NEW MEXICO LIBERTY

“Let Freedom Ring”

The Official Newsletter of the Libertarian Party of New Mexico

April 2010 http://lpnm.us V.2.2 N.20

Table of Contents Notes from the Editor

by Mike Blessing
Page 1 Libertarian Media from New Mexico [ mikewb1971@gmail.com /
mikewb1971.xanga.com ]
Notes from the Editor by Mike Blessing
Page 2 Events at a Glance
The LPNM's Candidates LPNM 2010 Annual State Convention
Page 3 There Is No Central Plan for Winning Liberty
Theme We Need MORE Unemployment . . . Among
by Richard M. Ebeling
Incumbent Politicians
Page 4 Taking the Tenth: Nullification – The Last Hope
Venue Quarters BBQ
by Fred Reed 3700 Ellison Dr. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114
Page 5 Take your pick, but we can't have both mapquest.com/mq/3-CADSxqDmGNcLjJ_QB_tk
by Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation Contact Jay Vandersloot
Page 6 Contacts / Internet ResourcesThe 505-362-1733 / jayvandersloot@yahoo.com
Page 7 Administrivia Friday, April 16, 2010: Although there is no formal program for
Friday evening, for anyone wanting to arrive early, the early birds
The Unanimous Consent Challenge will gather in the Quarters BBQ bar area at about 6:00 PM for an
Page 8 Enrollment / Renewal Form informal dinner/discussion – No-host, pay-as-you-go, dinner,
cocktails, and networking.
Libertarian Media from New Mexico
Saturday, April 17, 2010
(not necessarily endorsed by LPNM)
11:00 AM Registration and pay-as-you-go lunch, order off the
Hemp TV – Tuesdays at 7PM
menu – Ø25 per person, to include dinner in the
myspace.com/nmhemptv evening
The One Party State – Wednesdays 11PM 1:00 PMx LPNM Business Meeting [ no charge for anyone
Contact Lance Klafeta [ lklafeta@yahoo.com ] for details attending ONLY the business meeting ]
Reeferhead – Saturdays at 6PM • All who are registered with NM as Libertarians
can vote during nominations for public office.
myspace.com/reeferheadtv
• Only Caucus Members can vote during LPNM
The Fringe Element business and internal LPNM elections
thefringeelement.net / postpubco.com • Visitors do not vote in any actions or activities
• Central Committee meeting after close of the
LPNM Business Meeting
YOUR ADVERTISING IN
3:00 PMx Elisheva Levin, Candidate for State Representative,
NEW MEXICO LIBERTY? District 22 – ragamuffinstudies.blogspot.com
CONTACT THE EDITOR OR 4:00 PMx Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Vice-Presidential nominee
SEE PAGE 7 FOR DETAILS rootforamerica.com
EMAIL mikewb1971@gmail.com 5:00 PMx Break [ so Quarters can prepare for the dinner ]
5:30 PMx Dinner [ included in the registration fee ]
The Law by Frederic Bastiat Family-style – includes BBQ chicken, ribs, sliced beef
brisket, sliced pork brisket, hot links, with various
See these pages – sides, and includes your choice of iced tea, coffee, or
soda [ other beverages are pay-as-you-go ].
bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
7:30 PMx Keynote Speaker – Adam Kokesh [ Candidate for
jpfo.org/articles-assd/bastiat-the-law.htm Congress from District 3 ] – kokeshforcongress.com
Also in PDF form – We Need MORE Unemployment . . . Among
Incumbent Politicians
jpfo.org/pdf02/bastiat-thelaw-2008.pdf
8:30 PMx LPNM Fundraiser Auction [ Bring items to donate ]
9:00 PMx Convention [ and Quarters ] closes

New Mexico Liberty – April 2010 – Page 1

 Events at a Glance +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Bernalillo County – The BCLP stages one no-host dinner meeting The LPNM's Candidates
per month, on Thursday, 1 April, 6:00 to 7:00 PM at Fiesta's
Restaurant & Lounge (Carlisle & Montogomery NE). Contact Mike U.S. House of Representatives, District 0
Blessing for details [ mikewb1971@gmail.com / 505-515-7015 ], or Mike Blessing – myspace.com/mikeblessing_2010
see the BCLP website – lpnm.us/bernalillo.
State Legislature
Precinct 553 Chair Elisheva Levin, is considering a run for State
Representative, District 22. State Representative, District 11
Eric Pino – epelsewhere@gmail.com
See kcufmedia.xanga.com for more information concerning The
Weekly Sedition and New Mexico's Consumer Advocate. State Representative, District 16
Mike Blessing – mikewb1971.xanga.com
Dona Ana County – The Dona Ana County LP Convention took
place on 20 February 2010. New LPDAC officers were selected – State Representative, District 22
Elisheva Levin – ragamuffinstudies.blogspot.com
County Chair John Ennis
County Vice Chair Martha Gose +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
County Secretary-Treasurer Bonnie Ennis
The next scheduled Central Committee meeting is August 14, 2010
Other Groups to Network With, and Their Events
time and place to be annnounced. Any county Libertarian wanting Rio Grande Foundation
support in running for political office or having party or political See riograndefoundation.org for details
issues that they wish the county party to address prior to then can
call a meeting of the County Central Committee by gaining the Liberty on the Rocks is a no-host supper club featuring speakers of
approval of at least half of the Committee members via email or the limited-government, fiscal-responsiblity, individual-rights
phone request. persuasion. See riograndefoundation.org for details.
Please contact the chair or check the LPDAC website for more In March, 2010, the Independence Grill on Montgomery Blvd NE in
information – Albuquerque went out of business. Paul Gessing has found another
location at which to host the Albuquerque meeting of Liberty on the
lpdacnm@lpnm.us / 575-541-9079 / lpnm.us/dona-ana. Rocks on 15 April from 5 PM to 7 PM. That location is the Chama
Congressional District 3 – Adam Kokesh, while running under the River Brewing Co., located at 4939 Pan American West Freeway
GOP banner, is a Life Member of the LP and is a hard-core NE in Albuquerque – see a map at tinyurl.com/ygrpcoe.
advocate of libertarian principles. Tea Party Rallies, April 15, all across New Mexico
See kokeshforcongress.com for more. Albuquerque Tea Party – albuquerqueteaparty.com
Congressional District 3 includes, but is not limited to, Sandoval, Santa Fe Tea Party – santafeteaparty.blogspot.com
San Juan, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Roosevelt, Colfax, Rio Arriba and Articles of Freedom Day
Taos Counties.
Monday, 19 April 2010 representatives of the Continental Congress
2009 will deliver Articles of Freedom to all U.S. Senators,
If you live in a county with an inactive affiliate and want Congressmen, State Representatives and state legislators in
to get involved, contact the county chair. See Page 6 for Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces. For more about the
a list of county chairs, campus contacts and Central Articles of Freedom, see the dedicated pages at the Continental
Committee members. Congress 2009 site – cc2009.us/aof – or download the entire
document – tinyurl.com/yayswmc .
Special Events
New Mexico Patriot Alliance Meetings
2010 Annual State Convention See nmpatriots.us for details
The 2010 LPNM State Convention is scheduled for Saturday, 17 NMPA meeting in Farmington, Monday, 5 April 2010, 6:30 PM at
April 2010 at the Quarters BBQ at 3700 Ellison Dr NW in the Los Rios Cafe, 915 Farmington Ave.
Albuquerque from 11 AM to 9 PM. Tentative speakers include
NMPA Spring Summit, Saturday, 24 April 2010, 10:00 AM – 5:00
Adam Kokesh, candidate for U.S. Congress in District 3.
PM in Albuquerque – location to be announced.
See tinyurl.com/lpnm2010 for details.
2010 Libertarian Party National Convention
The LP's National Convention will take place in St. Louis, Missouri,
over Memorial Day weekend in 2010 (29 – 31 May 2010) at the
Renaissance Grand Hotel [ tinyurl.com/2zmnnq ]. For those not
able to afford high-priced lodging and amenities, long-time
Libertarian and St. Louis resident Tom Knapp has put together St.
Louis On The Cheap, an online guide to inexpensive lodging,
dining, attractions and transportation – stl.onthecheap.info.
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"They tell us we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an
adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week, or
the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed? . . . Is life so
dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains
and slavery? . . . I know not what course others may take, but as for
me, give me liberty or give me death!"
– Patrick Henry
New Mexico Liberty – April 2010 – Page 2

There Is No Central Plan
for Winning Liberty
by Richard M. Ebeling
People who become enthusiastic supporters of the freedom
philosophy often ask how the case for individual liberty, free
markets, and constitutionally limited governments can be
successfully spread across the land. How can it triumph over the
prevailing system of governmental paternalism?
In frustration and despair they point out that the interventionist-
welfare state has its advocates and indoctrinators everywhere in
society. Whether they are in the overnment-run schools, or on the
television news shows and in the pages of newspapers and mass-
circulation magazines, or in the pulpits of too many of our churches,
or in armies of special-interest groups feeding at the trough of
government spending – no matter where we turn the supporters of
intrusive, regulating, redistributive government dominate the arena
of ideas and the battlefield of politics.
To defeat these forces of political coercion and control, it is
sometimes said, we have to devise a strategy and plan of action to
which all friends of freedom must apply themselves. In other words,
it is implied that the proponents of limited government and the free-
market society must design a central plan for winning liberty in
which everyone must find his place, like a cog in the machinery
advancing the cause of freedom. In fact, there is not, nor can there
be, such a central plan for winning liberty.
We need to remember why socialist central planning was
unworkable and inevitably bound to fail. During the heyday of
collectivism in the first half of the twentieth century, free-market
economists like Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek swam against
the intellectual and ideology currents of the time and showed that
socialism lacked the ability to solve the most fundamental of
economic problems. They explained that no matter how well-
intentioned, knowledgeable, and wise we might assume the central
planners to be, they could never have sufficient information and
insight to know all they’d need to know to plan all the economic
activities of all the people in any contemporary society.
Hayek, in particular, emphasized that in any society in which there
is a division of labor there is, by necessity, a matching division
informed, knowledgeable, and expert about, at most, handful of
things, while remaining ignorant about all the other aspects of life
on which our social, intellectual, and material well-being depends.
The superiority of the free market is that it leaves each individual at
liberty to apply his knowledge, abilities, and creativity as he sees fit,
yet at the same time succeeds in coordinating all that everyone
does through the incentives of profit and loss and the
communication network of the competitively generated price
system.
How, then, can we ever expect to win liberty through central
planning? We would be handicapping all our efforts by
subordinating them to the knowledge, wisdom, and insight of those
who would construct the blueprint to which the rest of us would be
required to more or less conform. The goal of establishing the free
society can never be achieved through the application of such
collectivist methods.
The methodology of winning freedom was a topic to which Leonard
Read, the founder of FEE, devoted a lot of his attention over the
decades. He reminded us that the one over whom we each have
the most influence is oneself. To succeed in this battle of ideas we
must begin with a process of self-education. Each of us, to the best
of our abilities, must learn and master the meaning of freedom in its
various social, economic, and political aspects. This also requires
us to clearly comprehend the meaning of collectivism, regardless of
whether it is called socialism, communism, fascism,
interventionism, welfare-statism, the “middle way,” or “liberalism.”
Know What You’re Talking About
The more and better educated we are in the philosophies of
freedom and collectivism, the more and better we can articulate the
case for individual liberty and identify any proposal or policy that
promulgates political paternalism. Furthermore, the greater our
knowledge and power of articulation in these matters, the more we
will seem the type of person that others may be interested in
listening to and learning from. No one turns to someone who seems
not to know what he is talking about, or who cannot persuasively
explain the issues involved in any discussion.
Since none of us can become masters of everything, each of us
must find that niche where our interest, inclination, and ability give
us the greatest comparative dvantage. And where, precisely, is that
niche? Each person must answer that for himself, sometimes
discovering it only through trial and error.
We also need to appreciate that the same argument for freedom
will not work equally on every person we talk to. There is no single
button to push to get others to see the cogency of the freedom
philosophy. Some will find persuasive an argument about the
“fundamental rights of man.” Others may be more like the man from
Missouri, who says “show me.” For such a person, a more
“utilitarian” argument about the market’s ability to “deliver the
goods” or handle various “social problems” better than any form of
state intervention will carry greater persuasive force. Still others
might be more easily reasoned with by historical examples of how
free markets and free men have successfully operated in the past,
compared to government control and regulation in more
contemporary times.
In responding to people in discussion or debate, each of us must
find that arena of ideas in which we feel most comfortable and
knowledgeable. Likewise, each of us must find those people in our
circle of friends, family members, co-workers, and associates who
seem most likely to be open and receptive to what we have to say.
Surely, no one can know this other than each of us as individuals in
our respective corners of society.
Leonard Read also reminded us that no one likes it if it seems that
something is being pushed down his throat. Our enthusiasm for
making the case for freedom should be tempered with patience and
appreciation that for many the full implications of freedom and
responsibility take time to absorb and accept.
At the end of the day, if freedom is achieved it will be done by
winning over enough people one person at a time through reason,
persuasion, and example. It is not an easy task, but it is the only
way that is consistent with the principles of freedom we hold so
dear.
Richard Ebeling is President of the Foundation for Economic
Education. His latest book is Austrian Economics and the Political
Economy of Freedom (Elgar).
This article was originally published in The Freeman: Ideas on
Liberty – January 2004.
New Mexico Liberty – April 2010 – Page 3

Taking the Tenth:
Nullification – The Last Hope
by Fred Reed [ fredoneverything.net ]
18 March 2010
lewrockwell.com/reed/reed175.html
fredoneverything.net/Nullification.shtml
Washington is out of control. It does as it likes, without restraint. It
spends American money and American lives to fight remote wars
for which it cannot provide a plausible reason. It determines what
our children will be taught, who we can hire and fire, to whom we
can sell our houses, whether we can defend ourselves, even what
names we can call each other. The feds read our email and track
the web sites we visit, make us hop around barefoot in airports at
the command of surly unaccountable rentacops. They search us at
random in train stations without even a pretense of probable cause.
We have no influence over them, no way of resisting.
Except, perhaps, to ignore them.
Washington has learned to insulate itself from interference by the
population. Huge impenetrable bureaucracies beyond public control
make regulations that amount to laws, spending God knows how
much money to do God knows what for the benefit of the interest
groups that run the government. These bureaucrats cannot be fired
and usually cannot be named. Congress, like the bureaucracies,
serves not the United States but the big lobbies. The looters of Wall
Street wreck the lives of millions, and get millions in bonuses for
doing it instead of the end of a rope.
Further, the federal government simply doesn’t work. It is clogged
up, constipated, gridlocked, using antiquated technology to do
badly things it ought to do and things it oughtn’t. In large part this is
because federal hiring rests on the desires of racist and feminist
lobbies instead of suitability for the work to be done. Whole
departments – HUD, Education – do much harm and little good.
IRS is ruthless, incompetent, and unaccountable, the tax laws
burdensome and crafted for the benefit of special interests and of
Washington. I can change my address with my bank online in five
minutes and know that it has been done; IRS requires a paper form
and six to eight weeks to effect the change, and you don’t know
whether it has been done. The goons of TSA leer at our daughters
with their porno=scanners. The VA can easily take six months to
provide a veteran’s records, when it could be done online in five
seconds. The Pentagon spends a trillion a year, precious little of
which has anything to do with defending America, but can’t defeat a
small group of badly outnumbered men armed with rifles and
RPGs; the intelligence agencies were unable to warn them of the
prospect.
The government doesn’t work. It is broken. It can’t be fixed. It can’t
be fixed because only those within it could, and their interest lies in
not fixing it.
The only remedy short of armed rebellion is civil disobedience at
the level of the states. Clear constitutional justification for refusal to
obey Washington lies in the Tenth Amendment:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.”
A great many states now begin to do a great many things counter
to Washington’s wishes. I think it wise to keep resistance within the
framework of the Constitution, but the entire question comes down
to a blunt truth: No law extends beyond the lawmaker’s power to
enforce it. Congress can pass a law against gravitation, but can’t
prevent things from falling when released from a height. The federal
government made alcohol illegal but, in the face of massive public
disregard, couldn’t make it stick.
What happens if, as may happen, California legalizes marijuana –
not just for contrived medical purposes, but legalizes it, period? I
search in vain for the Marijuana Clause in the Constitution. The
feds do not have the manpower to enforce federal laws within
California without the help of the police of California. What happens
if a state passes a law saying that its citizens cannot be forced to
buy health insurance? What can Washington do? It can persecute
individuals, but a state, or thirty states, are another thing. The FBI
can arrest any one person, but it cannot arrest Wyoming.
Much depends on how sick people really are of the ever-growing
thicket of laws, regulation, imposed political correctness,
surveillance, and having to live according to the dictates of remote
elites with whom they have nothing in common.
At bottom, Washington’s power is economic. The feds rely for
control on taxing money from the states and giving some of it back
in exchange for obedience. They cannot arrest Wyoming, but they
can deny it federal highway funds. This technique provides de facto
control over everything from kindergarten to MIT.
Now, if Idaho passes a law (I’m making this up) saying that no
restrictions on the ownership of guns will be enforced within the
state, Washington might choose discretion over valor and ignore it.
Legalizing marijuana, however, or refusing to accept compulsory
medical care, would be a direct if not necessarily intentional
challenge to the power of the central government. The feds could
not afford to let either of these things slide. The danger of the
precedent to the grip of the governing classes would be too great. A
deadly serious confrontation would ensue.
What could, or would, the federal government do in response to
defiance? Send the Marines to occupy Sacramento? Or the FBI to
arrest Arnold and the legislature of California?
Or cut off California’s financial water? No bailout for the state’s
tottering economy, no more fat subsidies to the universities, and so
on?
The question is how ugly might things get. Washington may be able
to make the states back down. It may not. The peril for the feds is
that it might occur to the states that, while they get their money
from Washington, Washington gets its money from the states. The
central government depends absolutely on the states, whereas the
states would get along swimmingly without the current central
government.
How tired are Americans of a dysfunctional, oppressive
Washington, unconcerned for its citizens, unaccountable and
tending fast toward the totalitarian, that sprawls across the
continent like an armed leech of malign intent? That is the question.
The first time a populous states says “No,” if such a state ever
does, we will get the answer. The United States has been free,
prosperous, and reasonably well governed for a long time. It no
longer is. Things go downward, within and without.
Nothing lasts, change comes, and things break. We shall see. Give
it five years.
Fred Reed is the author of Nekkid in Austin: Drop Your Inner Child
Down a Well and A Brass Pole in Bangkok: A Thing I Aspire to Be.
His latest book is Curmudgeing Through Paradise: Reports from a
Fractal Dung Beetle.
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“If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal.
If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a
conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere,
you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene
anywhere, you're an extremist.”
– Joseph Sobran
New Mexico Liberty – April 2010 – Page 4
 Liberty, Opportunity, Prosperity
Take your pick,
but we can't have both
By Paul J. Gessing
[ pgessing@riograndefoundation.org ]
30 March 2010 – tinyurl.com/RGF20100330
This article originally ran in the Las Cruces Sun-News.
Whatever you think of such strong faith in government, we must all
understand that there remain hard tradeoffs between the urge to
impose onerous regulations on private broadband providers while
demanding those same broadband providers innovate, develop,
and expand their services. We cannot expect companies locked in
regulatory prisons to be free-market pioneers.
The stubborn fact is that Genachowski's campaign to impose
Network Neutrality regulations on the Internet flies directly in the
face of his National Broadband Plan's campaign to expand and
improve the Internet. He can take his pick, but he can't have both.

Recently, the chairman of the Federal Communications Eventually, President Obama and his FCC chairman must confront
Commission sent a "National Broadband Plan" to Congress. The what the growing protest movement in America is trying to tell
supposed goal of the plan is to make America a world leader in them: We cannot tax, borrow, and regulate our way to better health
broadband and bring 100 megabyte speeds to 100 million care, better cars, better housing, or in the case at hand, to a better
American households. The Big Plan is being sold as being "free" Internet.
to taxpayers since it will supposedly be paid for through the Paul Gessing is the president of New Mexico's Rio Grande
revenue generated from broadcast-spectrum auctions. Of course, Foundation. The Rio Grande Foundation is an independent, non-
if that spectrum were simply sold, the revenues could be used to partisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization
help close yawning federal deficits. dedicated to promoting prosperity for New Mexico based on
This all sounds exciting doesn't it? We're all for increasing principles of limited government, economic freedom and individual
broadband usage and speed at no additional cost, right? I know I responsibility.
sure am!
But, it's important to point out that Chairman Julius Genachowski
is pushing hard for another Big Plan at the FCC – regulating the
Internet under so-called "Network Neutrality" rules – which runs
diametrically opposed to the stated goals of his National
Broadband Plan.
Regulating broadband providers – telling them what they can and
can't do with their networks, and who they can and can't charge
for which services – will mean less investment in broadband.
Currently, private-sector investment in broadband runs at about
$60 billion a year, even in a down economy. Those massive
investments, if the government simply leaves them alone, will lead
to just the sorts of upward and outward success for the Internet
Genachowski envisions in his National Broadband Plan.
If, however, Genachowski starts regulating broadband providers
as if they were "common carriers" (think pre-Internet phone
companies) then good luck finding new broadband investment
dollars.
Right now, wireline broadband is available to 95 percent of the
American population, and when you add 3G wireless, that number
goes to 98 percent. Not everyone subscribes to those services,
but it's available. For those in remote areas, Internet speeds of
one megabyte per second (20 times faster than dialup, but a third
the speed of typical landline broadband) are available through
satellite providers who charge about $70 a month.
This covers just about everyone in the country, and all of it
happened without any Big Plan from the federal government. It
happened because investors were willing to risk hundreds of
billions of dollars into capitol-intensive networks in the hope they
could recoup those investments by meeting the growing customer
demand for broadband.
Compared to this rather stunning feat by broadband providers, do
Congress and the Obama administration really think they know
best how to invest resources and gauge real customer demand?
Genachowski is a longtime friend and former Harvard Law
classmate of President Obama. He was a key Obama campaigner
and did much to bring Internet search giant Google (which has
sought Network neutrality regulations to ensure profits of its own)
into the Obama camp. Whether it is the urge to reward Google
and the far-left "netroots" citizens for their campaign support, or a
genuine belief in the benevolence and capabilities of government,
Obama and Genachowski appear firmly committed to expanding
the size and scope of government's reach into the Internet and the
media.
New Mexico Liberty – April 2010 – Page 5
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specifically as use as an outreach tool, provided that New Mexico Anti-Money Laundering Act of 1992
Liberty is copied in its entirety. Use your imagination here. USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
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This challenge is also on the web at tinyurl.com/hn982
“This is the price of freedom:
Your every drop of courage, To claim your prize, contact
ounce of pain, pint of blood. Mike Blessing at 505-515-7015 or
send an email to mikewb1971@gmail.com
Paid in advance.”
Sebastian Lee, "The Rising Tide", AFC 271
Intro to Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, episode "Bunker
Hill"
New Mexico Liberty – April 2010 – Page 6
 LPNM Central Committee County Contacts
Chair
Bernalillo – lpnm.us/bernalillo
Jay Vandersloot – 505-362-1733 / jayvandersloot@yahoo.com
Mike Blessing – 505-515-7015 / mikewb1971@gmail.com
Vice Chair
Colfax
VACANT
Richard Moore – 575-377-6849 / myliberty@mail.com
Secretary
Siebert Ickler – 575-541-9079 / lpdacnm@lpnm.us Dona Ana – lpnm.us/dona-ana
John Ennis – 575-571-6881 / johnennis2@gmail.com
Treasurer
VACANT Lea
Christina Groth – 575-397-9366
At-Large Representative, Seat A
Allen Cogbill – 505-662-7833 / acogbill@geopotential.com Lincoln
Richard Obergfell – 575-378-8025 / lplcnm@valornet.com
At-Large Representative, Seat B
Attila Csanyi – 505-286-7861 / drcsanyi@yahoo.com Los Alamos
Allen Cogbill – 505-662-7833 / acogbill@geopotential.com
District 1 Representative, Seat A
Mike Blessing – 505-515-7015 / mikewb1971@gmail.com Luna
Marilyn Steffen – 575-531-2556 / b_lamont5@hotmail.com
District 1 Representative, Seat B
Bob Finch – 765-412-2374 / nmlibertarian@gmail.com Otero – lpnm.us/otero
Gilberto Heredia – 575-439-8234 / thrill@zianet.com
District 2 Representative, Seat A
Gilberto Heredia – 575-439-8234 / thrill@zianet.com Roosevelt
Ken Sanders – 505-749-2085
District 2 Representative, Seat B
VACANT San Juan – sjclp.org
Gary Wood – zang5775@msn.com
District 3 Representative, Seat A
Ron Bjornstad – 505-891-4541 / rbjornstad@earthlink.net Sandoval
Ron Bjornstad – 505-288-4228 / rbjornstad@earthlink.net
District 3 Representative, Seat B
Mike Moss – 505-564-4905 / mmoss@plumbersoft.com
LPNM Vacancies
Membership Coordinator
Ron Bjornstad – 505-288-4228 / rbjornstad@earthlink.net Central Committee (3)

Press Secretary Vice Chair

Bill Koehler – 505-264-0835 / bkoehler8@comcast.net Treasurer
District 2 Representative, Seat B
Media Director
Bob Finch – 765-412-2374 / nmlibertarian@gmail.com County Contacts (20)

Campus Contacts Catron / Chaves / Cibola / Curry / De Baca

Eddy / Grant / Guadalupe / Harding / Hidalgo
Central New Mexico Community College [CNM] McKinley / Mora / Quay / San Miguel / Santa Fe
groups.myspace.com/cnmlibertarians Sierra / Socorro / Torrance / Union / Valencia
Mike Blessing – 505-515-7015 / mikewb1971@gmail.com
College Contacts (3)
College of Santa Fe
Eastern New Mexico University (Portales)
Morgan Wells – mwells109@gmail.com
New Mexico State University (Las Cruces)
Internet Resources New Mexico Tech (Socorro)
University of New Mexico (Various Campuses)
Official Website – lpnm.us Western New Mexico University (Silver City)
LPNM Discussion – groups.yahoo.com/lpnm-discuss Contact the state chair if you're interested in filling a slot.
Open forum (unmoderated for the most part) If you don't, who will?
Blog – lpofnm.blogspot.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Facebook group – facebook.com/group.php?gid=20233114967
Ning.com social utility – lpofnm.ning.com
Myspace group – groups.myspace.com/lpnm
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“ . . . When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes
to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see,
this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and
oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is
needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked;
contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man
whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not
anything – you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill
him."
– Robert A. Heinlein, “If This Goes On ...” (Revolt in 2100) New Mexico Liberty – April 2010 – Page 7
 Libertarian Party of New Mexico
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(Please print in all areas)

Name ___________________________________ Address ____________________________________

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[ ] I am registered to vote as “Libertarian” in the State of New Mexico and wish to [ ] join or [ ] renew as a caucus
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conventions. I certify that I do not advocate the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals.

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whose contributions aggregate in excess of $200 in a calendar year.

The preceding notices alone should be enough reason to join the Libertarian Party, the only political party working
to increase your freedom.

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