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WILLIAMSBURG, IN -- Former LPIN Chairman Mark Rutherford has posted more photos from the Williamsburg parade held last weekend. Visit his blog, Electing Libertarians, to view the photos.

For a good view of LPIN happenings through the years, visit Rutherford's archived files.

Reprinted from former LPIN State Chairman Mark Rutherford's popular blog, Electing Libertarians.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- These Libertarians are being sent by Atlas!Liberty PAC to Washington, D.C. this week for Politics Magazine's seminar "The Art of Political Campaigning":

Whitney Allen, Plainfield, Indiana. Senior business major at IUPUI. Hired by MTV as part of a special program the network is launching to cover politics through the 2008 presidential elections. Created web site for Libertarian Timothy Maguire for Indianapolis City-County Council At-Large in 2007.

Jaenelle Antas, Rochester, Minnesota, part-time employee with Libertarian Party of Indiana. Full-time student in political science at IUPUI in Indianapolis. Volunteer co-coordinator Tim Maguire for Indianapolis City-County Council At-Large in 2007.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- "It was singularly the best conference I have attended to prepare for campaigning and growing our political effort locally," remarked LaPorte County Libertarian Party Chairman Andy Wolf.

Wolf joined several Indiana libertarian activists at the 2007 Campaigns & Elections conference on campaign management and politics held in Washington, D.C. Each attended on scholarships offered through a fairly new libertarian political action committee, Atlas!Liberty PAC.

"You are exposed to concepts and practices that seem obvious once you hear them presented, but escape you when you try to go it alone," continued Wolf. "I was able to parlay that experience into some excellent party outreach and campaign management on a local level"

For Wolf's efforts, two of his local candidates surpassed 30% in municipal elections utilizing tools learned at the conference. Just four years earlier, a couple candidates for local office barely broke through double digits.