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The Rubicon Society meets weekly to discuss politics and inviting Nathan isn’t an en dorsement of the Libertarians’ plat form, just a chance to hear a different opinion. We want to be a little more open-minded,” Rubicon Chair George Alvergue said. “She’s go ing to try to convince us that she’s right and I just happen to dis agree.” The noon gathering at the Pearl Street Ice Cream Parlour is in no way combative, and Alvergue praises Nathan for her “well versed” approach to politics. Nathan, for her part, admits that she’s looking for a few good mem bers from both major parties to switch sides. “I think that a lot of people don’t believe in the Republican or Democratic parties,” Nathan said. “I think they should look around for someone they do believe.” In the case of the Libertarian Party, that someone would be presidential candidate Harry Browne, who was named the par ty’s choice to represent it on July 2 at the Anaheim, Calif., conven tion. Browne, who also ran for president as a Libertarian in 1996, will be on all 50 states’ ballots. Art Olivier was selected by con vention members as the party’s vice-presidential candidate. During his acceptance speech, Browne echoed Nathan’s com ments by saying, “Only Libertari ans recognize that you are the rightful owner of your life — not A1 Gore or George W. Bush.” Nathan was the Libertarian vice-presidential candidate in 1972, a spot that she didn’t really campaign for or expect. In fact, Nathan, a University grad in jour nalism, attended the Libertarian Party’s first-ever national conven tion in Denver as a local radio re porter working on a story about third parties. While roaming the floors talk ing with attendees — Nathan said that the first convention attracted just 89 people, while the 2000 convention at tracted ap proximately 1,000 — she was asked to run for the par ty’s vice-presi dential slot. Delegates elected her to the John Hos pers ticket and Nathan went on to become the first woman in U.S. history to win an Electoral College vote when Virginia’s Roger MacBride, a Republican, cast his vote for her instead of President-elect Richard Nixon. “To be a Libertarian, you have to have a very benevolent sense toward people,” Nathan said. She said that the Libertarian Party’s platform is fiscally conser vative, but socially liberal. The party is the third largest in the na tion, with more than 300 mem bers in office, mostly at city and state levels. Although the theme of Nathan’s speech to Rubicon is “Why Republicans should vote Libertarian this year,” she also had a few things to say about the current political climate in Eu gene, specifically in reference to anarchists. Nathan said in partic ular that group is sometimes con fused with Libertarians in peo pie’s minds. Libertarians don’t consider all corporations to be destructive on society, Nathan said, and unlike some anarchist factions, the Lib ertarian Party does not agree with any initiation of force or destruc tion of property. “We’re willing to co-exist with any people and any groups as long as they don’t tell others how to live their lives,” Nathan said. Nathan said that the November presidential election is “going to be unusual” and that the polls she has seen show that the American people would like to see a third party emerge on the national scene. “Personally I think the country would be better off with a Liber tarian president,” Lane County Republican Party chairman Jeff Hoyt said. “But I think George Bush is a better candidate than Tonie is giving him credit for.” Hoyt said he considers Nathan a friend and that he agrees with her on a lot of political issues. De spite a general lack of recognition as a threat to the current two-par ty system, Nathan said that along with the Libertarians, she will just continue to strive for what she said she thinks is the right con clusion. Step one of that goal is to sway the moderate Republicans in at tendance at today’s Rubicon meeting. “They should consider voting their conscience instead of voting for the candidate that they think is going to win,” Nathan said, re ferring to Bush, the Republican choice for president. “If they believe that govern ment is too big, they should vote their consciences ... [because] we believe that small government is beautiful.” i C I believe if govern ment would get much smaller, that would solve a great number of our problems... You have to teach people how to be responsible. Tonie Nathan , Libertarian member // Nathan's speech to the Rubicon Society Tonie Nathan talks to the Rubicon Society today at noon at the Pearl Street IceCream Parlour, 1313 Peart Street. 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