Transcript Welcome to “You Can’t Stop Freedom!” Election Night Party John Spivey

Welcome to
“You Can’t Stop Freedom!”
Election Night Party
John Spivey
Chair, Tarrant County Libertarian Party
First Introductions…
• Tarrant County LP Executive Committee
• Dallas County LP Executive Committees
• Denton County LP Representatives
• Collin County LP Representatives
Candidates – Please Rise!
We’re glad you signed on to the very difficult
task of being a candidate.
THANKS!
We’ve come a long way, baby.
The TCLP’s Recent Past…
• March, 2008 – Four guys in a house in Haltom City
• March 2008 -County Convention – Great Slate: 17
Candidates across the county!
• March 14 – started the meetup - from one to 93 (as of
Nov 2) … let’s get this to over 100 in just eight months!
• State LP convention in Fort Worth
• Bob Barr at John Shuey’s for a Barr-B-Q!
• Various events, parades, festivals, debates, speaking
engagements, television news stories, newspaper
articles….
• It’s just going to get bigger...
Here’s a look back at this last election
Our Web Presence Grew…
Our Media Presence Grew…
EVENTS GREW!!
Libertarian
What now?
This is most people’s opinion
Of us… Those that know we exist.
This is what we
Need to shoot for…
So now – We have to ‘Change’!
• NOT OUR PHILOSOPHY! NOTHING WRONG
WITH IT!!!
• We do need to change -THE WAY WE MARKET
OURSELVES
– We’re Selling Freedom! We’re Selling Peace!
We’re Selling Prosperity! We’re Selling Individual
Rights and Responsibilities!
– And I’m tired of sitting at the political children’s
table!! I’m done with that.
OK – So now what?
Money
TCLP
Events
(EC +
Members)
Campaigns
Outreach
and
Media
Remember, Remember,
TOMORROW is the 5th of November…
WHO’S WITH ME?!?!
The TarrantULAs®
The Tarrant United Libertarian Awards
• Categories:
– Tarrant Volunteer of the Year
– TarrantULA Scribe Award
– Tarrant Campaigns of the Year
TarrantULA® for Best Volunteer…
• Nominees are:
– Michelle Mallard, Website Designer
– John S. Jones, OPH Booth Director, Ex-Officio EC
Member, Dude who shows up at freaking everything!
– Robert Harrision, EC Member pulling double duties as
Secretary and Treasurer, OPH Boother
– William Sparkman, “Lifer”, TCLP EC Member and SLEC
District Rep, Signs for Texas Liberty
John S. Jones!!
TarrantULA Scribe Award ®
• Best Blogging/Media
– Allen Patterson, “The Whited Sepulchre”
– Suzette Watkins, “Morning Coffee, Evening Wine”
– John Myers, youtube /clearsky24
– John S. Jones. “The Browncoat Libertarian”
Allen Patterson
“The Whited Sepulchre”
TarrantULA® for Best Campaign
• Steven M. Smith, Texas House – Dist 98
• Bruce Beckman, State Board of Education 11
• David A. Casey, US House – District 24
This has never happened before!
A Tie!!
• David Casey, US House –Dist 24 Candidate
• Stephen Smith, State Rep – Dist 98 Candidate
Oh, and one more thing…
• Please consider supporting the ‘Save John
Spivey’s A** Bailout Fund’…
• My wife is out of the country and doesn’t
know YET how much of this is party coming
out of my pocket – make that our pocket…
• I know, I know – we’re against bailouts… but
thought I’d throw it out there for some alms
nonetheless. Anything is appreciated!
Thanks for coming!!!
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Action Items:
TAKE PICTURES!! VIDEO!!!
Join the Meetup! Right here! Right Now!
Join the Party! Right here! Right Now!
Join the Movement! We’ve got the coolest
party platform – let’s ‘SELL’ it now!!
• And give Spivey some cash if you can. 