Rob Power at Outright Libertarian blog and ManhattanLP.org:
Despite the rainy start to the day, we gave Outright Libertarians‘ new “World’s Gayest Political Quiz” to over 250 people at the NYC LGBT Pride Festival. When we ran out of those, we switched back to the standard “World’s Smallest Political Quiz” published by the Advocates for Self-Government. As is usually the case at Pride events, the crowd split between the Left-Liberal and Libertarian quadrants, with a cluster of strong Libertarians due to the self-selection bias of who walks up to a Libertarian booth at a street fair. As Outright Libertarians usually does in its Operation Politically Homeless booths, we used metal foil stars to indicate the quiz scores on the map, with Gold being Libertarian, Silver being Independent, Green being Green, Blue being Democrat, and Red being Republican. While we had a run of Blue stars like usual at Pride, we used more Silver stars than ever. Hear that, Libertarian candidates? Independents are, politically, what they call “low-hanging fruit.”
A heartfelt thank-you to Alex, Richard, and Alton for volunteering at the booth.
Good question.
New York last year:
Mark Glogowski–2500 volunteer sigs.
Alton Yee–600 volunteer sigs.
Gary Popkin–500 volunteer sigs.
Jeff Russell–200 volunteer sigs.
Donald Silberger (age 85)–200 volunteer sigs.
Lots of others–100 plus sigs.
Total last year was over 10,000 volunteer sigs.
I assume every other state can equal these numbers too. Why don’t they?
Meanwhile, back on topic, the gentleman in the top few photos wearing the fetching LPNY tee-shirt is Rich Cooper, LPNY State Chair 2000-02, 06-07, proving that former state chairs can check out but they never leave.
LOL, god one Blay!
Better title for article: “Manhattan Libertarians find low-hanging fruit at Gay Pride Parade”
It would be nice if we had more volunteers posting up those kinds of numbers in other states too.
Rob and those working with him did such a good job that they ran out of quizes before the day was done.
BTW, the final two photos are of Alton Yee, volunteer petitioner par excellence. Last summer, Alton got over 600 signatures for the Michael McDermott/Chris Edes ticket (LP candidates for NY Governor and Lt. Gov.).
New York is a state where we make things happen, with little or no money.