Political Methods for
America
Mobilizing volunteers, tools and expected activities used by the Hegelin
2000 campaign.
Press Releases How might a pro-liberty political candidate communicate with the press? Here are some model
press releases from a pro-liberty candidate running in the 1996 election.
Picketing Will you be outside when they are inside? Here's a legal, non-violent way to attract attention to your cause:
picketing.
Committees -- common sense talk on how to
use committees to do real work more easily, from PVLA Secretary Pit Warren.
Running for Federal Office:
forms that one must file to comply with Federal Law. Libertarian Congressional Candidate George Phillies reports a timeline on his compliance efforts.
Heckling -- the fine line between respecting others' freedom of speech and using a public forum to express one's views while other people are doing the same: a heckler
describes an anti-War action at Ohio State.
Refute the "Wasted Vote" Fallacy! Veteran Libertarian campaigner and successful Libertarian activist Richard Rider
explains what to tell voters who say "I don't want to waste my vote" as a reason for voting Democratic Republican and not
Libertarian.
Stand Up for Liberty!
The True Path to Libertarian Victory is Through Local
Organization Leading to Local Victory.
An outline of a Book.
What should exponents of local organization do? Run someone for President?
Having Lots of Money is less important than spending that money well.
The Three Unspeakable Words that we should stop saying to our candidates.
The A-B-C-D-E of successful political organization.
The Need to Field Candidates:
Too many Libertarians and other Third Party members think there is a free lunch at the ballot box.
Recruiting Candidates. A political Party that does not run candidates is a joke! Here former Vermont LP Chair Chris Costanzo
explains how his party fielded 40 LP candidates in 1998.
Voter demographics -- ages of new voters -- dictate tactics.
Recruiting Students is challenging---a
Florida Experience.
Presidential Debate Commission is
rigged to keep our candidates out of the Presidential debates.
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