April 2015 - Lnc-business - Moellman Enterprises Email

Re: [Lnc-business] another Nolan Office reception at LNC meeting?
by Scott L. 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

What makes you think that the amount of money you might raise will compensate for the cost of food, and the staff time involved in planning this event? I mean - if you raise $10,000 it will be worth the cost, but if you only raise a couple of thousand dollars will that really make this a cost-effective idea? I am not against the idea of a Saturday night reception as long as neither the Maryland, DC, nor Virginia Libertarian Parties, nor any other libertarian organization, schedules an event for the Friday night before the LNC Session. Considering that we will be tied up in the meeting all day on Saturday and at least half the day on Sunday, it is not a good idea to "use up" all of our free time in the DC area with scheduled social events. Scott Lieberman _____ I'd like to have another reception at our office on the Saturday night of our next LNC meeting which is July 18, 2015 in Alexandria, VA. Here's a description of the 2014 event. I'd expect to do something similar, such as 7-10 PM, etc. http://www.lp.org/grand-opening A big difference will be that I think we should do a fundraising pitch at this event to help pay off the mortgage. We're beginning work on LP News and would like to nail this down in the next week if possible. So, please speak up soon if you are in favor or against another Saturday evening reception at LPHQ. Thanks, -- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc.

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updated Policy Manual
by Alicia Mattson 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Attached is an updated version of the Policy Manual, which now includes the changes adopted this past weekend for creation of the Ballot Access Committee. Staff, please update the version on the website when you get a chance to do so. Alicia Mattson LNC Secretary

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LNC Alternates send me photo
by Wes Benedict 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

LNC Alternates, If you send me a professional-looking head shot, I'll post in on the LNC page here: https://www.lp.org/lnc-leadership Alternates who just had your photos made, don't worry about it. I'll use the new photos when the final images arrive. Thanks, -- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. *New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314* (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict(a)lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

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Do you save your LNC meeting binder contents? Want single PDF?
by Wes Benedict 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Please reply if you think this would be useful. Gary Johnson asked me about the possibility of creating a single PDF with all of the contents of the LNC meeting binder, including the handouts that were given at the meeting. I'm open to the idea. It might allow LNC members to throw away their binder contents sooner, if you are inclined to save them otherwise. I first want to see if the Secretary is willing to do this. I'm not sure I was careful about assembling all of the handouts this time. We have most of the binder files in a single folder on our server. We could just create another file that includes all of the handouts given on location. The LNC meeting minutes typically have most of the contents of the binder, but not all. Sometimes confidential items are handed out, and I think those would have to be excluded. The single PDF file size could range from 10 to 20 megabytes. -- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. *New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314* (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict(a)lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

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Re: [Lnc-business] Fwd: Phoenix LNC Meeting Notes
by Jay Estrada 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Personal emails and phone calls. Jay Estrada 432-934-2099 Claudio.estrada(a)me.com Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

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Re: [Lnc-business] Fwd: Phoenix LNC Meeting Notes
by Jay Estrada 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

I told Mr. Wolford about the live stream, and will get that information to him a few days before the next meeting. I'm sure we could schedule Adobe Connect meetings, but I prefer a more direct communication. Jay Estrada 432-934-2099 Claudio.estrada(a)me.com Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

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Re: [Lnc-business] Do you save your LNC meeting binder contents? Want single PDF?
by Jay Estrada 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Entire binder on my tablet? 100% in favor. Jay Estrada 432-934-2099 Claudio.estrada(a)me.com Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

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Fwd: Phoenix LNC Meeting Notes
by Claudio Estrada 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

After forwarding my notes on the LNC meeting this weekend to the leadership of Region 7, I was asked to pass this email along to the rest of the LNC. I hope it proves insightful to the committee. Jay Estrada 432-934-2099 claudio.estrada(a)me.com <mailto:claudio.estrada@me.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > Subject: Re: Phoenix LNC Meeting Notes > From: John Wilford <john.wilford(a)hotmail.com> > Date: April 1, 2015 at 11:46:10 AM CDT > To: Claudio Estrada <claudio.estrada(a)me.com> > > Jay, > > I just wanted to let you know I actually read it and Thank You. I know sometimes when you don't get feedback on this stuff it feels like you are just pissing in to the wind. I would like to comment on an issue from the meeting. As a member of the National party who has failed to renew multiple times and does not give monthly but who is incredibly active at the state and local level, I would like to weigh in on the why. I feel completely disengaged from the National party. I know and have seen that this administration has jumped through hoops to change that but it's a process. I want to let you know that this helps. If you don't mind I would like to pass this down the tubes to other members who I represent and ask you to send a message to the LNC members that this interaction has done more than I think the rest of the committee could have possibly done with a motion or resolution. I would encourage the other members to do the same. I would also encourage the national party as a whole to invest in WebEx type software and make it available to the members so that regional online town halls can be scheduled and held between LNC representatives and constituents. You want to get us engaged in the party? Then engage us back, as people not as an email list, and get us involved in the process. > > Thanks, > > ________________________________ > John Wilford, Electrical Engineer > Programming, industrial automation, and web design. > > (xxx) xxx-xxxx cell > john.wilford(a)hotmail.com > > "Art without engineering is dreaming. > Engineering without art is calculating." > On Apr 1, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Claudio Estrada <claudio.estrada(a)me.com <mailto:claudio.estrada@me.com>> wrote: > In an effort to keep all of you informed, I am attaching my personal notes from the LNC meeting in Phoenix that occurred on March 28th/29th. > They are brief and simple to follow, and will hopefully keep you informed or spur conversation that will be pertinent to upcoming LNC dealings. > > Feel free to contact me with any questions, and thank you all for your hard work in the LP. > > Jay Estrada > Region 7 Representative > 432-934-2099 > claudio.estrada(a)me.com <mailto:claudio.estrada@me.com> > > > In an effort to keep all of you informed, I am attaching my personal notes from the LNC meeting in Phoenix that occurred on March 28th/29th. > They are brief and simple to follow, and will hopefully keep you informed or spur conversation that will be pertinent to upcoming LNC dealings. > > Feel free to contact me with any questions, and thank you all for your hard work in the LP. > > Jay Estrada > Region 7 Representative > 432-934-2099 > claudio.estrada(a)me.com <mailto:claudio.estrada@me.com> > >

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Re: [Lnc-business] [Statechairs] Emergency email ballot to move LP HQ
by Daniel Wiener 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Wes, Please stop filling this list with jokes, and get your ass on a plane to North Dakota ASAP! Dan Wiener On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Wes Benedict <Wes.Benedict(a)lp.org> wrote: > Can we please stop filling this list with jokes, and focus on winning > elections? There's a new competitor out there: > > > http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2013/04/april-1-winner-party-laun… > > Wes Benedict, Executive Director > Libertarian National Committee, Inc. > *New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314* > (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict(a)lp.org > facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational > Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership > > P.S. North Dakota is fine with me. > > > Jason Weinman wrote on 4/1/2015 1:35 PM: > > How's that, Wes? > > On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, David Colborne <david.colborne(a)lpnevada.org> > wrote: > >> Even if this is a total April Fool, can we move the LNC to North Dakota >> or Saskatchewan or the Moon anyway? >> On Apr 1, 2015 10:32 AM, "Jason Weinman" <jason.weinman(a)lpnevada.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Yup. We've been had. >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Lars Hedbor <lhedbor(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Eh, why not? >>>> >>>> - Lars D. H. Hedbor >>>> Vice Chair, Libertarian Party of Oregon >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Stewart Flood <sff(a)ivo.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I thought that Wyoming Knott was from Hong Kong. And isn’t she >>>>> supposed to die about 50-60 years from now, on the moon? Hasn’t anyone on >>>>> this list read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? >>>>> >>>>> Stewart >>>>> sff(a)ivo.net >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Statechairs mailing list >>>>> Statechairs(a)hq.lp.org >>>>> http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/statechairs_hq.lp.org >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jason Weinman >>> Outreach Director, Libertarian Party of Nevada >>> 1771 E. Flamingo Road, Suite 201 A >>> Las Vegas, NV 89119 >>> 702.763.9302 | Office >>> 914.318.8057 | Mobile >>> jason.weinman(a)lpnevada.org >>> www.lpnevada.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Statechairs mailing list >>> Statechairs(a)hq.lp.org >>> http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/statechairs_hq.lp.org >>> >>> > > -- > Jason Weinman > Outreach Director, Libertarian Party of Nevada > 1771 E. Flamingo Road, Suite 201 A > Las Vegas, NV 89119 > 702.763.9302 | Office > 914.318.8057 | Mobile > jason.weinman(a)lpnevada.org > www.lpnevada.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Statechairs mailing listStatechairs@hq.lp.orghttp://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/statechairs_hq.lp.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Statechairs mailing list > Statechairs(a)hq.lp.org > http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/statechairs_hq.lp.org > > -- *"In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we compute the consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if this law we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare the computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”* -- Richard Feynman (https://tinyurl.com/lozjjps)

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Emergency email ballot to move LP HQ
by Daniel Wiener 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

This is a heads-up to the LNC that I expect to shortly be asking for co-sponsors for an email ballot to immediately relocate our headquarters to North Dakota. This matter is extremely urgent, for the following reasons: You may already have read on Twitter the sad news that Wyoming Knott passed away early this morning, after she fell 60 feet from the top of a fracking drilling rig. Wyoming Knott is of course better known as the "North Dakota Fracking Queen" and was an ardent advocate for personal liberties. She was an uncompromising individual who demanded total freedom from any state interference in the booming fracking industry. She will be sorely missed, and our heartfelt condolences go out to her family and friends and the entire fracking community. Back in 2003, Ms. Knott apparently altered her will to bequeath a quarter of her estate to the Libertarian Party. At the time her estate consisted primarily of undeveloped land near Williston, North Dakota worth an estimated $375,000. A quarter of that ($93,750) was certainly a generous amount even back then. Today, as a consequence of development of the Bakken Shale Formation which underlies it, that land has appreciated enormously, with a November, 2014 appraisal coming in at just over $6 billion. That would put the value of her bequest to the Libertarian Party at $1.5 billion, although that may have since declined to about $900 million due to the drop in oil prices. However, Ms. Knott detested everything connected with Washington, D.C., including the fact that the LP's office was located there. So she added a codicil to that bequest that it would only be effective if the Libertarian Party's office was located in North Dakota, which to her represented the cultural and ideological opposite of Washington, D.C. She believed that removing the Libertarian Party from the center of government corruption would help it avoid the inevitable rot. One possibility is that we could challenge that condition in court. But let's be realistic. Regardless of whether the eventual value is $1.5 billion or $900 million or somewhere in between, there will be scores of lawyers crawling out of the woodwork, anxious to do everything possible to deny us that bequest, if they can cobble together even the slightest pretext. So the sooner we can move our headquarters to North Dakota to prove we are complying with her codicil, the better. Again, time is of the essence. If all LNC members immediately vote on the upcoming email ballot, we ought to be able to complete it by the end of today. In the meantime, our Executive Director can fly to North Dakota and rent a temporary office to get us started, until we can construct a major new high-rise office building. (It's been suggested that it be named the Wyoming Knott Memorial Office Building, and my response is "why not"?). If all this gets finished today (on the same day as her death, April 1, 2015) I think it will greatly strengthen our legal position. Daniel Wiener

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