State House District 21. Woodstock attorney Jeff Amason garnered the nomination for this seat on Saturday and touted his campaign’s successes thus far in their pursuit to overcome those hurdles in place to prevent access to the ballot. A graduate of Georgia Tech, Amason seeks to represent the people of Cherokee County under the Gold Dome.
“As a former candidate for State House myself, I can appreciate the efforts undertaken by the Amason campaign already. I know it is difficult to get on the ballot as a LIbertarian, and I am impressed by their progress at this point,” added Chairman Craig. “I’m really excited to see another choice on the ballot for the voters in Cherokee County.”
As well as nominating candidate for office, Libertarians also selected their Executive Committee representation for 2014, considered bylaws and platform changes, and hosted 2013 candidate for Virginia Governor, Robert Sarvis.
The Libertarian Party is Georgia’s third largest party, standing for smaller government, lower taxes, and more freedom for all Georgians. Find out more at LPGeorgia.com
Matt – good idea although I have put up posts asking for volunteers before and not had much luck. I did include a call for volunteers in my post but some people have more mone than time (or aren’t in those states that are having conventions or will be too busy at the conventions etc). So I would love some contributions as well.
I have to keep the bartender busy at the New York LP Convention, so I will leave the live-blogging to someone else.
We should have wifi available.
Then, on convention day (or the day before) post a new article for each convention that one or more people have “committed” to covering.
How about creating an article asking for volunteers to live blog each convention, and someone (Paulie? Warren?) following up with any volunteers via e-mail or phone with a 5 minute conversation that may create some sense of commitment.
No need to be sorry at all. I’m glad to see someone besides me provide this type of coverage. Hopefully it will become a trend. Thanks for coming back and clearing that up.
I always have to wonder, since I’ve experienced internet outages and lack of outlet access issues when reporting like that and then had people wondering what happened, not realizing I had lost ability to connect.
That was the end – sorry, I didn’t make that clear
Same for any of the other states listed in the headline/article.
Darryl thanks again for NH coverage. Was that the end of it, or did you lose internet connection? If anyone has photos, videos, links to articles elsewhere, links to twitter feeds and so on please post them here.
Jill – I know you’ll be busy, but I hope you or someone can blog it. No chance I’ll go to CA.
Excellent report, Darryl, and congratulations!
The California convention is in three weeks (the 28th through 30th). I’m planning to make it this year, and I do think it’s an important year for us. There’s a strong Republican-lite undercurrent, which is quite worrisome to many of us.
Awesome, thank you! If I don’t make it (or even if I do) I hope someone else liveblogs it like Darryl is doing with NH here. Same for all the other states.
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved in Convention:
Whereas we support the end of the war on drugs; and
Whereas we oppose the criminalization of natural substances; and
Whereas we oppose the incarceration of people who have harmed no one;
Be it resolved that the members of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire support and call for the New Hampshire General Court to pass HB1625; and
Be it resolved that the members of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire support and call for Governor Maggie Hassan to sign HB1625 into law.
We the members of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire stand for smaller government, and lower taxes.
Motion for the Executive Board may seek & nominate candidates for the general election
adopted without objection
No person nominated for Chair of the Membership Committee
John Babiarz nominated for Judicial Committee
Brenden Kelly nominated for Judicial Committee
Howard Wilson nominated for Judicial Committee
Rosalie Babiarz nominated for Judicial Committee
Tom Kershaw nominated for Judicial Committee
Tom: 2
Rosalie: 3
Howard: 1
John: 5
Brenden: 3
John, Brenden & Rosalie elected to Judicial Committee
What?
No one voted for NOTA?
What kinda operation you running up there?
Too many people agreeing with each other at an LP event sets a bad precedent. Next thing, you’ll all be united in defeating statist Republicrats.
Max Abramson nominated for Governor
Gardner Goldsmith nominated for US Senate
Brenden Kelly nominated for Congress District 1 (not present to accept)
Brian Chabot nominated for Congress District 2
Rich Tomasso nominated for Chair
Max Abramson nominated for Vice-Chair
Aiden Aikenburg nominated for Treasurer
Darryl W. Perry nominated for Secretary
Nominations closed, and all candidates nominated/elected by unanimous consent
Paulie–
You are of course welcome to join us in Albany on April 26, but it’s quite a hike from your base, so there will not be any hurt feelings if you cannot make it to provide your usual exemplary reporting that day.
If you do make the journey north, I pledge $100 to help offest your travel expenses.
Nominating candidates for State & Federal office
Amendments passed unanimously, can be ratified at the next convention.
Amendments to the LPNH Constitution to amend “resident” to “inhabitant”
Thanks for coverage, NH was not listed on the national list but I updated the listing here.
Rich Tomasso giving updates from National LP
Discussion is currently on pending legislation, especially the ballot access reform bill to lower the vote threshold for party retention from 4% to 3%
LPNH Convention is also happening today. I’m in attendance, and will post updates as they happen.
Convention was scheduled to begin at 10am, actually began at 11:10am
For those who don’t read the posts, only the comments:
GA, MO, OH, OK, and WV LPs are having their state conventions this weekend. If anyone in any of these states is able to provide live updates please do so in the comments here. Please also post links to any twitter feeds, photos, videos, livestreams, blogging or news coverage elsewhere, etc., in the comments. Some information about the conventions can be found at http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/2014-state-conventions by clicking on each state’s name.
Howdy folks
Some people have expressed appreciation for the liveblogging I did at Virginia and Arkansas LP conventions, Bylaws and LNC.
I would like to do some more of this but as of right now can not afford any more trips. I’d love to see some other IPR writers liveblog some of these conventions and committees instead of me. So far it seems it is mainly just me.
Last “weekend” turned into a whole week on the way to, from and in DC (snow delayed me getting out of DC) so I am already cutting out Oklahoma, which I hoped to cover this coming weekend, as well as my backup choice (Georgia). Tennessee next weekend is looking less likely as well.
I was hoping to find people to put me up in VA in between the VA convention and Students for Liberty the following weekend in exchange for signatures, but that did not happen and I ended up moteling and not working that whole week. Nor did a ride I was hoping for back from DC to Alabama (the first time out of my two recent trips there) work out either.
As of this time I am hoping to make:
MS – April 4-6
TX – April 11-13
NY – April 26
IN – Platform Committee, early May
AL – May 10
FL – May 16-18
Columbus – Jun 26-29
But realistically I will have to cut out most of these without some financial help.
So I’m hoping some of you will
1) Cover some of these (and others: http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/2014-state-conventions) instead of (or in addition to) me
2) Donate to help me get to some of them to cover them instead of you
and/or
3) Post about this on IPR and elsewhere and raise some money to help make some more of these trips possible.
Thanks!
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