November 7th - Election Night Gala: Wow, what a great event. We hope you made it. Approximately 1000 people crowded into the Egyptian Ballroom at the Fox Theatre in Midtown Atlanta between 8 pm and Midnight. A great sign of our success here in Georgia was the fact that the Harry Browne campaign chose to spend election night here in Atlanta. We rewarded the Browne team with the highest percentage vote total of any state and the second highest raw vote total. California was first, but not by much. The event was great with Harry and his wife Pamela, the whole Browne campaign staff, VP candidate Art Olivier, Libertarian talk show legend Neal Boortz, all the Georgia Libertarian candidates, the LP of Georgia officers, ex-Libertarian presidential candidate and ex-LP National Chairman David Bergland, LP Political Director Ron Crickenberger, talk show host Gary Nolan, local media, and hundreds of freedom lovers.
November 7th - Election Day Results: The news concerning Libertarian vote totals was mixed nationwide, but generally good here in Georgia. But with the high expectations we placed on ourselves here in Georgia after all the hard work there was some disappointment. But all in all we made great strides, learned a lot, and built some real good political capitol for the future. If we keep up the trends the Republicrats will have to think of new ways to keep their hold on government. We are on our way ....... (GA SOS results)
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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER 100 % of precincts reporting PR=Precincts Reporting TP=Total Precincts BOYD WISE PARKER (D) (R) (Lib) 928,005 1,197,415 135,888 41.0% 53.0% 6.0% County PR TP DEKALB 168 168 130,255 55,814 13,517 |
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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER 100 % of precincts reporting PR=Precincts Reporting TP=Total Precincts BURGESS BARTELL WITHINGTON (D) (R) (Lib) 1,201,346 961,627 133,904 52.3% 41.9% 5.8% County PR TP DEKALB 168 168 145,749 43,407 13,563 |
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PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES 93 % of precincts reporting PR=Precincts Reporting TP=Total Precincts GORE BUSH BROWNE BUCHANAN (D) (R) (Lib) (Ind) 1,116,230 1,419,720 36,332 10,926 43,2% 55.0% 1.4% 0.4% County PR TP
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UNITED STATES SENATOR 94 % of precincts reporting PR=Precincts Reporting TP=Total Precincts MILLER MATTINGLY MACGREGOR 1,304,476 869,252 24,255 57.7% 38.4% 1.1% BALLENGER GATES WOOD
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STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 34 100 % of precincts reporting PR=Precincts Reporting TP=Total Precincts WILES RITCHEY (R) (Lib) 14,505 6,174 70.1% 29.9% County PR TP COBB 152 152 14,505 6,174 |
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STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 85 100 % of precincts reporting PR=Precincts Reporting TP=Total Precincts INBODY REESE CHERNETSKY (D) (R) (Lib) 5,772 20,797 3,542 19.2% 69.1% 11.8% County PR TP FORSYTH 23 23 1,390 8,174 981 GWINNETT 133 133 4,382 12,623 2,561 |
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STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 94 100 % of precincts reporting PR=Precincts Reporting TP=Total Precincts DODSON BILLINGTON BACA (D) (R) (Lib) 5,160 1,696 464 70.5% 23.2% 6.3% County PR TP CLAYTON 51 51 5,160 1,696 464 |
- LP DeKalb volunteers at the Hands On Atlanta day charity event from 9am to 1pm Saturday October 7th in west Atlanta. One neighborhood vacant lot looks a lot better today due to the efforts of LP members.
- Outright Libertarians sponsored a Meet the Candidates BBQ October 7th at 4pm.
- LP DeKalb members make the 11 O'Clock news. A handful of LP DeKalb members joined a larger group of LP and 3rd party demonstrators in downtown Atlanta to "Open the presidential debates" Sunday October 1st. At least two DeKalb members were pictured in the Fox 5 newscast story on the event, including 1 interview! See pictures in the photo gallery.
- Mark Mosley, Executive Director of the LP of Georgia joined us September 27, for the LP DeKalb public meeting at 7:30 pm in the DeKalb County Library, 4316 Church St. in Tucker, GA. Mark updated us on all the campaign happenings at the state office, and shared some plans for after the election and for the upcoming Georgia legislative session. We heard from 3 Harry Browne Georgia campaign coordinators about the stretch run plans for getting Harry Browne to 10% here in Georgia!! We can do it, and have fun doing it, if we all help. We great attendence with 29 people! We enjoyed a party sub meal after the meeting courtesy of Denise Frix (Chairman Emeritus). Thanks Denise.
- Neal Boortz meets the Georgia Libertarian candidates along with 500 others. Another outstanding LP Georgia event. Another great crowd enjoying the message of liberty. All Six Libertarian candidates running in Georgia this fall we there. They are Dick Withington & Wayne Parker, our statewide Public Service Commission candidates, Paul MacGregor our U.S. Senate candidate, and Leo Baca, Tom Chernetsky, and Dale Ritchey our three Georgia State House candidates. Each gave short, outstanding speeches. They all get better every time out it seems. They really performed great in front of the huge crowd. Professional speaker Micheal Cloud flew down from Boston to MC the event. He keep the crowd laughing and excited in between program segments. LP Georgia state director Mark Mosely gave the inspiring introduction of Leo Baca. Two LP Georgia television ads were publicly previewed for the first time. And of course there was 30 minutes of BOORTZ! Neal shared his entertaining and insightful rants with the delighted crowd .
- LP DeKalb hosts special guest speaker Paul MacGregor. U.S. Senate candidate for Georgia and his campaign manager Mark Antieau joined us for our August 23rd LP DeKalb public meeting. Once again several DeKalb newcomers joined us. We got to see a preview of Paul's speech for the Boortz event the next night. We had plenty of time to ask questions of Paul and discuss issues with him. Many folks signed up to help Paul's campaign right there on the spot. The LP vice-chair announced 9 new bite-size volunteer positions to help grow the LP DeKalb party, serve our over 250 members better, provide more opportunities for member involvement, and spread the word of liberty. They are Fundraising Coordinator, Community and Local Government Monitors, Membership Coordinator, Press Communications Coordinator, Meeting Coordinator, Social Coordinator, Candidate Coordinator, Torch Editor-in-Chief, and various Special Event Coordinators. See the "You" getting involved page for details. If any of these are a good fit for you, please let the LP DeKalb executive committee know.
- Harry leading Buchanin here in Georgia and in other states. Rasmussen Research, which conducts the daily Portrait of America poll, shows Harry Browne leading 2.4% to .6 percent -- a nearly two point difference -- in the state of Georgia. The poll result was announced Wednesday (8/2) evening. And, according to a Zogby International poll of New York State's voters released Monday (7/31), Browne leads Buchanan in the
- Paul MacGregor for United States Senator! Paul R. MacGregor, Ph.D., President & CEO of eTiburon Corporation in Alpharetta, Georgia, has entered the race for the United States Senate representing the state of Georgia. Paul graduated with the Bachelor, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering as well as a Master of Science in Technology and Science Policy — all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Paul has spent most of his adult life in Georgia and presently resides in Alpharetta, Georgia, with his wife Maria and their 1 year old beagle. Directing the campaign are Mark Antieau, Campaign Manager and past Libertarian candidate of two state-wide Georgia campaigns, Ricardo "Rick" Medina, Campaign Chairman and past president & CEO of Energy Imperium in Atlanta, GA, and Xime Basabe, Media Director and past media consultant for South American markets. This is a special, non-partisan race to serve the remaining 4 years of the late Paul Coverdell's term. Visit Paul's website at http://www.paulmacgregor.com for more info.
From Nealz Nuze: "GREAT MEETING LAST NIGHT
It was standing room only at the Crown Plaza hotel last night for the Georgia Libertarian Party’s "Meet the Candidates" gathering. An enthusiastic bunch ... and it was good to see. While there I saw what I think is probably the best television campaign advertisements I have ever seen. Hopefully you’ll see it too. The Georgia Libertarians are gathering money to buy a television schedule right now. It’s a commercial about "Battered Voter Syndrome." I liked it so much I immediately pledged money to the Georgia Libertarian Party so they could buy the time to run the ad. Anyway --- thanks for your courtesy last night. Sorry my voice ran out before we could finish the Q&A session. Frankly, not so sure I’m going to make it through the morning!" -- Neal Boortz from Neal's Nuze, Friday August 25th.
(If
you want to help buy the air time to see the "Battered Voter Syndrome TV ad,
visit the state LP website at http://www.ga.lp.org
right now and make your best contribution. There are just over 2 months
till election day!)
From THE LIBERATOR ONLINE :
August 29, 2000 Vol. 5, No. 16 Circulation: 45,586 in 92 countries
"* Advocates at Georgia LP gathering: Over 600 people attended an Atlanta
fundraising event for Libertarian Party of Georgia candidates on August
24. Main speaker for the event was libertarian talk show legend (and Advocates
supporter) Neal Boortz. Advocates President Sharon Harris and Advocates
Chairman of the Board Carole Ann Rand were also there, overseeing an Operation
Politically Homeless (OPH) booth demonstration. Sharon reports many people
stopped by the booth to say they had become libertarians because of the
Advocates' Web site, the Quiz, and other Advocates programs. "
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Libertarian Party member Paul R. MacGregor, Ph.D., President & CEO of eTiburon Corporation in Alpharetta, Georgia, has entered the race for the United States Senate representing the state of Georgia. This is a special, non-partisan race to serve the remaining 4 years of the late Paul Coverdell's term. Visit Paul MacGregor's campaign website at http://www.paulmacgregor.com for more information. Paul spoke at the August 23rd LP DeKalb public meeting. See the News page for the story. |
Empire State as well. Other Rasmussen polling shows Browne in a three-way tie with consumer advocate and Green Party nominee Ralph Nader, and Buchanan in two other states -- Mississippi and Delaware. Campaign manager Willis attributes the Georgia poll numbers to a recent state media tour, the strongest grassroots volunteer organization in the country, and a successful campaign event (held Thursday, July 27), where according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, over 600 people attended. See the Harry Browne campaign press release for more details.
