Vermont Libertarian Party Attorney General candidate, Karen Kerin, was interviewed by The Woodchuck Report’s Bonnie Scott.

Topics discussed include the office of Vermont attorney general, property rights, gun rights, healthcare, commerce clause, stare decisis, permits, government employee pay and more…

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

Why am I Running as a Libertarian?
By: Karen Kerin

For sixty-six years I have been a staunch republican, but over the last few years I have been astonished at how many office holders elected as republicans embraced a different philosophy. The ideal of less government, lower taxes and less regulation of our lives, appeared to fall by the wayside, when it seemed advantageous for a republican to sacrifice principles to stay in office. I did not come to this easily. It was the product of examining the votes of legislators in view of the enormous growth of the body of laws. The evidence is beyond dispute.

Click link below for full article:
http://www.karenkerin.com/174/why-am-i-running-as-a-libertarian/

Trillions in debt in Washington!  Falling tax revenues and soaring deficits in Montpelier!  Big government spending more and growing bigger with no end in sight!  Your dollar is worth less and the economy is struggling!  Jobs are scarce and our future uncertain!

Why? What happened? How can we fix this?  Join the Vermont Campaign for Liberty and Vermonters for Economic Health as they discuss why:

WE CAN’T AFFORD IT!!!!

A two hour forum about Vermont’s and America’s budgetary crisis and how average Vermonters can join the fight to fix it.

Its open to the public, so join the discussion.

Tour dates below…

March 25, 2010
Springfield Savings and Loan Building
85 Main Street, Springfield, VT
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

March 28, 2010
East Haven School/Community Building
Community Building Road, East Haven, VT
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

April 3, 2010
Brattleboro Library
Main Street, Brattleboro, VT
10:00 am to 1 pm

April 5, 2010
Town Hall
Route 4, Woodstock VT
6 pm to 8 pm

April 8, 2010
Bennington Library
101 Silver Street, Bennington, VT
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

April 10, 2010
City Hall
39 Main Street, Montpelier, VT
1:00 pm to 3 pm

April 11, 2010
Fletcher Free Library
College Street, Burlington, VT
12 pm to 2 pm 235

April 11, 2010
Colchester, VT time and place to be determined later.

The Woodchuck Report is a new tv show on Channel 17.  The show is hosted by two local Libertarians, Bonnie Scott and Ruel Wheelock.

The show runs monthly, the second Friday of the month.  They have done two shows so far and a new show is comes out today, 6/13.

Scott and Wheelock explore the Libertarian view of local and national politics on the show.

The last show on 5/9/2008 had topics including State legislature ajorns, national popular vote plan, potholes, vermont gubernatorial race, Catamount Health, activists arrested at General Dynamics, War deployment, The Intervale/ fines, ground water access, 4 year terms for Governor.

Below is the video archive of the show…

Chairman, Hardy Machia was a guest on Paul Beaudry’s Comment Show on 1420 AM in St. Albans. They had a lively discussion about marijuana reform in Vermont.

Chairman, Hardy Machia was a guest on Paul Beaudry’s radio show True North on WDEV (96.1FM). They talked about free speech and particularly how the campaign finance laws and other laws affect the freedom of speech of political parties, candidates, and activists.

Volunteers from all over the country are making get out the vote phone calls for Libertarian candidates. Vermont has three candidates who can use your help making phone calls. Sign up at BallotBase.org and start making phone calls this afternoon.

There are several other candidates from around the country that you can also help with. Every little bit counts. David Atkinson won his primary by one vote, and the BallotBase calls helped push him over the top.

Hardy Machia goes on the offensive by pointing out the incumbents ads of wanting to work for lower taxes are just not true. This PDF of Can’t Afford These Taxes postcard shows how much new spending the incumbents approved last session, and highlights how the Vermont state budget has doubled in the last eight years, but what we are getting in services hasn’t.

Andrew Thomas sent out a similar mailing for his race, but the incumbent in his race voted for budgets in excess of 15 billion dollars in new spending since she took office….Andrew’s mailing.

October Fundraiser Cocktail Party

David will be holding a Fun-raising event in October. Here’s the details as best as I know them:

Location: Three Stallion Inn, Stock Farm Road, Randolph
Date: Oct 18, 2006
Time: 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Tickets: $15

Description:
Casual meet the candidate gathering with appetizers, sweets, and coffee. Door prizes including a framed and signed print of an original watercolor landscape by renowned Vermont artist Bunny Harvey. Ms. Harvey will be on hand in support of Dave and to sign the winner’s print.

About Bunny Harvey:
Bunny Harvey has been a part time resident of Randolph Center since 1949 when her parents first came to Vermont. A Rome Prize winner, Bunny has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, with works in public and private collections. She is represented exclusively by Berry-Hill Galleries, in NYC and has taught painting at Wellesley College in Massachusetts for thirty years. She now lives and paints in Tunbridge, where the natural landscape of Vermont has been the starting point for many of her works. One critic has described these paintings as attempts ?to discover the essence of the place….with a dreamlike quality that make them seem more like landscapes of the mind, rather than actual places..?

For additional information call: 802-728-6598
http://www.davidatkinson.org