Many people in the Libertarian Party and the Ballot Access and Petitioning communities knew Milton, who also worked with Jim Turney in the production of videos of Libertarian Party and other events years ago.
Milton suffered a stroke at his home in Louisville, KY about two weeks ago and died this morning at a hospice there. He was 73.
I am very sorry to read this news. Milton Lukins was a great guy.
Milton Lukins first got involved with the Libertarian Party in 1976, when he voted for Roger MacBride for President.
I believe he worked his first petition drive in 1978 for the Libertarian Party. I believe he started as a volunteer petition circulator and then transitioned to being a paid petition circulator. Milton worked petitions all over the country, mostly for the Libertarian Party, and he also worked petitions for pro-liberty ballot initiatives and also for Ron Paul and Rand Paul for their presidential runs in the Republican primaries.
Some places where I know that Milton worked petitions are Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Waahington and California, and probably some other states.
I first heard about Milton in 2000 but J did not meet him until we were both working a petition drive in Washington DC in 2004. I also worked with him in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, North Dakota and Washington.
Milton actually just worked a short term petition drive in Kentucky within the last month or so for a Libertarian Party candidate for the state legislature in a special election. They only had 6 days to gather the signatures. I was told that Milton went door-to-door with a walk list of registered voters and that signatures he collected put them over the top for having enough signatures to plsce the candidate on the ballot.
Milton worked other jobs outside the petition business. He did home renovating and he also did film editing. He was also a Libertarian National Committee office staffer in the 1980’s and later in the 1980’s he served on the Libertarian National Committee.
Milton had not worked regularly as a full time petition circulator in a long time but he did come back to it often, working petition drives for a few weeks or months at a time.
Milton is also the person who recruited long time Libertarian petition circulator, Bob Lynch, into the Libertarian Party and into gatherinh petition signatures, back in the late 1980’s.
Rest in Peace, Milton Lukins.
Milton also worked petitions in Msryland, North Carolina, Mississippi and Hawaii. Maybe some other places.
Andy, Thank you for posting your knowledge of Milton Lukins. He was an energetic person who got things done. His efforts were significant to Libertarian Party access. He was one of the first LP activists.
RIP
I just got it clarified that Milton gathered petitions to get Ron Paul delegates on the ballot in Rhode Island for the 2008 primary election, so add Rhode Island to the list above.
Whites are a dying race.