Eric Sundwall 2006

Another winner from Ron Paul in Texas.

No price fixing or punishing profit motives.
Get out of Iraq now and don't attack Iran.

August 1, 2006

Change of Location for August Meeting: Sundwall Ranch, Niverville

The August meeting of the Capital District Chapter of the Libertarian Party of New York will be on Tuesday August 8th at 7:00 PM at the Sundwall residence, 889 Main Street, Niverville.

This meeting may coincide with the first meeting of a new chapter located in Columbia County, which may also incorporate Greene and/or additional counties under its umbrella.

A recent Harris Poll indicated that to 17% of Americans would vote for 'Other'.

Other news in from PA indicates a couple LP candidates who didn't make it on the ballot.

But, actual good news from NJ.
Looks like Phil Maymin will make it. Congrats Phil.

Will the news of Tom Delay create another opening for success ?

Some politicians find MySpace.com an easy target for paranoia and regulation.

Here's a new friend's video. Flex your Rights has had this video shown over 50K times.
Check it out if you have a chance.

Sifting through some archive stuff, looking for something else.
Came across these segments of Don Gorman.

This is part of the Free State Project.

John Clifton & Donald Silberger on Hardfire

LPNY candidates for Governor & Lt. Governor.

In reponse to a certain TU blog post:

New Paltz, NY 8/15/06: “Are minor party candidates
being quietly excluded from the fall debates, by not
being asked to participate?” asks Libertarian
Candidate for Governor John Clifton. In response to
his (and other minor parties) not being officially
notified of the announced debate schedule, Clifton is
formally requesting inclusion in the fall candidate
debates sponsored by the League of Women Voters of New
York (LWVNY), in order to find out. Libertarian
candidate for Attorney General Chris Garvey has also
formally requested inclusion.

Good news. A libertarian on the ballot.

Kudos, Mr. Maymin.

Bob Smithers in TX is starting to get some notice after some Delay.

Libertarian Eric Schansberg will join Republican Rep. Mike Sodrel and Democrat Baron Hill in a 9th District congressional debate set for Aug. 31 at Indiana University's public television station.

Anyone still collecting signatures ought to mail them in today.

Mail to: Gary Popkin
849 President St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Special thanks to all the generous people who gave us 5-20 signatures.
The hardcore know who you are. It's looking good folks, don't give up.
Contact us about Sat.-Tuesday petitioning.

This article is pretty good.

Pierce is a strong candidate without pre-applied media labels.

We have completed the petitioning (more or less) and expect to be on the ballot. Unfortunately, even after collecting the requisite signatures, we still may be subject to challenge by partisan agents. We'll know better this time next week.

Otherwise look for a new website update, real position papers, a professional commercial and real fund raising activity.
We expect to attend special functions, county fairs, and policy forums. Thanks to all the volunteer efforts !

Energy independence is often touted by enthusiastic reformers.

Sometimes it works the other way.

Backyard mechanics all over the country are responding by building 'greasecars'.
Innovation, conservation and adapatation will always preceed regulatory burden.

Our little family is off to camp for the next few days.
The nearly six week toll of petitioning, is a great way
to discourage competitors.

Those of us in a free market already, get it and adapt.

Watch for some changes on the blog and then the main site altogether.
Next week should herald the next phase of the little campaign that could . . .

A Harvard Professor ( not Don Silberger ) has some problems with American Debt.

If the US were a business it would be bankrupt.

Times Union Publisher Rex Smith pontificates candidate coverage;

" So let's say you woke up one morning and decided the patriotic thing to do was to run for public office -- to offer yourself to voters as a servant of their interests, determined to do something good for your community."

We'll figure that this will be the strategy of the red and blue when it comes to debating.

The ten percent polling threshold maintained by the LWV or perhaps no office space will
keep the real anti-war candidate at bay. We'll certainly have position papers. There should be a money consideration. The incumbant ought to spend at least a dollar of his own money.

The LP released an exit strategy last summer.

Despite numerous issues and problems, they were the first party to start to consider the real problems with occupations.

A six to 12 month strategy offered by a freshman Congress person would have little effect.

Touting itself as the first public poll in the 20th Congressional District, no metric was provided for our campaign.

It's one thing when Rex Smith doesn't care, but it's completely another when an organization purporting to serve some public good gets involved.

Mr. Thompson of the Glens Falls PostStar interviewed us on Friday.
The article was in Sunday's paper. It is also available online.

After six weeks of begging fellow voters to acknowledge an independent candidate, then waiting for challenges for the next two weeks, it's not fun to get a letter saying some piece of paperwork needs to be filed by Aug. 25th.

We'll have a preliminary result from BOE tommorrow.
Should a challenge be forthcoming, it will be easy enough to see which camp cares.

Our three detractors are:

Liz Benjamin did a bang up job determining the mystery objectors today.

I copied her at 8:30 about our situation and she was done before the day's whistle.

Jeff Russell, US Senate candidate in NY and Eric Sundwall 20th Congressional candidate, spoke at the August 30th Rally at the Capital. Later they strolled down to the BOE and checked to see who was reviewing the LPNY petitions. After lunch they ran into the Quakers.

Here's the video . . .

Press Release: August 31, 2006

Congressional Candidates Eric Sundwall (Libertarian -20th district of NY) and Warren Redlich (Republican - 21st district ofNY) announced today that they would work together to keep Sundwall on the ballot in his race.

Our unique user average just crested an average of 329 a day. Even our local newspapers are starting to pay attention.

This week alone 55 different countries stopped by.
Who would have thought six months ago ?