Carla Gericke, recently profiled along with me in a detailed piece by NHPR, made an appearance with me and other liberty activists yesterday at the annual Concord, NH 420 rally.
Carla’s the former president of the Free State Project and the current president of the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence, an outreach group that promotes New Hampshire’s peaceful exit from the United States. She didn’t hold back in her short-but-sweet speech at the 420 celebration at the state house steps, telling the federal government, “Fuck you”, as she announced her second attempt at running as a “pro-gun, anti-war” republican for the Manchester NH senate seat against a longtime incumbent democrat.
In the video, I also included the full video of her longer speech from 2017, since last year’s coverage only included highlights and I dropped the ball on finishing production of the full speeches. Here are both of Carla’s excellent speeches from 2018 and 2017’s 420 rallies at the Concord state house:
She looks great, by the way – you can really see a positive change in her between the two rallies. She told me she’s been off alcohol completely for six months – congrats!
More video is coming from other speakers at the rally, including the triumphant return of Rich Paul to the rally he created, so do subscribe to the Free Keene Youtube channel for the latest.
While I was unfortunately unable to attend due to prior obligations I’m proud to be able to say my partner was in attendance at the protest and it’s a shame that Democrats and Republicans can’t back up there arguments with rational logical arguments. I guess they fear the libertarian so much as to refuse debates with them. Maybe they should fear us. We’re going to overtake and demolish the state as it stands. Unlike the republicans and democrats who think short term libertarians are in it for the long term. We’ll be patient and as more and more libertarians move… Read more »
So what is this protest really going to accomplish? Libertarians are the red headed step children of the political world. It won’t do you any good.
But Jacks, debates are celebrated because they’re supposed to allow political candidates the opportunity to argue public policy from their perspective viewpoints. It’s pretty obvious, pookums, that WMUR and the Union Leader are barring LPNH candidates from their forum in hopes of affecting the outcome of the elections. That’s pretty deceitful of those guys, don’t you think?
It would be interesting to start or maybe buy a major news outlet in NH. I hear they are going for pennies on the dollar right now. Good time to get in!
Anybody have the info on who to call or email to protest this anti-democratic exclusion of Libertarian candidates from debates? The organizations that do this, and the candidates and media outlets who collaborate, need to feel the heat that what they are doing is not fair and not cool and they need to stop.
Ian writes, “…both organizations have opined in favor of getting money out of politics, but when it’s a metric they can use to exclude the Libertarians, they apparently support money in politics.” Exactly! It feels rather serendipitous to read this, as I just today made virtually the same point to a radio reporter who I got to interview me after pointing out her station’s biased presentation about a local bond measure which they said had “no organized opposition” (i.e. no campaign spending a lot of money). It’s a point of hypocrisy of many in the political establishment as well as… Read more »
You could probably use Google to locate phone numbers for the media outlets.
kk – Better Startpage or DuckDuckGo or another more privacy-respecting search engine.
Justin is a racist sexist pile of dog shit
Hitching the Free State wagon to the GOP isn’t looking like such a good strategy now, is it?