Leadership | Libertarian Party of Arkansas

Michael Pakko

Chair
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Dr. Michael Pakko is currently Chair of the Libertarian Party of Arkansas. Now in his third term as Chair, he previously served for two years as Treasurer and for three years as the Second District Representative to the LPAR Executive Committee. Before moving to Arkansas in 2009, Dr. Pakko was active in the Libertarian Party of Missouri, including two terms as a member of the party's Executive Committee and serving for a time as Chair of the St. Louis County Libertarian Party.

Christopher Olson

Vice-Chair
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Christopher Olson is an Arkansas native. He has earned bachelor degrees in history, political science, and education from the University of Central Arkansas, and has been interested in politics from a very young age. He had been a member of the Libertarian Party since 1995. Though born and raised in central Arkansas, he now resides in Fulton County with his wife, Letitia, and their three children. He is employed as a mental health paraprofessional.

Casey Copeland

Secretary
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Casey and his family live in northwest Arkansas, where he works a family poultry and hay farm. He is also an attorney who specializes in representing children in family law disputes and foster-care cases. Casey has been a member of the LP since 2006, previously served as the Treasurer for the LPAR, and ran for Arkansas House of Representatives, District 80 in 2018.

Stephen Wait

Treasurer
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Stephen Wait was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. Stephen is employed as a manager at a Little Rock business. He has been a member of the LPAR since 2013.

Chris Lutterloh

First District Representative
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William Brackeen

Second District Representative
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Bryan Aguiar

Third District Representative
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Dr. Bryan Aguiar moved to Northwest Arkansas in 2001 after retiring from the US Air Force. He has been a member of the Libertarian Party since 2015 and became a LPAR Lifetime Member in 2018. He serves as Vice Chair of the Benton County Libertarian Party affiliate.

Ricky Harrington Jr.

Fourth District Representative
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Joe Swafford

At-Large Representative
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Absolutely. If we want the economy to get better, all we need to do is start accepting lower wages.I'd like to urge all of you to go to your bosses and ask them to reduce your pay so prices will go down.

Robot chefs dont spit in your food... unless they're programmed to.

I love you guys, but a post like this that doesn't give examples to your statement that, "They won’t even try to understand" without trying to educate them as to why and then say "They’ll just wave signs and chant slogans." makes no sense whatsoever. Suppressed minimum wages are damaging as well. The Self service kiosks, touch screen displays, and automation is already a thing and Employers that have the imagination to innovate are going to do this anyways. Don't just post to have something to post. Be different and make a difference. Don't tell people what to think, show the data, mane!

Y’all on fire in Arkansas with this one.

We need to do a better job of explaining that decoupling wages from skills and value is a bad idea. Many advocates of minimum wages are looking at cost of living as the metric to set wages not productivity and value. They think corporations are always going to hire the lowest cost labor regardless of if the labor brings value to the company. I disagree because whenever I apply for jobs they never ask me how low will I go to get the job, they ask me what my qualifications are. Another point is that many of these advocates have never hired a worker and dealt with the insurance, taxes, and paperwork associated with it. If you want 100% of your productivity to go in your own pocket, be a freelancer and then feel the wrath of the IRS directly.

Entry level/low skills.. matters not. Anyone working 40 hours/wk should be able to survive without government assistance. Period. Theyre already getting 15/hr. Just 7.50 of it comes from food stamps, tanf, section 8, etc. Stop subsidizing corporate greed.

And the fact that prices continue to raise and wages stay the same. We already have people working 40 hrs living in their cars.

This may sound good to the minimum wage worker but The people that the companies don’t out right layoff they will move to part time and they will all lose their benefits. And end up making less money because they are now part time instead of full-time. And let’s not forget the taxes will double which will cause them to earn even less money

All jobs that can be automated will be. If you aren't for minimum wage, please look into collective bargaining. Until then you are just slaves arguing over who has a better master.

People making $15hr now will demand the same wage increase and so on up the line.

....or we can fix this broken ass economy, and cheap ass companies that dont even pay their employees worth a fuck. Even skilled ones.No reason someone should be working 40 hrs a week pay check to paycheck, or in their car. Thats a lot of Americans right now. People wouldn't be demanding wage increases if the cost of living didn't skyrocket and wage stay the same.All in all... QUIT VICTIM BLAMING... AND GO AFTER THE REAL PROBLEM. Who do you think controls all this? You are not all smooth brains. Figure it out.

Machines are neither capitalists nor socialists.

I'm for $10.

Do people care whether their soda comes from a kiosk or a person's hand?

This was not designed to help anyone but to cause business to go exclusively to part time employees that they are not required to insure, resulting in support for universal government medical care and furthering their move to socialism. You are sheep and too ignorant to see the wolf.

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I would point out to them that not one damn person is obligated to for for them (or the dems for that matter. ) it is incumbent on the Republicans to convince people to vote for them.

They assume that all libertarians would have voted for Trump. If you split our votes down the middle, Biden would have still won.

So Republicans are both arrogant and delusional. Understood!

That would be a motherfuckers of a win if land could vote