August 10 meeting

Kieran Shanahan, of the North Carolina Property Rights Coalition, spoke at Thursday's meeting about the mission of the NCPRC, which is "to provide a unified voice to advocate public policy that protects and preserves private property while exposing the misuse of eminent domain, excessive regulations, and burdensome laws." He also described efforts toward and asked for our support for getting the legislature to propose a property rights amendment to the state constitution. A welcome break from the politicans who say "It couldn't happen here," when speaking of the Kelo v. New London case, Mr. SHanahan outlined several cases where it already has happened here, and the flaws in North Carolina's laws and constitution which will certainly ensure it happens here more and more if something is not done to correct them.

Jeff Paul gave Mr. Shanahan a 'fiery' introduction, and Joe Humphries, who accompanied Mr Shanahan, was kind enough to stay around through dinner and join in the general discussion.

We also distributed ballot access petition door-hangers as part of a pilot project to reach out to our neighbors about the ballot access issue and get their support. The door-hangers are pre-printed with the petition and some information, and include space for a personal note from the Libertarian neighbor leaving them. If you'd like a couple (or couple dozen!) of these to hang, email Susan Hogarth at hogarth@gmail.com. They are not specific to Wake County, so Libertarians from anywhere in North Carolina are encouraged to try them out. If you can provide a few dollars for printing, that would be great.

Lastly, we discussed plans to carpool to the memorial service for Harry Browne. If you live in/near Raleigh and want to go to the service (which is Saturday near Winston-Salem), email Susan Hogarth at hogarth@gmail.com - there is still at least one space left in the car. We leave around 11:30 from northeast Raleigh.

There were about 15 people in attendance. It was good to see some people we hadn't seen in a while! :)