Salina KS – On Saturday, April 18th, members of the Libertarian Party of Kansas (LPKS) elected their State Executive Committee as they do every two years.
At the election that took place at the party’s state convention in Salina Kansas, party members chose new people for five of the eight committee positions. With many new leaders joining a handful of returning long-time Libertarian leaders, members now feel that their party leadership better represents their quickly growing political party. Those on the LPKS Executive Committee now include:
Former Democrats, Republicans, and Independents
Two members under 30 years
Two women
Two retired individuals
A public school teacher
A small business owner
The big-tent feel of the new party leadership team seems to mirror the broad and growing interest in the Libertarian Party and the Libertarian philosophy of Limited Government that is both Fiscally Responsible and Socially Tolerant.
According to the Kansas Secretary of State’s website, the Libertarian Party of Kansas is the only political party to show voter registration growth between October 2012 and October 2014.
During that two year period, Kansas voter registration for each party changed as follows:
Registered Libertarians +12.47%
Registered Independents +0.96%
Registered Republicans -1.62%
Registered Democrats -4.51%
The newly elected Libertarian Party of Kansas Executive Committee is listed below, and contact information for each is available on the LPKS.org website.
Rob Hodgkinson, Stillwell –Chair
Sharon DuBois, Topeka –Vice-Chair
Bill Carey, Lenexa – Secretary
Ric Koehn, Cimarron – Treasurer
Joey Frazier, Salina – 1st District Coordinator
Kris Logan, Lansing – 2nd District Coordinator
Chris Clemmons, Shawnee – 3rd District Coordinator
David Loomis, Wichita – 4th District Coordinator
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And From Rob Hodgkinson via statechairs list:
Hi All,
A quick update from Kansas – I was elected State Chair this weekend (again)….. assuming I live that long, I will be serving years 6 & 7 as our chair.
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We had a large turnover in officers (5 of 8 were not officers last term) à this group has me really pumped up that we can grow the party statewide and really make a huge difference in the 2016 elections here.
We had a great convention – we had about 50 attendees and I was really pleased as that was one of our bigger events (especially in an off election year) 41 were voting members and we had nearly 10 people that were there checking us out. We had 28 people attend a social mixer Friday night, 34 stayed and had dinner together Saturday evening, the sunrise motorcycle ride we had planned for Saturday morning was unfortunately canceled as thunderstorms in Kansas are no fun to ride in…..
Our national ED Wes Benedict did a very nice job speaking to our convention about fundraising and candidate recruitment, I heard several people discussing his points and how they can incorporate them into our future plans.
We had a dynamite presentation from Kristin (who is a volunteer for us and marketing guru for a major corporation in Kansas City) and she made many good points about targeting & our image and how we can make ourselves better known statewide. Really good stuff.
We had a good weekend!
sooooo….. you all have to put up with me for another two years…..
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Hope I get to see you soon!
Rob Hodgkinson
Chair