2009 Bylaws Committee inviting participation
by Phil Jacobson, Sun, 14 Dec 2008

I am acting chair of the 2009 LPNC Bylaws Committee. The LPNC Executive Committee has opened the Bylaws Committee to new members and, of course, to comments and recommendations from all LPNC members. If you are interested in this aspect of party business, now is the time to consider participation with this committee.

I invite you to review our — your — current Bylaws.

As you review these documents, you may find that you would like to see something changed. Perhaps you think that something is badly phrased or should be totally deleted. Perhaps you want to see something added.

The 2009 Bylaws Committee's job is to make a report to the 2009 LPNC state convention which recommends changes to the Bylaws. We will try to have this report ready by late Winter of 2009 (date not set). The report will be made available to all LPNC members. At the convention itself (Spring, date not set), the items on the report will be presented to the delegates. for consideration and vote. in a featured and lengthy portion of the convention business agenda. While it is also possible for motions from the floor of the convention to propose changes which are not part of the Bylaws Committee report, such motions are more difficult to get considered than the motions which are included in the Bylaws Committee's report itself.

You may also wish to consider joining the Bylaws Committee yourself. Committee members make a larger commitment, though, beyond simply suggesting and/or preparing items to submit for the report. They are also responsible for selecting the specific proposals which will be in that report. Most, [often all] of the work is done via an email list which was set up for this purpose. You can look at the list without being invited to join, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bylawsLPNC/. Are you are the kind of person who likes reading this sort of thing? [A surprising number of libertarians are.] Do you want a vote on which items are put into the report, and in which order?

If so, you should consider joining the committee. Please let me know if you do want to join the Bylaws Committee yourself. Send me a message which says something about your interest in the committee.

Even if you do not wish to join the committee, as an individual member of the LPNC each of you is welcome to recommend to the Bylaws Committee specific changes in the LPNC Bylaws which you would like to see included in the committee report.

If you have a change to recommend, please send it to me, along with your argument as to why you believe it should be included in the report, and I will forward it to the committee for consideration.

Thanking you in advance for your involvement in this process,

Phil Jacobson

LPNC ANNOUNCEMENT - November 11, 2008

Open Executive Committee Positions

The Executive Committee of North Carolina has three vacant positions: Vice Chair and two at large positions. If you are interested in volunteering to serve on the Executive Committee until the next convention (tentatively scheduled for mid April 2009), please contact Barbara Howe at chair@lpnc.org.

The term for these three positions will be until the next annual convention (mid April 2009), at which time, all Executive Committee positions will be up for re-election. You may run for the seat at the next convention, if you so choose. Committee members voted on in convention in odd numbered years serve a term of two years.

The Executive Committee is "responsible for the control and management of all of the affairs, properties, and funds of the Party consistent with these Bylaws and any resolutions that may have been adopted in convention." (Article V. Section 1. LPNC Bylaws)

Much of the business is transacted via email and we do have physical meetings approximately every six weeks. If you have any questions regarding the Executive Committee duties, email Barbara or call at 919-690-1423.

Barbara Howe
Chair, LPNC

2008 Libertarian Election Campaign

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3650 Registered Libertarians in North Carolina

For the week ending 11/08/2008 there were a total of 3650 registered Libertarians in North Carolina. Wake county has the most with 523 registered Libertarians, followed by Mecklenburg with 345, and Guilford with 217. See the full list of Libertarians by County by Date. (Note, you can click on a column header to sort by that column. Requires javascript.)

Libertarians Retain Ballot Spot

Munger Will Run Again

RALEIGH (Nov. 4) -- For the first time in modern North Carolina history, a third party has retained its ballot status at the voting booth. Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger polled about three percent of the vote today, besting the state's restrictive standard for a third party to poll at least two percent of the vote in the race for governor or president.

Libertarian candidates for lieutenant governor, insurance commissioner and U.S. Senate also broke the two percent barrier.

While conceding that "one of the other two candidates will become governor," Munger claimed a victory on behalf of all Libertarians for besting the states "enormous requirements to stay on the ballot and not have to get the damn signatures" on petitions.

"This is just the first step," Munger said. "We got the signatures and we satisfied the requirements of the State by playing Simon Says in just the way they wants us to."

Now he said its time for the Libertarian Party to take the next step and run competitive races for several General Assembly seats and other offices. Munger then announced he would seek the Libertarian nomination for NC State Senate in 2010 and the party's nomination for governor in 2012.

Munger Campaign Party

RALEIGH (Nov. 3) --Dr. Michael Munger, Libertarian candidate for governor, will await Tuesday evening election returns with supporters in the University Room at the University Club at 4200 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh. The party begins at 7:30 p. m.

WUNC Profiles Mike Munger

WUNC profiled LPNC gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger Friday morning, 10/31/2008. Here is a link to the mp3 file. Download or listen now. Mike Munger Profile

Munger closes campaign with 'hand-shaking, back roads, small town tour'

RALEIGH (October 29) — Libertarian gubernatorial Candidate Mike Munger will close his campaign with an "Old Fashioned, Hand-Shaking, Back Roads and Small Towns Tour" of North Carolina.

The "Back Roads and Small Towns" tour will begin in Murphy Friday morning, Oct. 31 and proceed along every inch of US 64, across the entire state, ending with jump in the ocean in Whalebone Sunday, Nov. 2.

Dr. Munger and his campaign staff will be available along the way for interviews and photographs. Call the candidate on his direct cell line at (336) 508-2175, or call campaign manager Barbara Howe on her cell at (919) 475-2371.
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Mike Munger on Answers

Download or listen to the Munger for Governor radio ad on Answers.

Mike Munger on Annexation

Download or listen to the Munger for Governor radio ad on Annexation.

T. J. Rohr releases radio ads

Libertarian candidate for NC House district 87, T. J. Rohr has released mp3 audio files of the four radio ads he will be running over the next few weeks. Download or listen to them here:

1. 30 second ad #1 (527kB)
2. 30 second ad #2 (527kB)
3. 60 second ad #1 (964kB)
4. 60 second ad #2 (964kB)

If you'd like to help pay for informing NC House District 87's voters of the Libertarian alternative, you can contribute to T. J. Rohr's campaign here.