Wrights to participate in first Libertarian presidential debate

BURNET, Texas (June 17) – Lee Wrights will participate in the first Libertarian presidential debate scheduled during the Future of the Libertarian Movement Conference in Manchester, N.H. June 19.

The one-day conference is sponsored by the Libertarian Parties of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Three candidates will participate in the debate, Wrights, Roger Gary of Texas and Carl Person of New York. The debate is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. and will be moderated by George Phillies. The New Hampshire and Massachusetts Libertarian Parties will give a first-round delegate vote to the winner of the post-debate straw poll.

“I'm looking forward to engaging with my fellow libertarians in what I am certain will be a lively and informative discussion,” Wrights said. “It certainly will be more enlightening than the presidential debate conducted by one of the so-called major parties in New Hampshire recently.”

The New Hampshire debate is open to all Libertarian Party candidates with an extended continuous record of Libertarian Party activism, who have completed FEC filings, and have substantial campaign team in place.

Wrights has also agreed to participate in a debate in March 2012 at the Pennsylvania Libertarian State Convention in Pittsburgh.

The conference keynote speaker will be Judge John Buttrick of Arizona who will speak at the luncheon. Other featured speakers are Angela Keaton of AntiWar.com and Outright Libertarians; Joe Kennedy, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate; Ernest Hancock, publisher of Freedom's Phoenix; Mary Ruwart, author of "Healing our World" and member of the Libertarian National Committee, and Don Gorman, past LNC at-large representative, former Libertarian N.H. state representative and the most-elected libertarian in the country.

The conference will be held at the Highlander Inn at the Manchester Airport one day before the beginning of the week-long Porcfest, the annual celebration of freedom conducted by the Free State Project.

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