The Free View-- weblog of a presidential candidate

Summer table and booth fun

I had a fun night last Friday, working the table for the Nevada County Libertarian Party at the Friday Night Market in Grass Valley. It's a weekly street market thing, where all sorts of vendors put booths out, and the streets are closed to traffic. There's a band, and lots of families and other folks come to just be sociable, check out the vendors, etc. Political groups get to set up a booth for free, and we're aiming to have one every week this summer -- last Friday was the first one. About 75 people took The World's Smallest Political Quiz, which is our main attraction at the table. Folks take the quiz, then get scored, and their scores place them on this "political map" chart. People were really enthusiastic, and a healthy chunk of them scored in the libertarian quadrant on the chart. And there was lots of spirited debate, as usual. Here's a picture of our Vice-Chairman Bob Glassco posing next to the chart.

In other news, Janet Daglet Dagley finally got directly in touch with me, and invited me to be the guest on the debut episode of her new radio show "Radio Free Blogosphere." Very cool! And you may remember when her article came out a while back I mentioned that it was going to be part of AIRSPACE's newsletter. That newsletter's out now -- you can check it out here. The name of the article is "Do You Belong in the Blogosphere?" If you already saw the article, it's the same as it was, so no need to look again unless you want to.

Much of this month is going to be dedicated to planning and preparing for the Nevada County Libertarian Party's upcoming booth at the County Fair. It's the single biggest outreach opportunity of the year, and I'm hyper-interested in making the most of it for the party. I just had a meeting with the core group about it tonight, and we didn't get nearly as much done as I had hoped. We got a little of the groundwork out of the way, though.

While I'm updating you -- you may recall Blogarama, which was a new blog directory that lists things according to click-throughs and popularity. When I first mentioned it, this site was in the top 600 of their "Cool" section. A month later, it's #68 out of 2,671. And in their Politics/Government section, it's #4 of 141, showing up on the first screen of that section. Click on the Blogarama link above to help push it up higher, and post a review of the site here if you're so inclined. I appreciate your support, and while it may seem trivial, these things make a difference.

And of course there's the 'ol Top 25 Libertarian Sites list -- this site is now #11! Climbing up the ranks on that list is going to be much slower going from here on out, because the folks above have many, many clicks. But each step up that ladder increases the chances of the campaign raising eyebrows among the libertarian movement. So, click early, click often! ;-)

Lastly, I mentioned the other day that Tom Knapp from Rational Review had issued a call to libertarians, urging them to work to create the institutions that will support a free society. I had posted about his call over at The Little Brown Reader, and I made mention of Future Solutions, my organization whose very purpose is to create such institutions. Well, Tom saw what I said there, and he posted a comment:

I can't tell you how pleased I am to see you mention Future Solutions in the context of point 4 of Rational Review's program. Your project is one of several which have previously sparked this line of thinking with me, and which ultimately ended up inspiring the point in question!

There's little I enjoy more than helping to inspire, so his comment was very nice to read. :-)