Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:55:20 -0700 (MST)
From: unlisted@aztec.asu.edu (MARC BILLA)
Subject: [ernesthancock@home.com: Re: [lpaz-discuss] The Ruling from the PDF file]
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    From: ernesthancock@home.com ("Ernest Hancock")
    To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
    Subject: Re: [lpaz-discuss] The Ruling from the PDF file
    Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 19:55:27 -0700


    > Most non political voters dont pay a bit of attention to the primaries.
    > To reach them at all, you hafta be in the general  election. To get to
    > the general election as a DemoPub requires a degree of
    > compromise beyond your wildest nightmares.

    Here in Arizona the adverage of the 90 legislative seats available that are
    decided in the primary are over 50%. This means that races go unchallenged
    by competing parties. In the district where I live their were 9 candidates
    for the two house seats in the Republican primary and NOBODY ELSE. So the
    primary _was_ the general election. This happens a lot. I remember sitting
    with Tamara Clark in the 1994 election cycle looking at the candidate list.
    We took the time to figure out that if the Libertarians didn't have ballot
    status that year there would have been 62 of the 90 seats decided by the
    primary. We saw the best thing that we did was to make them spend even a
    little money just to be sure,.. cool.

    Now if we were to put a D in an unopposed race in the primary where the
    general would be against the winner of a Republican primary where he was
    trashed for everything from his hairline to the color of his shoes. Do you
    think that they would be _happy_ about a quality Libertarian that would get
    at least the 35+++% of the general election vote due to his having a D after
    his name whle drawing as much as possible from his side with ideas of
    freedom?

    The point isn't if I know the answer to that question. The point is that
    _they don't_ know the answer to that question. The big boys don't gamble in
    my opinion (that's why we're working on this computer vote validation thing
    :) and the idea of an unknown varible as big as $0% is too much for them to
    allow.

    I've already had a long talk with the leading candidate for governor  in the
    Republican party here in Arizona on the issue of the state eventually doing
    what the Appeals Court did (came sooner than I thought it would). I made it
    clear that the invasion of the Republican and Democratic party by the
    Libertarian activist will be due directly to our having had our party
    destroyed by statist laws (100's of thousands of non-libertarian voters
    deciding our candidates to the general election, no say in the fact that
    candidates running as Libertarians could take public monies for political
    campaigns & having to violate our principles to exist as a party etc.).

    A good demonstration of this will have an effect on the legislative session
    this spring. As many of you know, I always have a nice present ready for the
    legislators the Sunday before the 2nd Monday of January (when the
    legislative session starts). Might that be a good time to annouce the plan?
    Hmmmmmmmm :)

    We've been planning this seriously ever since we left the LNC meeting in
    August of '99. Should the burden of responcibility be finally lifted from
    our shoulders by a statist state and collectivist Libertarian leadership of
    an institutionalized ALP,... well, let the fun begin once again as it was in
    the good 'ole days of Arizona Activism for freedom.

    Ernie


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