04/14/2004: 
Stuff That Doesn't Suck
Craig Benson: The First Libertarian Governor?
from Concord Monitor
Gov. Craig Benson (R-NH) has been reported to have expressed an open door invitation to the Free State Project, and was the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Libertarian Party's state convention last November. And now, according to this Concord Monitor story, a recently appointed commission includes high profile libertarians and Free Staters.
A panel authorized by the governor to find inefficiencies in the state health and transportation departments is composed almost entirely of members of the Free State Project and includes a longtime antagonist of the Division of Children, Youth and Families.No disrespect to Bill Weld, but this is some serious Live Free or Die business. You still might have to share the library with llamas, but Viva le Noveau Hampshire!
Gov. Craig Benson chose John Babiarz, head of the state Libertarian Party, to chair the committee and select its members last month. Among the panel's 11 members are eight members of the libertarian Free State Project, a woman who has not yet moved to New Hampshire and Paula Werme, a Boscawen lawyer who has battled DCYF in court many times. DCYF is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Members of the committee said their libertarian bent would help them find problems in state government that others had missed.
"We're not here to dismantle, we're here to look outside the box," Babiarz said. "We're here to give them a sanity check and say what works. The key aspect is looking at ways of making the process better and more efficient. All of us are outside-the-box thinkers."
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Wednesday the 14th of April, santo26 noted:
Is he a Libertarian in elephant's clothing, ie did he know he had no chance if he ran under the LP brand name? I look forward to seeing what these guys can do, as if this is true, would be the first time that libertarians had anything to do with running anything in a serious way.
