Goal50K
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The goal would be • To help get 50,000 votes in the next election for Governor (2006). The secondary goal would be to • Help elect at least one non-statewide office holder at the city, town, or county level. To reach this goal we need success with the following objectives: • More support from businesses and groups adversely affected by law®ulation (gun shops, bars, restaurants, cigarette sales) • More support from people with regulated behaviors (drugs, alcohol, gun owners, homosexuals) • More support from people and groups dissatisfied with state agencies (schools, dredging) • More support from people and groups dissatisfied with state law®ulations (insurance, construction, high taxes) • More support from people and groups dissatisfied with dysfunctional government (lots) For a list of some of these groups go here.
To reach these objectives we need action: • Offer voters something they want. The other parties will offer tax money to buy votes. We can’t offer more tax money. But we can offer them more of their own money to keep. We can offer them their own choices. We can offer them more choices to use their own money for they want instead of what somebody else wants. Give people examples of how their lives could improve with less government interference, fewer prohibitions and mandates. Give examples of how quality of life is reduced because of prohibitions and mandates. • Develop a marketing plan that makes people question their assumptions. The assumption that government makes things better must be shown to be false. We have to illustrate how promised government solutions have really become problems. Show that ‘the Common Good’ does not exist and if it did exist a lot of voters are not getting it. Illustrate this with examples - especially from your local area. • Show voters the other parties are giving them things they really don’t want. Other parties impose rules that favor choices of some at the expense of others. Remind people that the American Dream and the Social Contract were supposed to be all about voluntary agreement, not forced obedience. Ask them to question authority and resist blind obedience. Organize around this project. Here are some ideas: • Start a Goal 50000 committee or team in your chapter. • Name someone to be responsible for it and tell LPNY who that person is. • Put people in this committee. • Perhaps set aside some seed money for the project. • Measure the success of your activities at each chapter meeting. |
Libertarian Party
of New York