Please don't feed the donkeys and elephants. It just increases their output.

• What are economists saying about the auto bailout?

• Bailing-Out the Big Three

• Free Market Heroes, Vol. 1: Robin Ficker

• The Time is Now!

• Video Your Vote!

• The Next Crisis: Africa by Richard W. Rahn

• America Does Not Need More Czars by Will Wilkinson

• Baucus's Bad Bill by Michael D. Tanner

• Next You'll Be Telling Me Illegal Downloading Doesn't Spike During the Super Bowl

• State and Dystopia

• New at Reason: Radley Balko on Social Security Privatization and the Bailout

• If You Aren't Doing Anything Wrong, You Have Nothing To Worry About. Oh, and Excercising Your Rights. Probably Shouldn't Do That, Either

• Hitchens on Afghanistan's Poppies: Buy Them, Don't Burn Them!

• Is Georgia Libertarian leaning toward Democrat in runoff?

• Modern Whig Party establishes ‘future voters’ chapter

• Nader discusses his bid for the presidency

• Constitution Party on the Obama-McCain meeting

• How will Libertarians affect Georgia Senate runoff?

• Libertarian Party: What are economists saying about the auto bailout? - Independent Political Report

• Time To Scrap The Libertarian Party ? - Liberty Papers

• The Libertarian Statesman - Lew Rockwell

• A post-election message from Libertarian Party national chair Bill ... - Independent Political Report

• Is Georgia Libertarian leaning toward Democrat in runoff? - Third Party Watch (press release)

State Representatives

The ten states with the most sustaining members (in parentheses) each pick one PlatCom member.

• CA (2075) - Bruce Dovner
• FL (861) - Vicki Kirkland
  • Alternate: John Wayne Smith
• TX (797) - Guy McLendon
  • McLendon wrote on PlatComLP08: I give permission for my comments posted on this forum to be forwarded, and ask only a couple of things:
    1. Copy me on the forward
    2. Try not to take my comments out of context
    3. Give me a chance to defend my position, and forward those comments to every group you're copying
    4. Respect the requests from other PlatCom members who have asked their comments to remain private.
  • Alternate: Fred Drew
• PA (574) - Henry Haller
  • Alternate: Ebert Beeman
• OH (569) - Ann Leech
  • Mike Smitley resigned in Dec 2007.
  • Norma Skoog resigned May 12, 2008.
• NY (554) - Audrey Capozzi
  • Capozzi replaced Eric Sundwall, who resigned in Aug 2007.
• VA (523) - Donny Ferguson
• MI (511) - Daniel W. Grow
  • Alternate: Bill Hall
• IL (510) - John Howell
  • Howell replaced Val Vetter, who resigned in Jan 2008.
• GA (507) - Glenn Tatum

Colorado had 462 members.

LNC Appointees

In order of net votes received:

• Alicia Mattson (TN 15) (interim Chair)
• Steve Dasbach (VA 14)
• Adam Mayer (OR 13)
• David Aitken (CO 12)
• Hardy Macia (VT 12)
• Robert Capozzi (VA 8)
• Bonnie Scott (NY 8)
• Brian Holtz (CA 8)
  • Holtz says: "I hereby give everyone permission to quote anything I post here, except for text that quotes and identifies a member who hasn't given permission to be quoted, or that characterizes the opinions of such a member."
• Jon Roland (TX 6)
  • Roland has given permission for all his Platform proposals to be posted publicly.
  • As 1st Alternate, Roland replaced David Owens (PA 7) when Owens resigned in Aug 2007.
• Rob Power (CA 6)
  • As 2nd Alternate, Power replaced Steven Burden (FL 9) when Burden resigned in Mar 2008.

Alternates

In order of net votes received:

1. Ruth Bennett (WA 6)
2. Jim Duensing (NV 5)
3. Morey Straus (NH? 1)