Liberty Tech, Delta Faucet team up for organic garden project

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Liberty-Delta Farms is a collaboration between Liberty Tech and Delta Faucet Company.

"Everything in here is going to be fully organic," FFA President Sydney Davis said. "We're going to pick it, sell it to markets and label it fully organic, which is very important in today's society."

The School Nutrition Department and Liberty Tech celebrated the Farm to Tray Program and the new project-based learning opportunity with a ribbon-cutting event with local officials.

The new four-acre organic garden is on land owned by Delta and located directly across the road from the school.

Guests were invited to enjoy a lunch featuring local products, including fresh produce grown by the Liberty Hydroponic Green House students.

After lunch, guests had the opportunity to tour Liberty-Delta Farms and meet the Liberty students behind the new project.

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Cannabis candidate Chris Wright and Libertarian candidate Chris Holbrook say polls favor opening deb – Video

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Libertarian Challenges 9 t h House District Incumbent

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Richard Lion, a Libertarian who has previously run for state representative and mayor of Hartford, is challenging Democratic incumbent Jason Rojas in the 9th House District.

This is Lion's seventh run for public office. Lion, who describes himself as more of an activist than a politician, has yet to be elected.

"It's not that I don't want to win, but if winning was my number one thing, I wouldn't have run with the Libertarian Party. I would have run with the Democratic Party," said the 58-year-old Manchester resident. "But I don't think what America needs is another Democrat or another Republican. I think we need more parties."

The 9th House District covers East Hartford and Manchester.

In previous campaigns, Lion's primary topic was marijuana legalization. This time around, he says all drugs should be legal. The war on drugs, he said, creates crime on the streets, costs millions in tax dollars and oppresses people, he said.

"We're paying taxes to put people in jail," he said. "We can't lower our taxes if you're going to keep building stupid things and putting people in jail for no reason."

If cocaine were sold in package stores, the potency of the drug would be regulated, leading to less accidental overdoses. Revenues from taxing the drug could be used to help rehabilitate addicts, he said.

Legalizing drugs like cocaine would also reduce violent crimes associated with illegal street sales, he said.

Lion is opposed to what he believes are unnecessary construction projects like the University of Connecticut football stadium, the busway and the Rock Cats baseball stadium.

"They talk about wanting to lower taxes, but they propose to build a baseball stadium and a bus line to New Britain," he said.

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Third-party candidates struggle to overcome variety of political hurdles

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RICHMOND, Va While Virginia voters have become more aware of the Libertarian Party with last years surprising results for gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis, third-party candidates still encounter challenges in the elections this fall. For many, it starts with just getting on the ballot.

While Democratic and Republican candidates are automatically listed, third-party candidates must collect 1,000 signatures of registered Virginia voters in their district to earn a spot on the ballot.

Justin Upshaw, a Libertarian who wanted to be a candidate in Virginias 3rd congressional district, gathered more than the 1,000 signatures required, but more than half were counted as invalid when they were evaluated.

Admittedly, its an adversarial system, Upshaw, a former logistics specialist in the U.S. Army, said. With my case, we turned in 1,560 signatures and only 680 were approved.

The Virginia State Board of Elections reviews the signatures and compares them to voter registrations to verify their authenticity.

Upshaw got involved when a friend tagged him in a Facebook post by Sarvis, who was looking for candidates to run in the congressional races across Virginia to continue the momentum of the Libertarian Party after last years gubernatorial election. Upshaws friend encouraged him to enter the race. But even before running, Upshaw was thinking about the financial costs of campaigning.

I went on Sarvis Facebook page and I made mention of, you know, if I was a little bit better connected, had a little bit more funding, then this is something Id be interested in.

Fundraising and financial support is a major barrier to third-party candidates. James Carr, the Libertarian candidate in the 7th congressional district, primarily uses social media and local events as free platforms to spread his message of changing the partisan gridlock.

We couldnt just spend tens of thousands of dollars, so we set a very, very tight budget, hundreds not thousands [of dollars], Carr, who is running against Republican Dave Brat and Democrat Jack Trammell, said. If you havent raised $50,000, theyre not going to let you come in and debate the other opponents that are on a specific ticket.

I dont have financial support in the role that most candidates would define it, but I have moral support. James CarrCarrs campaign has relied on small-dollar donations from many supporters in the district. He reached the $5,000 threshold required to report donations to the Federal Elections Commission in late September.

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