Florida Liberty!

Photo: Dr. Swanson, in his study surrounded by Florida lawbooks, says get to work.

Grand Old Man and crusty Libertarian leader Ralph Swanson has finished research on

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 ...

Orlando, August 9--The Ron Paul "Campaign for Liberty" or C4L met in Florida where over 1500 fans set the following legislative agenda ( SEE: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/event/2009florida.php ;):

>Health Care Freedom Amendment (HJR 37)

>Florida Firearms Freedom Act (HB 21)

>State Sovereignty Memorial (HM 19)

The proposed Florida Hea...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...