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Bush
vs. Beyonce Video Includes Kubby
Steve Kubby appears
briefly in this music video parody of Beyonce's #1 single
"Irreplaceable," and it examines the political overtones in her lyrics.
With George W. Bush's approval ratings at an all-time low and Beyonce's
song at the top of the Billboard charts, the video has become a smash
hit on YouTube, scoring over 7,500
hits in its first 3 days on the Internet.
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KUBBY TO SPEAK AT
SEVERAL LIBERTARIAN CONVENTIONS
Steve Kubby will be speaking at the
Nevada LP Convention, Feb. 9-11, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV; the Oregon
LP Convention, March 9-11, 2007 in Sunriver, Oregon, and the California
LP Convention, April 20-22, San Ramon, CA. |
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RANKED
1ST AMONG THIRD PARTY AND INDEPENDENTS
For the second week
in a row, the popular blog The
Next Prez has rated Steve Kubby the #1 candidate from any
third party
or independent candidate. (Story) (Web Stats)
(Alexa)
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KUBBY
ON IMMIGRATION
Libertarian
Presidential candidate Steve Kubby has issued a Policy
Paper on
Immigration: "Reasonable
estimates put the number of illegal immigrants from Mexico alone in
excess of one million annually. An entire industry of cross-border
guides, called "coyotes," is built around getting those immigrants into
the US to live and work. These "coyotes" don't care one way or another
whether the person they're smuggling into the US is a janitor from
Guadalajara or an al Qaeda fighter carrying the material to make a
"dirty bomb" in Dallas. And our immigration policy gives the latter
type of "immigrant" a huge crowd to hide himself in."
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US
Presidential candidate visits
LA
cannabis dispensary
"During my recent trip to Los Angeles, I
paid a visit to one of the local medical cannabis dispensaries. At 420
Compassion Center I ran into a man running to be the next Libertarian
candidate for US President." (Story) |
Kubby.com
Leads in
Presidential Website
Rankings
Libertarian Steve Kubby is the early leader in the
presidential website rankings, according to traffic ranking data from
Alexa.com. (Story)
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KUBBY
ON IRAQ
Libertarian
Presidential candidate Steve Kubby has issued a Policy Paper on
Iraq
that calls for the immediate withdrawal of US forces from Iraq: "
We've learned -- or should have learned -- that "nation-building" and
"international peacekeeping" don't work. At their best, they bind us to
an expensive and dangerous policy of "guaranteeing the security" of
other nations, as we've done with various European and Pacific Rim
nations for half a century now at the cost of trillions of dollars and
thousands of American lives. At their worst, they fan the anti-American
animosities that culminate in horrors like the attacks of September
11th, 2001."
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LP
National Chair Comments
on
Kubby running for President
William Redpath, the
National Chairman of the Libertarian Party
appeared on CSPAN's Washington Journal
and immediately thought of Steve Kubby when asked about Libertarians
running for President. (Video)
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KUBBY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BEGINS
The Election may be over, but the Kubby Presidential bid for 2008 is
just heating up. In the first week of November, Steve attended
several events in the SF
Bay Area and then joined Mason Tvert and the SAFER
campaign in Colorado, in
a speaking
tour of college campuses. Here's how UnCivil
Defense, describes our campaign so far.
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FEC CERTIFIES STEVE KUBBY
AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
WASHINGTON, DC
-- The US Federal Election Commission
(FEC) has issued candidate ID numbers for Steve Kubby personally and
for the Kubby for President Committee. Click here to see the
official FEC
online report that certifies Steve as
an official candidate for President of the United States.
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KUBBY
SPEAKS OUT ON MEDICAL RIGHTS
Do you ever find
yourself wondering how you can hold on to your quality of life, in the
face of escalating health costs and the alarming increase in regulation
of our doctors, medicines, therapies and even our herbs and
vitamins?
Protecting our Medical Rights is an issue that is currently ignored in
today's political debate, yet it is an issue that touches all of us.
Recently, Steve Kubby was invited to speak at the 34th Annual Cancer
Control Society Convention. Click here to
see a 5
minute video
of Mr. Kubby's speech on Medical Rights. Since 1973, the Cancer
Control
Society has brought
life-saving information to thousands of patients and their
families. Over 50
speakers, 6 movies and 80 exhibits were
presented at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood, California
during
the Labor Day Weekend.
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"The
(Libertarian Party's) nomination
is Steve Kubby's to lose."
--Tom
Knapp, Rational Review
Excerpts from:
"FIRST
LOOK 2008: LP SITUATION REPORT"
by
Tom Knapp, Publisher of Rational Review
published
in the Free
Market
News Network
Friday,
September 01, 2006
As
I see it, the LP's nomination is, as of right now, Steve Kubby's to
lose. I'm not saying that just because I like him (although I do, and
although I supported him for the VP nomination in 2000). I'm saying it
because he has some chops.
--
Kubby is a capable
campaigner with real political experience in helping put Proposition
215, California's "medical marijuana" law, over the top.
-- He has a base of support in the party (and, unlike George Phillies,
does not seem to have a base of firm opposition to match it).
-- He has a base of support outside the party in the drug law reform
movement. He announced his candidacy to a mob of 50,000 screaming
Hempfest attendees. Most LP presidential candidates don't get near a
mic in front of 50,000 people even after their nominations.
-- He's successfully raised funds for various projects, and I have no
doubt that his "past donor" Rolodex is, or shortly will be, smoking
from use.
-- His ongoing legal case has generated some name recognition for him,
and that name recognition tends toward the positive, at least among
people who won't dismiss marijuana advocates out of hand. The case is
generally, and correctly, perceived as the railroading of a political
threat, not the prosecution of a criminal.
Kubby
is probably more well-known than any past LP presidential nominee
was at the time of his first nomination. And he's known for political
activism, not for one-liners.
For
the complete article click on:
http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/118/5909/first.asp?wid=118&nid=5909
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KUBBY ANNOUNCES BID FOR PRESIDENT
 SEATTLE
-- Steve Kubby announced his candidacy for the Libertarian
Party nomination for President to more than 50,000 cheering fans on
Sunday, August 20, at the 15th annual Seattle Hempfest in Seattle,
Washington. More than 150,000 attended the event held in Myrtle
Edwards Park on the shores of Puget Sound.
"I'm running for
President because I'm
fed up with bad government,
corrupt politicians,
and arrogant officials. Like you, I'd like the government to support my
liberty, protect and serve my family, respect my personal property and
stop passing and enforcing laws that assume Americans have the
intelligence of
a child," Kubby proclaimed to the thunderous approval of the Hempfest
crowd.
Kubby lost a close race in 2000 for the Libertarian Party nomination
for Vice President after he was the Libertarian Party candidate for
Governor of California in 1998. He has been a businessman,
publisher, author, and adjunct college professor, and is married with
three children and one grandchild.
Kubby was born on December 28, 1946, in El Paso, Texas, to Seymour
Kubby, an aerospace engineer and his housewife, Roberta. The
Kubby family moved to the Los Angeles area in 1948 where Steve
graduated from James Monroe High School in 1964.
He received a B.A. in Psychology in 1968 from the California State
University, Northridge, where he continued working towards an M.A. in
psychobiology. He taught at Shasta Junior College where he
received a lifetime teaching credential. He also participated in
the Top Gun Naval Weapons School.
In 1968, at the age of 23, Kubby was diagnosed with malignant
pheochromocytoma, a rare, fatal form of adrenal cancer. He had
tumors surgically removed in 1968, 1975, and 1976, by which time the
cancer had metastasized to his liver and beyond, and he was given less
than five years to live.
After continuing chemotherapy, and another surgery at the Mayo Clinic
in 1981, Kubby began treating his cancer solely with medical cannabis,
and by maintaining a healthy diet.
From 1981-1986, he ran a property management company in Lake Tahoe, and
from 1986-1991 he founded and published "Ski West," the number one
selling ski magazine, in newsstand sales, in the U.S., Canada, the
U.K., Italy, Australia,
and Japan.
Kubby authored "The Politics of Consciousness" in 1995, and co-authored
"Why Marijuana Should be Legal" in 1996. He was instrumental in
the drafting and passage of Proposition 215, "The Compassionate Use Act
of 1996," which led to the legalization of medical cannabis in
California and 11 other states.
Two months after his 1998 Libertarian campaign for California Governor
concluded, the Sheriff of Placer County raided Kubby's home and found
265 cannabis plants that were being grown in compliance with California
state law. In a guest's room the sheriff also found some peyote
and a mushroom stem for which Kubby and his wife were arrested
and charged with possession of controlled substances.
Kubby's wife was acquitted of all charges while Kubby's jury hung 11-1
in favor of acquittal, resulting in the cannabis charges being
dismissed. However, the jury convicted Kubby of possession for
the peyote and the mushroom stem and he was sentenced to 120 days in
jail.
Fearing that his cancer would kill him if he was denied medical
cannabis by his jailers, Kubby and his family moved to Canada where he
fought to clear his name for five years. When the Placer County
Sheriff's Office agreed to allow Kubby to use Marinol, a pharmaceutical
derivative of cannabis, to treat his cancer, he returned from exile on
January 26, 2006, and turned himself in. On March 6, he was
released early for good behavior, and subsequently served 22 days of a
60-day sentence for refusing to return from Canada.
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More information is available online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kubby.
Steve
Kubby's announcement of
his Presidential candidacy was endorsed by an all-star cast of cannabis
activists (shown from left to right in photo above): Eddy Lepp (Eddy's
Medicinal Gardens), Jack Herer ("The Emperor Wears No Clothes"), Ed
Rosenthal ("Ask Ed"), Elvy Musikka (Federal Exemptee), Chris Conrad
("Hemp For Health"), NORML Director Allen St. Pierre and NORML Founder
Keith Stroup. Photo
by LEXX
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"I'm running for
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and arrogant officials. Like you, I'd like the government to support my
liberty, protect and serve my family, respect my personal property and
stop passing and enforcing laws that assume Americans have the
intelligence of
a child."
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from Steve Kubby's 1998 Campaign for California Governor:
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