Sounds like a great way for LP members all over to stay informed with their state legislature, as well as use some of these bills for campaigning. Informing voters on such bills could be beneficial to receiving votes in LP races.

This is great. There's not a State LP in the nation that shouldnt have a duplicate of this. You can really tell which State LP's are charting their own course and which ones arent.

A National version wouldnt be so bad either.
(hint) I hope the upcoming new lp.org will include this kind of functionality. For more ideas take a look at the Conservative Party of Canada's website -
http://www.conservative.ca/

And look at the "Video Center" right hand sidebar. That's the kind of feature lp.org needs. We can populate it ourselves, with media from the 50 states, and whatever web/TV ads anyone has going.

This stuff takes bandwidth and horsepower but it's worth it. LP.org needs to be a online libertarian community, not just a website. The difference is huge. I have high hopes these things will happen now have we have some folks that "get it", both at Hq and in the LNC.

No reader comments. Very lame.

Our last website was supposed to provide just that an a backup website for each state along with other services--forums, you name it. Sadly web company woes were followed when things lost focus with the last Chair. The current website built on it has problems in that much needed activist tools were removed, such as accurate counts of people in office, many manuals and past LPNEWS, and other materials.

Staff is at present limited but I too hope we will see more advances--

A blog to keep Libertarians abreast of issues, laws and legislation concerning their state is a brilliant idea. Not only will Libertarians know what is going on, but can also give their imput concerning all of it in general.

I would love it if the New Jersey Libertarian Party adapted something simular. A majority of New Jerseyites do not know much about what the legislature in Trenton is doing. Sure, they might read and hear bits and pieces of it in the newspapers and a little on broadcast television(provided that the New Jersey press deems it to be newsworthy) but not much in terms of real information about laws, legislation and proposals and what it all said and says.

If all Libertarian State Party web sites adopted this approach idea, I guarantee, not only will it incite public interests, education and activism, but will also bring new members into the Libertarian Party ranks.

We needs blogs like this on a National, State, and Municipal Level to get our message across. I visited the LP Indiana Blogs and The Conservative Party of Canada Website. They have some great ideas. We could even use E Cards as a way of spreading our message.

For many years the Vermont LP has done a program called Leglislative Watch. Which was a brochure that was distributed. It stated which bills the state LP endorsed and why, and which bills we opposed and why.

WEll, the Texas LP has forums: http://lptexas.org/phpBB2/index.php?sid=fef708b24f7f1ead235ebba7927700a3

I think its better to leave the legislative blog center to the think tanks and action committees. The New Hampshire LP leaves this sort of thing up to their offshoot--New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. I think its better when the party itself is concerned about elections and the media while their legislative activity is covered or complemented by a strong organization (NHLA) which is more fine-tuned and more adept at dealing with the state house and the legislative hearings. New Hampshire really has a wide variety of Pro-Liberty organizations which help the libertarian atmosphere and work in tandem as one big group of umbrella organizations. I can't say I really have a whole lot of hope for any state but New Hampshire. Good luck to the rest! I'll see you serious freedom fighters in New Hampshire via the FSP.

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We were told the lies so many times, it is good to hear the truth this once about the WMD's. Guess if you hear the lies often enough you would be tempted to believe it.

This isn’t a blog. Blogs have a way for readers to interact with the site, this does not which is unfortunate.

However, I agree that this is an EXCELLENT idea that should be duplicated. We need to monitor the police state, constantly taking its vital signs and sending our soldiers in where the threats are. Its much easier to kill a bad bill before it becomes law than it is to perform surgery and extract it.