If you live in Alabama or Arizona, we hope you’ll attend the following meetings.  New members are always welcome.

Alabama RLC Meetup

Who: Alabama Republican Liberty Caucus
When: Tuesday, August 31 at 7:00PM
Where: Southern Pain Specialists — in the “One Nineteen Health & Wellness Center”, on the Second Floor, Suite 204. 7191 Cahaba Valley Rd, Birmingham, AL 35242-6042. Map and directions: http://www.southernpain.com/Map.asp.

Pima County RLC Meetup

Who: Pima County Republican Liberty Caucus
What and When: The Pima County Republican Liberty Caucus will hold its August regular monthly meeting on Thursday, August 26th, beginning at 6:30pm. The meeting will be informal and will last 1 – 1 1/2 hours. We will discuss the primary election results as well as how to move the RLC agenda forward in Arizona.
Where: Canyon’s Crown Restaurant & Pub, 6958 E. Tanque Verde Rd., Tucson, AZ.
Facebook RSVP.

Activists Robert Hornak, Daniel Peterson, and Raquel Okyay organized a New York City meeting of the Republican Liberty Caucus Tuesday night in Manhattan. The turnout was excellent, with around 45 activists in attendance — many of whom became members of the RLC for the first time.

Notable guests included New York City Council member (and RLC member) Dan Halloran, Co-Chair of the Kings County GOP David Storobin, former Libertarian Party leader Gary Greenberg, Ron Paul NYC Meetup organizer Bill Buran, Assembly candidate William Gouldman, former Peekskill City Council member Bill Schmidt, New York RLC Officers/Board members, and several other organizers of local GOP groups.

The goal of the event was to charter a New York City chapter of the RLC. A New York state chapter already exists. Guests were asked to join the RLC and were treated to free food and great company.

Thanks to the organizers of the event for making it a success. Below are some photos from the event.

New York RLC Chairman/City Councilman Dan Halloran.

David Storobin, Alice Lemos, and Harry Lewis.

Daniel Peterson, Raquel Okyay, and Robert Hornak.

According to Brian Irving at his blog LibertyPoint, “’Legislators will legislate anything and everything in the name of safety’, Gary Johnson told a meeting of the N.C. Republican Liberty Caucus Tuesday night. The New Mexico Republican has considerable experience dealing with this penchant. He vetoed more than 750 bills and issued thousand of line-item vetoes in his two terms. Few of his vetoes were overturned.”

Members of the Republican Liberty Caucus, Students for Liberty, and Young Americans for Liberty gathered in Raleigh to hear Governor Johnson’s message of limited government and individual liberty — which he championed while serving two terms as Governor of a Democrat state.

Read more about what the Governor had to say at LibertyPoint.

RLC Organizer Nick Williford with Gov. Johnson.

Attendees mingling with the Governor.

Last night the Michigan chapter of the Republican Liberty Caucus hosted a Republican Secretary of State Debate at the Oakland County Commissioners Auditorium in Pontiac.

The candidates included were:
* State Senator Cameron Brown
* Oakland County Clerk & Register of Deeds Ruth Johnson
* State Senator Michelle McManus
* Calhoun County Clerk & Register of Deeds Anne Norlander
* State Representative Paul Scott

View the debate at http://blip.tv/file/4020645.

Thus far the Republican Liberty Caucus has not endorsed any candidate in the race.

Congratulations to the Michigan RLC affiliate for introducing these candidates to voters in a format that allowed them to hear their answers to the tough problems facing the state.

Please be our guest at the first annual Calvin Coolidge Clambake. A banquet to celebrate the legacy of our great Laissez Faire President, Calvin Coolidge. President Coolidge once remarked that the business of America is business. While President, he cleaned up corruption in government left individuals and businesses alone leading to the great economic prosperity of the 1920s.

Our keynote speaker will be John Fund, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Fund is also a contributor to the Fox News Channel. Mr. Fund began his career in journalism after a stint as a policy analyst in the California State Legislature. He worked for syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak as their investigative reporter before joining The Wall Street Journal, where he has been deputy editorial features editor and a member of the Editorial Board.

John Fund is the author of three books: “Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for Term Limits,” “Regulation Through Litigation,” and “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.” This will be a very special and exciting evening to bring together advocates of small government and to raise some funds to help elect Maine Republican Liberty Caucus endorsed candidates to the Maine legislature.

Sincerely,

Ken Lindell
Maine Republican Liberty Caucus

First Annual Calvin Coolidge Clambake
Special guest and keynote speaker John Fund

Please join us for a lobster or steak dinner to celebrate a President who respected our constitution and loved liberty. .

Italian Heritage Center, Portland Maine
August 26th 2010 – 5:30PM
40 Westland Ave, Portland, Maine 04102

Please reserve your spot by clicking a link below:

* non-member Lobster dinner $50
* non-member Steak dinner $45
* RLC member Lobster dinner $35
* RLC member Steak dinner $30

Or send a check to: Maine RLC – PO Box 115 – Frankfort ME 04438

After a grueling Texas State Republican convention which ran more than 4 hours overtime, tired RLC members staggered into the Aloft Hotel in downtown Dallas to attend a special statewide meeting of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas. Most of the attendees were also convention delegates, but some had come in from around the state just to attend the meeting. The Austin, Dallas and Houston areas were most strongly represented among the group of over 30 RLC members who were in attendance.

The purpose of the meeting was to reorganize the Texas RLC state board and recharter the state organization to address a peculiar situation where the state has a number of successful and active regional chapters but no functioning state board. In the three-hour meeting the attendees were able to elect provisional board members and executive officers, approve a set of bylaws, fill out a charter application and discuss various issues of concern for Liberty Republicans in Texas. The meeting was moderated by RLC National Chairman Dave Nalle who is a Texas resident and RLC national board member Dan Shiell.

The overall mood was enthusiastic in the wake of the hard-won convention victory of Steve Munisteri, the new Chairman of the Texas GOP. Munisteri has a background of association with relatively pro-liberty leaders and campaigns, including having worked for Ron Paul, Fred Thompson, Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan. He is expected to be much more friendly towards Liberty Republicans than his predecessor who was quite hostile and had even denied Debra Medina’s new advocacy organization a booth at the convention. Many of those attending the RLC meeting had been working hard at the convention to assure a Munisteri victory.

The meeting agreed to elect officers and board members on a 60-day provisional basis to be confirmed or modified and approved in a teleconference to be held within that period. This will provide time for RLC members in chapters around the state to review the work of the representatives at the meeting and for additional board members to be selected. Joey Dauben of Ellis County was elected Chairman. Judson Vandiver of Dallas was elected Vice Chairman. Dave Nalle of Travis County was elected Secretary. Joe Petronis of Austin was elected Treasurer. Board members elected at the meeting included Jeff Larson (Houston), Summer Yen (Austin), Patricia Nalle (Manor), Dan Shiell (Dallas) and Stephen Schoppe (Austin).

At a dinner gathering after the meeting, National RLC Chairman Dave Nalle commented that “After a convention where hostile party factions were at each others throats, being able to sit down with a group of real Liberty Republicans who so clearly shared the same objectives restored my faith in our movement and our efforts and the potential for achieving great victories for liberty in the Lonestar State.”

It’s just a few days until the Republican Liberty Caucus statewide meeting in Dallas.  The Texas chapter of the Republican Liberty Caucus has to rebuild and we need your help now more than ever before.

On Friday (yes, tomorrow) night at 8:30 pm, the Texas RLC will have a meet and greet gathering at XYZ bar at the Aloft hotel in Dallas. Please join RLC’ers to mix, mingle, and engage.

On Saturday, the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas will hold its annual business/reorganizational meeting 4pm at the Tactics Room at the Aloft hotel.  If the Convention floor fight extends until after 4pm, that is when you should arrive at the Tactics Room.  We have the room booked for the evening.

Please RSVP to attend these events on Facebook.

Judicial candidate (and former Judge) Melissa Goodwin and past gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina (pictured) will be addressing the Texas RLC. At the business meeting we will be electing a new board and officers for the Texas RLC and approving by-laws and rules. All are welcome to participate in these activities but voting will be limited to dues-paid RLC members, though you will be able to join the RLC on site.

If you can’t be there, you can follow the events at the convention through facebook (check out the group Texas Liberty Delegates) or on Twitter by subscribing to the feed for Texliberty.

We hope you’ll join us for the meeting and be part of restoring the RLC as a potent force in Texas politics and in promoting the  principles of limited government, free enterprise and individual liberty in the Texas Republican Party.  For more information, see our updated website at http://www.rlctx.org.

A special thanks to Dave Nalle and the Texas RLC Organizing Committee for making these events possible to members, future members, and other interested parties. See you on Friday and Saturday!

Republican Liberty Caucus of Utah Endorses Candidates at Statewide Convention
Caucus Advocates Change in Direction of Republican Party to Favor Limited Government

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 5/19/10
CONTACT: Julian Babbitt

Draper, Utah – The Republican Liberty Caucus of Utah, an affiliate of the national Republican Liberty Caucus, met over the weekend at its Annual Convention and endorsed the following candidates for public office:

* Mike Lee for U.S. Senate
* Morgan Philpot U.S. Congress, District 2
* Daniel Thatcher for State Senate, District 12
* John Dougall for State Representative, District 27
* Rob Alexander for State Representative, District 35
* Chuck Bateman for State Representative, District 5
* Ken Ivory for State Representative, District 47
* DJ Schanz for State Representative, District 20
* Craig Frank for State Representative, District 57
* Curt Oda for State Representative, District 14

Said the newly elected chair, Julian Babbitt, “Small government and personal liberty advocates have been increasingly frustrated with the Republican Party, best exhibited by the recent showing by Senator Bennett at our State GOP Convention, which gained national headlines. Our slate of candidates offers hope for the cause of liberty and for all Utahns who believe in a sharply limited government.”

All of the endorsed candidates share common goals of dramatically reducing spending, cutting taxes and an overall sense that government needs to return to its proper role and and exercise only those powers enumerated in the Constitution. With the Obama Administration’s trampling of states’ rights and personal freedom, the time is now for change at both the federal and state level.

The Republican Liberty Caucus of Utah is a grassroots network of concerned citizens dedicated to upholding individual liberty, limited government, and free enterprise within the Republican Party. The RLC’s mission is to recruit and endorse candidates who support its agenda, elect limited-government Republicans to political office, and change the direction of the Republican Party to reflect members’ vision of peace and prosperity. Learn more about the Caucus at http://www.RLC.org. A specific report on the event is found at the Utah RLC blog.

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In late February, the Republican Liberty Caucus of Michigan had its annual meeting, which featured guest Governor Gary Johnson. Here are a few photos from that event.

The Minnesota RLC held its Convention on April 12. Here are several photos from that event: