Florida Liberty!

Kennon and Kira Gilson are here congratulated at the Pinellas LP/ Tampa Libertarian Club Dinner on their appointment as youth advisors by the Pinellas County Commission: Pinellas now has over a third of the Libertarians in public office in Florida, following a strategy of initial focus on low-level appointive boards and multiple...

Tallahassee, Fla.—Today, Federal District Judge Robert L. Hinkle signed an agreed injunction that prevents the Florida’s State Board of Architecture and Interior Design from enforcing provisions of a Florida law that censored truthful speech by prohibiting people who lawfully perform residential interior design services without a government-conferred license from referring to themselves, accurately, as “interior designers” or from using other, unspecified “words ...

Kira Gilson is congratulated by board chair for her draft fundraising guide to help privately support public trails.

While conservative extremists and party sad sacks claim Libertarians can barely get into public office, Florida Libertarians at their latest convention applauded one who is in not only one post, but two, and applying ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1119777.html

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida won't appeal a federal judge's decision that struck down a law he said unconstitutionally limited political free speech.

Secretary of State Kurt Browning initially had said he would appeal but has since changed his mind, spokeswoman Jennifer Krell Davis said Monday.

The st...

See...

http://www.libertarian-international.org/apps/blog/show/787323-us-car-wash-libs-lead-home-school-boards-

" (Lib efforts helped in ) " massive changes' including:

Consensus on an 'all mentor the learner,' not 'authoritarian educator' model

A simplified but detailed set of recommended home school standar...

Florida has responded to the health care debate by working with private insurers to highlight low cost plans.

The program, CoverFlorida, follows a lobbying campaign initiated by Florida Libertarians through the Club participants to remove legal redtape to lower cost private plans.

The Clubs are non-partisan and do not do lobbying campaigns, but a  call group has been formed by club members.

While states are cr...

Photo: Tracy Lundquist, elected to Volusia Hospital Board, says she'll make improvements. Her agenda calling for website and other improvemnents is at: http://www.tracylunquist.com/tracylunquist/Home.html

Florida Libertarians continued their campaign to empower people in local office with Libertarian...

Libertarians have helped form broad coalitions driving election reform in Florida. Efforts have driven many improvements that led to a smoother election, easier regular party observation, public brainstorms, and work on spreading election options such as proportional representation. See http://www.ERCPinellas.org for the latest, or discuss in our F...

How Libertarians Have Helped Florida…

Libertarians in Florida have played key roles in fighting restrictions on your individual rights…

For Liberty…

Campaigning successfully to introduce low-cost voluntary mediation in the Court system Protecting the Homestead Exemption and calling for it to be raised to $150,000

Protecting and providing information on Homeschooling

Working for removal of legal blocks to co-ops

Expose and b...

Photo: Libs in office FLLIB editors J. Chorgo and R. Swanson meet with former governor's advisor Lib Dr. Randy Holcombe on Homestead Exemption increase and Constitutional Amendments to cut taxes, among other issues.

Libs are hard at work in public meetings, pol...

Seminole County, USA, --The paradigm is that social change can only be done by elected Libertarians...and environment hating Libs can't get elected to anything locally important. Change your paradigm.

Bookseller Mike Barr is one of the growing number of Libertarians being elected to county Soil & Water boards in the US, turning what critics deride a...

Libertarian Clubsters, coalition members meet with media on felon voting rights in 2005.

States such as Maine let felons, many of whom are in for technical and non-violent charges that weren't even misdemeanours a few years ago, vote from their prison cells.

Now after a statewide campaign led by Libertarians and c...

Editorial by John Shuey...

There are still many Americans who don't know what the Libertarian Party is all about. Yes, we are a political party, yes we believe in personal freedom and the corresponding responsibility that goes with it, yes we are socially liberal and fiscally conservative, -- but what do elected Libertarians actually do when they take office?

Here's a great story that should answer that question.

This week, I learned of a recent m...

Florida Libs helped alert the public and kill a "stealth" Eminent Domain law. See:

http://www.bestsyndication.com/2005/A-H/DAVIS-Mike/100205-eminent-domain-libertarians.htm

In 1984 MG and Ralph Swanson called an activist's  meeting and pointed out that with the initiative process the LPF had all it needed to develop a pro-Libertarian constituency (through petition contact) and implement Libertarian policies. This turned into a party wide discussion on how to fight Florida's draconian ballot laws, that made third party candidacies basically impossible. This in turn made getting on appointive boards very difficult, as we were not seen as repr...

Florida Libertarian is victorious in free-speech lawsuit

ADVISORY FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY

News from the National LP headquarters

Distributed May 23, 1997

WASHINGTON, DC -- A Libertarian Party member has won a $25,000 settlement against the city of Orlando, Florida for violating his First Amendment rights.

Hal Noyes accepted the settlement on May 1st -- two months after filing a lawsuit against the city, in which he charged that his ...