Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 01:39:30 -0500
From: smith2004@presidency.com ("Thomas L. Knapp")
Subject: [atheist_libertarians] Smith 2004 Update, -- August 20, 2001
To: smith2004@presidency.com
Reply-To: atheist_libertarians@yahoogroups.com


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NEWS FROM THE AD HOC CONSPIRACY TO DRAFT L. NEIL SMITH
2224 Normandy Dr.
St. Louis, MO 63121
World Wide Web: http://www.smith2004.org

For release: August 20, 2001

For additional inforation:
Thomas L. Knapp, Acting de facto HMFIC
Pager: (314)924-2004
E-Mail: smith2004@presidency.com


SMITH CAMPAIGN BEGINS ADVERTISING, EXPANDS OUTREACH

Nearly three years remain before the Libertarian Party will choose
its 2004 presidential nominee, but one campaign isn't waiting.

The Ad Hoc Conspiracy to Draft L. Neil Smith is working to place
copies of its "campaign book" -- _Lever Action_, the libertarian
science fiction author's first print collection of political essays
- -- in public libraries across the nation. As of today, copies have
been donated to libraries in 12 states: Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
Massachusetts, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nebraska,
Hawaii, Alaska and Washington.

Book placement is the campaign's first priority, accounting for about
$300 of the $400 raised and spent so far. The campaign is now moving
to increase its donor base, with a goal of one thousand placed books
by the end of 2001. It has purchased banner ad exposures on popular
freedom-oriented web site SierraTimes.Com (operated by former LP
Senate candidate J.J. Johnson and former LP vice presidential
candidate Nancy Lord Johnson), as well as its first LP News ad, which
will be seen by 37,000 LP members and subscribers in October.

An article about the campaign will appear in the September issue of
LP News.

The "un-candidate" (Smith has agreed to accept the LP nomination if
his supporters can mount a successful campaign, but is not actively
seeking it himself) has also been busy:

* _Lever Action _ was released earlier this year.

* _Hope_, a novel about a libertarian presidency, co-authored by
Aaron Zelman of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, was
released last month.

* _The American Zone_, Smith's newest science fiction work, will be
released in December.

* Smith began a regular column for Sierra Times earlier this month.

* Smith appeared on the Mark Williams show on San Francisco's KFBK
(AM 1530), on August 17th to discuss "A Blueprint for Ending Gun
Control" an article he recently wrote with Zelman.

The campaign web site is located at www.smith2004.org.



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