On Election Day I drove to Green Bay, where the AFL-CIO was going door to door for Falk. There was a polling place right inside the labor hall—no relationship to the campaign, obviously—and a wall of trinkets from previous lost causes. (An editorial attacking the nascent NAFTA agreement in 1993. Wisconsin-shaped “blue fists,” the logos of the 2011 protest campaign.) When volunteers arrived at the Election Day nerve center, they grabbed walk lists, data about the doors they needed to knock in the suburbs. If the voters weren’t home, they’d leave door-hangers informing them of Falk’s “true progressive” record. Continue reading →
Las Vegas - Six ballots later, the Libertarian National Committee has a new chair: Geoff Neale. Neale, a former chair of the national committee between 2002-2004 and the Texas state party in 90s, was not a candidate for the race until today when he was nominated from the floor before the third round of voting. Neale, originally from England, is a technology consultant. He defeated None Of The Above 61 percent to 37 percent. During his victory speech Neale used the famous Las Vegas tourism slogan, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" to encourage delegates to not leave angry and at odds with each other. "Thers been a lot of rancor at this convention. I 'd like to think that we have been advocates ... Continue reading →
Las Vegas - San Francisco Libertarian Party activst Starchild, a Lee Wrights supporter, was not bothered by the nasty fight for national chairman, but he was worried about running out of time. "If we ran out of time that could have shut down the convention and then the top-down group that controls the LNC would have had to vote," he said. The way Starchild sees this fight is that it was originally the two factions bickering like usual, until accustions of voter improprities were thrown around. The integrity of the whole process was at stake, he said. "The problem was it wasn't clear whether a.) People could change their vote; b.) whether people that didn't vote could vote, or whether people that voted only in ... Continue reading →
