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RLC members recently chartered their affiliate in Alabama.

In Alabama, the new affiliate includes former Birmingham City Council member Dr. Jimmy Blake, homeschooling mom Shana Kluck, and longtime libertarian activist Steve Gordon.  The Chair of the affiliate is attorney Scott Boykin. The Alabama affiliate plans to set up a web presence shortly.  According to Gordon, the group is extremely energetic and ready to recruit more members.

Dr. Jimmy Blake is a very long time Libertarian party activist and candidate.  Steve Gordon is the Alabama  Libertarian Party State Chair.

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Political success demands a series of elements.  All the elements are needed at once.  The libertarian political movement that will bring us to victory is the movement that takes responsibility for assembling all those elements.  A libertarian political movement that refuses to develop some of those elements is a libertarian political movement that is foredoomed to failure.

What are those elements?

"First, we counsel the Libertarian National Committee that, for the good of the Party, the Libertarian National Committee should ensure in appointing Keaton's replacement that the replacement is as anti-war and as socially liberal as Ms. Keaton, so that the balance on the National Committee between the party's various factions and interests is not altered and continues to reflect the mixture of votes cast at the most recent National Convention, and

Second, we urge supporters of the libertarian political movement to respond to the Libertarian National Committee's actions by redirecting your future donations away from the Libertarian National Committee. Donate instead to libertarian groups that do real politics and political education, such as your state Libertarian Party, and national groups such as Freedom Ballot Access and the Advocates for Self-Government."

We make a best effort to ensure accuracy, but you should always check our numbers against FEC filings rather than blindly quoting us:

For its January 2009 filing, the LNC begins to dig out of its financial hole. They started the month with $3178 cash on hand, had total receipts of $104,349, had total disbursements of $84,591, and ended the month with $22,936 cash on hand and $41,423 debts and obligations owed by the Committee.

Quite.

According to Nolan, the December 11 Group is being formed to support activism and activists. It is not being founded to function as a debate club, a place for people to argue about libertarian philosophy, so-called. Those people are urged to relocate elsewhere. According to Nolan, the December 11 Group will proclaim liberty, will work with groups and individuals having common values, and may endorse political candidates who are consistently devoted to political liberty. Nalon has an article on his group up at the Nolan Chart http://www.nolanchart.com/article6098.html

"In addition to being a long-time Libertarian Party activist, I am myself now a member of both the North Providence and Rhode Island Republican committees... I also switched from personally appearing on the ballot as a Libertarian to appearing as a Republican back in 2002... This past election our incumbent LPRI State Chairman David Bibeault made the same switch...Our immediate past LPRI State Chairman Dan Harrop made the same switch in either 2004 or 2006--he won the 2006 Republican Primary for Mayor of Providence--and is also now a member of the Rhode Island Republican State Committee.