Jack Cashin, Libertarian candidate for governor in 1998 and Senate in 1996, will speak at the first meeting of Fayette County's new Libertarian Party tomorrow.

Cashin will speak of his experiences running for political office and share the Libertarian message with people. There will also be a short motivational speech by local party Chairman William Norris, in which he will discuss the goals of the Fayette chapter.

“One of our goals is to spread the Libertarian message” said Norris, “and let people know that they now have a new choice in local politics.”

Some of the party's ideas include seriously reducing the size of government “becoming more attuned to the original intent of the founders,” said Norris. The group would end the federal income tax, which did not exist before 1914. Another goal is to end the “miserable failure of the so-called war on drugs which has resulted in the formation of a huge black market criminal economy and wasted billions in taxpayer money,” he said.

The Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the United States and is the fastest growing.

The party will meet at 7 p.m. at the Heritage Bank on Jeff Davis Drive, Fayetteville.

Anyone interested in “an alternative to the same old pork barrel, tax-and-spend politics is invited,” said Norris.

For information go to www.lp.org or www.ga.lp.org.