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Carla Howell (born 1955) is an American politician,

ballot measures in Massachusetts and worked for the Libertarian National Committee
.

Early life and education

Howell is the daughter of Carla (Winsor) Howell and Charles Howell, the third of their five children.

William Eustis Russell, a former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[1] Her father worked as a business executive and her mother engaged in volunteer work in the community.[1] As a result of her father's work, the family moved from Massachusetts, and Howell attended high school in Detroit and Pittsburgh, graduating from Fox Chapel High School in Pittsburgh at age 16.[1]

Howell attended Bethany College in West Virginia for

Westinghouse Electric.[1] In 1981, she began work at Computervision and became the head of an engineering division in 1984.[1] After a decade of engineering work, she then became a consultant in the Boston area for the high-tech and health care industry.[1]

Howell earned her

MBA from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1986.[2]

Political career

In 1994, Howell joined the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts[3] and she was elected chair of the state party in 1997.[1] In 1998, she ran for Massachusetts State Auditor on the Libertarian Party ticket,[1] and was endorsed by the Boston Herald.[4] She received 102,198 votes, 5.3 percent of the total,[5] which according to the Associated Press, "guarantee[d] the party's official status."[6]

In 2000, Howell was the Libertarian candidate for

Boston Globe wrote the 2000 election "made Howell the state party's standard-bearer - and something of a hero to Bay State Libertarians" and reported she received standing ovations before and after her speech to the attendees.[10]

In 2002, Howell was the Libertarian candidate for

Massachusetts Governor.[1][11] At the time of her campaign, she was the chair of the Committee For Small Government.[11] Her campaign platform included a plan to reduce the state budget by half, support for gun rights, and a repeal of the state income tax.[12][13][11][14] She was excluded along with other minor candidates from a gubernatorial candidate debate, and their requests for an injunction were denied.[14] She received 23,044 votes, more than 1 percent of the total.[15][16]

By 2012, Howell was the executive director of the U.S. Libertarian Party.[17][18] In 2016, she worked as the political director for the national party.[19][20]

She was a staff member in the Libertarian National Committee from December 2011 until June 2017.[21]

Ballot initiatives

Howell spearheaded initiatives to repeal the Massachusetts state

Boston Globe, described as "eye-popping".[16]

In 2007, Howell and co-chair

Michael Cloud, re-established the Committee For Small Government. The Committee obtained enough petition signatures to put the issue on the ballot[25] as Statewide Ballot Question 1.[26]
The 2008 initiative differed from the 2002 initiative in that it provided a one-year transition period with a tax rate of 2.65% before the tax rate would drop to zero. This measure received a higher vote total than in 2002, but lost with 30% of the vote.

In 2010, Howell filed four petitions to create ballot measures to reduce sales taxes, and Republican Christy Mihos, who was running for Massachusetts governor at the time, also sponsored the initiatives.[23] Howell headed the Alliance to Roll Back Taxes, sponsor of a ballot initiative to cut the Massachusetts sales tax from 6.25% to 3.0%, which was on November 2, 2010, ballot as Question 3.[27] Her group collected and submitted 74,131 approved voter signatures in the fall of 2009, and another 14,023 signatures in the spring-summer of 2010 to qualify the measure. The measure reached as high as 56% in the polls but was unsuccessful.

See also

References

  1. ^
    Boston Globe
    . p. A1 – via ProQuest.
  2. ^ Carla Howell "about page"
  3. Boston Globe
    . 6 November 1999 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ Editorial (29 Oct 1998). "Endorsement; Carla Howell for auditor". Boston Herald – via ProQuest.
  5. ^
    Boston Globe
    . p. A1 – via ProQuest.
  6. ^ a b "Libertarian likely to be Kennedy's major foe". Telegram & Gazette. Associated Press. 17 May 2000 – via ProQuest.
  7. ^
    ISBN 9781135954741
    . Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  8. Boston Globe
    – via ProQuest.
  9. ^ a b Luttrell, Martin (11 October 2002). "Howell's message is 'small is beautiful'". Telegram & Gazette – via ProQuest.
  10. ^
    Boston Globe
    – via ProQuest.
  11. ^ a b c d "Libertarians pick Howell for governor". Telegram & Gazette. 7 April 2002 – via ProQuest.
  12. ^ Mehren, Elizabeth (29 September 2002). "The Nation; Voters Get Chance to Take 'Tax' Out of 'Taxachusetts'; Ballot: Initiative would repeal the state's levy on income. It isn't expected to pass, but foes warn if it does it will devastate government and schools". Los Angeles Times – via ProQuest.
  13. Boston Globe
    . 30 Jan 2002 – via ProQuest.
  14. ^ a b Echegaray, Chris (4 October 2002). "Howell would cut government and OK guns". Telegram & Gazette – via ProQuest.
  15. ^ Sutner, Shaun (22 October 2007). "Professor eyes presidency; WPI's George Phillies a Libertarian candidate". Telegram & Gazette – via ProQuest.
  16. ^
    Boston Globe
    – via ProQuest.
  17. ^ DeBonis, Mike (11 November 2012). "Libertarians' election victory: Ballot access". The Washington Post – via ProQuest.
  18. ^ Mistler, Steve (19 August 2012). "Taking the liberty vote?: Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson appeals to some fiscal conservatives and supporters of limited government, and may draw some voters from Mitt Romney". Portland Press Herald – via ProQuest.
  19. ^ "Libertarian Convention". NPR. May 29, 2016 – via ProQuest.
  20. ^ Watkins, Eli (June 22, 2016). "What is Libertarianism?". CNN. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  21. ^ Libertarian National Committee staff listing on national Libertarian Party website
  22. Boston Globe
    – via ProQuest.
  23. ^ a b Murphy, Matt (6 August 2009). "Taxes, tolls among key issues for ballot petitioners". Sentinel & Enterprise – via ProQuest.
  24. ^ Massachusetts Secretary of state "2002 Ballot Question 1"
  25. ^ New York Times "Massachusetts Proposal Would Repeal Income Tax"
  26. ^ Mass Secretary of State "2008 Ballot Question 1"
  27. ^ "Ballot Initiative Filed to Roll Back the Sales Tax | MassLPA". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

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