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Melissa Lineberry (Melissa2) [Message] Interim state coordinator 303 W. North St Monroeville, IN 46773

Welcome to Indiana's Campaign for Liberty page! 

Take a look around.  Below are some informational links about The Hoosier State, followed by our state's calendar of events, followed by our state's blog (comprised of blogs posted by CFL members from across the state).  On the right, you will find our state leadership and prolific bloggers.  Indiana is on the frontlines of the Campaign for Liberty, so if you are a Hoosier, sign up, become a local coordinator, and join the fight!

Indiana Government:

US Congress

CD 1 - Pete Visclosky - (D)

CD 2 - Joe Donnelly- (D)

CD 3 - Mark Souder - (R)

CD 4 - Steve Buyer - (R)

CD 5 - Dan Burton - (R)

CD 6 - Mike Pence - (R)

CD 7 - Andre Carson - (D)

CD 8 - Brad Ellsworth - (D)

CD 9 - Baron Hill - (D)

US Senate

Evan Bayh (D)

Richard Lugar (R)

Indiana State Government:

Legislative Branch:

Indiana's General Assembly is comprised of 100 Representatives and 50 Senators.

Find your State representative or Senator:

http://www.in.gov/apps/sos/legislator/search/

Executive branch:

Governor: Mitch Daniels

Lt. Governor: Becky Skillman

Attorney General: Greg Zoeller

Auditor: Tim Berry

Secretary of State: Todd Rokita

Treasurer: Richard Mourdock

Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tony Bennett

Judicial Branch:

Find out about the courts of Indiana here:

http://www.in.gov/judiciary

Find out about the Supreme Court here:

http://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme

Hostettler voted for Ron Paul in the 2008 primary and would gladly do it again in 2012 Posted by e rowe

Posted 03/08/10 Last updated 03/08/10

Here's a report on Saturday's debate in Warsaw, where, apparently the question came up of who should be president in 2012, and Hostettler said he voted for Ron Paul in the 2008 primary and would do it again in 2012.<
br />http://reasonbellpundit.blogspot.com/2010/03/indiana-senate-debate-at-warsaw-tea
.html

He's also on record saying he voted for Chuck Baldwin in the 2008 general election. Chuck Baldwin was a staunch Ron Paul supporter in the primary and was also the candidate Paul endorsed for the general election.

When Ron Paul ran in 2008, he had no endorsements from sitting members of Congress. In 2012, if both Hostettler and Rand win, he'll have 2 endorsements from sitting senators!

YAL trying to bring Tom Woods to Indiana but get called names instead Posted by Melissa2

Posted 03/07/10 Last updated 03/08/10

  Ok here is the email our Young friends in Bloomington sent out to get Tom Woods to Bloomington latter this year and after you read it please read the report by the Herald Times about our young friends as not only do they try to make YAL members look bad but they actually resort to NAME CALLING. Please write the Herald times to let them know what you think about this.

  Melissa  

 Dear Fellow Supporter of Liberty,  

For the past year, Young Americans For Liberty at Indiana University Bloomington has fought hard to further the cause of liberty on IUB's campus. IU has yet to bring any speakers to campus who are vocal about constitutional government, individual liberty, free markets, or sound money.  

Thomas E. Woods, Jr. embodies all of these values that are central to what Young Americans For Liberty stands for. Woods is an extremely accomplished individual. A two time New York Times bestselling author and senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and a master's, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.  

 Woods has also appeared on a variety of TV news shows representing the Austrian School of Economic thought. Furthermore, he is an expert on the current economic crisis, how it happened, why government intervention is the problem, and free market solutions to help put the USA back on it's feet.  

Twice, this event was presented to the Union Board Lectures Committee at IU  in order to obtain their sponsorship for the event, and twice it was rejected. However, Young Americans For Liberty strongly believes that it is imperative that the voice of liberty is heard on Bloomington's college campus.  

YAL @ IUB has already raised over $2000 toward bringing Woods to campus. To make this event a reality, we need to raise a minimum of $4000. Woods is scheduled to come to campus on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 to lecture about the financial meltdown from 7:00PM-9:00PM.  

Prior to the event, from 5:30PM-6:30PM there will be a private sponsor's reception with Woods, which will give those individuals attending the reception the opportunity to have a meet and greet with Woods including taking photos and getting autographs. After the event Woods will do a book signing where a variety of his works will be available for purchase.

The event will be open to the public on a  first come, first serve basis. The following are the multiple levels of sponsorship:   

Supporter    $25* One Ticket for a reserved seat at the event**   S

ilver Sponsor    $100 One Ticket for a reserved seat at the event One Ticket to invitation-only private reception with Tom Woods  

Gold Sponsor $250 One Ticket for a reserved seat at the event One Ticket to invitation-only private reception with Tom Woods One Copy of Tom Woods' newest book "Nullification"  

Platinum Sponsor      $500
              &
nbsp;  Five Tickets for reserved seats at the event Three Tickets to invitation-only private reception with Tom Woods One copy of Tom Woods' newest book "Nullification" 96 x 30 Table in entrance way of the event for your business or organization Your name, business, or organization published on all promotional materials.

  *If you have made a contribution prior to the release of this letter, you qualify for the sponsorship level that corresponds with your donation amount. If you wish to make a second contribution, your net contribution will be considered toward your sponsorship level.

**Student reserved seating is also available for $5 a seat (Please include "Student" in the donation memo and bring a valid Student ID to the door at the event). Campus Reform recently interviewed me and Ryan Guilliam, YAL's Media Director, at CPAC 2010 on the matter:  
http://www.campusreform.org/videos/cpac-2010-campusreformorg-speaks-with-two-members-
of-young-americans-for-liberty  

Donate HERE   (>https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=D9HG8PJNT8S
QA)   to support the message of freedom on Indiana University's Bloomington campus.   In the name of Liberty,  

Samuel Spaiser President Young Americans For Liberty at Indiana University Bloomington      

Here is the Herald times article with Writers email address  

http://www.heral
dtimesonline.com/stories/2010/03/07/digitalcity.qp-7395699.sto

COMMENT
ARY
Group needs talking-to about bias
By Mike Leonard 812-331-4368 | mleonard@heraldt.com
March 7, 2010, last update: 3/6 @ 11:48 pm

It's a favorite and well-worn tactic of the far right to complain that they're abused minorities on college campuses and the hypocritical left is denying them their rights.

These are folks who come from the same ideological tree that touts majority rule when they find themselves in the majority. The same people who opposed civil rights in the 1960s and continue to show themselves as hostile to programs for racial and ethnic minorities. People who label pleas for fair treatment of gays and lesbians as preferential treatment.

The wing-nuts.

They're at it again on the Indiana University campus, and you have to give them credit in the same way you admire mice for trying to become rats.

The issue this time is how IU and the Indiana Memorial Union Board are trying to keep a conservative firebrand from speaking on campus.

It's a canard.

Last fall, the IU Young Americans for Liberty approached Union Board and asked the group to sponsor a speech by Thomas E. Woods Jr., a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala. Never heard of it? You're not the Lone Ranger.

It wasn't a "how can we work together to bring in this speaker?" kind of request. It was a "give us $4,000 or we'll scream bloody murder that you're a bunch of leftist elitists" deal.

The Union Board lectures director at the time checked in at the economics department, got the "cuckoo-cuckoo" whistle from a faculty member and dismissed the arrogant demand, probably a bit too tersely, by saying Woods lacked "sufficient academic credibility."

And so the YALs complained to the news media and scored a "IU doesn't (heart) conservatives" splash.

The YALs came back at Union Board this semester, after a new board of directors had been seated, and made the same request for money to bring in Woods. They were rejected again. But this time, the Union Board students spoke slowly and clearly and still, the YALs didn't get it, or didn't want to.

YAL member Margaret Marrow complained to The Herald-Times, repeating what the previous lectures director had said, which isn't applicable now. "IU previously spent $45,000 to bring John Edwards, a disgraced liberal politician, to speak on campus, but refused Woods a speaking opportunity despite his more reasonable speaker's fee of $4,000."

Woods may be a friend of Fox News, but he has never been a U.S. senator or serious contender to become president of the United States. And neither IU nor Union Board refused Woods a speaking opportunity. Union Board simply declined to throw money at a program that was already planned.

"We told them we were very willing to work with them, but Union Board is a programming board, and we work with organizations from the ground up in the planning and execution of events," current lectures director Erika Hall said last week. "We're not here to just hand out checks.

"They had already negotiated with an agent and booked everything and had everything set up," she said. "They weren't willing to work with us and go at this thing hand-in-hand. They were really taking this edge that we're biased, and our response was, no, that's not it. But they refused to accept that."

YAL President Samuel Spaiser confirmed that on Friday. "The fact that they said we were too prepared, that just seems a little bit ridiculous to me," he said. "They seemed really genuine and friendly, and a lot of people said they had no issues politically. Many people stressed it was not an issue of political philosophy. But their argument felt very superficial, I will say that."

Transparency is superficial? Who writes these people's talking points, Karl Rove?

The Union Board Lectures committee includes about 10 volunteers and can include anyone from campus, even YAL members. When a proposal comes to them, they analyze it: Does it fit Union Board's mission statement? Is it a timely event? Will it be of interest to students and/or the community?

If the idea meets muster, it goes to the entire body of about 20 Union Board directors. They go over the proposal, ask many of the same questions, and vote on it. If it passes, then it goes back to the Lectures committee, which works on every aspect of the planning and execution of the event.

"There is a professional development aspect to being on Union Board. That's why we're here," Hall explained. "Committee members get hands-on experience in booking venues and finding the right people to contact and seeing if we have the technology in place and the room set up. All of those kinds of things. We are absolutely willing to work with any campus group to do a project, but doing the project is how members learn.

"We explained that over and over," she said. "It's not ideology. It's the aspects of programming. If another group came in with everything planned out and done and all they wanted was a monetary contribution, we'd say the same thing."

Spaiser derides the Union Board decision on a national Campus Reform Web site, where, wouldn't you know it, other campus far-right groups are using the same tactics to ambush student groups and universities with false claims of ideological bias.

"I felt like they thought if they kept pushing the media aspect, we'd give in," Hall said. "We don't make special exceptions. We are a programming board. And this is how things have worked at Union Board for 101 years now."


 

 

CFL member James Werner filed for County Auditor Posted by Melissa2

Posted 02/20/10 Last updated 02/20/10

The article is below and if you want to find out more about James or if you already a fan here is his face book page

 http://www.facebook.com/n/?pages%2FJames-C-Werner-for-Tippecanoe-County-Auditor
%2F317190418195&mid=1e98665G315bf1b2G4237514G4c

http://www.jconline.com/article/20100219/NEWS09/100219019

A GOP challenger filed just before today's noon deadline to run for Tippecanoe County auditor.

James Werner, a senior deputy in the county assessor's office, will challenge Auditor Jennifer Weston on May 4 in the Republican primary.

Weston, who is running for a second term in office, said she did not have any immediate comment after learning of Werner's filing.

Werner said one of his goals in seeking the auditor's seat is to better document government processes.

Because the county council and board of commissioners meet during daytime hours, Werner said the meetings should be videotaped and put online. Or at least, he said, better minutes should be taken to account for what happens during the meetings.

"In a nutshell: I want to make it more transparent," he said.

Werner also defended the work of Assessor Samantha Steele-Coles, a Democrat who's had known rifts with many of Tippecanoe County's GOP officeholders.

"Lots of blame is placed on the assessor with the late tax bills, but the auditor has a role, too," Werner said. "I've had to deal with a lot of the same issues (Samantha) has had to deal with. I see a lack of communication and efficiency."

For more on this and other election stories, read Saturday's Journal & Courier.

LAST WEEK TO SIGN UP TO BE A DELEGATE Posted by Melissa2

Posted 02/15/10

HEY ALL SOME OF YOU HAVE WROTE ME THAT YOU HAVE SIGNED UP TO BE A STATE DELEGATE AND I HAVE BEEN VERY HAPPY AT THE RESPONSES BUT WE NEED MORE AND THIS IS THE LAST WEEK

PLEASE FILL OUT THE CAN 37 THE DEADLINE IS NOON ON FRIDAY

LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED HELP

MELISSA

Ron Paul urges his supporters to help elect Hostettler to the Senate Posted by e rowe

Posted 02/11/10 Last updated 02/11/10

Here's an email I just received from Ron Paul. If you live in Indiana and you're on his email list, you received it too:

URGENT! Help Put John Hostettler on the Ballot in Indiana for the Cause of Lib‏erty

Congressman Ron Paul

Dear Supporter,

My friend and former colleague John Hostettler is closing in on having the required number of signatures to put him on the ballot to run for the U.S. Senate. However, John specifically needs more signatures in the 6th and 7th Congressional districts. These districts are represented by Rep. Andre Carson in the 7th and Rep Mike Pence in the 6th.

Volunteers will be at the Holiday Inn North @ the Pyramids in Indianapolis TODAY February 11th from 10:00am - 10:00 pm to collect signatures from anybody who would like to stop by and sign a petition. From 8:30 pm until 10:00pm there will be a time to meet and speak personally with John Hostettler at the same location.

If volunteers would like to gather signatures from family and friends before coming to the motel, there is a Downloadable Form (PDF) of the candidate petition form with John Hosttetler's information already filled in.

Instructions for Petition form

Print out page one and if possible, print page 2 on the back of the form. Fill in the form with the requested signature information. Street addresses are required, P.O box addresses cannot be certified. Drop off your form at the Holiday Inn @ the Pyramids on February 11the between 8:00am and 10:00 pm. Even if you only have one signature, every signature counts, but why not have a few friends sign it too for the cause of liberty.

Directions:
Holiday Inn Indianapolis-N @ The Pyramids
3850 Depauw Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46268
Take EXIT 27, I-465 & MICHIGAN ROAD (US 421)

In Liberty,

Ron Paul