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    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.<br>
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    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. <br>
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    <div class="moz-signature">Wes Benedict, Executive Director<br>
      <small><small>Libertarian National Committee, Inc.<br>
          <b>New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314</b><br>
          (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a><br>
          facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational<br>
          Join the Libertarian Party at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lp.org/membership">http://lp.org/membership</a></small></small><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sam Goldstein wrote on 4/9/2015 2:09
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      <div dir="ltr">Do the old parties in TX have to pay filing fees?
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        <div>Sam</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Wes
          Benedict <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:Wes.Benedict@lp.org" target="_blank">Wes.Benedict@lp.org</a>></span>
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            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Our LPHQ staff
              lobbying department is working on it with LP Texas
              leadership.<br>
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              So, feel free to work on board fundraising if you have
              extra free time. Thanks,<br>
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              <div>Wes Benedict, Executive Director<br>
                <small><small>Libertarian National Committee, Inc.<br>
                    <b>New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314</b><br>
                    <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="tel:%28202%29%20333-0008%20ext.%20232"
                      value="+12023330008" target="_blank">(202)
                      333-0008 ext. 232</a>, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank">wes.benedict@lp.org</a><br>
                    <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://facebook.com/libertarians"
                      target="_blank">facebook.com/libertarians</a>
                    @LPNational<br>
                    Join the Libertarian Party at: <a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://lp.org/membership" target="_blank">http://lp.org/membership</a></small></small><br>
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                  <div>Scott L. wrote on 4/9/2015 10:44 AM:<br>
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                            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">It
                            would be nice if we could get our Lobbying
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href="http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/04/texas-bill-to-force-minor-party-candidates-to-pay-filing-fees-passes-committee/"
                              target="_blank">http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/04/texas-bill-to-force-minor-party-candidates-to-pay-filing-fees-passes-committee/</a></span></font></p>
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                            Scott Lieberman</span></font></p>
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