[Lnc-business] Texas bill to reduce the number of third party candidates who make it onto the ballot

[Scott L.]

First of all, most exit polls have shown that Libertarians draw votes more
or less equally from the Republicans and Democrats. 

 

In fact, I would not be surprised if I could find such a claim made by one
of our Chairs, or by one of our ED’s, over the past few years.  And I agree
that that is probably closer to the truth.  So I wonder why the ED is all of
a sudden going back on that claim in an effort to imply that my “strategy”
helps Republicans.  Remember – filing fees also keep Green Party candidates
off the ballot. 

I doubt that Republican Legislators would try to keep Green Party candidates
off the ballot.

 


Second of all, it is extremely inappropriate for the Executive Director of
the Libertarian Party to libel a board member by printing something about a
Board member that is maybe ¼ true. 

 

My strategy is not to “discourage Libertarians from running for most
partisan offices in Texas that they have been running for.”

 

My strategy is to attempt to get our state affiliates to steer most
potential candidates into running for offices that they can win,

after the affiliate has filled their ballot-access-retention races.

 

LP.org  lists 4 elected Libertarians in Texas.  All of them are in
non-partisan offices.  Does the Executive Director possess

a secret sauce that will all of a sudden let Libertarians start winning
partisan races in Texas in 2015 and 2016?

 

   Scott Lieberman

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Wes
Benedict
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 12:31 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Texas bill to reduce the number of third party
candidates who make it onto the ballot

 

The Republicans and Democrats are considered "primary nominating" parties in
Texas and pay filing fees that are intended to help cover the cost of having
the state run their primary elections, whereas parties like the Libertarians
are prohibited from participating in the primaries, but hold conventions
that are not tax-payer financed, and therefore should not have to pay filing
fees.

If this bill passes, it has the dual effect of helping Republicans and also
will help Dr. Lieberman's strategy of discouraging Libertarians from running
for most partisan offices in Texas that they have been running for. 

Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
 

 

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Sam Goldstein wrote on 4/9/2015 2:09 PM:

Do the old parties in TX have to pay filing fees? 

 

Sam

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