Leadership

Michael Pakko

Chair
chair@lpar.org | 501-716-0567

Dr. Michael Pakko is currently Chair of the Libertarian Party of Arkansas. Now in his second 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
vicechair@lpar.org

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.

Brooke Million

Secretary
secretary@lpar.org

Brooke Million has resided in Arkansas since 2008 and holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is a new and enthusiastic member of the LPAR, and she is excited to have the opportunity to serve the Libertarian cause.

Stephen Wait

Treasurer
treasurer@lpar.org

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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Shane Knight

Second District Representative
second@lpar.org

Dr. Shane Knight was raised in Mississippi County Arkansas, where his family founded Knights Disposal in 1976. The Knight’s relocated to Pope County in 1989, where they started another small business in the solid waste industry, Knight and Sons, Shane has earned both his Doctorate in Education and Ph.D in Psychology. Shane has spent the last decade managing campaigns on both the State and Federal levels. Before politics, he was in higher education, teaching courses in Administration and Leadership. Shane and his family currently reside in Saline County, where he works as a regulatory and enforcement manager for a solid waste district.

James "Woody" Woodall

Third District Representative
third@lpar.org

James Woodall has been a member of the Libertarian Party of Arkansas since 2012 and has served as Parliamentarian and Vice Chair of the Sebastian County Libertarian Party. He is proud to have served as a delegate to the Libertarian Party national convention in 2016. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He is also a musician, playing guitar and bass. James lives with his wife Melissa in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

James Michael Hood

Fourth District Representative
fourth@lpar.org

TJ Campbell

At-Large Representative
atlarge@lpar.org | 479-599-9573

TJ Campbell is currently the At-Large Representative for the Libertarian Party of Arkansas. Before moving to Arkansas in 2016, Mr. Campbell was active in the Libertarian Party of California and Michigan. He served as Vice Chair of Ottawa County's Libertarian Party (Michigan) as well as Vice Chair of Santa Clara County's Libertarian Party (California). He also served a 2 year term as a member of the California party's Executive Committee. He was a delegate to the Libertarian Party National Convention in 2008 in Denver, CO. He and his 2 children reside in Bentonville. TJ is employed as a Realtor for Crye-Leike, Realtors in Bentonville.

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The polarizing narrative that there's half the population trying to get away with not working isn't helping anything. Are there people like that? Yes. But it's not the sweeping hordes of mindless moochers that keeps being framed as a justification for abandoning the need for a social safety system. We have an abject poverty problem with the massive costs that inflicts on everyone in areas where market mechanisms have critically failed, and there's a real ROI on addressing that. More than that though, it's also hard to ignore we have a financial system that's entire existence was rooted in advantaging particular groups over others, with only incremental advancements in improving on that. There are people who have accumulated wealth in their accounts not by the merits of their own hands but by manipulations of a system that gamed returns away from those who created the value into the pockets of those who were given access to exclusive rules of engagements that skewed the rewards in their favor unduly. That also matters, and as a Libertarian who firmly believes the rewards belong to those who took the risk and made the effort, that's an issue that also needs fixed. There's a tendency to ignore things like that, to oversimplify the nuances in sweeping statements like the above that's one of my biggest barriers for being a full-fledged Libertarian supporter. I think this Party is on the right track but there's elements where the necessary nuance is being abandoned in trade for easy soundbites, sweeping generalizations, and inappropriate objectifications as to frame the extraordinary challenges we have in front of us as if it can be solved by deploying a one-size-fits-all policy and blaming others for where that fails. We need critical thought and dynamic approaches to address a world that is not black and white. Statements pretending the world is that simple don't help anyone. There are times where state sponsorship of failing services makes sense even under a Libertarian's sensibilities, despite that some might argue that is an approach that is borderline socialist, but where that's the only realistic option I think that is not only appropriate but necessary.

Isn't social security a trillion dollar bank, essentially all of which has been contributed by citizens, correct?

Unfortunately Dr. Adrian Rogers was born in 1931 and died in 2005. He was a great preacher. The quote is great, but the date is incorrect. "He didn't deliver this quote until 1984, not far removed from the start of the Reagan-era "supply-side economics" policies that demonstrated its falsehood. Second, attributing the quote to "Dr. Adrian Rogers" gives it a veneer of "learned man" respectability, but the late Dr. Rogers was a television preacher and demagogue, not an economist. Third and much more importantly, Rogers was playing rhetorical games in this paragraph and I’m going to dissect it piece by piece." W. Randy Hoffman

Why can't like minded socialists all band together and create their very own little socialist state all of their own and leave the rest of us out of it? That way they can be happy and we can be happy watching their creation fall apart

I wanted to express my gratitude for your post.

Is that supposed to be Rogers' birth year?

Not disagreeing with the quote. But it seems to leave a few factors out, oversimplifying "division of wealth"

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As a new political party what are the important dates we need to be aware of? i know i kind of got confused last year because the LPAR had to nominate some candidates early.

How does a person find the mission of this party Adam?

Good to hear! Now let's get some backing to Mark West!!

It's about time!

Hooah

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