LPAR Elects New Officers, Honors Award Recipients

April 9, 2017

At its annual State Convention on Saturday, April 8, the Libertarian Party of Arkansas elected new officers and Executive Committee delegates, and honored a number of its members with awards.

The new slate of officers and Executive Committee members is as follows:

Chair – Michael Pakko
Vice-chair – Christopher Olson
Secretary – Brooke Million
Treasurer – Stephen Wait
First District Rep. – Chris Lutterloh
Second District Rep. – Shane Knight
Third District Rep. – James “Woody” Woodall
Fourth District Rep. – James Michael Hood
At-Large Rep. – TJ Campbell

This year’s award recipients were

Standard Bearer of Liberty – Frank Gilbert
Chairman’s Award for Extraordinary Service – Stephen Wait
Volunteer of the Year Award – Garry Lynn Baker
Outreach Award – Michael Vaughn
Candidate of the Year Award – Mark West
Campaign Leadership Award – TJ Campbell

The LPAR thanks its officers and award recipients for their dedicated service to the cause of liberty.

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More about the LPAR Executive Committee: https://lpar.org/about-the-lpar/leadership/

More about LPAR award recipients: https://lpar.org/about-the-lpar/lpar-awards/

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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

LPAR Elects New Officers, Honors Award Recipients

LPAR Elects New Officers, Honors Award Recipients

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