Tom Woods spoke to an audience of about 200 students at MSU-Mankato on Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
Download video (176 MB .mp4) (1 hr, 34 min) [right-click, Save As]
The video is fairly low quality due to compression (and a handheld camera), but the audio is easily understood. If you want to skip the intros, start at 3:50. About 90 seconds of the speech was dropped at 54:52.
Mankato Liberty member Dave Kruse has organized a GOP Candidates Meet-and-Greet at the WOW! Zone in Mankato on Thursday, January 28, from 6 – 7 p.m. Each candidate (gubernatorial, congressional, auditor, state legislature, etc.) will have time to introduce themselves, talk about their campaigns, and visit with individuals. (Note: No endorsement of any candidate or party is made or implied.)
Don’t miss your local caucus! It will be held Tuesday, February 2, at 7 p.m. To save time on caucus night, look up your precinct now, write it down, and bring it with you to your caucus location (varies by party and your street address). The caucus will run 1-2 hours.
Caucus attendees participate in a candidate straw poll, elect delegates to the county convention, and may propose changes to the party platform. If you wish to participate in the endorsement of candidates or vote on changes to the platform, party constitution, or elect party officers, you will need to become a delegate. Delegates serve a two-year term. You can learn more about the caucus process at the Secretary of State’s 2010 Caucus page.
Mankato Liberty and YAL-MSU will meet at MSU in Centennial Student Union room 238 (Nickerson Room), 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. Agenda items include:
- Choose new leadership for YAL-MSU and recruit a new staff coordinator (Mark Johnson has moved away).
- Discuss possible recruitment activities and other events
- Speeches by a gubernatorial candidate (Tom Emmer) and two Minnesota Legislature candidates (William Paulsen and Dave Kruse). Candidate speeches and Q&A will begin at about 5:50 if you’re only interested in that portion of the meeting.
- Book swap: If you have political books or other materials you’d like to share, bring them along.
Motorhome Diaries is visiting Mankato from 7 – 10 pm at The Hub (University Square at Warren and Stadium). Motorhome Diaries travels the U.S. talking with libertyphiles about promoting a return to voluntary, non-authoritarian society. This is an informal event; you do not need to come for the whole time. They will share a bit about what MHD is about, learn what’s going on in the area in terms of advancing the freedom movement and hopefully create some synergy and share ideas.
As some of you are aware, my recent letter to the editor on health care in response to J. Scott Urban was published on September 11. Both letters were published on campaignforliberty.com: Health care is unequivocally not a right. Urban’s reply is published in today’s Free Press here. Please read it and send in your own letters to the editor; we need to show strong support for constitutionally-permissible market-based health care reforms and strong opposition to further government expansion into our lives and livelihoods.
Upcoming events:
Friday, September 25
Congressman Ron Paul and Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann will be holding a Student Town Hall at Northrup Memorial Auditorium on the campus of the University of Minnesota, 84 Church St SE, Minneapolis. The event begins at 7 p.m. but the venue may fill up well before that. If you would like to carpool, please reply to this email and let me know if you can drive or if you need a ride.
Tuesday, October 6
Mankato Liberty will meet in Centennial Student Union room 238 (Nickerson Room) at MSU, 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Agenda items include 1) nominating new leadership for the MSU chapter of Young Americans for Liberty, 2) discussing possible recruitment activities and other events, and 3) speeches by a gubernatorial candidate and two Minnesota Legislature candidates.
At 7:00 p.m. in the same room, the O.P.E.N. discussion group will be studying the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers and their relation to the Bill of Rights.
Join O.P.E.N. at Bethany Lutheran College on September 1 at 7 p.m. for a discussion of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. R.S.V.P. on Facebook, or just show up!
Join us Saturday, July 18, at Eagle Lake’s Tater Days parade to distribute Campaign for Liberty flyers. We will not have a float in this year’s parade, but we will walk the parade route ahead of the parade itself. Meet at the corner of Creekside Dr and Le Sueur Ave at 12:30 p.m. Call 507-933-0123 to RSVP or if you need help finding us at the parade.
Meet at the start of the parade route at 10:30 a.m. to help distribute flyers to the crowd ahead of the parade itself. See you there. Call 507-933-0123 for more information or to find us once you get there.
We will have our July meeting at MSU in the Centennial Student Union from 5:30-6:30 in room 238. We’ll discuss upcoming summer and early fall activities. Bring books, etc. to share or swap if you wish.
