Florida Libertarian News & Info

If you call yourself a "Libertarian" being a member of Libertarian Party is a logical step. However quitting the Libertarian Party and denouncing may make longtime Libertarians wonder if you were ever a true follower.

John Wayne Smith makes many longtime Florida Libertarians and Libertarian Party of Florida members wonder about him. He has a habit of quitting the Libertarian Party of Florida every few years then rejoining then a few years later qutting.

At various times over several decades Mr. Smith post his "resignation letters" (see below) at random websites as some grand announcement that he wants people to notice, but seems get rather upset when Libertarians do notice his quitting and point out his inconsistant behavior as a "Libertarian".

  John Wayne Smith: "I had to leave the Libertarian Party.... I now have taken up direct opposition to them"... according to a September 7, 2008 article in the Last Free Voice.

http://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/boston-tea-party-comments-on-libertarian-national-committee-meeting/  

FULL ARTICLE at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridaLibertarian/message/15

From John Wayne Smith's July 13, 2008 Resignation Letter

In 2003 I found that the Florida and National Libertarian Parties were leaving me behind.

They were abandoning their principles and purpose.

They were becoming domesticated pets. With incompetent leadership and specific attempts to change the libertarian party into a mainstream party, people like Mike Barr, Jack Tanner, and Roderick T. Beaman intentionally neutered the Libertarians of Florida.

The so called Reform Caucus effectively neutered the national Libertarian Party and chose a candidate who will be going back to the Republican Party in June 2009 to begin a Republican run for President in 2012.

While I may return to the Libertarian Party at some time in the future, I am now forced to remove myself from the Libertarian Party because it has been domesticated and neutered, with no principles or backbone.

I will become the chairman of the Florida Boston Tea Party and its Florida favorite son Vice Presidential Candidate

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John Wayne Smith

203 W. Magnolia St.

Leesburg Florida 34748