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That’s what it will take in Wyoming.  We got a lot of educatin’ to do back there.  NFIB’s man in Wyoming, Tony Gagliardi, says Sen.  Charlie Scott is our target sponsor.  No big Birch/Eagle Forum problem.  We’ll have a session with Natelson, myself, and maybe Bill Fruth sometime around 1-21-15, a week after the session opens.  I have been a little too sanguine about our prospects there, but as long as they have open minds — minds not infected with the dreaded Birch/Eagle virus — we should convince them.  The counter arguments are so weak — lame, really.

Excellent news in the Article V Caucus newsletter, produced by Stu McPhail.  There’s a new group in Texas pushing term limits through Article V —  americansforcongressionalreform.org, headed by Bryan Anderson.  They also want an amendment that would prohibit Congress from passing any law that didn’t also apply to Congress.  A fairly impressive list of guys.  I’ll be talking to them.  I introduced their Reso in the Alaska House in 1989.  Aaron Cook of termlimitconvention.org will be getting ahold of them Monday so they can team up.

Good report from Dave and Bill on the Liberty Congress.  Aglialoro will probably give us something in the mid five figures.  We need all we can get.  Bill is now “The Closer”, having made an irrefutable closing pitch.  18 or 20 big conservative/libertarian groups in attendance.  They’ve all got their own agendas, but now they at least know we exist, and are generally supportive.

The Task Force is sponsoring a breakfast on 12-6, the Saturday after ALEC.  Hopefully a good, receptive crowd.

Good news out of West Virginia, via Scott.  Looking good.

Been thinking about my old pal Rick Halford back in Alaska.  He’s a bit of an odd duck.  When I first get down to Juneau we hit it off, and pretty soon we were strategizing together.  One night he tells me this delicious tidbit of gossip about something.  Kind of amazing, you’d never think of it.  And he swears me to secrecy.

I don’t talk.  Never have, never will.  It’s a sign of weakness, a way of drawing attention to yourself as somebody “in the know.”  Snitches get stiches where I come from.

So a couple weeks go by, and I never hear a word, from anyone, about Rick’s secret info.  Then I realize it was bullshit.  He made it up, and told it to me to test my ability to keep my mouth shut.

Rick’s back in politics to kill the Pebble Dam.  I’ve got a stock tip for you.  Find out the stocks which are invested in that mine.

And short ’em.