September 2012 - Lnc-business - Moellman Enterprises Email

mail ballot on whether or not to elect a new At-Large member by mail ballot
by Ruth Bennett 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

*I move that we fill the At-large vacancy as follows: Self-nominations are currently open. An additional announcement will be sent to the State Chairs list. Nominations are closed as of OCT 5, 2012. Each nominee is encouraged to submit a one page "application" to the Chair and the Secretary to include: Name Address Telephone number/s Email address/es Year joined the National LP and member number Any Party offices - national or state - ever held Any candidacies for public office Any potential conflicts of interest An acknowledgment that all travel expenses are the responsibility of the nominee All applications must be received by the Secretary and the Chair by OCT 5, 2012 Additional resumes or CVs may be included. The Secretary shall distribute nominee information as received. The Secretary will make available an instant run-off voting procedure no later than OCT 6, 2012 Balloting will end on OCT 16, 2012. As always, Regional Representatives will coordinate voting with their Alternates. Motion made by Ruth E. Bennett Co-sponsored by Michael Cloud, Tim Hagan and Vicki Kirkland *

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Mail ballot
by liber8or＠austin.rr.com 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

I vote no. The main reason is that certain issues have been raised asking for rulings from me - here they are: Our bylaws allow for email ballots but do not allow other voting methods explicitly. I will not unilaterally rule that other methods are implicitly allowed because the nature of online voting is different enough to contradict the email method. All mail ballots are public, and known during the voting window, and online voting is private. I cannot reconcile these under the bylaws as written. I also will not rule that elections must be or cannot be secret. That always has been a group decision that I think should be enshrined in the bylaws or policy manual. Therefore, it is my position that this motion is out of order, but I am not clear if I have the authority under RNR to make an official ruling outside of a meeting. I agree that our time is limited and should be optimized. Therefore, if this motion fails, I will call for our meeting to start at 8AM and incorporate a working lunch to maximize our time. I still favor some form of non-binding private polling so that we can gently let some of the candidates know ahead of time that their chances are remote, but I see no way of avoiding the situation of candidates spending money in vain. It is up to the candidates to determine for themselves if the money and time involved is well spent. Geoffrey Neale Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

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Re: [Lnc-business] mail ballot on whether or not to elect a new At-Large memb...
by SAM8074＠aol.com 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Unless there is a superseding vote by Jillian Mack, I vote no on this motion on behalf of Region 3. Sam Goldstein, Chair Libertarian Party of Indiana LNC Region 3 Alternate 8925 N. Meridian St., Ste. 101 Indianapolis IN 46260 317-850-0726 Cell 317-582-1773 Fax chair(a)lpin.org Email In a message dated 9/21/2012 9:24:07 P.M. US Eastern Daylight Time, bennettruthaz(a)gmail.com writes: I move that we fill the At-large vacancy as follows: Self-nominations are currently open. An additional announcement will be sent to the State Chairs list. Nominations are closed as of OCT 5, 2012. Each nominee is encouraged to submit a one page "application" to the Chair and the Secretary to include: Name Address Telephone number/s Email address/es Year joined the National LP and member number Any Party offices - national or state - ever held Any candidacies for public office Any potential conflicts of interest An acknowledgment that all travel expenses are the responsibility of the nominee All applications must be received by the Secretary and the Chair by OCT 5, 2012 Additional resumes or CVs may be included. The Secretary shall distribute nominee information as received. The Secretary will make available an instant run-off voting procedure no later than OCT 6, 2012 Balloting will end on OCT 16, 2012. As always, Regional Representatives will coordinate voting with their Alternates. Motion made by Ruth E. Bennett Co-sponsored by Michael Cloud, Tim Hagan and Vicki Kirkland _______________________________________________ Lnc-business mailing list Lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org

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discussion in favor of motion to fill vacant At-Large position by email
by Ruth Bennett 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Dear LNC members, In thinking about filling this position and seeing the names of the folks self-nominating, I realized that there is no logical reason to ask anyone interested to spend the time and money to fly to D.C. to make their case to us. I would much rather that we make our selection and then urge the others to make a donation of the money they've saved to the NLP or the Johnson campaign. Realistically, most of us have probably made our decisions or at least narrowed it down from the list. I am just proposing that we make the decision now, let the new member get all the necessary reports and get up to speed. Please, also remember, that we have such a limited amount of time together and it seems like a mis-allocation of those limited hours to make a decision that most - likely all - of us have already made. Let's say that we have just these 8 candidates. If each is allowed just five minutes to make her/his case, that is 40 minutes at best. Plus wrangling over a voting system and voting and counting ballots. We will have spent a minimum of an hour and a half out of our total of 12-14 hours together - about 10% of our meeting! It just does not seem like a good use of our time - when we can have a decision in the next couple of weeks. Currently I have these names - and more are likely coming: (in no particular order) Carl Perrson Paulie Frankel Am I missing anyone? David Blau Mark Hinkle Bill Still Gary Johnson (TX) Gigi Bowman Guy McLendon So please vote AYE on this motions as quickly as possible and we can proceed to a vote on our new At-Large member. Thank you for your consideration. Ruth

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My favorite cartoon character-Sample IRV election
by noreply＠openstv.org 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Dear Voter, This email is being sent to you to allow you to vote in the My favorite cartoon character-Sample IRV election. This is a sample election to try out a new election system. voting starts on SEP 19 and ends on SEP 23. Please click on this link or copy and paste it into your browser to vote: https://opavote.appspot.com/vote/555010/lnc-business@lp.org/bbe6a3e9075b425… When the election is over, you will receive another email so that you can download the ballots to verify the results. If you would like to stop receiving emails about this election, please follow this link and then click the remove button: https://opavote.appspot.com/remove/555010/lnc-business@lp.org/bbe6a3e9075b4… Please contact me with any questions at the email address below. best regards, Ruth E. Bennett BennettRuthAZ(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Lnc-business] [Lnc-discuss] Treasurer Report & Double the LP
by Region1rep 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

I'd like to see this report. Some basic statements would be nice. Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G Touch Norman T Olsen Regional Representative, Region 1 Libertarian National Committee 7931 S Broadway PMB 102 Littleton, CO 80122 303_277_9967 "Brett H. Pojunis" <brett(a)lpnevada.org> wrote:LNC Board, Mr. Hagan thank you for providing the Treasures the report! I suggest I strongly suggest that each member review the report. I fear you will find the result less than satisfactory and likely disturbing. Here are a few things to look at; Our number of members are flirting with a 20 year low, more than 1/2 off our all time high; Our revenues have basically been declining since the year 2000; For most of this year we have been spending more money than revenues generated; Based on the numbers from January 2012 through July 2012 there are very little expenses for fundraising or membership drives. We have to do something! We do not have the luxury to be spectators anymore. As LNC members we should initiate National campaigns with the intent to drive new membership and significantly increase revenues. If there are members of this board who do not feel the same way, they should strongly reconsider their participation on this board as this board will not exist if we do not dramatically improve our membership and revenues. I would like to start the conversation now about what we can do to increase members and revenues, Nationally as a party. We cannot require any state affiliate to participate in National campaigns, but we must develop campaigns for affiliates to participate in. As leaders of the Libertarian party it is our responsibility to demonstrate leadership. Last week I sent out information about a National campaign called Double The LP. It concerns me that I have received little feedback from this board. I would prefer to embrace the Double The LP campaign, however, if someone on this board has developed any other ideas, now is the time to share them with us. From my understanding this is the only plan on the table. Am I the only member of this board who is very concerned with our inability to build our membership? If not, please speak up and perhaps we can do things on our own to help save the Libertarian Party. I have promised to do everything I can to unite this party, by setting aside differences and working together on campaigns like Double The LP, we will be united. I have attached a shorter version of the Double The LP plan as well as the original plan to this email for your review. I would appreciate feedback and any objections to launching the campaign. Can we at least start the conversation and can we work together to get over any potential objections for this campaign? Thank you and I welcome your questions and comments. Best, Brett H. Pojunis Libertarian National Committee (LNC) – Region 4 Representative Libertarian Party of Nevada – Secretary & Executive Committee Young Libertarian National Alliance (YLNA) - Co-founder and Co-Chair 702.325.7426 | Las Vegas Mobile 202.505.3606 | Washington D.C. Mobile 702.943.1801 | Office (Direct) brett(a)lpnevada.org www.LPNevada.org http://www.lpnevada.org/blog – LPNevada Blog On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Tim Hagan <timhagan-tyr(a)yahoo.com> wrote: The unrestricted checking account is above the reserve requirement. I attest this to expenses being kept down to match the lower than expected revenues.

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Re: [Lnc-business] Treasurer Report & Double the LP
by Brett H. Pojunis 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

LNC Board, Mr. Hagan thank you for providing the Treasures the report! I suggest I strongly suggest that each member review the report. I fear you will find the result less than satisfactory and likely disturbing. Here are a few things to look at; 1. Our number of members are flirting with a 20 year low, more than 1/2 off our all time high; 2. Our revenues have basically been declining since the year 2000; 3. For most of this year we have been spending more money than revenues generated; 4. Based on the numbers from January 2012 through July 2012 there are very little expenses for fundraising or membership drives. We have to do something! We do not have the luxury to be spectators anymore. As LNC members we should initiate National campaigns with the intent to drive new membership and significantly increase revenues. If there are members of this board who do not feel the same way, they should strongly reconsider their participation on this board as this board will not exist if we do not dramatically improve our membership and revenues. I would like to start the conversation now about what we can do to increase members and revenues, Nationally as a party. We cannot require any state affiliate to participate in National campaigns, but we must develop campaigns for affiliates to participate in. As leaders of the Libertarian party it is our responsibility to demonstrate leadership. Last week I sent out information about a National campaign called Double The LP. It concerns me that I have received little feedback from this board. I would prefer to embrace the Double The LP campaign, however, if someone on this board has developed any other ideas, now is the time to share them with us. From my understanding this is the only plan on the table. Am I the only member of this board who is very concerned with our inability to build our membership? If not, please speak up and perhaps we can do things on our own to help save the Libertarian Party. I have promised to do everything I can to unite this party, by setting aside differences and working together on campaigns like Double The LP, we will be united. I have attached a shorter version of the Double The LP plan as well as the original plan to this email for your review. I would appreciate feedback and any objections to launching the campaign. Can we at least start the conversation and can we work together to get over any potential objections for this campaign? Thank you and I welcome your questions and comments. Best, Brett H. Pojunis Libertarian National Committee (LNC) – Region 4 Representative Libertarian Party of Nevada – Secretary & Executive Committee Young Libertarian National Alliance (YLNA) - Co-founder and Co-Chair 702.325.7426 | Las Vegas Mobile 202.505.3606 | Washington D.C. Mobile 702.943.1801 | Office (Direct) brett(a)lpnevada.org www.LPNevada.org <http://www.lpnevada.org/> http://www.lpnevada.org/blog – LPNevada Blog On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Tim Hagan <timhagan-tyr(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > The unrestricted checking account is above the reserve requirement. I > attest this to expenses being kept down to match the lower than expected > revenues.

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Re: [Lnc-business] [Lnc-discuss] Fwd: [Strategy] Okay - let's get the ball rolling - MOTION
by Starchild 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

James Lark is one of the most polite and respectful people I know, and obviously has past experience chairing meetings, so I'm sure he would do an excellent job facilitating. I've also been involved with groups where we had a different person facilitating at each separate meeting, and this works quite well. Giving everyone involved the opportunity to have the experience of leading discussion can produce a more cooperative and dynamic atmosphere. Love & Liberty, ((( starchild ))) At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee P.S. - I'm not on the strategy list because I do not wish to pledge to keep secrets from our membership without a much better rationale for doing so than I have seen so far in this case. However that does not mean I have no interest in whatever may be discussed (if I had no interest, I would not have volunteered my time to take part in our initial strategy discussion in Las Vegas), so I'm glad to see Lee caught himself and posted this motion here on the non-secret LNC list where it belongs (although being a motion, I suppose the LNC-business list would be an even more appropriate place for it, so I'm responding to that list). On Sep 5, 2012, at 10:56 AM, R. Lee Wrights wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: R. Lee Wrights <rleewrights(a)gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Strategy] Okay - let's get the ball rolling - MOTION > To: strategy(a)lp.org > > > Mr. Chair, > > If you find it appropriate for motions to be entertained in this forum, I would like to attempt to resolve this matter once and for all. > > I move we appoint Dr. James Lark facilitator of our strategic planning sessions. > > I will ask for at least three of my colleagues to, please, respond to this post with your intentions to do so. > > Thank you for your patience in this matter. > > > Respectfully submitted by, > > Lee Wrights > Vice Chair > Libertarian Party > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Scott L. <scott73(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > > “I agree (to Mr. Meyer’s first point) – Dr. Lark, this is your ballgame. > > Geoffrey Neale” > > > > > A strategic planning session is not going to be useful if the participants can’t even agree on the ground rules. > > I don’t get to pick the facilitator, but neither does the Chair. > > The LNC – as a body – picks the facilitator. > > > Scott Lieberman > > _______________________________________________ > Strategy mailing list > Strategy(a)hq.lp.org > http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/strategy_hq.lp.org

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Treasurer Report
by Tim Hagan 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

The financial report is attached. Revenues are $99,242 below budget. Extrapolating out to the end of the year, revenues are on track to be $214,148 below what the budget expects. Total Expenses are also below budget, by $99,299. If the LNC continues spending at the same rate, I project that expenses will be $254,427 below budget. The unrestricted checking account is above the reserve requirement. I attest this to expenses being kept down to match the lower than expected revenues. Tim Hagan

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