The primary objective of any political party is to build a voter base sufficient to elect the party candidates to public office, the most important of which are candidates for the U. S. Congress and the Tennessee legislature. A basic LPTN county organization will require a minimum of three Libertarian Party members for each voting precinct in each county. The County Chair, then, is the kingpin in... 

“Yesterday, I won the lottery.  Now, I have to pay taxes on my winnings.  Oprah gave me a brand new car.  Damn her!  Now I have to buy expensive car insurance.”  We have all heard this sort of negative talk, maybe to a less extreme level, by people at work, family, and friends.  Does talking negative win many friends and make others want to be around you or vote for you as a political candidate? ... 

What is a Strategic Plan? Strategic Planning is not a new idea. Successful businessmen have been doing strategic planning for millennia. 25 years ago, it was understandable that the newly-founded Libertarian Party would have done little in the way of strategic planning. In 2000, a quarter-century later, the elected National Committee should routinely treat strategic planning as a primary task.... 

Strategic Planning is not a new idea. Businessmen have been doing it for millennia. The Hellenic philosopher Archimedes, challenged ‘if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich’, is said to have used strategic planning: He anticipated an excellent olive harvest and used out-of-season options trading to corner the market on olive presses, thereby becoming wealthy. We are not a...