Susan Hogarth, a former candidate for North Carolina House of Representatives

North Carolina House of Representatives

The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the President pro-tem in the state senate....

, is the founder of LPRadicals

LPRadicals

LPRadicals is a caucus formed in 2006 within the United States Libertarian Party by Susan Hogarth and other party members who opposed removal of much of the material in the party platform during the 2006 national party convention...

, a caucus of the Libertarian Party of the United States that she began in response to calls to eliminate the Party's platform, abolish or weaken the party's membership pledge, and abolish dues. She is also past chair of the Wake County

Wake County, North Carolina

Wake County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 900,993 making it North Carolina's second most populated county...

 chapter of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina

Libertarian Party of North Carolina

The Libertarian Party of North Carolina is the North Carolina affiliate of the Libertarian Party. The state chair is Matt Drew.In the 2008 elections Michael Munger running as the party's candidate for Governor of North Carolina received 121,585 votes for 2.85% of the total vote.Chris Cole running...

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Hogarth is a brain-imaging research coordinator in a neurodevelopmental disorders research group. She does copy editing work as well, and maintains a blog. She lives completely off the state electrical grid. Past offices she has run for include state legislature and county commission.

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A fan of Murray Rothbard

Murray Rothbard

Murray Newton Rothbard was an American author and economist of the Austrian School who helped define capitalist libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism." Rothbard wrote over twenty books and is considered a centrally important figure in the...

, she shares his disbelief in intellectual property. She believes that the best social safety net

Social safety net

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 is "the vast and amazing web of transactions and interdependencies of the marketplace, where even the weakest and least skilled have something of value to contribute." She has said in the past that the Libertarian Party should stop acting like the dissident wing of the Republican Party

Republican Party (United States)

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and instead promote its own positive message.