From: Delegate49@aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 16:56:50 -0400
To: libernet@Dartmouth.EDU, WWWVMax@aol.com, JournalExp@aol.com
Subject: 20-Somethings Flock to LPVA

This news release was distributed to print and broadcast media in Virginia on
Wednesday, July 26, 1995, by the Libertarian Party of Virginia.

Contact:  Richard Sincere
              1-800-619-1776
              Pager:  202-843-2328

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

       Twenty-Somethings Flocking to the Libertarian Party?
        USA Today Finds Generation X Has Re-Discovered
                               an Old Philosophy

(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 26, 1995) -- Eric P. Strzepek, the
24-year-old candidate for the Virginia State Senate running under the 
Libertarian Party banner, was thrilled by this morning's cover story in 
USA Today, headlined:  "The GenX Philosophy: Many reject party 
politics, lean libertarian."
    "My friends tell me that the Republican and Democratic parties 
don't offer much to them.  They ask me how they can join the 
Libertarian Party and what they can do to help my campaign.  
Believe me, I'm happy to give them the answers they're looking for!"
    USA Today's front-page article states:  "What liberalism was to 
the Sixties and conservatism was to the Eighties, libertarianism may 
be to the youth of the 1990s -- the de facto philosophy of a 
generation steeped in the precepts of latch-key self-reliance and the 
individual freedoms of the Internet."
    Richard Sincere, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Virginia, 
echoed Strzepek.  "As I look through the new memberships in our 
state party, I am struck by the large number of twenty-somethings'
who are eager to sign up and get active in the Libertarian party.  It's 
encouraging!"
    Sincere noted that recent polls indicate that young people are both 
more socially tolerant and more fiscally conservative than their 
elders.   They want to take responsibility for their own lives.  As USA 
Today put it:  "... the computer culture -- especially the Internet -- has 
accustomed twenty-somethings to a libertarian world where 
individualism is paramount and government just gets in the way."
    Strzepek has been saying as much in his campaign for the 25th 
District seat in the Virginia State Senate.  He has emphasized the 
right of parents to determine the best way to educate their children, 
the right of property owners to control their own land and belongings 
free from government interference, and the right of individuals to 
protect themselves and their families from criminals.  In addition, like 
Sincere and many other Libertarians and independents, Strzepek has 
called for term limits on elected officials as a way to empower the 
people and reduce the control of professional politicians and special 
interests.
    "USA Today has caught hold of a trend that will continue into the 
21st century," said Sincere.  "I won't be surprised when I see similar 
newspaper stories across Virginia and the country in the weeks and 
months ahead."
    For more information about the Libertarian Party of Virginia, call 
1-800-619-1776, send e-mail to lpva@aol.com, or write Box 17474, 
Arlington, VA 22216.  For information about Eric Strzepek's 
campaign, call 1-800-219-6316.

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