Root for President in 2012?

by: Forwarder

Sun Apr 04, 2010 at 07:52:49 AM MDT

http://www.youtube.com/v/LGWkV...

featuring a video interview with Wayne Root by the Brunson Brothers Media Group.  The exact date of the interview is not given, but references to the Greek financial crisis make it recent.  

In the interview, Root indicates that he will be running for our party's Presidential nomination in 2012.

Root Makes Clear He Is Chair Candidate

by: AuGeo

Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 21:21:15 PM MST

A few weeks ago, CA Libertarian Party Judicial Committee Chair  (and LNC Chair candidate) Mark Hinkle circulated to some number of libertarians a formal statement on behalf of the Judicial Committee of the Libertarian Party of California.  The statement read:

"For Immediate Release:

On Tuesday, January 26, 2010, the Judicial Committee of the Libertarian Party of California issued a ruling that overturned the suspension of a member by a vote of 5-0.  While Robert's Rules of Order prevents the Judicial Committee from revealing the details of the proceedings, the Judicial Committee finds that it may comment on certain inaccurate information circulating about this case.  The suspension of the member by the Executive Committee was not for the commission of any crime, the Judicial Committee was not asked to render a decision that depended on the determination of whether or not the member had committed any crime, and the statements of the causes for suspension that were submitted to the Judicial Committee did not pertain to any such crime.

The Judicial Committee recognizes that the Executive Committee acted within the authority granted to it by the Party Bylaws to vote to suspend a member for a specific cause or causes.  The member also acted within the Bylaws by appealing the suspension to the Judicial Committee.  The Judicial Committee met the time lines delineated by the Bylaws and held an extensive hearing during which both parties had the opportunity to present their cases and call witnesses.  Following the hearing, the Judicial Committee carefully reviewed the statement of the causes, and the evidence and arguments, which had been submitted to it.  The Judicial Committee concluded that neither the Executive Committee nor the member presented their respective cases effectively.  The Executive Committee not having met the burden of proof on the causes as stated, and the Judicial Committee not being empowered nor inclined to extend or substitute for the stated causes, the Judicial Committee accordingly rendered a decision to overturn the suspension and restore the individual's membership as provided for under Section 6 of Bylaw 5.

Privacy considerations which are described in Robert's Rules of Order, as well as past precedents from membership suspensions by the Executive Committee, prevent the members of the Judiciary Committee from making any more specific comments with regard to this case.  Individual members of the Judicial Committee are of course always free (as is any member of the Party) to advocate for improvements in such things as declarations of Party membership requirements and the quality of administrative procedures, but such advocacy should not be assumed to reflect on the merits of this individual case.

The Judicial Committee has reviewed and affirmed its decision of Tuesday, January 26, 2010."

Wayne Root's response appears below the fold.

Root Announces for Chair

by: AuGeo

Sun Jan 31, 2010 at 09:34:14 AM MST

The text of the letter reads:

This matter has been off my radar as I run multiple businesses, do hundreds of media interviews about Obama, Obamacare, and "state of the union", and run a family of 6. I try to stay out of LP affairs- especially on the state level. This was for California to handle. I just cannot get involved in every intra-party issue.

But now that these results are public, I may very well weigh in.

All I can say without knowing all the facts yet, is this is precisely why I'm going to run for National Chairman.

I'm sure you are well aware of how I felt about the opinions written in a book by a potential LP candidate for President in 2008. Those opinions on the topic of "age of consent" shocked and sickened me. I was the ONLY major LP figure that spoke out loudly.

This decisions sounds even worse.

I will look into it and do whatever I can to fight it, reverse it, and/or prevent it from ever happening again.

But the whole incident highlights the problems and disconnect from reality that have held this party back for 39 years... and why I'm running for National Chair- TO DRAMATICALLY CHANGE "business as usual."

"The incident" refers to a matter now covered on Independent Political Report

LfA Magazine: NH Supports Phillies, Ignores Root

by: Forwarder

Thu Oct 22, 2009 at 07:46:06 AM MDT

New Hampshire
Chooses First Delegate
...George Phillies
The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire had its State Convention on October 3.  Your Editor drove up to watch and say hello to friends.  Rich Tomasso was elected as their new State Chair.  For more news, see their web pages LPNH.org soon.

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire uses its state convention to bind some of their delegates for the first convention vote for President and National Chair.  At the LPNH State Convention October 3, Brendan Kelly nominated Wayne Root to receive this year's (one) bound delegate for President. No one else at the convention was willing to second the nomination.  The nomination died, and no delegate was bound.

Mark Hinkle of California appeared and spoke on behalf of his campaign for National Chair.  Former NJ State Chair Lou Jasikoff appeared and had by report been intended to nominate Wayne Root for National Chair.  However, that did not happen, I am told because Root has not yet announced that he is running. I was asked if I would have my name put into nomination, though it is not yet that widely known that I am being asked to run.  However, someone has released the kitten from the yarn. Howard Wilson agreed to nominate me.  I won the convention vote for one delegate.

CLS on The Conscience of a Bullshit Artist

by: Forwarder

Sat Aug 22, 2009 at 19:10:57 PM MDT

Read the words of CLS, posting at http://freestudents.blogspot.c... .  CLS has read the Wayne Root book, and is happy to discuss what it tells fellow Libertarians about Wayne Root's political feeling.

I have the unpleasant task of reading Wayne Root's misnamed book, The Conscience of a Libertarian. The title is, of course, just a rip-off of The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater. There was no need to change titles since Root's work is clearly the work of a conservative, not a libertarian. Root remains a pretender, a conservative in libertarian clothing.

Early in the book Root defines himself as a "Libertarian conservative." That is more telling than he would care. First, note that the term "libertarian" is modifying the term conservative. His main identity is that of a conservative not that of a libertarian. A "conservative libertarian" is someone who says they are foremost a libertarian with some conservative sentiments. A "libertarian conservative" is the opposite: someone who is mostly a conservative with some libertarian sentiments.

Wayne Root Circulates Review of His Book

by: Forwarder

Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:27:01 AM MDT

When you mail out a review of your book, except when you say otherwise ("Even conspiracy nuts like my photos")  you just said: I endorse this message.  And when you send out a review from "Angry White Dude" calling the political opponents 'libtards', you've made clear what your politics are -- and they are not libertarian.

So here is the review that Root mailed out pushing his book:

Latest Root book review by founder of the biggest Tea Party event in the USA (America's Tea Party in Dallas, TX):

THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERTARIAN
posted by ANGRY WHITE DUDE 11:01 PM
Wednesday, August 19, 2009