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Date: 23 May 96 10:33:04 EDT

From: William Winter <73163.3063@CompuServe.COM>

Subject: LP ADVISORY: Party Builds Momentum



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ADVISORY FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY

News from the National LP headquarters for 

members & supporters of the Libertarian Party

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Watergate Office Building

2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100

Washington DC 20037

Phone: (202) 333-0008

E-mail: 73163.3063@CompuServe.com

For information about the party: (800) 682-1776

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May 23, 1996

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Libertarian Party is "building momentum" says media



        WASHINGTON, DC -- The wave of positive media mentions of the 

Libertarian Party continues to roll along, said National Chair Steve Dasbach 

this week.



        "Over the last month, we've seen more journalists -- in newspapers, 

radio, and magazines -- report that the Libertarian Party is America's third 

party; that we're a case study in effective third party organizing; and that 

we're building momentum," he said.



        "I'm starting to think there may be a media bias -- in favor of the 

Libertarian Party," he quipped.



        Dasbach said the media attention is the "Field of Dreams" theory at 

work: "Build a growing, professional, successful third party -- and they will 

come. Journalists will come to notice the Libertarian Party," he said. "And 

that's exactly what's been happening."



        Some recent media comments about the Libertarian Party:



        "The Libertarian Party...is the one [political party] that is truly 

serious about downsizing the U.S. government."

        -- Debbie Dudley, Amarillo Daily News, Texas (March 24, 1996)



        "It seems that every day there is talk of establishing a third 

political party to challenge the virtual monopoly the Republicans and 

Democrats have on federal, state, and local politics. The truth is that the 

United States already has a third party, and has had one since 1971. That 

party is the Libertarian Party."

        -- Steve Haberman, Portsmouth Herald, New Hampshire (April 14, 1996)



        "Even more than [Ross] Perot's Reform Party, which has no announced 

candidates for Congress, the Libertarian Party provides a case study in how a 

grassroots organization works to establish itself as a third voice for a 

frustrated electorate."

        -- Craig Karmin, The Hill, Washington, DC (May 1, 1996)



        "The Libertarians make a good point about the need to lower taxes and 

curb government spending."

        -- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas (April 24, 1996)



        "Right now, both major parties are telling us they are for smaller, 

cheaper government. The Republicans are positioned as the biggest budget 

cutters. But after looking at their new seven-year budget, I see that the 

Republicans will save us only 2% more than the Democrats. I'm not impressed 

with 2%. So I went looking for real discount government, and found it with 

Harry Browne, [a candidate for the presidential nomination] of the Libertarian

Party. [And] the more I look at it, the more I like the discount government of

Harry Browne because government really doesn't work. It's bleeding us dry and 

stealing our liberties."

        -- Don Hull, Orange County Register, California (February 19, 1996)



        "Quietly building momentum, [the Libertarian Party], which bases 

itself on a purist interpretation of the Constitution and 'individual liberty,

self-responsibility at all places, at all times,' leads the field [of third 

parties] by having qualified for ballot access in 30 states, and Libertarian 

organizers are confident they will qualify for all 50 as they have done for 

years."

        -- Susan Crabtree, Insight, Washington, DC (May 13, 1996)



        "Electoral results from 1980 forward, public attitude polls, and 

rising assertion of individual rights all indicate a hunger for a viable 

third-party option to the indistinguishable dogma of Republicans and 

Democrats. Libertarians, perhaps, stand in a unique position to answer that 

public call and assume leadership of a government they would shrink to a bare 

minimum."

        -- Joe Gillette, Beacon News, Aurora, Illinois (April 25, 1996)



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