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Candidates Abound at “Celebrate Fairfax!”
By Chuck Eby Fairfax – June 13, 2005 – The Libertarian Party of Fairfax County hosted a very successful outreach booth at this past weekend’s “Celebrate Fairfax!” – Fairfax County’s annual county fair. Fifteen activists helped staff the highly visible booth, 260 “World’s Smallest Political Quizzes” were administered, and contact information was gathered on 43 fairgoers requesting more information. “We’ve been holding an annual booth at Celebrate Fairfax! for as long as anyone can remember,” said Tony Torres, chairman of the county party. “Because of the splendid location of the booth, and our large number of inquiries, this has been one of our most successful,” Torres added. In contrast to both the Democrat and Republican party booths which were located in banks of booths on lightly traveled spurs, the free-standing Libertarian booth was located right on the heavily-travelled main thoroughfare through the fairgrounds. “We had four large ‘Libertarian Party’ banners flying and Donny [Ferguson] had several of his campaign signs posted,” said Torres. “Everyone who came to the fair knew the Libertarian Party was there.” Although the number of quizzes administered was down from previous years, the party collected the names of 43 people scoring “Libertarian” on the quiz and who wanted additional information sent from the national headquarters. This was many more than previous years. “Hopefully, we’ll convert these people to members as a result of this event,” said Torres. Candidates – both Libertarian and Republican – abounded at this year’s event. LP candidates for the House of Delegates Donny Ferguson, Chuck Eby, and Scott McPherson spent several shifts meeting voters and handing out campaign literature at the booth. Republican gubernatorial candidates George Fitch and H. Russell Potts dropped in on the LP booth to talk with Libertarian activists. In addition, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore, and Republican candidate for Lt. Governor Sean Connaughton worked the crowds at the fair. The county fair was well attended by local media. Christina Bellantoni, Virginia reporter for the Washington Times stopped by the booth on Saturday morning and interviewed both Donny Ferguson and Chuck Eby. Ari Cetron, a reporter for the Times, a local weekly newspaper dropped in to chat with candidates and activists as well. The Libertarian Party of Fairfax would like to thank the activists
who staffed the booth for making this event so successful. These
include Geoff Allen, Fred Childress, Marcia Childress, Steve Damerell,
Jessica Damon, Josh Dunn, Chuck Eby, Donny Ferguson, Michael Hillman,
Scott McPherson, Patrick Opitz, Tony Torres, Marianne Volpe, Shaun
Whelden, and Milan Zacek. |
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