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Re: [Exec] [State-comm] Missouri State Fair Preparation
by Eric S. Harris 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

While I do strongly support freedom of choice in currency and the solid money that would naturally follow (and more power to those who want to bring this about), this is not a libertarian issue that appeals to many voters. For some voters, it would actually be the opposite of appealing. IMO, the Libertarian Party and its candidates should stress libertarian issues that appeal to many voters. Lower taxes. Separation of school and state. Ending drug prohibition. Ending qualified immunity (what an Orwellian term!) and asset forfeiture (another Orwellian term). Things like that. I'm a (soft-core) hard money nut, but I want the LP to succeed, so I don't bring it up when I have better things available to discuss. Which is almost always. I will check out the organization, though. -Eric -----Original Message----- From: RobertESmith2020(a)outlook.com Sent: Jun 15, 2022 8:30 AM To: Ron Bream , Clay Blake Cc: MOLP Executive Committee , MOLP State Committee Subject: Re: [Exec] [State-comm] Missouri State Fair Preparation Sound Money Defense League has offered their assistance in writing the bill language, they are interested in helping out in Missouri. SMDL has the bill draft already. Get Outlook for iOS (https://aka.ms/o0ukef) From: Ron Bream Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 8:14:03 PM To: RobertESmith2020(a)outlook.com ; Clay Blake Cc: MOLP Executive Committee ; MOLP State Committee Subject: Re: [Exec] [State-comm] Missouri State Fair Preparation Robert & Clay, Is there any connection between MIPA and the Sound Money Defense League [] which I just learned about from a Judge Napolitano YouTube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jxp27cs6vo (https://www.soundmoneydefense.org/) Ron On Monday, June 13, 2022, 03:23:42 PM CDT, Clay Blake wrote: Ron, Attached is the bill outline we are planning to push that Pat Holland wrote. I think this is about as good as we're going to get. It has the added benefit of not necessitating Federally minted coins either. It simply legalizes gold and silver in general. Thanks, Clay Blake On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 12:45 PM RobertESmith2020--- via Exec wrote: We are just getting started with M.I.P.A. you won’t find much on it as of right now. The sound money defense league has offered their help and our legislation draft is being written into bill language. I will keep everyone updated as we progress. Get Outlook for iOS (https://aka.ms/o0ukef) From: Ron Bream Sent: Monday, June 13, 2022 12:23:16 PMTo: MOLP Executive Committee ; MOLP State Committee ; RobertESmith2020(a)outlook.com (mailto:RobertESmith2020@outlook.com) Subject: Re: [State-comm] Missouri State Fair Preparation Robert, Thanks for your response! I did some internet searches on your suggestions w/o much luck. If you could provide me with more specific info, I would appreciate it. I just watched a Mises Human Action Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfvocdUblG4) which discusses why we may be experiencing inflation this time with monetary expansion and not after the financial panic. I would suggest we promote Sound Money. A commodity backed paper/digital currency and making it legal tender as I believe Utah has done. While "End the FED" has been the mantra since the Ron Paul era, returning the FED to their original mandate of "banker of last resort" and transparency on what they hold on their balance sheet would be useful. Bitcoin looks interesting in that it is a peer to peer monetary solution with no central authority. The other cryptos are suspect as they mimic central banking. Market oriented economist prefer that the market determine interest rates based on the availability of savings. Thus allowing them to be discovered just like any other price rather than having them set by the FMOC. Your thoughts? Ron On Saturday, June 11, 2022, 10:20:53 PM CDT, RobertESmith2020(a)outlook.com (mailto:RobertESmith2020@outlook.com) wrote: Gold and Silver to fight inflation is one of my campaign planks. I’m involved right now with Clay Blake trying to get M.I.P.A Missouri Inflation Protection Act traction for the 2023 legislative session. M.I.P.A was drafted by Pat Holland with the Missouri Freedom Initiative. A coalition is being formed, a pledge will be drawn up for candidates, representatives, political party committees and, professionals can sign and work together to get sound money in Missouri. This is something that fits right in with the MOLP. Get Outlook for iOS (https://aka.ms/o0ukef) From: State-comm on behalf of Ron Bream via State-comm Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2022 2:37:53 PMTo: MOLP Executive Committee ; MOLP State Committee Subject: [State-comm] Missouri State Fair Preparation Exec & State Committees, As we are all aware the price of everything is going up. The rental tent fee for the Missouri State Fair is increasing by over 40% this year. So it's important that we take full advantage of our presence at the fair by fully staffing our booth and marketing our party. Our primary support should be going to our candidates running on the Libertarian ticket for this falls primary and general elections. In addition, politics is a fluid endeavor. What's on the voter's radar will vary from one election cycle to the next. We've had some discussion about what ballot measures (https://www.sos.mo.gov/default.aspx?PageID=10056) we might want to support. But we should also consider a few hot button issues for which we would like to speak. So your thoughts on how to support our candidates and issues would be helpful. And your willingness to staff (https://lpmo.org/state-fair-volunteers/) the MoLP both at the MSF would be very much appreciated. I would also welcome anyone who would be willing to assist me with marketing us at the fair. Let us "Give Liberty a Voice"! Prairie Township Committeeman (PR-16A) JCLP Chair (Jackson County Libertarian Party (https://jcmolp.org/)) MoLP State Fair Coordinator MoLP Executive Committee District 5 Member MoLP State Committee District 8 Member Regards,Ronald E. Bream1913 NW O'Brien Road Lee's Summit, MO 64081-1673 H: (816) 272-0178C: (816) 666-3123rebream(a)yahoo.com (mailto:rebream@yahoo.com) _______________________________________________Exec mailing listExec(a)lists.lpmo.org (mailto:Exec@lists.lpmo.org)http://lpmail.lp.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/exec

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Candidate Poster
by Ron Bream 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Exec & State Committees, Please see the attached word document. I would like to blow this up to a 3' x 2' poster for the MSF. Check for accuracy and I'm open to suggests. Regards, Ronald E. Bream 1913 NW O'Brien RoadLee's Summit, MO 64081-1673H: (816) 272-0178 C: (816) 666-3123 rebream(a)yahoo.com

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Re: [Exec] Missouri Top-Four Better Election Initiative
by Eric S. Harris 29 Jun '22

29 Jun '22

Agreed. While I haven't given these sorts of elections careful thought, everything I've read about them from people who appear to have thought about them carefully or experienced them in their vicinity says they're bad for Libertarians and the LP. -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Ron Bream Sent: Jun 28, 2022 11:00 PM To: MOLP Executive Committee , MOLP State Committee Subject: [Exec] Missouri Top-Four Better Election Initiative " /> Exec & State Committees, As a follow-up to our most recent Executive meeting discussion, a more detailed look at Top-Four elections here in Missouri. Better Elections (https://betterelectionsmo.org/) submitted more than 300,000 signatures of the 172,000 required with their petition on May 8, 2022. Dave Noland filed two initiatives (#51 & #52) July 30, 2021. Initiative #51 allowed for party affiliations and initiative #52 did not. Initiative #51 was chosen for signature collection. Full text (https://www.dropbox.com/s/ycgmbsyponmniff/2022-051%20Full%20Text.pdf?dl=0) of initiative #51. Alaska just completed a top-four special election. Their primary had 48 candidates (https://www.elections.alaska.gov/Core/candidatelistspecprim.php) vying for office; two of which were registered Libertarians. They were Chris Bye (http://www.itstimealaska.com/) and J.R. Myers (https://johnrichardmyers.com/) This type of primary would be referred to as a jungle primary. Section 25.1 of the initiative states that the primary would be open. How candidates outside parties would get on the ballot here in Missouri is not clear. The top-four vote getters would move on to the general election. While this form of election would give voters more candidates from which to choose, how would a voter be expected to process all of these candidates? How would candidates differentiate themselves? Would votes be cast on single issues, creating greater political fragmentation? It would appear to me that on the one hand to dilute the role of political parties in the primary but then on the other hand strengthen them if a party PAC focuses money on supporting one or two of their candidates. This would no doubt eliminate minority parties from the general election and you may end up with 4 candidates from the same majority party. While RCV is no panacea for minority parties, more people would likely give them their 1st vote knowing they have other votes to cast for alternate choices in a general election. You eventually end up with a candidate with majority support from the electorate. If this initiative appears on the November general election ballot, I would suggest the MoLP and it's affiliates should just say "NO". Prairie Township Committeeman (PR-16A) JCLP Chair (Jackson County Libertarian Party (https://jcmolp.org/)) MoLP State Fair Coordinator MoLP Executive Committee District 5 Member MoLP State Committee District 8 Member Ron Bream Lee's Summit, MO 64081-1673 C: (816) 666-3123 rebream(a)yahoo.com .

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Missouri Top-Four Better Election Initiative
by Ron Bream 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Exec & State Committees, As a follow-up to our most recent Executive meeting discussion, a more detailed look at Top-Four elections here in Missouri. Better Elections submitted more than 300,000 signatures of the 172,000 required with their petition on May 8, 2022. Dave Noland filed two initiatives (#51 & #52) July 30, 2021. Initiative #51 allowed for party affiliations and initiative #52 did not. Initiative #51 was chosen for signature collection. Full text of initiative #51. Alaska just completed a top-four special election. Their primary had 48 candidates vying for office; two of which were registered Libertarians. They were Chris Bye and J.R. Myers. This type of primary would be referred to as a jungle primary. Section 25.1 of the initiative states that the primary would be open. How candidates outside parties would get on the ballot here in Missouri is not clear. The top-four vote getters would move on to the general election. While this form of election would give voters more candidates from which to choose, how would a voter be expected to process all of these candidates? How would candidates differentiate themselves? Would votes be cast on single issues, creating greater political fragmentation? It would appear to me that on the one hand to dilute the role of political parties in the primary but then on the other hand strengthen them if a party PAC focuses money on supporting one or two of their candidates. This would no doubt eliminate minority parties from the general election and you may end up with 4 candidates from the same majority party. While RCV is no panacea for minority parties, more people would likely give them their 1st vote knowing they have other votes to cast for alternate choices in a general election. You eventually end up with a candidate with majority support from the electorate. If this initiative appears on the November general election ballot, I would suggest the MoLP and it's affiliates should just say "NO". Prairie Township Committeeman (PR-16A)JCLP Chair (Jackson County Libertarian Party)MoLP State Fair Coordinator MoLP Executive Committee District 5 Member MoLP State Committee District 8 Member Ron Bream Lee's Summit, MO 64081-1673 C: (816) 666-3123 rebream(a)yahoo.com.

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The Missouri Senate race just went nuts :)
by Randy Langkraehr 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

OK political junkies, grab your popcorn, this is shaping up to be the most watched Senate political battle in the country. I have been reporting this is coming but for those of you that haven't been reading our Facebook...Former Republican Danforth is on the warpath against Greitens, who is still lining up to be the Republican nominee. He does not seem to like any of the other current candidates either. And he still carries a lot of power. Previous articles posted... Jan. 6 panel lawyer urged to run for Missouri US Senate seat by John Danforth, other Republicans | | | | | | | | | | | Jan. 6 panel lawyer urged to run for Missouri US Senate seat by John Dan... The website said Missourians “deserve an alternative," and called Wood a “principled leader who has put country ... | | | Followed by this article a few days ago... https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/politics/john-wood-leaving-january-6-committ… Tonight Danforth appeared on paid TV 90 second commercials on the news in selected markets (so they already have serious money behind them) https://mostandsunited.org/ Looks like Danforth is going to make good on his "threat" for lack of a better term. Per the Secretary of State's website they need 10,000 valid signatures and have till August 1st to get it done. If they have the money for that type of TV buy, they can afford petitioners. If they set it up right and build enough of a base, and easily get 2% in this statewide race, this can be an "independent party" with ballot access the next 4 years and they can run other "independent" candidates the next two election cycles. If you think this is an effort in futility, examine the polling. Greitens does not poll well against Kunce (and Toder is building momentum rapidly, Kunce is ignoring the minorities in his base and Toder is hitting them hard) https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/mo/missouri_senate_gre… If the primary goal is to keep Greitens out they can split the Republican base enough to get it done. If the movement takes off winner is probably not going to need 40% to win. A lot of Democrats are voting Kunce because he is not Greitens. Kunce does not poll as well against Hartzler and Schmitt | Poll | Date | Sample | MoE | Schmitt (R) | Kunce (D) | Spread | | RCP Average | 3/9 - 5/15 | -- | -- | 50.5 | 37.0 | Schmitt +13.5 | https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/mo/missouri_senate_sch… | Poll | Date | Sample | MoE | Hartzler (R) | Kunce (D) | Spread | | RCP Average | 3/9 - 5/15 | -- | -- | 50.5 | 35.0 | Hartzler +15.5 | https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/mo/missouri_senate_har… So this could get real exciting real fast. What does this mean for us? Danforth is going after Greitens to stop him. We don't appear to be on his radar other than he wants our voters along with everyone else's voters. As long as this "independent" group only sticks to the Senate race, it is probably going to only hurt our Senate results. I was looking forward to better than 2% numbers for Jonathan vs Greitens vs Democrat. We should still do what we can to promote him. Jonathan may still do well, but he may be pushed to distant fourth in a highly and probably nationally publicized race. But we should be fine with our Auditors race. The Constitution Party is is serious danger. They need 2% in November or they lose ballot access. They have a good guy but very weak unknown Senate candidate. They have no Auditor candidate. We should probably take our money we collected in filing fees and concentrate on the Auditor race. I will be making a motion and voting to put most/all funds towards blasting the Auditor race out. We should double materials for him at State Fair. List him first on candidate pamphlets, yard signs? etc. If people vote for Danforth's "independent" candidate for senate, they may carry that momentum to our "independent" candidate for auditor and the rest of our downline.

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Questionnaire
by RobertESmith2020＠outlook.com 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

On a second subject. Here is a questionnaire that was out together by several organizations. Missouri Freedom Initiative, MoFirst.Org (Ron Calzone), and a few other organizations. The candidates of Missouri Libertarian Party are all invited to participate. Results will be July 19. https://www.mofree.org/about-3 Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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Re: [Exec] The Missouri Senate race just went nuts :)
by Eric S. Harris 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

" If they set it up right" is the part that worries me the most. But what we think of as "set it up right" (i.e. worst for us) might be the opposite of what those Republicans think. Would those Republicans even want a political party that exists in 2024 and 2026? Maybe not. If the sole purpose is to defeat Greitens, even if it means possibly (or necessarily) putting a Democrat in the Senate, they would prefer an independent campaign. After the November election, it's like it never existed. Assuming they all have the same objective and they keep it, things could shake out in one of several ways: * An independent Senate candidate (and maybe some down-ticket candidates, piggybacking as we did). After the November election: poof. * An independent or "new party" candidate (per R.S.Mo 115.013), who withdraws after "anybody but Greitens" wins the Republican primary. Again: poof. * A new party which does well and persists through November 2026. It runs statewide campaigns to maintain ballot access (a down-ticket office or a feeble Senate campaign). It threatens to run a "spoiler" whenever someone they don't like files as a Republican. This gives them some "veto power" over primary candidates -- provided they want to win. * A new party which does very well. They win the Senate. They establish local organizations (better than we have) and run candidates up and down the ticket (better than we have). In 2 or 4 or 6 years, they replace the Republican Party as a "major party" (per R.S.Mo 115.013). * A new party which does OK, possibly defeating Greitens but not the Democrat. They fizzle out, like Ross Perot's state parties. * A new party which does OK, possibly defeating Greitens but not the Democrat. They linger on, perhaps costing us ballot access, perhaps doing worse than us and then evaporating. * Something else I didn't think of. The most likely scenario. The happiest scenario: We -- and the voters -- see a "major party" replaced, which shows it can be done, and then after a few election cycles, we do it to the Democrats or the Anyone-But-Greitens Party. Oh, and we stay libertarian, or mostly so. It spreads to other states, also with ggood or good-ish results. Stay tuned. -Eric OK political junkies, grab your popcorn, this is shaping up to be the most watched Senate political battle in the country. I have been reporting this is coming but for those of you that haven't been reading our Facebook... Former Republican Danforth is on the warpath against Greitens, who is still lining up to be the Republican nominee. He does not seem to like any of the other current candidates either. And he still carries a lot of power. Previous articles posted... Jan. 6 panel lawyer urged to run for Missouri US Senate seat by John Danforth, other Republicans (https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/jan-6-lawyer-u…) Jan. 6 panel lawyer urged to run for Missouri US Senate seat by John Dan...The website said Missourians “deserve an alternative," and called Wood a “principled leader who has put country ... Followed by this article a few days ago... https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/politics/john-wood-leaving-january-6-committ… Tonight Danforth appeared on paid TV 90 second commercials on the news in selected markets (so they already have serious money behind them) https://mostandsunited.org/ Looks like Danforth is going to make good on his "threat" for lack of a better term. Per the Secretary of State's website they need 10,000 valid signatures and have till August 1st to get it done. If they have the money for that type of TV buy, they can afford petitioners. If they set it up right and build enough of a base, and easily get 2% in this statewide race, this can be an "independent party" with ballot access the next 4 years and they can run other "independent" candidates the next two election cycles. If you think this is an effort in futility, examine the polling. Greitens does not poll well against Kunce (and Toder is building momentum rapidly, Kunce is ignoring the minorities in his base and Toder is hitting them hard) https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/mo/missouri_senate_gre… If the primary goal is to keep Greitens out they can split the Republican base enough to get it done. If the movement takes off winner is probably not going to need 40% to win. A lot of Democrats are voting Kunce because he is not Greitens. Kunce does not poll as well against Hartzler and Schmitt PollDateSampleMoESchmitt (R)Kunce (D)SpreadRCP Average3/9 - 5/15----50.537.0Schmitt +13.5 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/mo/missouri_senate_sch… PollDateSampleMoEHartzler (R)Kunce (D)SpreadRCP Average3/9 - 5/15----50.535.0Hartzler +15.5 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/mo/missouri_senate_har… So this could get real exciting real fast. What does this mean for us? Danforth is going after Greitens to stop him. We don't appear to be on his radar other than he wants our voters along with everyone else's voters. As long as this "independent" group only sticks to the Senate race, it is probably going to only hurt our Senate results. I was looking forward to better than 2% numbers for Jonathan vs Greitens vs Democrat. We should still do what we can to promote him. Jonathan may still do well, but he may be pushed to distant fourth in a highly and probably nationally publicized race. But we should be fine with our Auditors race. The Constitution Party is is serious danger. They need 2% in November or they lose ballot access. They have a good guy but very weak unknown Senate candidate. They have no Auditor candidate. We should probably take our money we collected in filing fees and concentrate on the Auditor race. I will be making a motion and voting to put most/all funds towards blasting the Auditor race out. We should double materials for him at State Fair. List him first on candidate pamphlets, yard signs? etc. If people vote for Danforth's "independent" candidate for senate, they may carry that momentum to our "independent" candidate for auditor and the rest of our downline.

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Minutes 5-22-22 meeting
by Randy Langkraehr 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

Let me know of any names or other stuff not spelled correctly.

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MIPA gold and Silver
by RobertESmith2020＠outlook.com 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

I would like to present Missouri Inflation Protection Act to the MOLP tonight. A group is already forming that includes Clay Blake, Missouri Freedom Initiative, Ron Calzone, Senator Bill Eigel, myself, and others. If I win my race for State House District 125 it is pre-determined that I will sponsor the bill and we already have co-sponsors. Bill Eigel will sponsor in the Senate; co-sponsors are also will sign on. I would like to propose the Missouri Libertarian Party discuss support for the project in various ways the party sees fit, if any at all. I have included our Bill outline authored by Pat Holland for you to view. It is being written into Bill language. Thank you Robert E Smith Libertarian Candidate for State House District 125 https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/275816666_739994517315412_7980847830992… Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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Re: [Exec] Missouri Blueprint
by Eric S. Harris 25 Jun '22

25 Jun '22

Regardless of what is decided about the State Fair booth, the MMF report could be a good source for candidates for Missouri state office. If an LP candidate has a position on an issue which is close to one in the MMF, it could be a good source for talking points, news releases, responses to candidate questionnaires, etc. -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Ron Bream Sent: Jun 25, 2022 1:17 PM To: MOLP Executive Committee , MOLP State Committee Subject: [Exec] Missouri Blueprint Exec & State Committees, The Show-Me Institute (https://showmeinstitute.org/) is a think tank promoting free markets and individual liberty here in MO. They produced a report in 2021 called Moving Missouri Forward (https://showmeinstitute.org/publication/state-and-local-government/2021-mis…) As I see it, they are offering market based solutions to MO issues. Is this a report that we would be comfortable promoting at the MSF? Regards, Ronald E. Bream 1913 NW O'Brien Road Lee's Summit, MO 64081-1673 H: (816) 272-0178 C: (816) 666-3123 rebream(a)yahoo.com

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