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Libertarians win majority on Colorado City Council
LP News ^ | 13 November 2001 | LP

Posted on 11/13/2001 4:31:37 PM PST by DoSomethingAboutIt

Libertarians have taken over the city of Leadville, Colorado.

On November 6, local voters gave registered Libertarians a voting majority on the seven-member Leadville city council. Four council seats are now occupied by Libertarians.

LP Political Director Ron Crickenberger said this is an "historic event" for the Libertarian Party.

"I think it's fantastic that the LP has achieved its goal of taking over a town with Libertarians -- with the support of the voters, of course," he said."This really is the next political step for the party: Going from winning individual offices to winning enough seats to have a working majority."

The four-person Libertarian majority consists of:

* Carol Hill (Ward 1), who defeated an incumbent and another challenger in a three-way race, garnering 48.6% of the vote. Previously, she had unsuccessfully run for city council in 1995 and for Lake County Commissioner in 1996.

* Ken Cary (Ward 2), who registered as a Libertarian just days before the election. Ward won his election with 52% of the vote in a two-way race.

* Joe Swyers (Ward 2), a Libertarian who had already been serving on the council, elected in 1999.

* Lisa Dowdney (Ward 3), who was also elected in 1999 and registered as a Libertarian on November 8, shifting the balance of power to the Libertarian Party.

Leadville city council members are elected for four-year terms in non-partisan races.

"Congratulations to Joe, Carol, Lisa, and Ken!" said Colorado LP Information Director David Bryant. "Thanks to the four of you, Leadville is poised to become the most Libertarian city in America. Way to go!"

With a Libertarian majority, the city will be "very interesting," said Hill, "especially on financial issues. We should get some reasonable budgets and some sensible policies -- we should be able to cut back."

Specifically, Hill said she would like to cut back the activity of the local planning and zoning board --or abolish the board completely -- and stop spending money from city reserve funds.

Although she said she might meet some resistance from the mayor, she said she is able to hold her own in a debate on local issues.

"The key is to redefine the issue at hand so your political opponents don't have you constantly on the defensive," she said. "Don't try to debate on their terms."

The situation in Leadville is a good sign for future local Libertarian candidates, said Crickenberger.

"I expect situations such as this one to become more and more common in the near future," he said. "And the movement of our American communities in a Libertarian direction will inevitably translate to bigger victories down the road."

This is not the first time that Libertarians have had a working majority on a city council, said Crickenberger. That feat was accomplished in the late 1980s in Big Water, Utah.

Located just west of Denver, Leadville has the distinction of being America's highest incorporated city, at a perch of more than 10,000 feet. It has a population of about 2,800 residents.

Hill and Cary will be sworn into office on January 7, 2002.


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To: tacticalogic
Abortion is legal - but immoral. Should it be illegal? Yes, because it violates the constitution. Unless you are suggesting that we do away with that societal guardrail too.
81 posted on 11/13/2001 7:09:00 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
Abortion is legal - but immoral.

And what happened to "Every law has moral underpinnings"?

82 posted on 11/13/2001 7:11:45 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: VA Advogado
God Help this city council. Hopefully their Libertarians are a little more patriotic, intellectual and respectful of America than many of those we find here infecting FR like flees on the back of a dog.

Ad hominem attacks like that are so intellectual, kind of like you pretending the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution forbids abortion.

83 posted on 11/13/2001 7:15:31 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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To: tacticalogic
Yes, every law does have moral underpinnings. Hence, we legislate some form of morality everyday. As to abortion, we legislated against morality.
84 posted on 11/13/2001 7:15:50 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Libertarianize the GOP
So there is no protection for life in our founding documents?
85 posted on 11/13/2001 7:16:44 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Libertarianize the GOP
Ad hominem attacks like that are so intellectual, kind of like you pretending the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution forbids abortion.

In fact, in Roe v Wade the court said just the opposite. Are you the best they got?

86 posted on 11/13/2001 7:19:12 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: Illbay
Scanned yer t-shirt. Nice job.

---max

87 posted on 11/13/2001 7:19:44 PM PST by max61
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To: anniegetyourgun
Hence, we legislate some form of morality everyday. As to abortion, we legislated against morality.

If we legislate morality, then anything that is legal is, by definition, moral.

88 posted on 11/13/2001 7:20:26 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: VA Advogado
Come on now, VA...you gotta remember that the ranks are thin to begin with.
89 posted on 11/13/2001 7:21:19 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: VA Advogado
So you are willing to admit the truth now, instead of twisting it to fit you own contorted logic like when you attacked Ron Paul.
90 posted on 11/13/2001 7:22:27 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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To: anniegetyourgun
Come on now, VA...you gotta remember that the ranks are thin to begin with.

LOL you're talking about guys that think its a political tidal wave when Harry Brown gets .000025 of the popular vote. LOL I like your style Annie.

91 posted on 11/13/2001 7:23:11 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: tacticalogic
That's not at all what I said. However, I tire of the circular logic of libertines. It's deja vu all over again....
92 posted on 11/13/2001 7:24:00 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
So there is no protection for life in our founding documents?

Remember, libertarians are america's backwash and its ranks are full of hypocrites. Self defense and defense of others is to be encourages except to save the life of the unborn. At least according to them.

93 posted on 11/13/2001 7:24:53 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: VA Advogado
Yes, I should know better than to waste the time. You're on your own....this is just so tiring.
94 posted on 11/13/2001 7:25:09 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
The Fifth Amendment protects the individual from having his life taken by the State without due process of law, it has nothing to do with abortion.
95 posted on 11/13/2001 7:25:28 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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To: Libertarianize the GOP
So you are willing to admit the truth now, instead of twisting it to fit you own contorted logic like when you attacked Ron Paul.

Ron Paul is a congressional clown who voted against the ban on partial birth abortion. He's no friend of the unborn and no friend of America.

96 posted on 11/13/2001 7:26:48 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: VA Advogado
Yeah, on the abortion matter it always comes down to one argument for them. "I personally wouldn't have an abortion, but I wouldn't tell another what to do with their body." Of course, 150 years ago, LibtheGOP would have been standing in Georgia saying the same thing: "I personally wouldn't hang a black man from the tree, but I wouldn't tell another what to do with their property."

It's a twisted philosophy, to be sure.

97 posted on 11/13/2001 7:27:12 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
That's not at all what I said. However, I tire of the circular logic of libertines. It's deja vu all over again....

I think Yogi was talking about the libertines when he mentioned if you come to a fork in the road, take it.

98 posted on 11/13/2001 7:28:10 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: tacticalogic
Great, then you'll support the Libertarian efforts to eliminate all societal guardrails.

I take it you subscribe to the notion of government being the architect of society.

Leave it to the Libertarians to always make huge jumps in logic (eg., not wanting to remove all societal guardrails = government is the architect of society).

This kind of thinking is the reason you folks are so ridiculous.
99 posted on 11/13/2001 7:28:22 PM PST by Conservative til I die
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To: Libertarianize the GOP
I didn't ask about the 5th amendment. I asked if there is any protection for life in our founding documents. But, never mind, I know your answer - I've heard it all before.
100 posted on 11/13/2001 7:28:23 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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