Political Methods for America

• Mobilizing Volunteers 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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