David Miller: Why You Matter!

David Miller is running for U.S. Congress in California’s District 32 against incumbent Grace Napolitano

ONLY 95 days left until Election Day, and we must submit the sign order by August 15th for the signs to be ready by September 1st. The campaign must raise $5,000.00 dollars by August 15th to place the order on time.

As we were preparing this email we received $1,000 dollar check today. Now we are down to $4,000.00.  Any amount contributed will add up quickly, $5, $10, $20 dollars is appreciated, don't believe your contribution does not matter, because YOU MATTER !   

Join us Today by visiting www.vote4miller.net and Contribute as much as you are able; whether that is $25, $50, $100, or the maximum of $2,500 per person.  Help David meet his goal of $5,000 dollars by August 15^th.

CONTRIBUTE ONLINE TODAY

Thank You to those who have contributed and made it possible to get our message out in the sample ballot. 

And Thank You to all the supporters who have been diligently walking and making phone calls for the campaign.

UPCOMING EVENTS 

August 4th
San Dimas 52nd Birthday Bar-B-Que
The party kicks off at 4:00 p.m. and concludes at 10:00 p.m. at the Civic Center located at
245 East Bonita Avenue.

August 15th  
Candidate Forum by the Rotary Club
David Miller and Grace Napolitano (32nd congressional District)
12:15 -1:30pm
South Hills Country Club
2655 South Citrus Ave 
Lunch $20.00 per person
RSVP

August 24th
San Gabriel Valley Public Affairs Network
Candidate Forum - Details to follow

David Miller for Congress: Mark your Calendars for June!

COME OUT AND WALK YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD FOR FREEDOM !

On Saturday June 23rd we will be meeting at the Glendora headquarters at 10AM to walk our neighborhoods and talk to the decline to state voters, to get them out to vote for David on November 6, 2012

Only 21 Saturdays left until Election Day 

We also need volunteers to help keep the office open full time, to make phone calls, update contact information on voters and so much more. 

Please call our office at 626-692-6007 or email david@vote4miller.net

IN FREEDOM ,

David L. Miller

Cover the Night for RON PAUL

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Remember when the Kony 2012 people "made Kony famous" by plastering their neighborhoods? Well it's time for US to do something WORTHWHILE and remind people, not just in Los Angeles County, but ALL ACROSS AMERICA that Ron Paul is STILL IN THIS RACE and he's in it to win it!

June 1-4 we will be covering the night in LA County. If you're not in LA County or in California, get in touch with a local Youth for Paul chapter or a Ron Paul meetup group and START a Cover the Night for Ron Paul in YOUR TOWN.

Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/418624348171396/

Senator Rand: The Last Minute!

Dear friend of liberty,

Time is running out.

If you read my dad's latest email, you know his campaign experienced tremendous success gathering delegates in Minnesota, where he swept all three conventions, and in Colorado this past weekend.

But there will be four more conventions taking place in Minnesota alone this Saturday.

And over the next two months, more than nine states will be holding massive conventions to choose national delegates.

Meanwhile, Texas and California will head to the polls, with hundreds more delegates at stake.

If my dad doesn't have the resources to give these efforts his all, the establishment will be happy to scoop up the delegates he would have taken.

But these fights can't be waged at the last minute.

If my dad is to continue his amazing string of victories at state and local conventions, he must have the funds right away in order to keep carrying out his strategy.

So please, click on the link below to donate to my dad's Taxpayer Freedom Money Bomb.

And I hope you'll ask your family and friends to join you in giving to this critical project.

https://secure.ronpaul2012.com/

For Liberty,

Rand Paul

Citizen Candidate Miller motors ‘Cool Cruisers’

GLENDORA, California – April 9, 2012 – David Miller for Congress, his staff and volunteers joined La Verne’s downtown area where the La Verne Chamber of Commerce hosted a wide variety of exhibitors displaying the community’s cache of hot rods, restored classic cars, food vendors, community organizations and candidates for public office at the Cool Cruise 2012 La Verne Business Expo on Saturday. 

With weather typical of Southern California and ambiance enhanced by locally legendary classic rock cover band, The Answer, many exhibitors showcased their unique and vibrantly restored classic cars and hot rods.  Local family-owned small businesses also attempted to broaden their networks to include the community which is driven by threads of entrepreneurialism, and plays a key role in the tight-knit fellowship for which La Verne is historically renowned.

Joining the festivities in La Verne was David Miller, a family man and small business owner from Glendora who campaigns to represent California’s 32^nd Congressional District after the November election.  Miller was eager to speak with voters while a squad of his campaign volunteers swept the downtown area, distributing campaign literature and pocket Constitutions that included the Declaration of Independence.

Miller spoke of the vital role founding documents play for citizens to keep their government in check.  “Without an understanding of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and other founding documents, citizens cannot know the legal limits of the federal government and what governmental abuses of power were unacceptable to our founders.  Every day, more citizens are awakening to find that the economic downturn is caused largely in part by abuses of power by government.”

“Extra-constitutional regulations make it nearly impossible for businesses small and large to remain operational, and to keep Americans working.  Many of our current legislators step outside of their oath to defend and protect the Constitutional limitations they swore to uphold,” Miller said.

“These politicians are ultimately destroying the purchasing power of the dollar by ignoring the limits of their Congressional privileges specified in Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution,” said Miller, “and they are only worsening the struggles of American families.  The more educated and involved citizens become the better chance we have to fight these abuses of power that affect us all.”

Miller will attend the Meet the Candidates Legislative Reception hosted by the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce on May 25, 2012 from 6pm to 8pm at the San Dimas Civic Center.

David Miller is running for California’s 32^nd Congressional District as a ‘citizen candidate.’  His campaign emphasizes restoring obedience to the Constitution, legalizing freedom, and maintaining America’s tradition of economic prosperity.  

Contact: Dani Rascon: Dani@vote4miller.net

LP: Regulate Marijuana Like Wine

Dear Fellow Libertarian,

At the last meeting of the Libertarian National Committee in December, we endorsed the California ballot initiative to "Regulate Marijuana as Wine" by a vote of 14-0 (with 2 abstentions). While most Libertarians would rather have no regulation on marijuana, we believe that this is an incremental step in the right direction. Please read the below message from the sponsors of this initiative.

Yours in liberty,

Mark Hinkle

Chair

Libertarian National Committee

REGULATE MARIJUANA LIKE WINE

The new year is in motion, and Libertarians are set for huge advances toward liberty at every turn. The opportunities are there. We just have to reach out and grab them!

I'm writing to tell you about one of those opportunities, a victory for freedom that's going to rock the very foundations of federal overreach and help us put Washington back in its place ... if YOU will help us seize that victory.

That coming victory -- a major Libertarian win in the War on Drugs, with 10th Amendment implications in nearly every area of government policy -- is California's Regulate Marijuana Like WineInitiative

It's exactly what it sounds like: A new law that gives use, possession and sale of marijuana exactly the same legal status as drinking a glass, cellaring a bottle, or selling a case of Napa Valley White Zinfandel.

I know you've heard the hype before: A silver bullet that will make all your Libertarian dreams come true. That's not what I'm trying to sell you here. This initiative won't end the war on drugs all by itself. It won't restore the Constitution on one fell swoop. It's a beginning, not an end.

But what a beginning! With one electoral stroke -- and for less than the cost of even a single congressional campaign -- we can immediately and dramatically increase the freedom of 38 million Californians, set the stage for a nationwide expansion of that new freedom, and put an overbearing federal government on the DEFENSIVE!

California led the way on medical marijuana back in 1996 with Proposition 215. Since then, 15 more states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana legislation, bringing much-needed legal relief to the millions of patients (including me!) who rely on cannabis to relieve chronic pain, restore appetite and suppress the nausea associated with cancer chemo and AIDS medications, and even to outright keep them alive.

We've learned a lot in the last 15 years. Prop 215 was an incredibly successful template for winning more freedom, but as one of its early proponents and long-time beneficiaries I've learned over time that it has its weak spots.

Prop 215 left too much discretion to local and state officials in California. Since its passage, we've had to fight time and time again to force police and prosecutors to honor the intent of the law instead of re-interpreting it in ways that let them punish medical marijuana patients, arrest producers and shut down dispensaries. We've been quite successful in those fights, but they've been costly and time-consuming.

Prop 215 also made it too easy for those same police and prosecutors to collude with federal law enforcement at a "profit," by turning state non-crimes over to DEA and other alphabet-soup agencies, then raking in a share of asset forfeiture proceeds. California cops keep the feds on speed-dial, knowing that with one phone call they can turn a fruitless traffic stop into a pay raise or a new patrol car, courtesy of Uncle Sam.

We've tweaked the Prop 215 template to eliminate those weaknesses make the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Initiative even more successful, not just in California but in the post-California national adoption phase.

Regulate Marijuana Like Wine specifies the EXACT scope of police and prosecutorial powers and the MAXIMUM fines and punishments which can be levied for infractions. It repeals all previous laws that might be used as hooks to hang a prosecution on. No more latitude for creative interpretations. No more loopholes to "up-charge" infractions so as to increase the penalties. Under this new law, smoking a joint will be treated EXACTLY like drinking a glass of merlot, traveling with an ounce of marijuana in your car will be treated EXACTLY like driving home with a bottle of chablis, and selling marijuana will be treated EXACTLY like running a liquor store.

"MARIJUANA IS THE LARGEST CASH CROP IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. NUMBER TWO IS GRAPES. BUT TODAY YOU DO NOT SEE THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS RAISING ILLEGAL VINEYARDS IN OUR NATIONAL FORESTS IN COMPETITION WITH ROBERT MONDAVI. WE CAN FORCE THESE THUGS OUT OF THIS BUSINESS. WE CAN REGULATE MARIJUANA LIKE WINE."

--Retired Superior Court Judge and Libertarian National Judicial Committee Member James Gray

We've also done a very nice bit of political ju-jitsu with the issue of federal intervention. Get this:

Instead of leaving California cops, prosecutors and political officials free to sic the feds on those whom state law bars them from persecuting, or to throw up their hands and say "sorry, this is out of Washington, nothing we can do," Regulate Marijuana Like Wine FORBIDS California cops and prosecutors to enforce conflicting federal law and OBLIGATES the state of California to defend the new law against federal challenges.

That last part is key to turning this initiative into a national wildfire that spreads even faster than medical marijuana has, with implications far beyond marijuana law alone.

We've watched non-profit legal foundations, with little funding or support, take on the feds and win on constitutional issues. Watch what happens when the full legal and political resources of the world's sixth largest economy are mobilized to give the 10th Amendment teeth again!

This is ultimately no more about marijuana than the Boston Tea Party was about Tea. It's about FREEDOM.

We're going to knock down some walls, folks. Not just marijuana laws, not even just the War on Drugs. Think "health insurance mandates." Think "gun laws." If there's not an enumerated federal power in the Constitution for it, it's going down. The case law generated by Regulate Marijuana Like Wine will eradicate it and sow salt in the earth where it once stood.

THAT is the power of Regulate Marijuana Like Wine: A new birth of freedom in America, radiating out from California until it encompasses the whole of America, from sea to shining sea.

But first, we have to get the initiative passed.

Polling tells us that 62% of Californians are ready and willing to vote for it, but they can't do that until we get it on the ballot by collecting 500,000 valid signatures from registered California voters (which means more like 800,000 "raw" signatures).

I'm coming to you, my fellow Libertarians, for the "seed money" to get this thing rolling. Ultimately it's going to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5 million, and that money WILL come ... IF we can raise $100,000 to get a full-on, professional petition drive launched and in motion.

As Thomas Paine once wrote, "it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated."

How highly do YOU rate freedom?

I bet there are at least a hundred members of the Party of Principle who think it's worth $1000 or more to lift a yoke of tyranny from the necks of 38 million people.

I've been to our party's national conventions, and I'm absolutely sure there are at least a thousand of us who'd find $100, somehow, to put the Tenth Amendment back into operation.

Over my years in the party, I've seen my fellow Libertarians kick in $10, $25, $50 ... whatever they can afford, and until it hurts ... when they see an opportunity to win the day for liberty in any way, big or small.

Now I'm asking you to do it again. This is a big one, folks. Whatever you can afford, it WILL make a difference.

Let Freedom Grow,

James P. Gray - Chief Proponent

Steve Kubby - Campaign Manager

Bill McPike - Chief Counsel

Stephen Collett - Treasurer

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ENDORSEMENTS

The Libertarian Party

Gov. Gary Johnson

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher

Kenny Loggins

Judge James P. Gray (ret.)

LAPD Deputy Chief S. Downing (ret.)

Assemblymember Chris Norby

Lt. Diane Goldstein (ret.)

Ed Rosenthal

NORML Founder Keith Stroup

Thomas Chong

Rick Steves

Vivian McPeak Seattle Hempfest

Lynnette Shaw Marin Alliance

Alice Huffman President California NAACP

Rob Kampia, MPP

Norm Stamper, former Seattle Police Chief

Craig Beresh, California Cannabis Coalition

A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing)

LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)

P.S. If you have not already done so, please join the Libertarian Party. We are the only political party with a mission to give voters a choice for much less Big Government, much lower taxes, and much lower government spending. You can also renew your membership. Or, you can make a contribution separate from membership.