Tennessee
LP of TN Convention April 8 2006
2006 Tennessee Libertarian Party Convention Report
Report on FSP table at the 4/8/06 TN LP Convention by Keith Carlsen
On Saturday April 8th, I ran a Free State Project table at the Tennessee Libertarian Party Convention in Nashville, TN. The Convention was typical of LP meetings, low on attendees but high on energy. Speeches were given by lots of folks including think tank chairs and political candidates from more than one political party.
Two people became Friends of the FSP and another person signed up for the FSP News. Tennessee has three active LP county chapters. I already bring FSP related information to one of the county chapters every few months. I put together FSP info packets and gave them to the FSP supporters that live in the other two counties so LP members in all of the active counties will be frequently reminded of the FSP.
Respectfully, Keith Carlsen
Bottom photo info: Keith setting up the FSP table with help from JR Enfield, new Friend of the FSP
Libertarian Party of Tennessee Convention, April 7-8, 2006
2006 Tennessee Libertarian Party Convention Report
Report on FSP table at the 4/8/06 TN LP Convention by Keith Carslen
On Saturday April 8th, I ran a Free State Project table at the
Tennessee Libertarian Party Convention in Nashville, TN.
The Convention was typical of LP meetings, low on attendees but high on energy.
Speeches were given by lots of folks including think tank chairs and political
candidates from more than one political party.
Two people became Friends of the FSP
and another person signed up for the FSP
News . Tennessee has three active LP county chapters. I already bring FSP related information
to one of the county chapters every few months.
I put together FSP info packets and gave them to the FSP supporters
that live in the other two counties so LP members in all of the active counties will be frequently reminded of the FSP.
Respectfully,
Keith Carlsen
LP of TN Convention April 8 2006
Recruitment Challenge
The January 2006 Free State Project Recruitment Challenge
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Results are in! The official January signup count is in and we welcomed 60 new Participants! This result is well above our usual January doldrums. The January Recruitment Challenge was generously sponsored by the Tennessee Local Group and then matched by Vince Silvia and John P. Cunningham of Massachusetts. All three are donating $10 for each new January signup (Vince up to $500), so with 60 new Participants, the total donated comes to $1,700. Thank you to our kind sponsors, and a special thanks to each and every one of the 60 new people who joined the FSP in January! (2/12/06) |
The members of the Tennessee FSP local group are committed to the future success of the FSP. We have worked hard in 2005 to recruit new members to the FSP. Participants and Friends of the FSP posted recruitment flyers on college campuses from Chattanooga to Memphis. We appeared on two talk radio shows and set-up a table at the 2005 Gandhian Conference on Nonviolence. We also gave speeches at a couple Libertarian Party county meetings and set up a table at the state Libertarian Party convention.
However, we could have done much more, and much more is exactly what we plan to do in 2006. The TN FSP will start off the year with a recruitment challenge for our comrades:
For every member that joins the FSP in January 2006, the TN FSP will donate ten dollars to the FSP.
This is the perfect opportunity for fence sitters to hop off the fence and into the Free State. Need an excuse to have a local group meeting? Use this drive as the excuse. Need that extra incentive to post recruitment flyers around your town? Use this drive as the excuse. Over the last few months, the FSP has gained around fifty new members per month. Fifty times ten dollars is five hundred dollars. We're prepared to contribute that and moremake us give more! More money for the FSP means more money for recruitment. More money spent on recruitment means even more new participants.
| 01/15/06 Update: John P. Cunningham (of Massachusetts) has also matched the pledge. He will donate $10 to the FSP for each new membership in the month of January 2006 - up to $10,000! |
| 12/18/05 Update: Vince Silvia (of Massachusetts) has pledged to match the TN FSP with an additional $10 for each new membership in the month of January 2006 up to $500. And he challenges any other FSPer to match him! |
Excited about recruiting new members in January 2006? Excellent. For useful resources, see the following parts of the FSP website:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Community Center
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Local Groups
Local Groups
• To find your Local Group, click on your location in the map below!
• Want to learn how help your Local Group become better?
• See some success stories in Real Activism.
• Find out about events at our Calendar of Events
• Discuss other outreach activities in our Local Group forums.
• Read the Local Groups Coordinator's Blog, make comments and give feedback.
• Of course you can always just E-mail the Local Groups Coordinator.

| Region | Porcupine Group | Contact | Email List |
FSP Forum |
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| Northeast | New England (ME VT) (For NH, click here) |
Rich Tomasso | Yahoo | Forum | |
| Mass & RI | Jon Maltz | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Connecticut | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | <!-- Fri 1/21 7pm at Molten Java Coffee Roasters in Bethel, CT.
Details.
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| Tristate (NYC NJ PA CT-suburbs) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Central NY | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Western NY (Buffalo-Niagara-Rochester) |
Jason Sorens | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Western PA | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | <!-- ****************************************************************** --> |
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| Mid- Atlantic |
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD se.PA s.NJ n.VA) |
Phil Denisch | Yahoo | Forum | Usually the third Saturday of every month. See the FSP Forum for details. |
| Appalachians (WV w.MD w.VA) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | Appalachians FSPers are more than welcome at the Mid-Atlantic meetings (above). | |
| Coastal VA & NC (se.VA ne.NC) |
Bryan Stevenson | Yahoo | Forum | <!-- ****************************************************************** --> |
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| South | Florida-all Florida-Suncoast |
Tim Condon (Vacant*) |
Yahoo Yahoo |
Forum Forum |
Regularly scheduled dinners in Tampa Bay. |
| Georgia | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Alabama (AL w.FL) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Arkansas | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Tennessee | Keith Carlsen | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Bayou (LA MS) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | |||
| Carolinas (SC NC e.TN) |
Chris Rasch | Yahoo | Forum | Third Saturday of every month at Chris' apartment in Raleigh, 2-4 pm. <!-- ****************************************************************** --> | |
| Midwest | Minnesota | Steve Bottari | Yahoo | Forum | For more info see Meetup.com |
| Wisconsin | Richard Whitnable | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Chicago- Milwaukee (s.WI n.IL ne.IN) |
Tim Bauman & Vito Vitkauskas | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Midwest (MI n.OH ne.IN) |
Jeremy Couch | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| St. Louis (e.MO w.IL) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Bluegrass (KY s.OH s.IN se.IL) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | <!-- ****************************************************************** --> |
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| Plains | Breadbasket (SD ND NE) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | |
| Kansas (KS w.MO) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Iowa | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | <!-- ****************************************************************** --> |
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| Mountain | Big Sky (MT ID WY) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | |
| Utah | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Colorado | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | <!-- ****************************************************************** --> |
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| Southwest | Arizona | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | |
| New Mexico | Amanda Odom Powell | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Oklahoma | Holland O. Van den Nieuwenhof | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| North Texas U of TX - Dallas |
James Strater (Vacant*) |
Yahoo Yahoo |
Forum | ||
| South Texas | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | <!-- ****************************************************************** --> |
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| Pacific | Pacific NW (OR WA) |
(Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | |
| N. California | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | Bay area local group meetings | |
| San Diego County | Andrew Del Vecchio | Yahoo | Forum | Irregular meetings, but periodic events with other libertarian orgs. | |
| Nevada | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Hawaii | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Alaska | (Vacant*) | Yahoo | Forum | ||
| Region | Porcupine Group | Contact | Email List |
FSP Forum |
Meeting(s) |
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