Thank you to everyone who helped out by organizing their towns and participating in our first official state committee meeting.

You can now view the new VTLP Executive Committee and VTLP Town Chairs lists at:

http://www.vtlp.org/organization

Those members that would like to join the general discussion group, please let me know and I can add you. It’s open to all. Also, don’t forget to “Like” our facebook page.

In Liberty,

Jeremy Ryan
chair@vtlp.org

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Vermont Libertarian Party
53 Avenue C
Burlington, Vermont 05408
Phone: (802) 735-2149
Web: www.vtlp.org
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It’s time for all parties in Vermont to reform their town committees. The Vermont Libertarian Party will hold its town caucuses on September 14. If you are interested forming a town committee in your town, then contact me asap so I can send you the forms you need and the directions.

We hope to be adding some new towns, but we also will be losing some town committees as people move so you help is vital in making sure we can easily put presidential, statewide, and local candidates on the ballot to give Vermonters a choice of lower taxes, less government, and more freedom.

Caucusing is simple to do, but there are some laws that must be followed. For example, you need to post a notice in two places in your town at least 5 days in advance of your caucus, and if you have more than 1000 people in your town, then the notice must also appear in your local paper.

Jeremy Ryan
Chair, Vermont Libertarian Party

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Vermont Libertarian Party
PO Box 5475
Burlington VT 05402-5475
Phone: (802) 735-2149
Web: www.vtlp.org
Email: chair@vtlp.org
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We did it!

Atlas Shrugged Part 1 will begin showing at Essex Cinemas on April 29th.

Showtimes April 29th – May 5th:
12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40

The official Atlas Shrugged movie website now has a their own proprietary “Demand Atlas to your town!” service.

Just go to the link and enter the zip code 05401 (for Burlington) and your email. You should enter 05401 to help concentrate the requests to better our odds of getting a showing.

This can really make a difference in whether it’s shown here or not… they are monitoring these requests closely.

Remember, Atlas Shrugged is an independent film, being distributed independently. It’s up to us to make things happen and US includes YOU.

Again, go to the link below now to add your support:

http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/demand

This movie is a documentary of Canadian Health Care and the extreme problems created by command and control of health care in their socialized medicine.

The showing will be at McCarthy Arts Center, St Michael’s College, Route 15 at Exit 15, on Feb 23 at 7pm.

After the movie two medical doctors from Canada (Dr. Mark Roper, and Dr. Robert S. Emmons), along with John McClaugry, will hold a one hour question and answer period.

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by St. Michael’s Conservative club, and co-sponsored by:

• Ethan Allen Institute
• Green Mountain Patriots
• True North Reports
• Vermonters for Economic Health

Further information the movie:
http://sickandsickermovie.com/index.html

A PDF flyer about the movie event: (PDF format)
http://www.cybershingle.com/sicker/flyer_sickandsicker_VT.pdf

** Date/Time: The Gun Show is February 5th from 9 Am to 5 PM and on February 6th from 9 AM to 3 PM. We are asking for volunteers for 2 hour shifts.

Saturday times
9-11 AM
11 AM- 1 PM
1-3 PM
3-5 PM

Sunday Times
9-11 AM
11 AM- 1 PM
1-3 PM

As you can see, there are only four time slots on Saturday and three on Sunday. We need at least 2 people for each shift. Please help if you can.

** Contact: If you will volunteer to help, please sign up by contacting Doug Richmond at richmonddp@juno.com or 899-3254: OR Karen Kerin at keringhost@gmail.com

Come join us in this yearly celebration of our past achievements, and future goals. This year’s theme is the core values of the Vermont Campaign. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the Vermont Campaign and meet its members.

The location of this year’s Convention is the Black River Academy Museum located on High Street in Ludlow, Vermont. The Black River Academy is the alma mater of President Calvin Coolidge, one of the “patron saints” of the Vermont Campaign.

We ask that a donation of $3 per person be made to cover the cost of the space.

For more information contact Steven J. Howard, Interim State Chair of the Campaign at vtgadfly@comcast.net.

Website: http://vermontcampaignforliberty.org/

Special Event

Tom Palmer, Ph.D.

General Director, Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace and Prosperity
Senior Fellow & Vice President Center for Promotion of Human Rights, CATO Institute
Vice President for International Programs, Atlas Economic Research Foundation

Topic:

“Greatest Myths about Free Markets”

“I’d walk across a bed of hot coals to hear Tom Palmer speak” John McClaughry, President EA
“I heard Tom a few years ago. He is extremely knowledgeable. Exceptional.” Dr. Art Woolf, UVM Economics Dept.
“Author, scholar, speaker, advocate; Palmer is a crusader for liberty.” Dr. Robert Letovsky, Chair, Business Dept, SMC

Tom Palmer, Oxford University PhD, is an internationally known advocate for the advancement of liberty and free markets throughout the world. Seen on national television programs, read in prestigious journals, and sought after around the world as a speaker, Palmer is among the most knowledgeable experts on classical liberal/libertarian thought, Constitutional history, globalization, and economic studies. He was also a plaintiff in District of Columbia v. Heller in which the Supreme Court recently overturned the D.C. ban on handguns. Much of Tom’s time is spent meeting with and supporting groups and individuals in countries where individual and economic liberty are threatened or non-existent. Within the past few years, Tom has traveled to China, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Viet Nam, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, India, Russia and The Philippines to work with lovers of freedom. He will come to Vermont in December shortly after returning from a planned five day visit to North Korea.

For Tom Palmer’s full bio and Curriculum Vitae go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_G._Palmer.

Mark Your Calendars Now!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM
McCarthy Arts Center
Saint Michael’s College – Colchester
(Book signing after talk)

This presentation is free and open to the public.

Of even greater concern is the administration of our laws. Our attorney general is supposed to defend the state, but has not sued the federal government for assailing the health care programs our legislature has created. Worse yet, with some 80 attorneys scattered in every department of government, the equal access to justice is unbalanced with some civil offences taking priority over more serious matters. The progressive candidate wants greater enforcement and more regulation of the clean water and clean air acts, further reducing opportunities for jobs in Vermont as her backers in CLF desire. Particularly irksome is the republican candidate alleging I am not qualified for attorney general to LSC republicans. Sadly I was not invited to the publicly funded AG debate on VPR to refute the lie. Yet, he has only been in Vermont for three years and has far fewer legal degrees than I do and much less relevant experience. His is limited to a small corner of his duties as an assistant states attorney.

Vermont needs some fresh air in the attorney general’s office where too often political concerns have determined prosecutorial discretion.

With a BS in engineering, a license in many states as a PE, a masters in environmental law, a doctorate in law, a certificate in dispute resolution, and studies for an LLM in human rights and international law where I was on the law review, the republican candidate for attorney general has the nerve to call me unqualified to the college republicans at LSC. He is also the one who after promising to appear for the only televised debate on CCTV in Burlington, failed to appear so he could lie to students. In addition to all this I have a great deal of practical legal experience, arguing before the 2nd circuit and practicing in the international forum. Moreover, I have executive experience in and out of government, which is why I argue that I would bring the 80 AG’s into one office to better allocate resources. Additionally, I would join the many suits to overturn the federal health care bill which undermines the work of our legislature because it is a duty of the office. I certainly would not opt for greater enforcement and more law as the progressive seeks with her backers, the CLF.

Contact Karen Kerin:
Web: www.karenkerin.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Karen-Kerin-for-Vermont/125301700832172
Twitter: http://twitter.com/karenkerin

There are few opportunities for voters to look at what is perceived as the down ticket office of attorney general, resulting in the continuation in office of someone who does not serve as a servant of the people. A great deal of explanation is needed to understand that the only statewide office not in the Vermont Constitution is in reality, perhaps the most powerful elected office in the state because prosecutorial discretion allows political considerations to intervene in the dispensing of justice. But I digress owing to my desire for substantial justice without procedural justice allowing a soft on crime regime to flower.

The video of the debate is below…

But before you spend the time to watch the whole thing, let me set the stage for you. The invitees were Progressive Charlotte Dennette, Liberty Union (now revealed to be socialist) Rosemarie Jackowski, Libertarian Karen Kerin, Democrat William Sorrell, and Republican Aaron Toscano. Jackowski did not attend, but sent a garbled statement that moderator Eli Harrington, program director from the Vermont Council on World Affairs, read for the viewers. Toscano, who had promised to attend, did not show up. I learned the next morning that he instead attended a college republican event. That left me facing the two big statists, Sorrell and Dennette.

Although it was not apparent due to the format, it is easy to dispose of CLF shill Dennette as a serious candidate because she ignores the US Constitution. She rants about the clean water act and the clean air act, neither of which are within the powers the constitution provides in Article I, Clause 8. While we all want clean air and water, it is clearly a matter for the states and the people who may be aggrieved by the actions of a particular property owner; and they have recourse legally in the courts.

Dean appointee and soft on crime Sorrell is equally easy to dispose of. Before delving into our differences legally, I must address his response to getting more bangs for the buck from his office as ridiculous in these economic times because he indicated a need for more staffing, while I made him cringe by proposing bringing all the attorneys general under one roof so allocation of resources could be more efficiently utilized. This demonstrates the difference between someone with real world management experience and a political appointee who has been there too long. At a cited cost of over $50,000.00 per year per prison bed, the question of defining non-violent offenders was sought as a question. Both of the liberals spoke about court diversion and other wishy-washy programs, when the Vermont constitution very clearly calls for “hard labor”. I pointed out that there are many tasks not being performed by the state that these offenders could be providing, and then needing only a dormitory to house them and feed them for their sentences, freeing the prisons for the violent and dangerous criminals.

Asked to explain why we were running under our party affiliation, I was stunned to hear Sorrell launch into his mother’s role in democrat politics, almost as if he does not share that party’s views. It is curious indeed that he has no better understanding. I explained that I am a libertarian because that most clearly represents what our founders of the nation and state embraced, liberty as long as it resulted in no harm to others and the dispensing of justice if harm results. Shockingly, Sorrell launched into his ideations concerning prevention, causing me to cringe in horror at the notion of offending the first amendment by making thoughts, words and actions wrongful in his eyes. God save us from such thinking. Other questions that we never got to would have led these two drones ever deeper into the statist swamp so it was fortunate for them we did not get there.

The summary statements were of the same ilk by the other two, but mine was laser like pointing out that Sorrell had been there too long and pointedly stating that his ideation of prevention is not law. I also chastised Dennette regarding VY, as I was fortunate enough to be one of the engineers on the project and fully understand that the reactor and its turbines are good for 100 years, despite the cooling towers leaking river water that is used to cool the process water that is in stainless steel piping to maintain the de-ionized water that is a must for the reactor system to not carry radioactivity. So VY is really very safe. The nonsense about having more hydro dams completely ignores both conservation and environmental concerns as it prevents migratory fish from making it back to their spawning grounds. I cited the loss of Atlantic salmon, shad, and at least one other species of fish that used to be found in abundance, but in declining numbers in the White River in my lifetime. Finally, I hammered Sorrell for claiming to protect families, when he has done nothing to protect children and the elderly. Apparently, they do not count as a part of the family, but not surprising since he had no response to the cyber crime problem that is defrauding the elderly without even the FBI caring because it emanates from outside the US. Please do watch the video.

Contact Karen Kerin:
Web: www.karenkerin.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Karen-Kerin-for-Vermont/125301700832172
Twitter: http://twitter.com/karenkerin