Posted on 01/19/2005 2:26:10 PM PST by ReganRevolutionary
this guy ran a hard fought campaign for State Rep. in Illinois. Wonder how the GOP will accept him?
NEWS RELEASE COMMITTEE TO ELECT BLUDORN FOR STATE REP. * BUFFALO GROVE, ILLINOIS 60089 * E-mail
FOR RELEASE: Monday January 10, 2005 Contact: Scott Bludorn (###) ###-####(cell)
BLUDORN TO JOIN REPUBLICAN PARTY
(BUFFALO GROVE) – Sunday evening in Des Plaines at the Libertarian Party of Cook County monthly meeting, R. Scott Bludorn announced that he was stepping down as President and joining the Republican Party. “I’d like to thank the membership for their steadfast support of my efforts to reign in wasteful state and local government. I feel it’s time for me to offer my support and energy to help reform the ILGOP”, Bludorn said.
Citing the overwhelming support of Republican grassroots activists during his year long campaign for State Representative for the 53rd District, Bludorn said “the tremendous support I received from Republican activists was nothing short of inspiring. These hard working neighbors of mine have an undying dedication to the cause of human liberty, which I share.”
Many observers believe the ILGOP hit a new low in 2004 as current leadership continued the patronage driven politics’ of cronyism that defined the George Ryan era. Bludorn said he believes “the Republican Party in Illinois is at a crossroads and poised to elect ethical leadership” when the State Central Committee meets Saturday January 15th to replace outgoing Chair Judy Barr Tompinka. Bludorn also believes it is “time to replace National committeeman Bob Kjellander so that voters can have confidence the era of insider deal making for personal profit is over”.
With new, ethical leadership in place, the ILGOP “can refocus on providing voters a pro growth, pro family agenda. The governing philosophy of the Republican Party is to protect life, liberty, and property as stated in the Declaration of Independence, and I subscribe to that philosophy. “Bludorn continued.
Mr. Bludorn will be attending the Wheeling Township Republican Caucuses Tuesday January 11th in Arlington Heights stating “we have an excellent group of candidates committed to serving the interests of the taxpayers and we need to support them”. He also plans to travel to Springfield Saturday January 15th to witness the re-birth of the Illinois Republican Party.
Mr. Bludorn is currently employed as District Manager for New Age Concepts Inc. and past President of the Libertarian Party of Cook County – Northwest. # # #
Until you experience the exhilaration of winning or pain of losing a real election, either as a candidate or as a full time dedicated campaign worker you can't really appreciate the value of winning.
Looks like Bludorn has decided he wants to actually win an election.
Welcome to FR, RR.
What's an LPer?
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Is that code for........ Leper??
Ought to be worth watching
Someone who posts at Liberty Post.
I've often said that the best hope for libertarians was to work within the GOP structure, building a power base, and using that power base to influence the party as a whole. The LP allows them to posture and preen, but is largely ineffective outside of the occasional "spoiler" candidate.
I hope not. The LP has an enormous potential once it returns to its radical origin. The failure of the so called "quick win" strategies based on abandoning its original educational purpose in favor of vote stealing from conservatives Republicans, has resulted in a loss for both Libertarians as well as conservative Republicans. Merging the LP and the Republican Party is not going to happen. Advocating such, only encourages the LP members to continue playing the conservative card, to the detriment of all.
It would however be helpful to both, if those Libertarian Party members who view the Republican Party as a better choice than the Democratic Party in the absence of the Libertarian Party, would just quit the Libertarian Party.
...GOP is going to be the majority party for a long time.
On this I agree. The sooner LP members recognize this truth, as well as the fact that most Americans are not libertarian, the sooner they might get their heads out of the clouds and stop chasing disenfranchised republican votes. Such a change would be advantageous to all.
Agreed. Let's also ditch the idea of "born libertarians".
Individual rights is a two sided idea. As the LP's principle of living your life as you choose, also holds the proviso of not interfering with others to live their lives as they choose. Infants, babies, small children, have no respect for other peoples rights, and thereby cannot be libertarian.
But when I force them to listen to me by holding a gun on them, or holding my hand in their pocket, that has crossed the line. Thus voluntary interference and voluntary government is the libertarian alternative to involuntary interference and involuntary government.
Voluntary government means the ability to vote with your feet to move from one local government to another. It means that the extended family, the church, the profesional association, the Boy Scouts can impose "rules" that apply to its voluntary members who exercise the freedom to associate (or not associate) with whomever they choose.
Illinois RLC
I could agree with you up to here. To me, government and involuntary go together. A libertarian government strives to only respond to initiations of force, and never initiate force itself.
But it does then use force, not persuasion. When it moves against criminals or enemies, the libertarian government exercises power against their will and desires.
I would say that it depends on how it was used. The way I used "interfering" was the same as using force. Just prior to writing this reply I looked the word up in several dictionaries. There are a number of different definition in all the dictionaries I looked it up in. Both our definitions are correct in every one of them. I thus stand by my use of the word "interfering."
While I consider myself to be a libertarian-Republican, I certainly am glad that I can vote Libertarian in the absence of an exceptable Republican candidate. I would certainly hate it if the only choice were between a neo-con Republican and a liberal Democrat.
I hate having little to no choice on opting out of social security, the income tax, local zoning laws, and occupational license requirements. Being able to vote for a Libertarian Party candidate is the least of my concerns. And I am a supporter of the Libertarian Party, and usually vote for it when I can, no matter how exceptionally good the Republican or Democratic Party candidates are.
Great, we'll get 36% of the vote instead of the normal 36% of the vote.
Ahhhhhh...if only the entire Republican party could be taken over by conservative Libertarians...
One can dream, right?
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