FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
John Schultz, Chair
Boone County Libertarian Party
1301 W. Colchester Road
Columbia, MO 65202
E-mail: chair@boone.lpmo.org
Website: http://boone.lpmo.org

Boone County Libertarians Team Up With Missouri Citizens For Property Rights

Columbia, MO -- July 23, 2007 -- The Boone County Libertarian Party (BCLP) will have
a booth this year at the Boone County Fair July 23rd through the 29th.

Libertarians manning the booth will be giving out the World's Smallest Political
Quiz and helping Missouri Citizens for Property Rights gather signatures for petitions
to amend the Missouri Constitution to prevent the use of eminent domain for private
development.

After the 2005 US Supreme Court decision in the Kelo vs New London Development
Corporation case upheld the use of eminent domain for private development, the
Missouri Legislature acted quickly to pass eminent domain reform in 2006.
Unfortunately the legislation passed did little to protect Missouri citizens from
eminent domain abuse.

"Eminent domain when used for private development puts the home or business owner in
a lose-lose situation. They either have to lose their property or spend a great deal
of money fighting to keep their property in the courts. Either way their lives are
completely disrupted." said Missouri Libertarian Party Chairman Glenn Nielsen.

Glenn Nielsen added, "I commend the efforts of Ron Calzone of Missouri Citizens for
Property Rights for all the hard work to get real eminent domain reform before the
people of Missouri."

According to the Castle Coalition - an organization that fights eminent domain abuses
and has said that "Missouri has one of the worst records on eminent domain abuse in
the country" - a recent state law fell far short of protecting the people. "The problem
is that if blight can mean anything at all...(Missourians) are not much more protected
today than they were before this new legislation." said Institute for Justice Senior
Attorney Scott Bullock, who argued Kelo before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Glenn Nielsen, Missouri Libertarian Party Chair and Ron Calzone, Chairman of Missouri
Citizens for Property Rights will be at the BCLP booth from 4PM to 9PM Tuesday July 24th.

The Boone County Libertarian Party is affiliated with the Missouri Libertarian Party,
one of three established political parties in Missouri.

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