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Libertarian preaches conversion
■A long-time Libertarian,
Tonie Nathan steps up to a
platform undefined by
traditional party lines
By jack Clifford
Oregon Daily Emerald
The idea of politicians med
dling in citizens’ lives resonates
negatively with the various politi
cal parties in one form or another.
For local Libertarian Party mem
ber Tonie Nathan, that objection
is the essence of her political
stance.
“I believe if the government
would get much smaller, that
would solve a great number of our
problems,” Nathan said. “People
are going to do whatever they
want to do. You have to teach
people how to be responsible.”
Nathan, fresh off a trip to Cali
fornia for the Libertarian Party’s
national conven
tion, talks today to
the Rubicon Soci
ety, a local moder
ate Republican or
ganization. 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.
The Rubicon Society is a local
moderate Republican group.
Nathan was the Libertarian vice
presidential candidate in 1972.
She was the first U.S. woman to re
ceive an Electoral College vote.
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