Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 20:31:17 -0700
From: ernesthancock@home.com ("Ernest Hancock")
Subject: [lpaz-discuss] As an Independent?
To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
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> Moral of story: If you ain't gonna either run as Libertarian, or play

> enough of the game to subvert the primary process in one of the other

> ponds, just go Independent. One election, with everyone on the table, is

> far easier to beat than TWO, with the cards all stacked against you...

>

> - Steve


Here in Arizona I was working closely with libertarians during the '92
campaign but needed to maintain my independent ballot status for the lawsuit
to continue. I ran as an independent in '92 nd was in the press a great deal
and very libertarian on the issues of course. A man named ??? Drew
registered as a Libertarian and then got his wife's and his signature on the
petition to qualify (or ran as a write in with only two votes required -
can't remember which) and soundly kicked the crap out of me with stances
that were truly socialist. He ws just looking for an easy way on the ballot
and the previous elections cost him too much effort as a Democrat.

In 1998 when I ran as a Libertarian for a congressional seat there was an
independent that had a lot of backing from teachers (he was a teacher in
Scottsdale I think). He ran a very visable campaign and was sure that he was
going to kick the shit out of me. At the newspaper editorial board I relayed
my experience on the party label issue and that I expected that he would do
half of what I would. He was crazed. After the election he tried to get me
to side with him in a protest of how the elections are held etc.

Lesson learned? The automatic votes are either programed in the computers or
in the heads of people.

Ernie



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