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$2,000 Candidate Challenge Grant
The Libertarian Party of Texas is excited to announce a new “$2,000 Candidate Challenge Grant”. For every new candidate recruited this week for State Senate, State Representative, or a local County office, a contribution of $2,000 will be added to a new Libertarian Campaign Fund. We also need two experienced attorneys to run for statewide judicial offices to preserve our ballot access. The maximum grant amount is $200,000 if we can find one hundred new candidates for office!
We have just one week left… until Jan. 4th… to file our candidates.
Don’t wait for someone else to defend your liberty. We have made it much easier for you to run for office yourself. We will help all the placeholder candidates file their paperwork. And we have specialized training available for educational and winnable campaigns. You can vote for the best candidate this year, yourself! You can find out which districts you live in and who your elected officials are by visiting: http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/. We have a list of current candidates here, so you can see which offices need a Libertarian candidate.
Here are the steps in the process:
1. Click Here to download the application for nomination form, fill it out, and have it notarized. You can see examples of completed forms by clicking here: County, Multi-County, Statewide
2. FAX your completed form to 512-233-0613 or email a scan to [email protected]
We need to have these faxes or scans in our office by Jan. 4th
Mail the original notarized form in as soon as possible to the Libertarian Party of Texas, PO Box 41059, Austin, Texas 78704.
3. Before you spend any money, including your own, on this campaign, file an “Appointment of A Campaign Treasurer By A Candidate” form with the Texas Ethics Commission and read the rules regarding campaign expenses. There’s even a how-to video on their website.
4. Libertarians use a convention process to nominate their candidates for the general election. Libertarians can not run for office or vote in the Libertarian convention if they vote as Republicans or Democrats in the March 2010 primaries. To vote or run for office as a Libertarian, we welcome you to participate in our conventions:
a) County Conventions will be held on March 13th at a time and place designated by your county chair. Anyone who wants to run for a county-level office can be nominated at this county convention. State Senate and Representative Districts formed entirely within one county’s border can also be nominated.
b) District Conventions will be held on March 20th at a time and place decided by the various county chairs whose counties lie within the district. State Senate and Representatives whose districts cross county lines are nominated at District Conventions.
c) The State Convention will be held June 11th -13th in Austin at the Radisson North Hotel. Candidates for Governor and other statewide offices will be nominated here. We’ll also have some great speakers, workshops, and fun social events! Mark your calendar for the State Convention!
We are really excited about the $2,000 Candidate Challenge Grant. The new Libertarian Campaign Fund will provide campaign materials, advertising campaigns, training, and support for our candidates. Qualified candidates will also receive direct contributions from the fund. We’re counting on you to help us! File your candidate application today!
For Liberty,
Robert Butler
Executive Director
Libertarian Party of Texas
512-758-9134
Libertarian Party of Texas logo About the Libertarian Party of Texas
The Libertarian Party of Texas supports more freedom and less government. We are fiscally conservative and socially tolerant.
We seek to restore the great American free enterprise system that made us the strongest, most powerful economy in the world: lower taxes, free markets, free trade, less regulation, and less red tape for businesses big and small.
We respect your right to live your life the way you see fit, and expect you to take responsibility for the consequences.
Find out more at:
http://lptexas.org
Libertarian Party of Texas
Robert Butler,Executive Director
512-758-9134
[email protected]
Shame is for those who have something to be proud of to begin with.
Good point.
I am glad to know Ruwart is running for comptroller.
OK, gotta give credit where it’s due. Point for Joey.
I am glad to know Ruwart is running for comptroller. Now I know another person to vote for in 2010 in that race. My slate is becoming a nice mix of parties.
I’ve seen joey many’s “reports” and “Newspapers” (mostly glorified blogs)–he styles himself a serious journalist, but more closely resembles a muckraker.
Shame is for those who have something to be proud of to begin with.
Trent,
Yep, and Joey knows it too.
He even has to get in a dig at Michael Badnarik when the man is fighting for his life.
Disgusting.
Joey should be ashamed of himself.
Joey,
What a weak excuse. You’re clearly being divisive when you say “Radicals like that have no place on the ballot”. If you dislike Mary’s positions, say so. But don’t claim it’s “becoming an issue” because you printed something about it at your little blog. A quick Google News search shows NO ONE reporting on it. A quick Google Blog search shows…NO ONE reporting it–except you. Clearly it isn’t that much of an issue for voters or Texas Libertarians. Again, if you dislike her views–say so. But a Libertarian attacking a Libertarian over one obscure issue? Seems pretty divisive and counter-productive to me.
Nice try Joey. No cigar.
I don’t believe I’m being divisive at all. What I am doing is showing that whoever you put out there on the ballot — their statements, record, votes, decisions, etc. — will come up.
My friend is a felon running for Congress. It’s fair game for him too. He will have to answer for it.
Just like Badnarik’s future sheriff campaign. He’ll have to answer for 2006.
When I run in 2012, my past will also be an issue.
Radicals like that have no place on the ballot, and if they are, they full well know what to expect.
Joey, you weren’t just quoting one guy. That quote was a small part of the article.
BTW, the congresssman and potential Democratic candidate is Nick Lampson, not Nampson.
I think Ruwart would be a far cry better than most polticians would be.
I mean, being divisive and injurious to LPTX is Joey’s whole entire mission.
@ Trent
Of course, that is his whole point.
He wants to scare libertarians into voting for Republicans and/or nominationg “me too” Republitarian candidates.
What a putz. Dauben will fail.
Joey,
I disagree, vehemently, with Dr. Ruwart on this issue. But don’t you think you’re being overly divisive and injurious to the LP of Texas? Unless Mary has a primary challenger, it seems rather childish to do anything more than say, “I oppose her ideas on X and Y.”
Bullshit, Joey.
All you are doing is trying desparately to get attention by reigniting a totally ridiculous non-issue based on a misunderstanding (probably an intentional one).
It will not go anywhere.
Brad, you’re going to shoot the messenger? All I’m doing is quoting what the NYLP chairman said.
Your radical candidates won’t be able to stand to the scrutiny any longer…
You will get nowhere with your disgusting, laughable Republican nonsense, Joey.
You are nowhere close to being a libertarian and you should be roundly condemned.
Now that Dr. Mary Ruwart is running for Texas Comptroller, there’s a re-hashing of the controversies surrounding the radicals vs. the reformers: Texas Comptroller Candidate Stirs Debate Over Ending Child-Consent Laws
I, for one, will make this an issue. Even the NY LP chairman has gotten in on the debate:
“Perhaps Ruwart will issue a ruling, allowing people who train nine-year-old prostitutes to deduct their expenses as charitable contributions for vocational training.” – Chris Edes
You radicals are going to learn to run less extreme candidates, or you will have this keep coming back up and up and up.
@6
I’m not sure if this is Clay Barham
But there is a definite family resemblence
I completely disagree.
SELF INTEREST OR SELF-CENTERED
This is directed at those who admire and criticize Ayn Rand’s beliefs about people who stand on their own feet. Most who criticize Rand say she promoted selfishness, thereby greed, which is self-centered and anti-individual creativity, therefore, anti-Rand. Rand admired the creative individual, such as James Jerome Hill, on whom she was reputed to have based her character Nathaniel Taggart in Atlas Shrugged. If we look at Howard Roark’s summation to the jury, from Fountainhead, we do not see a self-centered individual destroying his work. Were he greedy, he would have simply accepted his payment. We see a self-interested, other- and outer-centered individual in love with his own dreams and creations, as one would love a spouse, child or family and refuse to allow them to be assaulted. Though love for anything spiritual may be missing, a great idea or vision also measures up to that which is spiritual, beyond self, and that view is not that inconsistent with Christianity.
Placeholder candidates are poison….
Denise,
I would say if you’re from Texas that there are three political parties to decide from, except for R’s and D’s of course.
I do not live in Texas but it seems like the Libertarians are the most vocal and have the best chance of winning some local races. A lot of people just do not agree with them on numerous social issues, and a lot of their programs(IMO) just do not seem to fit with the general ideals of the American public.
Next, you’ve got the Constitution Party. They are a bit, understatement there, too religious for my beliefs.
Lastly, in Texas you’ve got the Reform Party. Of course the Reform Party is the smallest and is in the beginning process of rebuilding itself. I would say its platform is the least controversial.
These are all just my opinions. the Green Party of Texas exists to but I do not know much about them and they seem to fit in the other tent (torwards the left) in the 3rd party world.
Last year over one million Texans voted for at least one Libertarian. Over 600K voted for at least three. I hope everyone reading this site will help us bring those figures higher.
For Texas and Liberty,
Jeff Daiell
well Denise , please dont let what u hear here be indicative of the Libertarian Party , its very informal here …lol
I am a political blogger doing research on a new party to get behind. I am sick of the Democrats and Republicans screwing up our country.