August 2016 - Lnc-business - Moellman Enterprises Email

New Region 8 Alternate Representative
by Daniel Hayes 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Congratulations go out to the new Region 8 Alternate, Larry Sharpe and to Region 8 for making such an excellent choice. I look forward to having Larry's expertise at framing the message added to the LNC's overall voice. Daniel Hayes LNC At Large Member

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Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-05: Increase Ballot Access Budget
by hdigger2004 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Yes Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S® 5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Alicia Mattson <agmattson(a)gmail.com> Date: 8/31/2016 1:06 AM (GMT-08:00) To: lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org Subject: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-05: Increase Ballot Access Budget We have an electronic mail ballot. Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by September 10, 2016 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time. Sponsor: Sarwark Motion: to increase the ballot access budget (Line 70) from $340,000 to $390,000 -Alicia

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Re: [Lnc-business] Motion to Amend the Ballot Access Budget
by William Redpath 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Yes. Bill Redpath -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 8/30/16, Nicholas Sarwark <chair(a)lp.org> wrote: Subject: [Lnc-business] Motion to Amend the Ballot Access Budget To: "lnc-business" <lnc-business(a)lp.org> Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2016, 7:08 PM Dear All, The good news is that we are still on track to have our Presidential candidate on all 50 state ballots and the District of Columbia. The bad news is that it cost more than we had anticipated at our July meeting. At that meeting the Ballot Access budget was increased to $340,000. We have presently spent approximately $381,000 on ballot access, which exceeds our budgetary authority as well as the 10% overage allowed by the policy manual. There are petitioners who are working at present in Kentucky, which is the last state with an active petition drive. It is my intent to continue to pay the petitioners while this email ballot is pending. My apologies for not requesting this budget increase earlier, things moved very quickly with NY/OH/CT/NH/DC all going at the same time. I would like to request an email ballot for a motion to increase the ballot access budget to $390,000. Yours truly, Nick _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-05: Increase Ballot Access Budget
by Daniel Hayes 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Yes Daniel Hayes On Aug 31, 2016, at 05:42 AM, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes. But I would still like to know the Johnson campaign's contribution to this effort. Live Free, Sam Goldstein Libertarian National Committee Member at Large 8925 N Meridian St, Ste 101 Indianapolis IN 46260 317-850-0726 Phone 317-582-1773 Fax On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes On Wednesday, August 31, 2016, Whitney Bilyeu <whitneycb76(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes. Whitney Bilyeu Region 7 Rep On Aug 31, 2016 6:00 AM, "William Redpath" <wredpath2(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Yes. Bill Redpath -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 8/31/16, Alicia Mattson <agmattson(a)gmail.com> wrote: Subject: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-05: Increase Ballot Access Budget To: lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 4:06 AM We have an electronic mail ballot. Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by September 10, 2016 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time. Sponsor: Sarwark Motion: to increase the ballot access budget (Line 70) from $340,000 to $390,000 -Alicia -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Lnc-business mailing list Lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org _______________________________________________ Lnc-business mailing list Lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org -- In Liberty, Caryn Ann Harlos Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann. Harlos(a)LP.org Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus _______________________________________________ Lnc-business mailing list Lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-05: Increase Ballot Access Budget
by William Redpath 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Yes. Bill Redpath -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 8/31/16, Alicia Mattson <agmattson(a)gmail.com> wrote: Subject: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-05: Increase Ballot Access Budget To: lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 4:06 AM We have an electronic mail ballot. Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by September 10, 2016 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time. Sponsor: Sarwark Motion: to increase the ballot access budget (Line 70) from $340,000 to $390,000 -Alicia -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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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updated minutes of 7/17/16 LNC meeting
by Alicia Mattson 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

The period for comments on the 07/17/16 draft minutes ended on Thursday. Attached is the updated draft, sans Waldo, and Sam was credited with a brownie point for finding Waldo first. I made a capitalization change that was requested. Mr. Nekhaila's name is my spelling challenge for this term, and hopefully I've got his name correctly spelled now in this version. I did not opt to add a comment about Ms. Harlos' request that John Moore rebrand his website with the word Libertarian, as that was the personal request of one member rather than a formal request of the LNC. Without objection, this updated draft will be auto-approved on August 16, 2016. -Alicia

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Check out Matt Kibbe's Balanced Rebellion project covered in WSJ
by Carla Howell 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLAh3pui-CI http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/08/26/johnson-backers-launch-bid-to-woo-… Carla Howell Political Director National Libertarian Party 202-333-0008 x 222

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Re: [Lnc-business] Contract with campaign?
by Daniel Wiener 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Attached below are some emails I exchanged with Nick back in February on the subject of a Presidential Campaign Contract. Unfortunately nothing got done back then. What I would have liked to have happened is that the LNC should have a adopted a *very reasonable* draft contract, which did not try to extract every last ounce of advantage from our eventual Presidential candidate. We would have then pre-signed the contract and urged all the Presidential candidates to do likewise prior to the convention. If they refused, delegates could have taken that into account. If they objected to some provisions and insisted on certain changes, we could have considered those specific objections and if necessary revised the contract. Instead we have the current situation: Still no signed contract three months after the convention. 50-state ballot access is almost complete, and we've lost most of our leverage. The Johnson/Weld campaign is accumulating a hundred thousand donors. Will we have access to all that information? What do we do if they refuse to provide it to us? Dan Wiener ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Wiener <wiener(a)alum.mit.edu> Date: Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Proposed Presidential Campaign Contract To: "lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org" <lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org> Cc: Oliver Hall <oliverbhall(a)gmail.com> The Libertarian Party's database of membership and contact information is one of our "crown jewels". It is highly proprietary data which would cause us enormous damage if it were to somehow leak into public view or hostile hands. That's why we have to insist on the use of a bonded third-party mail house, thus shielding it even from our Presidential candidate, to avoid the risk that some campaign staffer or outside contractor might accidentally or intentionally compromise its security. But the same logic applies in reverse. A prominent person seeking our Presidential nomination may start with his own large following, accumulated over many years via business or political or celebrity status. That data constitutes his own "crown jewels", and its security is just as important to him as ours is to us. Why should he entrust it to the LP? If we want to market the LP to his pre-existing list, we should have to go through the same hoops (e.g., bonded third-party mailing house) that we demand when he wants to market to our pre-existing list. Hey, if a candidate is willing to gift the LP his pre-existing list, that would be wonderful. But it shouldn't be a contractual condition. And yes, we bring ballot status to the table. But the candidate brings his presumed political skills to the table, along with a willingness to campaign full time as our Presidential nominee. That's the more proper comparison. It boils down to this: We need to propose a Presidential Agreement which most if not all of the Presidential candidates, along with objective observers, will consider reasonable and fair to both sides, not one which disproportionately skews towards the Libertarian Party. That's the only way that we'll persuade the 2016 candidates to buy into it, and that's the only way that we'll be able to convince the convention delegates to add this requirement to the Bylaws for future elections. Dan Wiener On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Nicholas Sarwark <chair(a)lp.org> wrote: > Yes, a candidate comes to the table with a list that may have been > developed over some period before he/she announced for the LP > nomination. But the LP comes to the table with ballot access earned > over 45 years. We should get the whole list if the candidate gets our > whole list. > > All inquiries about the Libertarian Party Presidential candidate > should be given to the LP for an opportunity to convert them to a LP > member, regardless of whether the inquirer asks specifically about the > LP or not. This should not preclude the candidate from also > responding to the inquiry, or even for there being a day or two > between the candidate's response to the inquiry and the LP's response. > > -Nick > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Daniel Wiener <wiener(a)alum.mit.edu> > wrote: > >> After reviewing the proposed Presidential Agreement which Nick sent out >> earlier tonight, I have several suggested edits: >> >> *3(c)(ii):* >> >> *Upon signing this Agreement, the Candidates and Campaign Committee shall >> promptly provide to the LNC their "campaign" lists, i.e., their most >> current lists of contributors, inquiries and volunteers and the mailing and >> e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of those persons, and their "media" >> lists, i.e., their most current lists of media contacts and the mailing and >> e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of those persons. This requirement >> shall only apply to names on those lists which were obtained after the >> Candidates announced that they were seeking the LP nomination. The >> Candidates and Campaign Committee shall provide to the LNC promptly as and >> when they are received, and at least weekly, any additions or updates to >> those lists. The Candidates and Campaign Committee intend that these lists >> shall be added to and merged with the lists owned and maintained by the >> LNC, so that the LNC shall have the unrestricted ownership and use of the >> lists in the future in order to advance the interests of the LP. >> Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Candidates shall retain a limited >> license to use those lists following the Campaign for their own personal >> noncommercial use insofar as such use does not conflict with Libertarian >> Party objectives. * >> >> *3(c)(5):* >> >> *The Candidates and Campaign Committee shall direct all inquiries about >> the Libertarian Party** from interested voters, media representatives >> and others, to telephone numbers, mailing and e-mail addresses and persons >> designated by the LNC.* >> >> My rationale is that I don't think it's reasonable to demand a >> Candidate's entire list of contacts and supporters, many of which were >> accumulated long before that Candidate sought the LP nomination. But once a >> Candidate has announced a run, all subsequent contact information should be >> fair game for the LP. >> >> It's also unreasonable to limit the Candidate's use of such data to >> "personal non-commercial use". Candidates should be able to freely utilize >> all of the data which they themselves collected, unless there is a direct >> conflict with LP objectives (e.g., using that data to help another >> political party or other non-LP candidates). >> >> Finally, Candidates and their Campaign Committees should be able to >> respond to inquiries about themselves without having to redirect those >> inquiries to the LP, unless the inquiry is specifically about the LP. >> >> Dan Wiener > > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Nicholas Sarwark <chair(a)lp.org> wrote: > >> > >> As mentioned, the attached contract incorporates almost all of the > >> proposals suggested by Mr. Hall. > >> > >> -Nick > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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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Contract with campaign?
by Caryn Ann Harlos 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Has a contract been signed? -- *In Liberty,* *Caryn Ann Harlos* Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann. Harlos(a)LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos(a)LP.org> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado <http://www.lpcolorado.org> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>

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Call for meeting 9/25/16 - request for five co-callers
by Caryn Ann Harlos 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Okay after the discussion thread, and the limited input given, I would like for us to call an electronic meeting in accordance with our Policy Manual on Sunday 9/25/16 from 3pm-6pmET with a proposed agenda of: Goals, specifically to address member retention Committee Transparency Campaign update I the discussion thread this seemed like a date and time that the most people could attend. I ask that others join me in this request (and I will agree in advance in this thread to other agenda items). -- *In Liberty,* *Caryn Ann Harlos* Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann. Harlos(a)LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos(a)LP.org> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado <http://www.lpcolorado.org> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>

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