Santa Clara Libertarian
	Volume 28, Issue 4
	October 2000
	For Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Inside This Issue

• SC Libertarians Picnic Freely
• Chair's Column
• Roger Ver and Dan Albrecht Establish Regular LPSCC Presence at Gun Shows
• Santa Clara County LP Picnic Photos
• Santa Clara County LP Runs Most Candidates in History
• If Given This Bumper Sticker, Will You Use It?
• SCC Libertarians Hold Octoberfest Candidate Rally
• Many More Happenings at SJSU This Semester
• Octoberfest Thursday, October 12th
• Editor's Note
• Officer List
• Membership Form

SC Libertarians Picnic Freely!

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

Our bylaws state the duties of the Activity Chair to be "coordinating activities" intended to involve, motivate, and inspire members. Well Activities Chair Dana Albrecht and wife Katherine accomplished that in spades at the picnic they put on August 20th at Sanborn Park in the hills two miles outside Saratoga last month. The well organized and well attended (75) RSVP affair was replete with deliciou quality burgers, dogs, and beverages pre-requested by attendees and supplied free, courtesy of the LPSCC, and rousing speeches by Libertarian officers and candidates -- even by an unopposed winning candidate! To round out the affair there were kids aat play, prizes were raffled by LPC Rep Jascha Lee, and LP outreach materials and registration forms were made available by Treasurer Jon Hugdahl for future hand out to community and friends, who also collected donations which partially offset the cost. And three people joined as dues-paying members.

Candidate And Speakers Informed And Inspired The Crowd

Activities Chair Dana Albrecht, who is running for state assembly district 23, opened the festivities by welcoming the full crowd to the picnic and also began the candidate speeches.

Katherine Albrecht appended her talk to the end of her husband's presentation and welcomed everyone and exhorted them to try to register their significant others, families and friends into the LP. She said, "I'd like you to take on at least one of the following levels of involvement in the party:

Level 1: Register as a Libertarian
Level 2: Join the party (paying the $25 dues)
Level 3: Attend monthly meetings (Coco's)
Level 4: Actively volunteer in campaigns or events

I'd like each person present to please find out where you are on this 'involvement scale' and make a move to the next level."

Gary Molle expressed his thanks to the LPC's OB (Operation Breakthrough) program for inducing and directing him on how to apply for the Guadalupe-Coyote Resource Conservation District board and painlessly infiltrate the government as a non-partisan officer (he won without a campaign due to lack of enough candidates!). He described his political journey as starting with the purchase of a gun, then encountering state restrictions on gun owners that led him to join and become a leader of the local NRA (Silicon Valley NRA Members Council president in 1998), and his disgust with the Republican Party's failure to support the 2nd amendment that ultimately caused him to leave and register LP. He said, "I used to be a Republican until I realized the Republican Party abandoned its platform and the people of California. ... The only thing the Democrats have to offer is fear itself." Not surprisingly, he joined the LPSCC as a dues paying central committee member at the picnic.

Candidate for state senate John Webster spoke about his travails with illegal police practices in San Jose, and the outcome of his recent legal action in a 10 year battle to clear his name, charging entrapment and false manufactured audio tape evidence.

Congressional candidate (14th district) Joe Dehn described his campaign activities and plans.

Vice Chair Bill Carr delivered an eloquent inspirational speech stressing the idea that Libertarianism is more than a political movement -- it's also a spiritual movement.

Marv Rudin, who was persuaded by the LPC's "Operation Breakthrough" to add to the LP candidates total by running for two non-partisan local offices -- county education board and peninsula open space district board, focussed his talk on a description of Operation Everyone cards, since, he said, he will not be trying hard to win the two posts, and was just helping to add to the candidates count for 2000. He emphasized the importance of the OE cards as a means of gaining public understanding of the LP and reaching the natural Libertarians among the public. He said, "The media isn't going to give us much coverage so we need to spread the LP word ourselves", and he exhortated attendees to take a supply of cards and hand them to people they encounter in their normal activities or slip them under the edge of the weather strip on the drivers-side window of cars while out walking as he does daily while out jogging.

Roger Ver, who is running for state assembly district 28 described his campaign activities.

Thanks To Those Responsible

Besides the Albrechts, many thanks are due to Allen Rice who trucked in the food and carted 3 heavy folding tables used for sign-in, hand-out materials, and prizes back-and-forth from/to my garage, Jascha Lee for doing the raffle, Jon Hugdahl for handling the literature table, and Ann Strangman for greeting visitors at the sign in table.

Picnic Photos

John Strong took nearly 100 photos. Thanks John.

Chair's Column -- Let's Get Growing

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

Summary Of Party Business

1. Administrative & Financial

Need to: (a) Find source of very inexpensive logoed T-shirts for gift-to-register tests on campus and eleswhere; (b) Enlist more volunteer project managers (c) Put party's office furniture up for sale; (d) Make hand-held rally signs; (e) make more tiled test posters; (f) Buy car signs to give members; (g) Settle dispute about emergency checks held by chair (see column next page).

2. Growth Rate

Registrations crossed above 5700 for first time; and growth rate was up in September from July and August.

3. Growth Project Tests

Problems: (a) No DMV activity. -- no volunteers; (b) Member who did successful DMV tests in '99 still couldn't find time to do a comparison evaluation in August or September; (c) No volunteers to organize an LPSCC Growth Programs group. Accomplished: (a) Distributed 300 OE cards to about 20 members attending picnic.; (b) Personally distributed about 400 OE cards during daily excercise outing (got 4 hits on LIFE web site).

4. Publicity

(a) Temporry setback -- political activist Bill Chew was elected chair., but has been unable to do the job due to temporary financial problems. He dropped his cable show and is concentrating on setting up a low-overhead home web broadcast studio which he says will be available to the LPSCC for economical publicity. (b) I did not resume KSJS Libertarian Night on Naked Radio because I decided it's easier to be heard and takes less time and energy to phone in; maybe its a blessing in disguise, because SJS Liberatrians president Joel Johnson has been invited to appear on the show in October; (c) A Sunnyvale Sun reporter interviewed me Oct. 6th to ask questions about the LPSCC (3 months after he got my announcement about Gail Lightfoot speaking at our July Central Committee meeting!); (d) We have a shot at getting a good editorial about Libertarianism and Harry Browne on the Opinion page of the SJ Mercury News. I challenged them to run it and got a reply that they'll consider it (Previously they've ignored all articles and news releases sent them) If this LP-favorable editorial gets published I believe it'll be the first Libertarian editorial ever in the SJMN. Let's hope the ice has been broken, and all those techno-libertarians out there finally learn there is a party that represents there views!

5. Schools & Colleges

San Jose State Libertarians president Joel Johnson has substantially upped the activity level this semester (See article on page 9-10). Nothing has materialized yet at De Anza. Several inquires to the lp.org and the Browne web sites have come in from Stanford people. Hopefully I or one of you (?) can recruit a leader to set up a student movement there in the coming months.

6. Speakers Bureau

Rose Wiegley, has formulated a speaker training and development plan and sent it to a number of members who expressed an interest in joining her bureau. She is now sending out a card to a target list of community clubs and organizations seeking speaking opportunities. Good luck Rose.

7. Outreach To Lp Supported-Issues Organizations

I was too busy and missed the big FACTS (ant-3strikes) meeting in September. Did any of you attend it? The NRA meets the last Thursday of each month. Who has been attending for the LPSCC? If you are willing to attend FACTS, NRA, Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, or other local organizations with which the LPSCC has common views, and attempt to influence their members to go LP, please let me know.

8. Net Outreach

Are you willing to help develop an LPSCC program to outreach to the eboards and web sites of Silicon Valley organizations? If so please contact me. Your responsibility would be to get personal experience and to find and encourage other members to emulate you in joining local organizations with eboards and adding post-signature LP lines on messages, that will persuade people to visit our sales site at http://www.lpty.org. Also you would look into trading banners with web sites of local political-issue organizations whose cause we support, such as gun rights, drug legalization, and right to home school.

9. Market Research

More LP public familiarity polling and polling of why people have joined the LP or as dues paying members is needed to find out what is working (and what is not). Need volunteers. This is easy to do from your home phone -- please help.

10. Local City Politics

Not much to report here, excepting maybe that I was encouraged by the editor of the Sunnyvale Sun to submit an op ed piece on my ideas for modifying a city's charter to establish neighborhood-association power to veto decisions by the city with respect to zoning changes and granting of zoning variances.

10. Internal Politics (Yuk...)

I've been absorbed in a dispute over whether emergency checks should be held by the party chair for use to carry on party business seamlessly in case of a sudden incapacity of the Treasurer that may occur due to health or accident. In addition, most party purchases can't be made on credit and must be paid for by check and the amount filled in at time of purchase. So for me to have a few emergency checks for instances when there is little time to have the Treaurer provide one would be awkward or impossible. This is why a previous Treasurer provided me with a few checks. As an example of the need for such checks, they enabled me to do a last minute sign up for the county fair that would have been practically impossible otherwise. Also the Chair before me had such checks. Our bylaws do not describe the Treasurer's duty, except to state, "The Treasurer shall receive, expend, and account for the funds of the Party under the supervision and direction of the Chair and Executive Committee." When as Chair I directed the Treasurer to provide me with a few emergency checks, his response was a curt, "No checks, Marv." The Chair has always been a signatory on the account. So rather than make a fuss over it, I went ahead and ordered emergency checks for myself. Now the Treasurer has called and demanded that I return them, or else! When I pointed out that he hadn't conformed to the bylaw and taken my direction to give me checks, he ignored the point and complained to other Excom members including the Vice Chair, who adamantly insists that it is anathema for there to be blank checks out that aren't in the Treasurer's possession, as if only the Treaurer is trustworthy with party money and I'm not. It's a disappointment to be distrusted with the small amount in the party checking account (most is in an MMF) considering I led the charge to save the party $420/month x 18 months = $7560 thus far by moving out of an office April '99, and substantial added savings by publishing the newsletter electronically 2 out of 3 months. It's especially disappointing at a time when I'm running for two government offices and also trying to continue to spend my time and energy doing outreach to grow and publicize the LPSCC rather than "inreach" on internal party squabbles with Excom members who haven't done a lot yet to help grow or publicize the party.

11. Inreach -- Outreach Imbalance

Let me share a concern I have with you readers. When elected, most of the present Excom members ran on a slate committed to CEGAP2000 -- the "Cost-Effective Growth Action Plan for 2000" which I had prepared and submitted to them for suggestions or agreement when I asked them to join my slate of candidates. The overriding idea was to try to focus most of our money and volunteer time on publicity and LP registrant recruitment. All items on the sheet were outreach activities or what I call L2P -- Libertarian to Public. As things have turned out, we've had a dearth of outreach volunteers And our new Activities Chair, Dana Albrecht, has been nothing short of sensational at doing his duty and cooking up L2L (Libertarian to Libertarian) activities, namely the Picnic in August and the Octoberfest in October. But these cost the party about a third of its annual budget and are not outreach except for the few nonLibertarian friends brought to these events. The most expensive was the Octoberfest, which cost the party about $20 per attendee. On the other hand I know of at least one Libertarians who wouldn't have been activated without the Picnic -- Ex SV-NRA -MC head, Gary Molle, who paid his dues at the picnic, and told me at Octoberfest he's already joined the Toastmasters and is scheduled to speak on Libertarianism. Another plus is that several people have volunteered to be speakers for the LPSCC Speakers Bureau (see http://www.lpspeakers.org) and Membership Chair Dana Albrecht told me that he has a list of 20 volunteers from the Octoberfest mailer and event. Moreover, invitation cards were sent to all 5600+ registered Libertarians, acting as a way to give LPSCC contact information to the 99% of LP registered voters who didn't attend our Octoberfest. So what's my concern? Well it's failing to recruit more volunteer project managers and OE-card-passers needed to meet our commitment to the outreach activities of CEGAP, while pouring more money than ever before into internal "inreach" activities.. I emphasize the "managers" dearth because managers can get volunteers by phone solicitation (I and Don Cormier got 25 for the SCCC Fair in '98 by phone) Because of lack of project managers, we'll be lucky if our annual growth in 2000 is half the planned 20%. Still that'd be about 35% over the state LP average, so things wouldn't exactly terrible :-))

Roger Ver And Dan Albrecht Establish Regular LPSCC Presence At Gun Shows

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

Roger Ver and Dana Albrecht Establish Regular LPSCC Presence at Gun Shows

Pair Keep LP In Front of Gun Owners And Sign Up Many

Thanks to Membership Chair and candidate for 28th state assembly district, Roger Ver, and Activities Chair and candidate for 23rd state assembly district, Dana Albrecht, the LPSCC has been regularly represented at gun owner events such as the monthly Silicon Valley NRA Members Council meetings at Harry's Hoffbrau and the frequent TS Gun Shows at the Santa Clara County Fair Grounds. They hand out their campaign literature, LPSCC cards inviting visitors to return and register LP and offering them a free a a choice of several Libertarian-messaged T-shirts if they'll fill out a registration form as a Libertarian.

"Although recent registration results have fallen off, probably due to a high level of repeat visitors to the shows said Ver, we still attend to keep the Libertarian Party name and its 100% 2nd amendment support in front of gun owners and buyers."

The TS Gun Show graciously permits the LPSCC a free table, no doubt because of our 2nd amendment stance. Ver said he and Albrecht will again be manning the LPSCC booth at the TS Gun Show coming up the weekend of October 14th and 15th at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, 9 am to 5 pm both days. This time the NRA will also have a booth. He said he and Albrecht will be hanging out there as well as at their own booth in the hope of influencing more visitors. Sounds like they may need some help...

Santa Clara County LP Picnic Photos

Santa Clara County LP Runs Most Candidates In History

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

Thanks to the "Operation Breakthrough" program launched by Southern California Libertarian Aaron Starr and administered by LPC Director Juan Ros persuading 13 LPSCC Central Committee members and registered Libertarians to run for non partisan offices, this election we will have a cumulative total of 27 Libertarian candidates across all of the different district ballots in Santa Clara County.

This is by far more candidates running than the Libertarian Party has ever run before in Santa Clara County, and probably more candidates than the other SCC nonRepublocrat parties are running combined this year. While we're very unlikely to win any of these offices this time or even next time around, due to the small base of registrants we presently have, whether to vote or to offer financial and personal support for the candidates, this large number of candidates demonstrates our determination and helps to establish credibility with open minded members of the public and media. And most importantly, it is a low cost way to publicize the Libertarian Party and reach the general public with our very attractive message of freedom when people are the most interested in politics and government.

The count of 27 candidates is made up of the top of the ticket -- Browne, Olivier, and Lightfoot, and 24 local residents, of whom 11 are running for partisan offices, and 13 are running for nonpartisan offices.

The names of our candidates and the corresponding offices are as follows:

Federal
Harry Browne for President
Art Olivier for Vice President
Gail Lightfoot for U.S. Senate
Howard Mora for Congress (CD13)
Joe Dehn for Congress (CD14)
Ed Wimmers for Congress (CD15)
Dennis Umphress for Congress (CD16)

State
Jack Hickey for State Senate (SD11)
John Webster for State Senate (SD13)
Gordon Sachtjen for State Senate (SD15)
Mark Werlwas for Assembly (AD20)
Dana Albrecht for Assembly (AD23)
Ray Strong for Assembly (AD24)
Roger Ver for Assembly (AD28)

Local
Pol Vanrhee for Alum Rock Union School District
Leyla Hansen for El Camino Hospital District
Jon Hugdahl for El Camino Hospital District
Perr Cardestam for El Camino Hospital District
Mark Hinkle for Gavilan Joint Community College District, Trustee Area 2
Gilbert Carroll for Guadalupe-Coyote Resource Conservation District
Gary Molle for Guadalupe-Coyote Resource Conservation District
Kennita Watson for Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, Ward 3
Paul Simoni for Milpitas Unified School District
Deborah Walkup for Proposed Merged Mountain View and Whisman School Districts / Mountain View School District
Pauline Curiel for Santa Clara Unified School District, Trustee Area 5
Marv Rudin for Santa Clara County Board of Education, Trustee Area 1 and Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, Ward 3

If Given This Bumper Sticker, Will You Use It?

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

Biggest Turnout Ever!
SCC Libertarians hold Octoberfest Candidate Rally

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

Organized by Katherine Albrecht and her husband, Activities Chair Dana Albrecht, a mass mailing of an attractive card offering a free beer to all to all 5600 registered Santa Clara County Libertarians and their friends, the Octoberfest Candidates Rally at Harry's Hoffbrau in Santa Clara 7 pm October 12th produced a record turnout. Eighty five inspired Libertarians and friends were present, substantially more than the previous record of 72 at the LPSCC's annual meeting in January of last year.

Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Gail Lightfoot made the long drive from her Pismo Beach home to be featured speaker at the gala affair, and local LP candiates Umphress, Wimmers, Dehn, Webster, Albrecht, Ver, and Hugdahl also shared their views and campaign experiences with the enthusiastic preelection audience.

The event also was a quarterly LPSCC Central Committee meeting. Vice Chair Bill Carr opened by welcoming the attendees and projecting the evening's activities. He then introduced Chair Marv Rudin who was greeted with a rousing ovation by the enthused beer-drinking crowd. Rudin proceeded to give the chair's customary State of the LPSCC presentation. He told how badly the LP needs more rapid growth, saying that starting where we are in registered Libertarians at under 1% of the electorate, at the present annual growth rate of about 10%, which is better than a few years ago, it will take another 25 years just to get to where the LP candidates will affect election totals enough that the media can't ignore them or the LP. And he explained that the party can't expect coverage from the media, citing a Mercury News reporter saying that their policy is to not cover third parties, and also Harry Browne's shutout from the presidential debates despite his popularity on talk shows. "So", he said, "we Libertarians are going to have to spread the Libertarian message ourselves, and that's why I've created several programs for doing that the easist way I could think of -- namely, using small message and quiz cards." He then described the Operation Everyone cards that Libertaians could carry at all times and pass out as opportunities arise, and also the DMV/mall tabling program. In view of the dire need, he said the lack of volunteers for tabling and passing cards out at the DMVs and market-malls planned during the summer had been a big disappointment. On a positive note, he said about 300 OE cards were picked up by attendees at the Sanborn Park picnic in August, however he said what is really needed would be if everyone present were to pass out cards, and get them out by the thousands. He then turned the meeting back over to Bill Carr, who has been regularly delegated to run the quarterly CC meetings and Excom meetings by the Chair (if no objection).

Carr lauded the Albrechts for their organizaing and managing the Octoberfest Rally, and then introduced featured speaker, Gail Lightfoot. With a captive audience of mainly Libertarians, she focussed on the status of her campaign rather than selling Libertarianism, describing all the events at which she had appeared, and the publicity she had generated on radio, and TV as well with personal appearances producing press mentions. She lamented a shortfall in covering her relatively small campaign expenses (thousands of dollars versus millions for her opponents, Diane Feinstein and Tom Campbell), and said she was trying to raise enough money to run TV ads where Bonnie Flickinger is running for State Assembly District 65 (Southern Cal near Riverside) in hopes of synergistic voter pull.

Lightfoot was followed by talks by the other candidates describing there appearances at fora and on radio and how they answer certain questions. Albrecht and Webster appeared on Libertarian Don Cormier's radio show on KKUP, "Free and Clear". Wimmer and had appeared on KQED. Umphress described his proposal to phase out the income tax by replacing it with a sales tax that decreases 1 to 2% each year until it goes to zero.

The event closed with Bill Carr's stirring appeal to the audience to be the modern day champions of freedom, saying, "Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin were great champions of freedom but they are all dead, and you're not". He continued saying that every day when you arise, to sieze life and live it to the fullest as you decide because that's what freedom means.

Many More Happenings At SJSU This Semester

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

Dedicated and dynamic leader of the San Jose State Libertarians, Joel Johnson has planned, scheduled, and organized participation in many more campus events for his group of about a dozen Libertaian students. A rare Libertarian political science major, Joel has orchestrated an ambitious tentative schedule of events presented at the end of this article (for latest schedule see his web site at the bottom of the entry page at http://www.lpty).

LPC U.S. Senate candidate Gail Lightfoot and other LP candidates attended a voter registration drive on Oct. 4th that was a put on by San Jose State University. Johnson said, "There were many organizations Dems, Repubs, Greens, us, NRA, Natural Law, pro-lifers and a couple others. There were 6 speakers half of the them libertarians! Dana Albrecht, Roger Ver, and Jack Hickey spoke along with Jim Cuneen, Ken Yeager and Susan Bernardini. On the bad side, however, there was hardly an audience it was poorly put together by the university."

He went on, "We've been active with other events our pizza nights are taking off! We have had a strong attendence at our round-table discussions at Pizza-A-GOGO. They've become fun and a place where libertarians and non-libertarians alike can come to talk and debate political issues."

Johnson said the SJSU libertarians have hosted non-partisan lecture-discussions by economics faculty on the implications of the ballot propositions in this coming election. "The economists are acting completely academic and non-partisan, but it also just so happens that they often swing in favor of smaller governement. Many of the propositions, such as #34, for example, the campaign spending limits, from the economic perspective, don't really solve the problems they intend to solve. But they do infringe upon free speech. So, by hosting these events, we're getting libertarian ideas out to the student body, albeit in a covert way."

"I helped to register about 100 voters on the last two days of voter registration time and I've worked with other political groups on campus to get our messages across to wider and wider audiences. Coming up this month we will really hit the campus with propoganda in favor of libertarianism."

"Given the circumstances that nobody cares about politics at SJSU, by doing registrations and other non 100% Libertarian activities, I, and the SJSU Libertarians, are very popular on campus now certainly one of the most visible groups. Also I think many students are intrigued that libertarians can speak so broadly and have so many friends. I think the name recognition (of 'libertarian') has expanded more than just by libertarian tactics people tend to listen more when the propoganda is covert and friendly."

"There's also that side of me that doesn't like to register the socialists. But, hopefully, they'll forget to vote..."

Joel'S Schedule Of Upcoming Sjs Libertarian Activities Before The Election

Three Wednesdays in October the SJSU Libertarians are hosting some faculty from the Economics Department to give their professional, economic analysis of the ballot propositions for the 2000 Election! These will be held in the Almaden Room of the Student Union from 4-6 p.m.

Wed., October 11

Prop. 34 Campaign Spending Limits

Prop. 36 Drug Probation and Treatment Programs

Wed., October 18

Prop. 38: School Vouchers

Wed., October 25

Prop. 35: Use of Private Contractors

Prop. 37: Fees, Taxes and Vote Requirements

Prop. 39: School Facilities and 55% Vote

October 9-10: Last Chance to Register to Vote booth in front of Student Union.

October 26: 4-6:00 pm Dr. Lydia Ortega will present a lecture on the theory of prices from 4-6:00 pm. Come and learn some Free-Market Economics! Location TBA.

October 30, 31 and November 2: Vote Libertarian booth in Student Union.

2000-01's Special Event: DRUG FREEDOM! Stay tuned. . .

WED. OCT. 4 12-3:00 PM

A.S. is having a big event in the student union with all kinds of groups and speakers. We'll be there with a table (third floor of the student union) handing out stuff, registering voters, etc. Plus, Roger Ver, a libertarian candidate for this upcoming election will be speaking from 12:00-12:20. Please come to show him support and cheer him on so at least he has some audience. I also need help with the table Nick and Cere, you're still available to help from 1:15-2:45, right?

THURS. OCT. 5 8-10:00 PM

Pizza Night Like I said, I think a reporter from the Spartan Daily will be there to ask us questions and write an article on us so come if you can and bring as many others as possible!

MON OCT. 9 & TUE OCT. 10

The 10th is the last day for folks to register to vote, so we'll have a table in front of the student union to have reg. forms and libertarian propoganda. I'll be setting up on Monday at 9ish, but I need help to cover me while I'm off at class from 10:30 -11:30 and 1:30-2:45. Tuesday I need someone to set up at 9, and I can make it at 11:30, and have a later class from 1:30-2:45. If you can help during these times, contact me. If not, try to show up when you can just to hang with those of us who are there.

WED. OCT 11 4-6:00 PM

Almaden Rm, Student Union This is the first of three wednesday afternoon economic lectures on the propositions for the upcoming election. On this one, two Econ prof's are doing an economic analysis of Prop's 34 & 36 one on drug treatment and one on limits on campaign contributions. It should be cool!

WED. OCT 18 4-6:00 PM

Almaden Rm Student Union This econ analysis will be on Prop. 38 the school voucher initiative. I think the room is going to be too small for this one! I expect a good turnout! The prof's are going to do this one as a debate format.

THURS. OCT 19 5-7:00 PM

Nick and I will join Arquimedes on Naked Radio, KSJS 90.5. Tune in to cheer us on! ALSO Pizza Night 8-10:00 pm

WED. OCT 25 4-6:00 PM

Almaden Rm Student Union This is the last of the econ proposition analyses. This one is on Prop's 35, 37 & 39 on school property taxes, private contractors and something else I forget at the moment.

THURS. OCT. 26 4-6:00 PM location TBA

Dr. LYDIA ORTEGA is going to give us a lecture on a facet of libertarian economics in this case, price theory. If you can make anything, make it this! She's doing this for us exclusively, but we'll advertise like hell

MON OCT 30 and TUE OCT 31 we will have a table right inside the student union (by the store) to advertise libertarianism and libertarian candidates for the election. I'll call out for help for specific times closer to then. We will also have a table outside in front of the union on that thurs., Nov. 2

THURS. NOV 2nd The debate we've been considering was for this date, but that's up in the air. If not, maybe we'll have pizza night we'll see...

Finally the election is Nov. 7th and we can call it quits for the semester (aside from maybe another pizza rendezvous or two).

Reporter's Comment

Here some of Joel's comments exemplify his planning, leadership, and dedication:

WHEW! I don't mean to overwhelm you guys but trust me, it will all be fun :-) And, unfortunately, that's not all we need advertising. I'm printing up 1400 little flyers of propoganda tomorrow and 300 flyers to advertise the economics proposition events. I'm also finishing up putting together nice color brochures that advertise all kinds of political events on campus and Im pitching the AS to give us more funds to print up tons of them. If you can help with putting up flyering, meet me Wednesday at our table in the Union or contact me.

Editor's Note

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

By mutual agreement between Chair and Newsletter Chair, the Chair will edit electonic editions in August, September, November, December, and Newsletter Chair will edit paper editions in October and January.

So send articles to one of us or the other depending on the edition you are targeting. Priority on articles is on local party or political happenings, not Libertarian philosophy.

Octoberfest Thursday, October 12th

by Marv Rudin
LPSCC Chair

Meeting & Election Rally, Free Beer^*, Great Food!

Hobnob with your fellow freedom fighters Thursday, October 12th 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Banquet room at back of Harry's Hoffbrau Santa Clara -- off 280 at Saratoga & Kiely

Join us for a rollicking good time and get a political fix too.

Libertarians and their companions are all welcome. This will be a great chance to introduce your friends to the Libertarian party and to discuss issues.

Directions To Attend:

If you would like to attend, please RSVP to our website at http://lpty.org/ or, if you don't have web access, call the Albrechts at (408) 292-4880. We hope to see you there!

^* Exchange your RSVP card for a beer ticket

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