Exactly! It's the opposite of secession... it's an experiment in what would happen if people actually showed up and used the check and balance mechanisms that exist. You can see how the NHLA operates as a watchdog organization at nhliberty.org Our bill-review process lets legislators and citizens see what is in the bills (and sometimes finds things the authors hadn't intended to write ;) And a lot of us get into state-level politics... some positions only take one day per year, e.g. state party delegate: http://patch.com/new-hampshire...

The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance predates the Free State Project, and neither has any connection to Patri Friedman (well OK, I did sit next to him at lunch once, and of course I've known his father since 1991, and... but that's just me ;) You can see how the NHLA operates as a watchdog organization at nhliberty.org Our bill-review process lets legislators and citizens see what is in the bills (and sometimes finds things the authors hadn't intended to write ;)

No one uses the LP label. Free Staters get elected in the real parties. Check out nhliberty.org, the NHLA web site, it has all sorts of info on NH politics.

The state rep that got the laws taken off the books was an EMT (and a Free Stater). She wanted to legally carry the standard blunt-tipped seatbelt cutter.

Only .0001% of the population does anything in the political parties, shows up to testify for bills, etc... if we could get 0.5% of people to be politically active, 80% of them would be standing around with nothing to do ;) http://www.unionleader.com/art...

We've also passed a school-choice scholarship, we're fighting a school-choice lawsuit (for statewide town-level school choice, already implemented in Croydon), we've cut taxes and legalized microbreweries. Next is elimination of Drug Prohibition and FDA nullification for fast-tracking treatments for terminal illness. The biggest single effect is probably the Gold Standard, the NHLA's system for tracking the content of bills in the statehouse. Helps everyone, regardless of viewpoint, keep track of what's in the hundreds of bills. nhliberty.org. http://www.unionleader.com/art...

My earlier comment mentioned our star legislators Jenn Coffey, Elizabeth Edwards, and Amanda Bouldin (one R and two Democrats, respectively). I forgot about Jody Underwood, who has singlehandedly brought town-level school choice to NH. Here's one of my op-eds about it (I've been in NH since 2008): http://www.concordmonitor.com/...

You'd think the pro-tax and pro-prohibition groups would have supported this before. Up to now if you wanted to know about pending bills etc. you had to go to the nhliberty.org website and suffer through all our anti-tax pro-capitalist propaganda ;) ...anyway, more transparency is always better. When people know what their governments are actually doing, they may be able to put a stop to it...