About Christine

CHRISTINE SMITH

About Christine

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Christine Smith, 43, from Colorado, has written articles for state, national and international publications. Her articles have covered a wide range of topics, including the arts, technology, business, politics, health, the environment, and human spirituality. She has also written profile interviews with high achievers, and a tourist guide for Europeans visiting Colorado. She additionally was commissioned to interview artists throughout Colorado for national magazine articles and was retained to contribute ten stories to a book based on interviews with entrepreneurs nationwide who had made major mid-life career changes. Christine is also author of an internationally popular book published in 2001, A Mountain In The Wind – An Exploration of the Spirituality of John Denver.

She was the founder, manager and hostess for an annual musical event for six years which brought visitors to southern Colorado from worldwide, and was founder and president of a charity that helped thousands in need across America for over seven years. Christine was recipient of the Amigas Peace Power Prize in 2000 for her humanitarian work. She has donated her public speaking and writing skills for years to help raise public awareness and support for other charitable and political causes.

She was advertising sales director for a national physical fitness magazine for three years, and obtained national corporate sponsors to promote an event held at the Olympic Committee and Training Center.

Christine has appeared as a guest on numerous national and international radio shows regarding her political views, writings, and humanitarian work.

Politics

Christine is a libertarian, referring to those who love liberty; believe in personal responsibility and the non-initiation of force; believe in freedom (rejecting the control of economic and social affairs by the state), and who will not compromise those principles and values. She believes that people should be able to live their lives as they choose, as long as they do not harm others.

Christine attended Cato University's "Economic Crisis, War, and the Rise of the State" program in San Diego, California in July 2009, and the Future of Freedom Foundation's "Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties" conference in Reston, Virginia in June 2008.

Christine was a candidate for the Libertarian Party (LP) presidential nomination in 2008. During her campaign, Christine was gratified to receive support from many libertarians nationwide (including receiving a landslide victory over the other LP candidates in the California primary on Super Tuesday), and appreciated the opportunity to speak at LP conventions in eight states.

2010 - Christine is running for the Colorado State House of Representatives, House District 60. You may visit her campaign website.

Politically involved since her early teens (in 1980, at the age of thirteen she campaigned for Ronald Reagan, distributing literature door-to-door and organizing a political rally in his support), she has actively campaigned for local, state and federal candidates, as well as being involved in a variety of political issues.
(Note: Read Canon City Daily Record newspaper article about her for more about Christine's path to and understanding of libertarianism. A quote from Christine:

{“When I was 13, I campaigned for Ronald Reagan, and for local, state and other federal candidates,” she said. “As a young adult through my mid-20s, I was a Republican, wrongly thinking the party actually cared about fiscal conservatism, respecting people’s financial freedom, and protecting this nation. Then, I became a Democrat, wrongly thinking they cared about the poor and others. Only during my late 30s did I realize that there is really very little difference at all between those two parties since they’ve become like one big political party — the party of big government, which violates our rights time and again.”

Smith said she believes there are good people in both parties, but as a whole, the parties themselves have become the antithesis of the principles the nation was founded on.}

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