Editor announces run for LNC
(May 18) WINSTON-SALEM - R. Lee Wrights, editor of Liberty For All, announced today that he would seek an at-large seat on the Libertarian Party National Committee (LNC) at the party’s national convention in Indianapolis the first week in July. Mr. Wrights becomes the sixth candidate to enter a race that only has five positions available.
The other candidates that have declared their intentions to seek one of the five at-large positions on the LNC are Richard Freedman from Massachusetts, Don Gorman from New Hampshire, Austin Hough from Illinois, Bette Rose Ryan from Colorado, and, Starchild from California.
Mr. Wrights is from North Carolina where he is a stay-at-home dad, writer, editor, political activist, and football fanatic. He has been married for twenty-two years and has two daughters, ages twenty-one and six. He raises Bonsai trees in his spare time and enjoys reading history.
DURHAM (May 6) — North Carolina’s Libertarian Party nominated a record 58 candidates for office at their annual state convention held May 4-5 in Clemmons. Sean Haugh was nominated for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Jesse Helms.