“All politics are local.” OK, maybe not literally…but for sure most of the policy decisions that affect your life every day—property and sales taxes, zoning and rules concerning what you can do with your home or apartment, recreation, transportation, education, et cetera—are promulgated and enforced by local officials.

Help the WakeLP influence these decisions so as to afford you more choice! Your donation will help fund:

• Recruitment and training of volunteers—some of whom may eventually become candidates—to cover citizen advisory board meetings and ensure the libertarian perspective is represented
• Outreach efforts at local fairs, gun shows, farmers’ markets, and the like to spread the word
• Phone and direct mail campaigns targeting independent voters and disaffected Democrats and Republicans
• Infrastructure (e.g., NationBuilder, Ecanvasser, registration of our website domains) that enables us to compete with the establishment parties
• Seed money for key Wake County political campaigns to fund professional head shots, ensure each candidate has a professional-looking website, and provide templates for yard signs, bumper stickers, buttons, door-hangers 

In 2024, most voters in Wake County had nine Libertarian candidates on their ballot: President/VP-US, Governor, Lt. Governor, State Auditor, Agriculture Commissioner, House-NC, Senate-NC, and Soil & Water Supervisor. Most in Raleigh had ten with including an at-large Raleigh City Council candidate. We had more of a county-wide presence—yard signs, volunteers at early voting and Election day voting sites, active candidate websites and other online venues, paid ads on social media and traditional media channels—than ever. The result: an all-time record 321k votes for Libertarian candidates in Wake County! In two races—NC Senate 18 and Water & Soil Supervisor—our candidates got more votes than the difference between their establishment party opponents: the libertarian vote may well have decided those elections.

The payoff for all that is increased leverage to shape policy here in Wake County. We are pressing NCGA, county, and municipal candidates alike on such issues such as allowing instant runoff voting—a/k/a, ranked-choice voting—in local elections, advancing “Defend the Guard” legislation, and limiting or eliminating single-family zoning restrictions that restrict what you can do with your own property and inhibit the construction of more affordable and missing-middle housing. The bigger our electoral footprint, the weightier our influence on policy.

How much weightier depends on you!

So, please help do more to improve life in Wake County in 2025 and beyond by donating to WakeLP!