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Well, I was at first enamoured with the LP about 10 years ago. Then I actually began to encounter actual LP members, mostly in my local USENET group, pgh.opinion. They were okay personally, but politically I decided they were nuts. For example, there used to be a ballot measure to raise taxes for new stadiums for Pittsburgh. 2 groups, the Allegheny Institute of Pittsburgh and our local LP, led the grassroots effort against it. The AI asked the LP to combine efforts to make for a more effective push, but the LP preferred being a big fish in a small pond. Other local bozo behavior - marching with the ACLU in a demonstration against the Pittsburgh police (to give support to the ACLU's class action lawsuit against the police). The lawsuit was later denied class action status because the ACLU basically pumped too much hot air into it. The majority of the little money that did end up changing hands went from the Pittsburgh taxpayers into the pockets of ACLU lawyers. Way to stand up for small govt, LP! They also ran Harry Browne Part I by campaigning AGAINST Bob Dole, not Bill Clinton. That sure made me want to vote for them.

We know some of the same people and we may have even met. I helped in a small way on that campaign against the stadiums and it was a huge success. Then the GOP shoved Plan B down our throats.

I wasn't aware of the LP working with the ACLU on that issue, but depending on the issue, I would align myself with them to shut down an abusive government program. Like I told Bob Casey in his primary against Fast Eddie -- If you get elected, I will work to help enact your pro life and pro gun agenda, but I will work twice as hard against just about anything else. I will take my allies whereever I find them, except with the KKK or any neo Nazi group.

Re Bob Dole: It was awfully hard to get excited about him, wasn't it? I do understand why they went after Dole. That's where they could get some votes. Attacking Clinton wouldn't have garnered as many and that is how they differentiate between the GOP and the LP. The GOP and Dole were just Democrat light. I held my nose and voted for Dole or rather, against Clinton.