The WCLP has an official Facebook group, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13166867388. For those with Facebook accounts, go ahead and join the group and get updates, event invitations, and network with other local Libertarians.

The WCLP's monthly meeting location is now the Tilted Kilt in Round Rock. The July meeting will be the first at the new location.

The WCLP will be having its July Social Night on Friday the 11th at Twin Peaks in Round Rock. The general time frame is around 6PM, but come anytime.

The WCLP will be holding a social night out on Friday June 6th at The Tilted Kilt in Round Rock. All invited to come out and join us!

The Leadership of the Williamson County Libertarian Party consists of the following officers:

• Matt McAdoo, Chairman
  512.965.3188
  chairman@txwclp.org
• Dr. Tad Whited, Vice Chairman
• Craig Stluka, Treasurer

The WCLP will be hosting the District Conventions for US Congressional district 31 and Texas State Representative 20. These will be both held on Saturday, March 22 at 7PM at the Georgetown Parks and Recreation Administration building's conference room (1101 N. College St., Georgetown, TX).

The WCLP has a new mailing list for members to use for all discussions. All members and those in interested in the progress of the WCLP should sign up to it. Here is link to it.

All the mailing lists and announcements are now self hosted by the WCLP, along with this website, and are all under the txwclp.org domain.

The WCLP will be holding its Precinct Convention March 11 at 7PM at the Georgetown Parks and Recreation Administration building. Google Map

The County Convention will be March 15 at 7PM at the Georgetown Parks and Recreation Administration building also.

There is going to be a fundraiser for Ron Paul this Saturday (May 19, 2007) from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM at The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. I encourage all members and other friends of Liberty to head down there and help out.Here is the official link for the event: http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-004300032-5.

Papers have been filed for an Exploratory Committee for a Ron Paul of President bid!!! Hell yeah, Go Ron Go!!!
Links for this good event:

• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243200,00.html
• http://wonkette.com/politics/ron-paul/save-america-ron-paul-for-president-228158.php
• http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/012065.html
• http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/11/ron-paul-for-president/
• http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/11/ron-pauls-presidential-chances/

U.S. Senator Scott Lanier Jameson
Governor James Werner
Lieutenant Governor Judy Baker
Attorney General Jon Roland
Comptroller of Public Accounts Mike Burris
Land Commissioner Michael A. French
Agriculture Commissioner Clay Woolam
Railroad Commissioner Tabitha Serrano
Chief Justice, Supreme Court Tom Oxford
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2 Wade Wilson
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4 Jerry Adkins
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 6 Todd Phillippi
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 8 Jay H. Cookingham
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 7 Quanah Parker
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 8 Dave Howard

The Williamson County Libertarian Party is changing the way we do business. In the past we would send out a few letters asking for membership and donations. Well not anymore...

With our growing membership comes a growing volunteer base. Our volunteers are allowing up to
proactively contact people that are interested in principled politics.

That is not the end of the good news! We have setup the infrastructure to handle monthly donations. You can setup your monthly donation in any amount and help save your party money on office supplies.

Look in the top left hand corner, you cannot miss it or click here and go directly to the form LINK

I don't know how this slipped by the radar but tonight the Round Rock City council will have a hearing to raise the tax rate. I encourage all citizens to attend the meeting and voice your opinion of higher taxes!

This Wednesday, Former Governor Richards has passed away. The real "tough grandma" will be sorely missed as her laugh and smile were highly infectious. She was a beacon of hope for silver citizens with her fight with Osteoporosis. She took to her fight with esophageal cancer as she did with her battle with Osteoporosis. The good lord has other plans for her and brought her home.

Your work was a success, may you enjoy retirement. Rest in peace

1. The region that includes Williamson, Travis, Hays, Bastrop, and Caldwell Counties was home to approximately 1.2 million people in 2000. This region is expected to more than double in population by the year 2035. If this growth occurs, which of the following statements best describes how you think the region should grow?

• Continue to grow as we have in the past, with most population growth being accommodated in new single-family residential subdivisions on the edges of Austin and neighboring cities.
• Accommodate more growth in central Austin by constructing new condominiums, apartment buildings, townhouses, and office towers.
  

I'll start with the anti Libertarian trends in American medicine. Any changes which remove choice from individuals and puts it into the hands of government must eventually result in loss of liberty for individuals. From this perspective, the provision of health care by the government (a responsibility of the federal government not found anywhere in my copy of the Constitution) must enroll in Medicare and begin to pay premiums no choice allowed, that you can use this government mandated health care benefit you must go only to physicians who are approved by the government you can see that there is definite loss of choice involved. Even more coercive for physicians, once a physician has joined Medicare as a provider he or she must submit copious paperwork in order to unjoin and must resubmit paperwork every two years in order to remain a non-provider of Medicare services and should a non-provider physician accidentally have a claim for payment submitted to Medicare, even by the patient without the physician's knowledge, the physician faces heavy fines or even jail time. So the physician's freedom has been curtailed. And of course the taxpayer's choice on how to spend their own money has been lessened by the amount the government must tax them to pay for Medicare, currently 1.5% of every dollar you earn starting with the first dollar of earnings each year.

CAMPO Survey

Considering the attitude that the CAMPO board has displayed at the toll road meetings I am surprised to see this on their web site.

If this is anything short of dissolving a regional authority and leaving the mobility planning to the elected officials, then they can count on a poor score from me.

(CNN) -- A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately.

In a 44-page memorandum and order, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, -- who is based in Detroit, Michigan --struck down the National Security Agency's program, which she said violates the rights to free speech and privacy.

"NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional" (2006) CNN website: www.cnn.com
retrieved on 8/17/2006
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First of all, considering that Libertarianism is based on maximizing the freedom, independence and responsibility of the individual citizen, it would mostly be a "non-system".

No prescription required! You could buy any medication you desired in any quantity at your local drugstore or online from any vendor in the world. Caveat emptor. About the only responsibility of the government might be to insure that the product you were buying was what it was labeled to be and that false advertising was not allowed. The "Pure Food and Drug Act" would be once again relegated to assuring that the drugs you buy are pure and unadulterated and will do what they claim to do. If you wanted to go to some sort of "health provider" and get a prescription, fine, if not fine also. Education as to the benefits and risks of medications would be required but need not be done by the government but could be done by the private sector with government oversight to assure that the information provided is unbiased. No license required! Any individual could be a "health care provider". You could spend your dollars (or the dollars your insurance company has agreed to spend on your behalf) on any sort of provider you want. Physician, nurse, chiropractor, holistic practitioner, acupuncturist, whatever would all be allowed to do what we now reserve to physicians. You contract with an individual to take a medical history, do a medical examination, and treat according to what you and they agree is proper treatment. If you chose to go to a chiropractor for your back pain or even for your lung cancer or your appendectomy, that would be your lookout.

Texas Crushed Stone Co. estimates about 80 years worth of mining remains on the more than 6,500 acres the Sneads' companies own near what has become a prime development intersection in this rapidly expanding city.

"No, no, no," said Jim Stendebach, Round Rock's planning director. "Not 80 years, not 80 years."
(Austin American Statesman, 8/7/2006))

If you have been reading the news lately you can't help but NOT miss that the City of Round Rock is planning to annex TEXAS CRUSHED STONE company (TCS). You also read that TCS has been giving material, land, and money to Round Rock for years.

Williamson County Precinct 4 Commissioner Frankie Limmer assumed office in 1999. Since then he has expanded his real estate development activities in eastern Williamson County -- the area he represents on the court -- to include several major development companies currently building large housing subdivisions. Several of Limmer's business associates are also doing business with the county: Charles Crossfield, the Round Rock city attorney who has been negotiating many of the rights-of-way acquisitions for the county's $350 million road-bond projects; Dan Hejl, of the consulting firm Hejl, Lee & Associates, has done engineering work for at least one of the county's road-bond projects within Limmer's precinct; and Ted Hejl, the Taylor city attorney, who has also recently been cut a host of county checks for road-related bond work.

Under the law, passed by the Republican-led state legislature in January 2006, paid voter registration workers must personally submit the voter registration cards to the state, rather than allow the organizations overseeing the drives to vet and submit them in bulk.

By requiring paid canvassers to sign and put their addresses on the voter registration cards they collect, and by making them criminally liable for any irregularities on the cards, the rules have made it more difficult to use such workers, who most often work in lower-income and Democratic-leaning neighborhoods, where volunteers are scarce.

Link to Yahoo news

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - High-tech passports touted as advances in national security can be spied on remotely and their identifying radio signals cloned, computers hackers were shown at a conference.

Radio frequency identification technology, referred to as RFID, used in cash cards and passports, can be copied, blocked or imitated, said Melanie Rieback, a privacy researcher at Vrije University in the Netherlands.

Computer hackers get lesson on cloning passport, cash card tags (2006) Yahoo News Website

The federal government keeps two sets of books.

The set the government promotes to the public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005.

The set the government doesn't talk about is the audited financial statement produced by the government's accountants following standard accounting rules. It reports a more ominous financial picture: a $760 billion deficit for 2005. If Social Security and Medicare were included — as the board that sets accounting rules is considering — the federal deficit would have been $3.5 trillion.

For the rest of this story visit USA Today

I've noticed an ever increasing amount of repeat traffic (no, not the google bot) hitting this site for updates. In case you did not know, if you become a member (it is free) you can "unlock" the site.

So hurry and sign up! Oh, remember to drop some money in the tip jar!

Ok, the newsletter is published for this month. We still have stuff coming in but I couldn't push the dead line back any more. You will most likely see a special edition for this month!

Fun stuff!

The Williamson County Libertarian Party will be hosting a booth at the Round Rock 4th of July Festival!

We will be handing out free Constitutions for the United States Booklets (also contains the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights).

We will also be handing out separate Declaration of Independence flyers in mass to everyone that will take one.

Head on out to the Round Rock 4th of July festival! Enjoy the festival, get a free Constitution booklet, and watch the fireworks!

For more information just click this link:

Suit Filed Against Williamson County

A Central Texas county known for tough stand on crime is coming under criticism. A new lawsuit alleges Williamson County and some of its judges deny defendants the right to counsel.

This lawsuit deals with misdemeanor cases that go through some of the courts. It alleges that sometimes defendants give up their cases to prosecutors.

This new lawsuit clams that defendants who come through the courts on misdemeanor cases are sometimes not given proper information about the court system.

"They're getting pressured every moment. 'Speak to a prosecutor. They're on your side,'" Dominic Gonzales with the Fair Defense Project said.

I would like to take a second to let you folks know about something new we have just released this month. If you look in the top left hand corner you should notice a FREE newsletter.

It comes out once a month but you will also get several special editions during the month also. These special editions cover WCLP events that develop during the month, urgent political news, and other tid-bits that we think you may be interested in.

Thank you for your time,
Bryan

We got'em! Here is your chance to talk to Matt McAdoo, the Libertarian running for U.S. Representative, District 31.

- OR -

Your Chairman

- OR -

Just talk about life, politics, or anything you want

Click here to go to the forum post

On March 18th, the Williamson County Libertarian Party held its county convention. We talked about a little business for the up coming year. One thing is for certain, you will be getting a good deal more on the party communication.

We also voted to move the Executive Committee Business Meetings, aka. the monthly meeting, to the FIRST Tuesday of every month. This is a better fit on everyone's schedule. ALSO, we are looking to move the meetings to a better location that is conductive to a business meeting environment. We still lean towards a restaurant since the meeting is right smack in the middle of dinner time for most people but we are not set on it.

On March 14th the Williamson County Libertarian Party held its precinct convention. We had a good time with the jokes we passed around and overall I think everyone enjoyed themselves through this election cycle.

We managed to bring on 5 new precinct chairman's and re-appoint a previous precinct chairman. We also elected 5 delegates to the county convention that is coming up on March 18th.

I hope everyone that did not make it to the precinct conventions can make it to the county convention.

Libertarian Party Mourns the Loss of Beloved Candidate, Author, and Friend

Harry Browne Dies at Age 72

(Washington, D.C.) Former Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate, noted scholar, and investment advisor Harry Browne died at his home in Franklin, TN on the night of March 1, 2006, after a long illness.

A well-known inspirational speaker and writer, Harry was the author of 12 books that sold more than 2 million copies. In 1996 and 2000, he was the Libertarian Party’s candidate for President of the United States, with popular vote totals of 485,798 and 384,431 respectively.

There has been a changed in the forum software used. The new software has better features and is easier to administer. With the change comes a catch, the new forums use a seperate database backend so your WCLP site login will not authenticate access to the forums (single-sign on); a seperate login to the forums is needed (dual-sign on). The previous postings have been moved over to the new forums though, so nothing is lost in that regard.

Any questions, comments, and compliments about the new forums can be directed to me, the WCLP IT Director. Any complaints should be directed to the WCLP Chairman. :-D

Cuban get-together Saturday, Feb. 4, 6:30 pm, Luby's on Mopac and Steck.

http://xld.com/Cuba/events/lunch.htm

DISTRICT CONVENTION

The Williamson County Libertarian Party will be holding the 2006 district convention for United States Representative for the State of Texas, District 31. The convention will be on March 25th from 7:00pm ~ 9:00pm. The convention will be held at the Georgetown Recreation Center which is located here: Map of 1003 N Austin Ave

El Linko

This is my latest idea to help reduce city government cost, increase citizen savings, AND promote environmentalism.

I pitch this to, who I thought was the Utilites director, and he seemed to like the idea, sort of. He did say that they city will be moving to RF water meters that will allow the technical side of this proposal.

I understand this is my *first version* of this proposal. I still have to plug in the numbers and run an analysis on this. Speaking in terms of principles this is semi-free market and semi-socialist. It still allows the city to retain ownership of the city's water but it allows free market pricing and application.

This is a water billing plan proposal for the Round Rock utility department.

This plan implements natural economic laws that promote fair billing and water conservation at the same time. It uses a cell phone like billing schema to accommodate city water users, allows them to save money, and reward them for conservation.

Suit Filed Against Williamson County

A Central Texas county known for tough stand on crime is coming under criticism. A new lawsuit alleges Williamson County and some of its judges deny defendants the right to counsel.

This lawsuit deals with misdemeanor cases that go through some of the courts. It alleges that sometimes defendants give up their cases to prosecutors.

This new lawsuit clams that defendants who come through the courts on misdemeanor cases are sometimes not given proper information about the court system.

"They're getting pressured every moment. 'Speak to a prosecutor. They're on your side,'" Dominic Gonzales with the Fair Defense Project said.

In this day in age of Presidential directed snooping privacy concerns are at the forefront again. Here well be a collection of tools that you can use to try to keep your 4th Amendment Rights a little longer.

Web Browsing
The first thing any freedom oriented person should realize is that your activities are ALWAYS traceable by default. But there are things that one can do. Tor and Privoxy are usable together. Your browser will first send the request to Privoxy, it will then be handed to TOR, which will then be routed around to get to final server. The requested data will follow the same procedure, but in reverse.

The poor guy is gonna get fried by the UN court but its good to see others in this world that stand up for their right to free speech.

Croatian journalist defies UN court with Internet publication
Thu Jan 12 2006 08:55:42 ET

A Croatian journalist charged by the UN war crimes tribunal with contempt of court has defied it by publishing the secret testimony of a protected witness on the Internet, reports and police said Thursday.

Domagoj Margetic put out on his personal website what appeared to be testimony by Croatian President Stipe Mesic during the 1997 trial of former Bosnian Croat general Tihomir Blaskic, the Jutarnji List newspaper said.

I'll be attending the Jan. 23rd meeting

Monday, Jan. 9 – Caldwell Heights Elementary, 4010 Eagles Nest St.
Tuesday, Jan. 10 – Stony Point 9th Grade Center, 1901 Sunrise Road
Tuesday, Jan. 17 – Forest Creek Elementary, 3805 Forest Creek Drive
Thursday, Jan. 19 – Gattis Elementary, 2920 Round Rock Ranch Blvd.
Monday, Jan. 23 – Round Rock High School, 300 Lake Creek Drive
Tuesday, Jan. 24 – Bluebonnet Elementary, 1010 Chisholm Valley Drive
Monday, Jan. 30 – Old Town Elementary, 2200 Chaparral Drive
Tuesday, Jan. 31 – First Baptist Church, 306 Round Rock Ave.

"We’re seeking public input into our planning process because the City is facing a budget challenge.

U.S. Representative, District 31 -- Matt McAdoo -- mcadooforcongress.com
State Senator, District 5 -- Darrell R. Grear
State Representative, District 20 -- Donald Zrudsky
State Representative, District 52 -- Lillian Simmons -- xld.com/ls/home.htm
State Board of Education, District 10 -- Martin Thomen -- martinthomen.com

The clock is tickin' and the UT longhorns will be playing in the Rosebowl for the national title. The years of coaching the Longhorns is paying off for Mack Brown. let's see if they can take it all the way!

Now I just cannot take watching football, just something about watching sports and not playing them is just boring. Somehow I just cannot get enough of college football... Maybe it is the false pretense that they do it for the love of the game and not the money.

ok, I have no idea where I am going with this. I have more coffee to drink

*Update*
Ok, trying to move all the old posts from the Yahoo site to this one is just plain nuts. Way to much work when the party has more pressing needs. I'm chalking the forum migration as a back burner issue.

Folks,

I've started the process of moving the archives from the the WCLP yahoo group and WCLP news Yahoo group.

During that process I noticed the members could fill out a forum posting but it would not publish to the forums (or anywhere else for that matter). That problem has been fixed!

I also discovered that people that try to reply to a post, cannot, unless it goes through an approval process. I removed that process and you can now post a reply to any topic that allows reply comments.

To start with, I have a few family members that live in Georgetown. They claim that the Georgetown city council is trying to raise the tax rate to force out the low income residents in hopes of bringing high income residents in. I also hear they are E.D.'ing the property along the river front with dreams to build a river walk.

Has anyone else heard of this?

The Longhorn Football team is heading to the Rose Bowl! Let's hope the boys in burnt orange will bring home a national title!!!!

UT Longhorns!

Brrrrrrr, it's cold out side. Still managed to make it into work today! Let's hope the guys in the bistro downstairs did also!