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Since 1998 Rich Aucoin has been one of Massachusetts'
busiest antiwar and civil liberties advocates, supporting dozens of local, legislative, congressional, and presidential
campaigns aimed at reducing the greed, excess, waste and overtaxation of runaway government power.
In 2002 Rich
Aucoin was the Libertarian candidate for Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. He ran twice for Waltham City Council, in 2001 and
2003 on a platform of transparency and reducing waste.
In 2002 Aucoin led Liberty Direct, Michael Cloud's grassroots flier campaign that informed voters from Pittsfield to Provincetown about the benefits of voting Yes to End
the Income Tax. The initiative won more than 45% of the vote, on a shoestring, stunning the state's political and media establishment.
In addition to government transparency
and accountability, Rich is passionate about restoring peace. In 2006 he spearheaded a successful legislative ballot measure
in the 10th Middlesex district which instructed Democratic Representative Peter Koutoujian to sponsor a resolution
demanding that Congress bring our troops home from the undeclared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2007 Rich moved
to Franklin, where he keeps busy helping out with the local community garden, the food pantry and the Downtown Beautification
Project.
Rich has delivered dozens
of speeches at high schools and colleges across Massachusetts, including the Kennedy School of Government and the Cambridge
School of Weston.
The Advocates for Self Government twice granted Rich Aucoin the Lights of Liberty award for his commitment to freedom.
Rich lives by the wise words of Rosa Parks in his work towards peace and
justice: "We had no way of knowing that all our hard work and struggle would eventually pay off; we just kept putting
one foot in front of the other."
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