Sam Adams Alliance Awards Videos

I went to Chicago on April 18 to pick up an award from the Sam Adams Alliance. My speech is transcribed elsewhere.

I strongly encourage other liberty-oriented activists in Colorado (and around the nation) to check out the Sam Adams Alliance web page and think about entering the contest next year.

Now the Sam Adams Alliance has released a short YouTube video with highlights of the event.


The video of my speech, and the introduction by Paul Jacob, is also available:



The organization's YouTube page offers more videos of the event.

Speech at the Sam Adams Alliance Awards

I borrowed this photo from Chetly Zarko from OutsideLansing.com.

I received the Modern Day Sam Adams award April 18 in Chicago. Following is a transcript of my speech.

I am deeply honored, and indeed deeply humbled, to be with the other award winners this evening, and to be introduced by Paul Jacob, a true hero of liberty.

I'm also very grateful to the Sam Adams Alliance for recognizing the sort of regional activism where the crucial battles for liberty are fought.

If you look at Congress, you'll notice that practically every member of Congress and practically all of their staffers came up the ranks in state and local politics. And the ideas that they reflect in Washington are to a large degree the ideas that they learned back in their home towns.

The regional level is where we can go to events, attend meetings, make phone calls, develop long-term relationships with real people, not just policy wonks, and build a movement for liberty.

So I do think that we as a freedom movement need to do more to support this sort of free market activism as illustrated by my fellow award winners.

The sort of work done by people in my home state like Jon Caldara and Dave Kopel and the Independence Institute.

Paul Hsieh of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine.

Amanda Teresi and the whole crew of Liberty On the Rocks.

Joe Weaver who provides many of us technical support, who is sitting at this table, or at the back at the technical desk, in this very room.

People like Dave Williams and the Gadsden Society.

People like Michael Sandoval and Thomas James and the entire crew of the People's Press Collective.

People like Betty Evans and Diana Hsieh of Front Range Objectivism.

Individuals who speak and write, such as Brian Schwartz, Linda Gorman, Earl Allen, and my own father, Linn.

People who are concerned with free-market economics, like Ken Riggs, Penn Pfiffner, and Paul Prentice.

And of course my ever-supportive wife, Jennifer.

I am here largely because of the support of their shoulders.

So together we can Free Colorado, and we can free our great nation. Thank you.

Interviews at the Sam Adams Alliance Awards

I attended the Sam Adams Alliance awards April 18. While there, I interviewed Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher, Paul Jacob, Michelle Malkin, and John Tsarpalas (president of the Alliance).

Sammies In Photos

I went to the Sam Adams Alliance awards ceremony April 18 to receive the Modern Day Sam Adams Award. Chad Everson, another award winner, posts additional photos over at Grizzly Groundswell.


Michelle Malkin talks with John Fund.


Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher chats about his new book.




John Tsarpalas, president of the Sam Adams Alliance, meets with Fred Baldwin, another of this year's award winners.


I stand with Paul Jacob, who introduced me and also won the Sam Adams Lifetime Award, and John.


Michelle, Paul, and Joe struck me as a good photo-op.


James Bell "of Lithia Springs, Georgia, won the $5,000 Tea Party Award for his work in defeating two sales tax increases and proposing a bill, which in 2008 became Georgia law, restricting local government from holding tax votes on special elections." I also recorded an audio interview with Jim.

Back from the Sammies

I just got back from the Sam Adams Alliance awards ceremony in Chicago, where I picked up my "Sammie." (See the earlier release.) I also recorded interviews with Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher, Michelle Malkin, Paul Jacob, and others. I will make these interviews available this week.

I was impressed by the activism of the other award winners, who fought voter fraud, tax hikes, inappropriate spending, unjust laws, and more.

I'll have much more to say about the event later, but now I'm wiped out and need to catch up on my sleep.

First I figure I ought to send a statement to a few journalists. How about this: "The spirit of liberty was alive and well at the Sam Adams Alliance awards ceremony April 18 in Chicago. I am grateful to the Alliance for the 'Sammie' award I received, and I am inspired by the outstanding work of the other award recipients. I met some new friends and picked up some new ideas for advancing individual rights here in Colorado. I also recorded some fascinating interviews with Joe 'The Plumber' Wurzelbacher, Michelle Malkin, and Paul Jacob that I'll release this week. I'm deeply grateful to Colorado's vibrant and growing movement of liberty activists who have given me so much support and encouragement over the years."

Hopefully the Sam Adams Alliance will make the speeches available on the internet before long. See the complete list of winners.