NEW MEXICO LIBERTY

“Let Freedom Ring”

The Official Newsletter of the Libertarian Party of New Mexico

May 2010 http://lpnm.us V.2.2 N.21

Table of Contents Notes from the Editor

by Mike Blessing
Page 1 Libertarian Media from New Mexico [ mikewb1971@gmail.com /
mikewb1971.xanga.com ]
Notes from the Editor by Mike Blessing
Page 2 Events at a Glance
Note from the State Chair Ballot Requalification

The LPNM's Candidates Yes, the LPNM is once again recognized as a

“minor” political party in New Mexico. This after we, the National
Other Groups to Network With, and Their HQ and the LNC spent about Ø17,000 to pay Andy Jacobs, Paulie
Events Cannoli and others to gather the necessary petition signatures.
Page 3 State has made strides in transparency Andy, Paulie and crew are the unsung heroes of this effort. This is
by Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation what they do for a living – go around to political parties, candidates
and referendums needing ballot access signatures, and gather
Page 4 How We Lost Our Souls those signatures for pay. They charged the LPNM Ø2 per signature
by Butler Shaffer this time around, and gathered 8,000-plus signatures. They
Page 5 Harry Brown, the Movie typically run around 70 – 80 percent where the validity of signatures
gathered is concerned.
The World Should Now Be Considered in
Revolution by Robert Wenzel Now the trick for the LPNM will be to retain this ballot access
through the 2012 presidential election. I don't have any complaint
Page 6 Contacts / Internet ResourcesThe against Andy and Paulie, but the Ø17,000 we paid them is Ø17,000
Page 7 Administrivia that the LPNM and LNC could have spent on advertising the
libertarian message.
The Unanimous Consent Challenge
Running for Office?
Page 8 Enrollment / Renewal Form
As if it wasn't easy enough to run for office, it just got a bit easier.
\
Libertarian Media from New Mexico It turns out that you can file to be a write-in candidate with just a
(not necessarily endorsed by LPNM) declaration of candidacy. There's no need to gather signatures on
a nominating petition – just print out and sign a delcaration of
Hemp TV – Tuesdays at 7PM
candidacy from the Secretary of State's website –
myspace.com/nmhemptv www.sos.state.nm.us/sos-elections.html – and submit it to the
The One Party State – Wednesdays 11PM County Clerk or Secretary of State on Tuesday, 22 June 2010.
Contact Lance Klafeta [ lklafeta@yahoo.com ] for details The main downside to this is that you won't be listed on the ballot,
and thus will garner significantly fewer votes.
Reeferhead – Saturdays at 6PM
myspace.com/reeferheadtv Of course, it's ridiculously easy to gather the required signatures to
be on the ballot for a State Representative race – there are usually
The Fringe Element only 100-200 signatures needed. If you live in Albuquerque, you
thefringeelement.net / postpubco.com can get these just by walking around your neighborhood with a
clipboard and some blank nominating petition forms.
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NEW MEXICO LIBERTY?
The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in
CONTACT THE EDITOR OR public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually
SEE PAGE 7 FOR DETAILS with TV cameras focused on them.
– L. Neil Smith, Tactical Reflections [ lneilsmith.com/tactical.html ]
EMAIL mikewb1971@gmail.com

“Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.”
– George Washington
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only
prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of
freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing
to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
– John F. Kennedy
New Mexico Liberty – May 2010 – Page 1
 Events at a Glance
Bernalillo County – The BCLP stages one no-host dinner meeting
per month, on Thursday, 6 May, 6:00 to 7:00 PM at Fiesta's
Restaurant & Lounge (Carlisle & Montogomery NE). Contact Mike
Blessing for details [ mikewb1971@gmail.com / 505-515-7015 ], or
see the BCLP website – lpnm.us/bernalillo.
Precinct 553 Chair Elisheva Levin, is considering a run for State
Representative, District 22.
See kcufmedia.xanga.com for more information concerning The
Weekly Sedition and New Mexico's Consumer Advocate.
Dona Ana County – The next scheduled Central Committee
meeting is August 14, 2010 time and place to be annnounced. Any
county Libertarian wanting support in running for political office or
having party or political issues that they wish the county party to
address prior to then can call a meeting of the County Central
Committee by gaining the approval of at least half of the Committee
members via email or phone request.
Please contact the chair or check the LPDAC website for more
information –
lpdacnm@lpnm.us / 575-541-9079 / lpnm.us/dona-ana.
Congressional District 3 – Adam Kokesh, while running under the
GOP banner, is a Life Member of the LP and is a hard-core
advocate of libertarian principles.
See kokeshforcongress.com for more.
Congressional District 3 includes, but is not limited to, Sandoval,
San Juan, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Roosevelt, Colfax, Rio Arriba and
Taos Counties.
If you live in a county with an inactive affiliate and want
to get involved, contact the county chair. See Page 6 for
a list of county chairs, campus contacts and Central
Committee members.
Special Events
2010 Libertarian Party National Convention
The LP's National Convention will take place in St. Louis, Missouri,
over Memorial Day weekend in 2010 (29 – 31 May 2010) at the
Renaissance Grand Hotel [ tinyurl.com/2zmnnq ]. For those not
able to afford high-priced lodging and amenities, long-time
Libertarian and St. Louis resident Tom Knapp has put together St.
Louis On The Cheap, an online guide to inexpensive lodging,
dining, attractions and transportation – stl.onthecheap.info.
Central Committee Meeting – Sunday, 13 June 2010
Lunch at 12:00 PM, meeting from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. All Caucus
members are welcome to attend. County Chairs and Contacts
and candidates are encouraged to attend! Location – Quarters
BBQ at 3700 Ellison NW in Albuquerque – see for map and
directions.
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"Every invasion of individual rights happens with the eager support
of people acting in the sincere and thoroughly mistaken confidence
that what they permit the state to do to others will never be done to
them."
"Political sovereignty, valuable as it is, must be regarded as a 'good
of second intent' – something that, while of great worth, is derivative
of, or subordinate to, a much greater good. The paramount political
good, according to America's founding premise, is individual liberty
protected by law."
– William Norman Grigg, Pro Libertate blog
“The Borders are Closing In” – tinyurl.com/2d55ppl
Note from the State Chair
by Jay Vandersloot
[ jayvandersloot@yahoo.com ]
5 May 2010
THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF NEW MEXICO has just today,
May 5, 2010, received notification from the NM Secretary of
State that we are once again qualified as a Minor Party in the
State of New Mexico.
I would like to take this opportunity, to personally, and on behalf of
the LPNM CenCom and the LPNM membership, thank both Bill
Redpath and the LP National Committee for their efforts and help is
coming up with the funds to make this happen. Without their help
we would not have been able to reacquire our party status and
ballot access in time for this election cycle. Again, thank you Bill
and the rest of the LP National Committee for you help on this.
Jay Vandersloot
State Chair, LPNM
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The LPNM's Candidates
U.S. House of Representatives, District 0
Mike Blessing – myspace.com/mikeblessing_2010
Bill Koehler for Governor (independent write-in campaign)
koehler4nmgov2010.blogspot.com
State Legislature
State Representative, District 11
Eric Pino – epelsewhere@gmail.com
State Representative, District 16
Mike Blessing – mike4nmh16-2010.blogspot.com
State Representative, District 22
Elisheva Levin – ragamuffinstudies.blogspot.com
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Other Groups to Network With
Rio Grande Foundation
See riograndefoundation.org for details
Liberty on the Rocks is a no-host supper club featuring speakers of
the limited-government, fiscal-responsiblity, individual-rights
persuasion. See riograndefoundation.org for details.
In March, 2010, the Independence Grill on Montgomery Blvd NE in
Albuquerque went out of business. Paul Gessing has found another
location at which to host the Albuquerque meeting of Liberty on the
Rocks on 20 May from 5 PM to 7 PM. That location is the Chama
River Brewing Co., located at 4939 Pan American West Freeway
NE in Albuquerque – see a map at tinyurl.com/ygrpcoe.
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
See these pages –
bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
jpfo.org/articles-assd/bastiat-the-law.htm
Also in PDF form –
jpfo.org/pdf02/bastiat-thelaw-2008.pdf
New Mexico Liberty – May 2010 – Page 2
 Liberty, Opportunity, Prosperity 8. Require judicial records to be posted online. There should be a
layman's summary of each case and the result. What are the
DUI conviction rates? What kinds of sentences do they hand
State has made strides down for what crimes?
in transparency As much improvement as the state has made recently in coming on
By Paul J. Gessing board with the transparency movement that is sweeping the nation,
[ pgessing@riograndefoundation.org ] it has a long way to go before it actually enters the 21st century and
16 April 2010 – tinyurl.com/29p86p5 joins the rest of the country in being truly progressive on
government transparency.
Over the past couple years, New Mexico state government has The government was created to serve its citizens. Rather than
made grade strides toward increased transparency. Citizens can stonewalling and making it difficult for citizens to find out what their
now watch or listen to floor sessions and both Houses now have elected officials are doing with their money, our elected leaders
floor votes online. Even better, this session, legislation setting up should enlist engaged citizens in efforts to squeeze waste, fraud,
New Mexico's own "Sunshine Portal" became law. This portal will and abuse out of state and local government. Adopting some or all
put convenient and freely accessible information about government of the initiatives above will go a long way to increasing citizen
finances at the citizens' fingertips. involvement and making government more efficient.
The Rio Grande Foundation applauds the bipartisan effort of the Paul Gessing is the president of New Mexico's Rio Grande
Legislature and commends organizations like Foundation for Open Foundation. The Rio Grande Foundation is an independent, non-
Government for the valuable role this organization plays in partisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization
furthering the very important issue of government transparency. dedicated to promoting prosperity for New Mexico based on
We, too, have enjoyed working to make government more principles of limited government, economic freedom and individual
accountable to New Mexico's taxpayers with the launch of our responsibility.
legislative tracking site, NewMexicoVotes.org, and our new This article originally appeared in The Deming Headlight.
government-spending site that is soon to launch.
But there is much still to be done in this state. The Rio Grande
Foundation has created a list of eight simple steps needed to really
boost government transparency in New Mexico.
1. Require NM state and local government entities, including
school districts, to provide information electronically whenever
requested, in response to information requests. Though we are
a full decade into a new millennium and the 21st century,
government entities in New Mexico usually send stacks of
paper documents to the Rio Grande Foundation in response to
our public information requests; that is when they actually
follow the law and send us the information. Government hurts
the environment and increases costs in numerous ways for its
own entities when it insists on providing information on paper.
2. Reduce the amount that government entities are allowed to
charge for information provided on paper. Current law allows
up to $1.00 per page for copying costs. It does not cost $1 to
make a copy.
3. Require government entities to give preference to the citizen
and the taxpayer over government and bureaucrats in issues
of transparency.
4. Require the state and local school districts to post online the
percentage and total amount of money appropriated that goes
to administrators and bureaucrats vs. teachers and the
classroom.
5. Bureaucrats who deal with the public should be required to
wear name tags. There should be signs posted at each of their
windows/counters notifying the public of the right to file a
complaint if they feel the bureaucrat has violated their rights, or
abused power. They should provide surveys periodically for the
public customers to rate them. Private companies do this
willingly. Government should be required to as well, and the
results should be made public. There should be a way for
these complaints to be resolved by an entity that is not
predominantly comprised of government officials.
6. Require the larger local governments to launch transparency
sites like the one Mayor R. J. Berry is about to launch for the
city government of Albuquerque.
7. Require calls and emails concerning government matters to be
returned to customers within two business days.

New Mexico Liberty – May 2010 – Page 3


How We Lost Our Souls
by Butler Shaffer [ bshaffer@swlaw.edu ]
14 April 2010 – tinyurl.com/3xxg2l6
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be
attained only by someone who is detached.
-- Simone Weil
Anyone who has not seen the videotape of the July 12, 2007, helicopter
attack by American soldiers that resulted in the deaths of unarmed Iraqi
civilians and two Reuters news employees, can view it on YouTube. After
months of requests, by Reuters, for this video – followed by refusals from
the military – WikiLeaks received a copy from an unknown source. The
revelation of this atrocity quickly raised criticisms not just of the practice, but
of the mindsets of soldiers who could so eagerly and gleefully carry out this
slaughter of innocents. Even the shooting of children at the scene produced
no apparent sense of wrongdoing on the part of the soldiers. One of the
best analyses of this evil act was offered by Karen Kwiatkowski.
How does such moral depravity not just occur, but become so pervasive in
our world? The occasional recordings of such behavior touch only the
surface of institutionalized viciousness. Was Rodney King the first person to
be brutalized by police officers? Were civilians shielded from execution-style
murder prior to the My Lai massacre? Did the revelations at Abu Ghraib
constitute the first acts of torture practiced by American soldiers upon
captive civilians? In each of these occurrences – a precedent no doubt to be
followed in the current criminal machine-gunning of Iraqis – one or more
scapegoats were selected for punishment, so as to distance the brutality of
their actions from the more pervasive inhumanity that inheres in the
institutions for whom they acted.
The central theme of my writing has been to demonstrate that allowing
institutional purposes to pre-empt our own has been destructive of life,
liberty, peace and, ultimately, of civilizations. We have long walked a line
between our need for social organization – as a way of satisfying various
mutual needs – and becoming so attracted to the systems that serve our
interests that we want to make them permanent. We move imperceptibly
from associations that we control in pursuit of our ends, to organizations
that become ends in themselves, and that control us in order to foster their
interests. When this occurs, the informal organization has metamorphosed
into an institution. I have developed this process more fully in my book,
Calculated Chaos.
An institution is no longer a convenient tool for our mutual benefit, but an
end in itself; its own raison d’être. It has taken on a life of its own, one that
differs from, and usurps, our purposes. Because they can only function and
survive through using people, institutions require humans to identify their
sense of being with them. To this end, government schools have been
established, whose primary purpose has always been to condition young
minds in the necessity and desirability of the institutional scheme of things.
In the words of Ivan Illich, "[s]chool is the advertising agency which makes
you believe that you need the society as it is." Schools also help us learn to
seek meaningful and well-paying careers within institutional hierarchies.
When we identify ourselves with, and attach ourselves to these institutional
entities, we absorb their values; their purposes; their modus operandi. Such
practices of attachment can be analogized to a cancer that metastasizes
our inner sense of being. In the process, we become dehumanized, for
institutions have no souls; no emotions; no spiritual, moral, or intuitive
sense. They neither cry, bleed, love, or experience elation. They are
machines and, like other machines, operate solely on the basis of
mechanics, linear processes, and material ends. When we become
institutionalized, we become little more than robots – servo-mechanisms –
functioning in response to how we have been programmed to perform.
The emotional and spiritual dimensions that make us human are of no value
to institutions which, in times of political wrong-doing, urge us to suppress
such sentiments. Anything that is nonmaterial is immaterial to members of
the institutional order. In place of deeply-held philosophic principles,
institutions have policies; their sense of "meaning" consists only of
perpetuating themselves by maximizing their power and material wealth. To
such entities, human beings have value only as fungible resources to exploit
on behalf of institutional ends.
It would be easy to condemn the soldiers who engaged in this slaughter as
"evil" or "depraved" or "insane" beings. Such is the manner in which we
have long accustomed ourselves to blanking out any awareness of the "dark
side" of our own unconscious. In such ways have we isolated ourselves
from the Hitlers, Stalins, Mao Tse-Tungs, Pol Pots, and other tyrants,
leaving us with the comforting feeling that we shared nothing in common
with them. But history informs us – if we will only look – that, once we have
identified ourselves with any purpose beyond ourselves, we can become
capable of the most vicious forms of wrongdoing. How do otherwise decent
men participate in a lynch-mob?
The state – an institution that is defined in terms of enjoying a monopoly on
the use of violence – is particularly attractive to men and women whose
"dark sides" are closer to the surface than those of more tolerant and
peaceful persons. When the state energizes this "dark side" – which it does
particularly in wartime, the quality that led Randolph Bourne to identify war
as "the health of the state" – otherwise decent men and women can turn
themselves into agents of savage brutality. When their murderous acts are
conducted on behalf of the state – with which most people identify
themselves – their actions acquire an aura of legitimacy that would not have
obtained under other circumstances; a distinction that would prevent them
from becoming serial killers upon their return home.
Identifying ourselves with the state, in other words, has a way of turning us
into sociopaths. It is not that the state does this to us, but that our
willingness to attach ourselves to external entities – and the values upon
which they are grounded – separates us from our focused inner sense of
being. This applies not just to the pilots of helicopter gun-ships over
Baghdad, but to more visible political figures such as Madeleine Albright –
who defended her Clinton-era policies that led to the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi
children – and Janet Reno, who defended her massacre of Branch Davidian
men, women, and children at Waco. More recent application of these
dynamics are found in George W. Bush’s fascination with starting pre-
emptive wars against the rest of the world, and Barack Obama’s apparent
willingness to use nuclear weapons in future pre-emptive attacks, as well as
to assassinate Americans.
People who are willing to embrace – or even to tolerate – such sociopathic
conduct, have lost all touch with what it means to be human; have lost their
souls. No federal bailouts; no increase in the Dow Jones Industrial Average,
or decrease in unemployment levels, will overcome this loss. Nor can any
"stimulus package" be enacted – with or without bipartisan support – to
restore the personal integrity long since lost.
There was a time, not so many decades ago, when brute force – particularly
when engaged in by police and military agents of the state – was at least
frowned upon, if not condemned, by decent men and women. The threshold
level for such practices continues to get progressively lower. A major
contribution to Barry Goldwater’s defeat in the 1964 presidential campaign,
was the unfounded fear that he might be willing to use nuclear weapons in
the war in Vietnam. Modernly, Bush’s and Obama’s willingness to initiate a
nuclear war have raised no major outcries from most Americans, who seem
to prefer "hope" (i.e., wishful thinking) over intelligent "understanding" as a
way of making the world free, peaceful, and productive.
When the 2008 GOP presidential candidate, John McCain, can garner
nearly 60,000,000 votes with his sociopathic dance of "bomb, bomb, bomb
Iran," should we be shocked by the butcherous conduct of some American
helicopter pilots?
Butler Shaffer teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. He is
the author of the newly-released In Restraint of Trade: The Business
Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938 and of Calculated Chaos:
Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival. His latest book is
Boundaries of Order.
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“Like every partnership, marriage should fit the individuals it unites, rather
than be a "one-size-fits all" proposition defined by those outside the
relationship. Each marriage should be what the partners want it to be – no
more, no less. Ideally, the terms of marriage should be defined ahead of
time with procedures to modify them as necessary.
“Just as anyone can engage in a business relationship, any individuals
should be able to enter into a marriage. Government's role in a business
partnership is to simply enforce, not dictate, its terms. Government's role in
marriage should be the same.“
– Michael Badnarik, 2004 Libertarian Party presidential candidate
New Mexico Liberty – May 2010 – Page 4

Harry Brown (the Movie)
by Mike Blessing
[ mikewb1971@gmail.com /
mikewb1971.xanga.com ]
After I saw the link to trailers for this movie on Facebook, I was
intrigued because of the name – Harry Browne was the LP's
presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000. What this movie appears
to be is a British version of the1974 movie Death Wish, starring
Charles Bronson.
The official movie site – harrybrownthemovie.com
The movie's American site – harrybrown-movie.com
The movie's Facebook page –
facebook.com/HarryBrownTheMovie
The Wikipedia page –
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Brown_%28film%29
More here – tinyurl.com/24qswlf
"No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like
cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim."
– W. Emerson Wright
It should be mentioned that the legal ownership of firearms in the
United Kingdom is de facto non-existent, and has been since
1997, following the Dunblane massacre. Following the 1997
Firearms Act, crime has gotten so bad that the National Vigilante
Organization has formed – see their site at navigor.org.uk.
The World Should Now Be
Considered in Revolution
by Robert Wenzel
6 May 2010 -- tinyurl.com/2g7tgaw
It is noteworthy that so many disparate groups currently hate
government activities that the Mayor of New York City was far off
on who drove an SUV into Times Square in an attempt to bomb the
famed landmark He initially said :
If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly
that. Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or
someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health
care bill or something. It could be anything.
There is so much anger in the world, a government can really be
confused as to who is after it.
Consider the range of anger right now. Completely different
philosophies, completely different views of the world, but the Times
Square bomber, the Tea Party movement, the Ron Paul movement
and the protesters in Greece have one thing in common, a rejection
of control by the global plotters.
Ron Paul is in most ways as far as you can get from the Times
Square bomber. Paul is non-violent and wants to work through the
system. The Times Square bomber planned to express his
objections to the global plotters by bizarrely attempting to blow up
an SUV in Times Square, but triggering all these actions is a
rejection of multi-national government attempts to force their will on
the people.
Governments have been slowly moving towards global this and
global that, well the one thing they have succeeded at is global
anger. People are pissed off in Toledo, Islamabad, Athens and Des
Moines. The degree of anger is different, the justification for the
anger is varied, but around the globe the anger is there, all in one
way or another traced back to multinational-government actions.
In Greece, it's multinational-government actions via the EU and the
IMF attempting to push "austerity programs" against the people. In
Pakistan, it's anger against the multinational-government military
actions in the area.
In the United States, its anger against the global banksters that
brought panic to the financial system and then raped the taxpayers
and paid themselves huge bonuses. The U.S. global banksters are,
of course,the puppeteers that are behind all these multinational-
government actions.
The banksters have created a world that is in revolution. How all
this plays out I have no idea. The genie will not be able to be put
back in the bottle. The anger appears to be deep enough that the
banksters may have to decide how evil they really are. Will they
give the order to crush the revolution, and I mean crush, resulting in
millions dead, or will they pull a Gorbachev and choose the noble
and wise way and let the flawed bankster built system collapse?
I don't think the people of the world have figured out yet that they
are all protesting, in one way or another, the same one world
government/banksters, but if they do, I would hate to be a bankster
or a tool of the banksters.
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from
saying that they don't like something to saying that the government
should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect
freedom to survive very long."
– Thomas Sowell
New Mexico Liberty – May 2010 – Page 5
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recopy New Mexico Liberty for non-commercial purposes, Plumbing Products Efficiency Act of 1992
specifically as use as an outreach tool, provided that New Mexico Anti-Money Laundering Act of 1992
Liberty is copied in its entirety. Use your imagination here. USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
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“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by
legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. To claim your prize, contact
But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is Mike Blessing at 505-515-7015 or
death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically send an email to mikewb1971@gmail.com
and without pity.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

New Mexico Liberty – May 2010 – Page 6

 LPNM Central Committee County Contacts
Chair
Bernalillo – lpnm.us/bernalillo
Jay Vandersloot – 505-362-1733 / jayvandersloot@yahoo.com
Mike Blessing – 505-515-7015 / mikewb1971@gmail.com
Vice Chair
Colfax
Elisheva Levin – 505-286-1387 / elisheva@elishevalevin.com
Richard Moore – 575-377-6849 / myliberty@mail.com
Secretary
Siebert Ickler – 575-541-9079 / lpdacnm@lpnm.us Dona Ana – lpnm.us/dona-ana
John Ennis – 575-571-6881 / johnennis2@gmail.com
Treasurer
Michael P. Simpson – michael.p.simpson@gmail.com Lea
Christina Groth – 575-397-9366
At-Large Representative, Seat A
Allen Cogbill – 505-662-7833 / acogbill@geopotential.com Lincoln
Richard Obergfell – 575-378-8025 / lplcnm@valornet.com
At-Large Representative, Seat B
Attila Csanyi – 505-286-7861 / drcsanyi@yahoo.com Los Alamos
Allen Cogbill – 505-662-7833 / acogbill@geopotential.com
District 1 Representative, Seat A
Mike Blessing – 505-515-7015 / mikewb1971@gmail.com Luna
Marilyn Steffen – 575-531-2556 / b_lamont5@hotmail.com
District 1 Representative, Seat B
Bob Finch – 765-412-2374 / nmlibertarian@gmail.com Otero – lpnm.us/otero
Gilberto Heredia – 575-439-8234 / thrill@zianet.com
District 2 Representative, Seat A
Gilberto Heredia – 575-439-8234 / thrill@zianet.com Roosevelt
Ken Sanders – 505-749-2085
District 2 Representative, Seat B
VACANT San Juan – sjclp.org
Gary Wood – zang5775@msn.com
District 3 Representative, Seat A
Ron Bjornstad – 505-891-4541 / rbjornstad@earthlink.net Sandoval
Ron Bjornstad – 505-288-4228 / rbjornstad@earthlink.net
District 3 Representative, Seat B
Mike Moss – 505-564-4905 / mmoss@plumbersoft.com
LPNM Vacancies
Membership Coordinator
Ron Bjornstad – 505-288-4228 / rbjornstad@earthlink.net Central Committee (3)

Press Secretary Vice Chair

Bill Koehler – 505-264-0835 / bkoehler8@comcast.net Treasurer
District 2 Representative, Seat B
Media Director
Bob Finch – 765-412-2374 / nmlibertarian@gmail.com County Contacts (20)
Catron / Chaves / Cibola / Curry / De Baca
Campus Contacts Eddy / Grant / Guadalupe / Harding / Hidalgo
McKinley / Mora / Quay / San Miguel / Santa Fe
Central New Mexico Community College [CNM]
Sierra / Socorro / Torrance / Union / Valencia
groups.myspace.com/cnmlibertarians
Mike Blessing – 505-515-7015 / mikewb1971@gmail.com College Contacts (3)
College of Santa Fe Eastern New Mexico University (Portales)
Morgan Wells – mwells109@gmail.com New Mexico State University (Las Cruces)
New Mexico Tech (Socorro)
Internet Resources University of New Mexico (Various Campuses)
Western New Mexico University (Silver City)
Official Website – lpnm.us
Contact the state chair if you're interested in filling a slot.
LPNM Discussion – groups.yahoo.com/lpnm-discuss If you don't, who will?
Open forum (unmoderated for the most part)
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Blog – lpofnm.blogspot.com
Facebook group – facebook.com/group.php?gid=20233114967
Ning.com social utility – lpofnm.ning.com
Myspace group – groups.myspace.com/lpnm
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"Anything repugnant to the Constitution is null and void."
– Chief Justice John Marshall,
Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cr. 137 (1803)

“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”

– Robert A. Heinlein

New Mexico Liberty – May 2010 – Page 7

 Libertarian Party of New Mexico
Enrollment / Renewal / Donation Coupon
(Please print in all areas)

Name ___________________________________ Address ____________________________________

City ___________________________ State ________ Zip ______________ Phone _______________

Email _______________________ Employer ____________________ Occupation _________________

[ ] I am registered to vote as “Libertarian” in the State of New Mexico and wish to [ ] join or [ ] renew as a caucus
member. I am paying $25 annual dues. I will receive a one year (12 issues) subscription to the LPNM state
newsletter “New Mexico Liberty” (the national “LP NEWS” IS NOT included) and I will have delegate status at state
conventions. I certify that I do not advocate the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals.

Signed _____________________________________________

[ ] I am not registered to vote as “Libertarian” in the State of New Mexico and/or [ ] I do not wish to sign the
statement opposing the initiation of force to achieve social or political goals. I am paying $25.00 for a one year (12
issues) subscription to the LPNM state newsletter “New Mexico Liberty” (the national “LP NEWS” IS NOT
included). I understand that I will receive no other benefits.

[ ] I am making a DONATION to the LPNM in the amount of $ ________ to be applied as follows:

$_____ General Fund $_____ Chairman's Fund $_____ Major Player Fund $_____ Win One Fund

TOTAL of DUES or SUBSCRIPTION plus DONATION $_________ to be paid as follows:

[ ] by enclosed CHECK payable to “LPNM” (Sorry, we cannot accept corporate checks)

[ ] by CREDIT CARD (circle one): VISA / MASTERCARD

Number: __ __ __ __-__ __ __ __-__ __ __ __-__ __ __ __ Expires: ____/____

Signature: _____________________________________________

Government mandated notices:

● The US Postal Service requires us to notify you that the annual New Mexico Liberty subscription cost is
included in your LPNM membership dues of $25.00.
● The Internal Revenue Service requires us to print “political contributions are not tax deductible” on all
fundraising appeals.
● The Federal Election Commission requires us to ask for the employer and occupation of each individual
whose contributions aggregate in excess of $200 in a calendar year.

The preceding notices alone should be enough reason to join the Libertarian Party, the only political party working
to increase your freedom.

COPY OR PRINT, FILL OUT, AND SEND TO:

LPNM c/o Ron Bjornstad

918 IVORY RD SE
RIO RANCHO NM 87124

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