When RLCers arrive in Tallahassee for the 2010 Liberty Days at the Capitol grassroots lobbying effort, the plan is for all participants to meet John Hallman at the plaza between the old and new capitol buildings at 1 p.m. for a briefing and then walk over together to Morris Hall for the 1:45 p.m. Healthcare Regulation Policy Committee hearing on the Healthcare Freedom Act.  Then we'll go to a meeting with Sen. Cary Baker and perhaps Rep. Scott Plakon, sponsors of the legislation, and plot our next moves.

After an afternoon of meetings at legislators offices, we'll meet up for drinks and dinner downtown before heading back to the Baymont Inn where most of us are spending the evening. Then Tuesday morning, we have more meetings until mid-afternoon.

It's going to be a great trip and the timing for the Healthcare bill is perfect. See here.

For the latest information and to RSVP, go here and then call John Hallman at (352) 200-1915. If you are late or get lost, call John.

RLCers will converge on Tallahassee Monday and Tuesday, March 22-23, for our annual RLC Liberty Days at the Capitol. It turns out the timing is perfect to participate in the endgame against ObamaCare.

While there are several issues on our legsislative agenda, a key one is the Healthcare Freedom Act, a model legislation crafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (see www.alec.org). This bill would reiterate the 10th amendment right of states to opt out of any national healthcare system and protect our citizens from individual mandates. The bill is being considered in 36 states and has just passed both Houses in Idaho.

The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee (6-3) on Thursday and will be considered by the House Healtchare Regulation Policy Committee on Monday. RLCers will be there! The plan is for all participants to meet at the plaza between the old and new capitol buildings at 1 p.m. for a briefing and then walk over together to Morris Hall for the 1:45 p.m. Healthcare Regulation Policy Committee hearing on the Healthcare Freedom Act.  Then we'll go to a meeting with Sen. Cary Baker and perhaps Rep. Scott Plakon, sponsors of the legislation, and plot our next moves.

For the full story on the 2010 Liberty Days at the Capitol, see here. To RSVP or other information (accommodations, carpools), please contact John Hallman at (352) 200-1915 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Before the statewide revival of the RLC in 2004, the Miami RLC was the flagship RLC affiliate in the state. In fact, at that time, it was essentially the only vibrant affiliate in the state. Sadly, just as the RLC statewide was reborn, Miami RLCer leader Ed Rahn passed away and the Miami RLC largely died with him. Not long before, fellow Miami RLC leader Jeff Palmer had moved to North Carolina where he took the reins of the NCRLC.

Since then there has been successful RLC-related events and projects in Dade County, most notably the 2004 Southern Republican Leadership Conference, the 2007 Young Republicans National Convention, the Ron Paul and Dean Santoro campaigns and several educational and outreach events. But the Miami affiliate itself never fully covered the loss of Rahn and Palmer.

Miami RLCer Hector Roos wants to change that. Under the new regional RLC structure, Roos is hosting a regional RLC meeting in Miami on Feb. 28 with the aim of reorganizing the Miami RLC as the active center of the South Florida region. With this would come additional representaton of the region on the RLC state board.

Jackie Lee Fernandez, a veteran of the Rahn/Palmer period, is back on board along with many new RLCers. They will be meeting at 6 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 28, in Party Room C of the Brickell Place II condo, 1915 Brickell Ave, Miami, FL 33129.

In conjunction with Roos, the Palm Beach County RLC will be holding a short caucus meeting at the tail end of the March 3 meeting of the Republican Party of Central Palm Beach County. There, Philip Blumel will recap the Miami meeting for Palm Beach RLCers.

At this month's meeting of the Republican Club of Central Palm Beach County, RLCer and U.S. Term Limits President Philip Blumel will give an update on the term limits movement across the country.

In his talk, Blumel will discuss current polling on term limits, term limits and the tea parties, Sen. Jim DeMint's Congressional term limits bill, some history of the term limits movement as well as current term limits battles in Wyoming, California, North Dakota, Arizona and Florida.

Consistent with traditional RLC political strategy, the Palm Beach County Meetup of the Republican Liberty Caucus is not a stand-alone meeting. Instead, RLCers meet in conjunction with the Republican Club of Central Palm Beach County.

The Central Palm Beach County Republican Club is distinguished among most local GOP clubs by its goal to provide high-quality speakers and to focus more on issues and activism than personalities and blind partisanship. Because of the participation of numerous RLCers in the club, the membership is particularly friendly to the libertarian ideas of limited government and individual liberty. However, many different viewpoints are presented at these meetings in a thoughful and civil environment.

Past speakers at this club have included Robert Poole, founder of the Reason Foundation and Reason Magazine; Cato Institute fellow Carlos Ball; Ed Hudgins and RLCer Frank Bubb of The Atlas Society (formerly The Objectivist Center); James Madison Institute Policy Director Bob Sanchez; business speaker, term limits activist and RLCer Bob Burg, local libertarian physician Robert Sussman; Americans for Prosperity state coordinator and RLCer Adam Guillette and Mackinac Center for Public Policy founder and FEE President Larry Reed.

The cover charge is $15 for non-members; a complimentary drink and heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served. The meeting will be held at 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3, at the Atlantis Country Club, Atlantis, FL 33462.

After the meeting, RLCers will caucus and follow up on the Feb. 28 RLC regional meeting in Miami in reorganizing the South Florida RLC and adding a local RLCer to the state RLC board. For more information about the Palm Beach event, go here; for the Miami event, go here.