Date: 24 Jun 93 23:03:14 EDT From: "Joseph W. Dehn III" <70305.241@compuserve.com> Subject: release: shadow cabinet To: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LIBERTARIAN PARTY Libertarian Party | | Defenders of Liberty NEWS 1528 Pennsylvania Ave SE | | ---- Washington, DC 20003 | | 202-543-1988 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For immediate release. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 24 June 1993 Bill Winter, Director of Communications 202-543-1988 LIBERTARIANS UNVEIL SHADOW CABINET WASHINGTON, DC -- Libertarian Party chair Mary T. Gingell today (24 June) unveiled a list of distinguished policy experts who have agreed to serve as members of the Libertarian Party's shadow cabinet. One cabinet member was a member of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, and another is the former chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Cabinet members also include a former Congressman and a Johnson administration Pentagon official. "These people know more about what should be done than the people now in the Clinton cabinet," Gingell said. According to Gingell, the shadow cabinet secretaries will watch closely what their counterparts in the Clinton administration do and then publicly offer advice and criticism in their specific policy areas. Gingell said that the Libertarian Party had not been "narrowly partisan" in selecting the members of the shadow cabinet. "Many of the cabinet members are not registered Libertarians." They were chosen on "a nonpartisan basis," she said, and because of "their expertise and records of achievement." This cabinet, she said, will "put some ginger in the public dialogue" and present arguments for the Libertarian policies of "free enterprise, free trade, respect for the Bill of Rights, and not meddling overseas." Commenting on the Libertarian cabinet, Professor Aaron Wildavsky, former dean of the School of Public Policy of the University of California at Berkeley and past president of the American Political Science Association, said that the Libertarian Party's shadow cabinet will present "a genuine opposition to the major parties." Its members, he said, will "enliven our public debate and enrich our policy alternatives" by presenting "well-conceived and genuinely different ideas." Professor Joseph P. Kalt, academic dean for research of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, described the shadow cabinet as a "group of distinguished individuals." The cabinet, he said, "can, and will, do a great service for the country." According to Kalt, "the time is right for real debate on the threat to our liberty." Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist, called the Libertarian cabinet "a group of principled thinkers who know federal policy inside and out." Chapman said he expects the shadow cabinet to be "a source of daring alternatives to Washington's usual prescriptions -- alternatives combining practical wisdom with an unwavering commitment to human freedom." Doug Bandow, Copley News Service columnist, said: "Finally a cabinet that actually knows something about policy. This group of experts should liven up America's political debate." Joanne Jacobs, Knight-Ridder syndicated columnist, pointed to the programmatic consistency of the Libertarian cabinet in contrast with "the policy disarray" in the Clinton cabinet. She said, "This looks like a cabinet with consistent policy ideas across the board -- ideas that belong in America's policy debate." Walter Williams, George Mason University economist and Creators Syndicate columnist, said that it is "unfortunate for our country" that the real cabinet "is not made up of people who share the values of America's Founders." But, he said, "we can bank on this shadow cabinet -- whose officers do share the Founders' values." This shadow cabinet will give Clinton's cabinet "the kind of scrutiny that would make the Founders proud." The members of the Libertarian shadow cabinet are: Secretary, Department of Agriculture: JAMES BOVARD Author, The Farm Fiasco Associate Policy Analyst, Cato Institute Secretary, Department of Commerce: RICHARD W. RAHN President and CEO, Novecon (Washington, D.C.) Former Vice President and Chief Economist, Chamber of Commerce of the United States Former executive director, American Council for Capital Formation Former national executive secretary, Ripon Society Secretary, Department of Defense: EARL C. RAVENAL Distinguished Research Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Former Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center Director of the Asian Division (Systems Analysis), Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1967-69 Author, Defining Defense Author, Never Again: Learning from America's Foreign Policy Failures Secretary, Department of Education: JOHN TAYLOR GATTO 1991 New York State Teacher of the Year (Department of Education, State of New York) 1990 New York State Teacher of the Year (Encyclopaedia Britannica) 1991 New York City Teacher of the Year (New York City Alliance for Public Education) 1990 New York City Teacher of the Year (Resolution of the Senate, State of New York) 1989 New York City Teacher of the Year (Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Association of Secondary School Principals) Editor and Co-author, Dumbing Us Down Author, The Exhausted School Secretary, Department of Energy: RICHARD L. GORDON MICASU University Endowed Fellow and Professor of Mineral Economics, Pennsylvania State University Author, An Economic Analysis of World Energy Problems Author, Federal Coal Leasing Policy Author, U.S. Coal and the Electric Power Industry Author, World Coal Outstanding Contribution to the Profession Award, International Association for Energy Economics, 1992 Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services: HENRY N. BUTLER Koch Distinguished Teaching Professor of Law and Economics, University of Kansas School of Law Former Associate Dean, George Mason University School of Law Co-author, Health Care Expenditure Controls: Political and Economic Issues (ed. Robert B. Helms) 1992 Republican Nominee, U.S. House of Representatives (11th Dist.--Va.) Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development: WILLIAM TUCKER Author, The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policies Reporter, The Bond Buyer Former writer, Forbes Secretary, Department of the Interior: JANE S. SHAW Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center (Bozeman, Mont.) Member, Editorial Advisory Panel, Regulation Magazine Senior Editor, Liberty Magazine Former Assoc. Economics Editor, Business Week Attorney General, Department of Justice: MANUEL S. KLAUSNER Partner, Kindel & Anderson (Los Angeles) General Counsel, Excellence through Choice in Education League (ExCEL) Former Editor-in-chief, Reason Magazine Secretary, Department of Labor: RICHARD K. VEDDER Co-author, Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University Secretary, Department of State: LEON T. HADAR Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute Author, Quagmire: America in the Middle East Washington Correspondent, Business Times (Singapore) Contributor, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Former New York City & UN Bureau Chief, Jerusalem Post Secretary, Department of Transportation: THOMAS GALE MOORE Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 Author, Trucking Regulation Author, Freight Transportation Regulation, Surface Freight and the Interstate Commerce Commission Secretary, Department of the Treasury: HON. RON PAUL Member, U.S. House of Representatives (Dist. 22--Tex.), 1976-84 Member, Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, 1976-84 Taxpayers' Best Friend in Congress Award, National Taxpayers Union, 1979-84 Libertarian Party Candidate, President of the United States, 1988 Co-author, Minority Report, U.S. Gold Commission Author, Liberty under Siege Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs: COTTON M. LINDSAY Author, Veterans Administration Hospitals Professor, Department of Economics, Clemson University Supply Officer, U.S. Air Force, 1962-65 [END] ------------------------------