Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:27:47 -0700 From: randerson22@home.com Subject: RE: [lpaz-discuss] LP national press release To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
My question is why do we care what the lying bunch at National say. They have resently proven everything we in AZ have been saying for the last few years. WE ARE FREE OF THEM and the deeper they pile the BS on this whole thing the more public crow they will need to eat if they ever want to repar the damage done. We are no longer part of that crumbling house and stand as an example to the other States to seek their freedom from the dark side. We meet in Flagstaff this weekend to join in with other AZ LIBERTARIANS to have fun, plot to forward freedom for us and to run the Arizona libertarians party and have no need or desire or care for any input from those scum or those that do their bidding from National. Write what you want the truth is known by those that have taken the time to find it and the rest will know over time were the truth is spoken.
Bob
--- Original Message --- "Richard Winger" <ban@igc.org> Wrote on Fri, 1 Jun 2001 07:12:55 -0700 ------------------ I want to defend the national LP press release about the history of what happened in Arizona in 2000 concerning the presidential race. What happened in Arizona in 2000 was similar to what happened to the Democratic Party in Alabama in 1964 and in 1968. The Democratic national convention those years didn't seat the delegates from Alabama. So the Democratic Party of Alabama refused to list the presidential candidate chosen by the national convention. LBJ wasn't on the ballot at all in Alabama in November 1964, and in November 1968, Hubert Humphrey only appeared as a minor party nominee in Alabama. And the press all reported this, in very similar terms to how the LP national office reported what happened in Arizona. It is indisputed that the national convention of the Libertarian Party chose Harry Browne. Therefore, any state unit of the Libertarian Party which didn't list Browne, "splintered" from the national party's choice. Furthermore, delegates from the LP of Arizona did attend the Anaheim convention and were seated from states like Pennsylvania.
It's traditional in this country that all the state units of a national party, respect the choice of the national convention, as to the presidential candidate. It's just common language, common ways of describing things, to use "splinter" for those rare occasions when the national choice for president is rejected by a state party.
The Arizona LP chose L. Neil Smith tentatively on August 6, 2000. The Arizona LP didn't turn in his name to the Secretary of State until the deadline, September 6, to give the national committee a chance to recognize itsstate officers. If the national LP had recognized the state officers, Browne would have been listed instead. So, at the time the Az LP chose Smith tentatively, it still considered itself affiliated with the national LP.
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