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Heartland LP Debate

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Written by: Webmaster
Category: Candidates and Elections
Created: April 07, 2008

Six candidates for the Libertarian Party's Presidential nomination debate at the Heartland Libertarian Conference in Kansas City, Mo, on April 5,2008. Moderator is Mike Ferguson.

Candidates present were Senator Mike Gravel, Michael Jingozian, George Phillies, Wayne Allen Root, Dr. Mary J. Ruwart, and Christine Smith.

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NJ State Run Health Care Program Is Equivalent To Black Hole

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 06, 2008
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A recent report released by an auditor shows that current state health care programs for the poor are mismanaged on a criminal level due to possible corruption and outright laziness. This is what you must expect from a state government agency. These are bureaucrats who have no interest in helping the poor but rather in keeping their own jobs and fat pensions. This is another reason for having programs like this managed by charities rather than the government.

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John Crowley Says No To Senate Run

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 06, 2008
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John Crowley has made his final decision on whether or not to run for Senate and that answer is no. Where does this leave the rest of the candidates at? It leaves Andy Unanue in a weaker position he was at to begin with. His support was ready to abandon him for Crowley and he himself was preparing to drop out of the race to make way for Crowley. Now that Crowley has decided to not enter the race Unanue has exposed himself as being purely a stand-in with pockets filled with money.

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Current State Of The Republican Race For Senate

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 06, 2008
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Here is how the race stands as far as county endorsements:

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NJ State Waste Continues....

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 06, 2008
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The state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control spent nearly $650,000 to install new computer software to track liquor licenses, but according to a state audit report it still doesn't work. The whole system, along with the installation, is supposed to cost $1 million and it can't perform a simple task like track liquor licenses. I can do that with a pretty simple filing system and the government is planning to spend a million dollars to perform such a simple task.

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NJ Buys Land, Destroys Building, Then Does Nothing

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 04, 2008
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NJ has agreed to purchase a piece of property for over $1.8 million from a family that built a condominium complex in which not a single condo had been rented out. At first the state of NJ contended that the family and Union City officials conspired to build the building with the knowledge that the state was going to buy it to build an elementary school. They were unable to prove so in court and now instead of having to pay the $326,000 that they wanted to they are compromising at $1.825 million. The story gets better.

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Somerset County Tells Sabrin That He's Not Welcome

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 04, 2008
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The Somerset County Republican Organization has informed Murray Sabrin that if he cannot promise them that he is not running an alternate slate of freeholder candidates he cannot participate in their screening process. In other words if he doesn't play ball with the Republican county establishment then he is not welcome. This brings up a question that many independently thinking people ponder: is it better to follow one's own political beliefs if it leads them to a third party or to try to reform one of the two major political parties from the inside?

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Butler to repeal its loitering ordinance

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Written by: John Paff
Category: Preempted Ordinance Repeal Project
Created: April 03, 2008
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One by one, towns repeal their loitering ordinances

In response to a request from the Libertarian Party, the Borough of Butler, in Morris County, has agreed to repeal its loitering ordinance. The LP's letter to the Borough, the Borough's response and draft repealer ordinance, as well as the ordinance itself is HERE

Don't Get Slapped

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Written by: Walter M. Luers, Esq.
Category: Open Government Advocacy Project
Created: April 03, 2008
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As citizen oversight of government grows, public agencies are resisting the oversight. One of the ways public agencies resist oversight is by threatening to sue members of the public who exercise their rights. These types of lawsuits are called “SLAPP” lawsuits

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Goodbye Tobacco And Free Speech!

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 03, 2008
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill that will give the FDA full regulatory control over the tobacco industry. If the bill passes it is expected to dramatically reduce tobacco marketing, ban many flavored cigarettes, and prohibit the labeling of cigarettes as “light” or “low-tar.” It makes me feel warm and fuzzy to know that the government would care for me so much that it would protect me from the evil tobacco industry. I guess flavored cigars will be next on the chopping block.

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NJLP Shirt Design Pt. 1

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 03, 2008
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Here is a NJLP shirt design idea. Let me know what you guys think.

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My Foot In My Mouth!

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 03, 2008
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Steve Adubato endorsed Rep. Rob Andrews which kind of contradicts my last post. Thought I would point that out before anyone else did. A lot of endorsements have been rolling out in the last day or two and despite the fact that Andrews has been getting a lot of support he is currently behind Lautenberg by 35%.

GOP Candidates Unknown And Dems Split On Lautenberg, What Does This All Mean For Us?

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Written by: Sean Colon
Category: NJ Libertarian Blog
Created: April 03, 2008
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Fairleigh Dickinson University posted the results of a recent poll yesterday that shows how many people don't know who the GOP candidates are. When all voters were polled the numbers stood at Joe Pennacchio being unrecognized by 77%, Murray Sabrin by 84% and Andy Unanue by 90%. When narrowed down to just Republican voters the numbers come out to 29% saying they?ve heard of Pennacchio, 18% saying they?ve heard of Sabrin, and 12% saying they?ve heard of Unanue. (These polls were tricky to get because the Star Ledger article was linked to the wrong poll, what else can we expect from them?) Joe Pennacchio has been the front runner in gaining the endorsement of county organizations but this poll shows that the race is still wide open.

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It Never Ceases To Amaze Me

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Written by: Mark Richards
Category: Letters to Editor
Created: April 02, 2008
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World War II has been over for more than 62 years now, but it never ceases to amaze me how that conflict continues to be “protected” event in history that you must never question or subject to any serious scrutiny. The recent letter by Neil Grieco attacking a previous letter by me as a case in point.

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