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Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-03: Gun Rights Resolution
by Daniel Hayes 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Alicia, this seems to have passed 12-3 by my count as I believe the threshold for resolutions is by a three-fourths vote. Assuming it did and if the amendment fails I would ask the following grammatical correction be made to the text if there is no objection. We should replace the preposition "for" found in the fourth clause in the phrase "restricting access for firearms and ammunition" with "to". It should then read "restricting access to firearms and ammunition" This correction would be in addition to the correction already made of "deny" to "denies" in the third clause so that it would read as follows: WHEREAS, Libertarians affirm that self-defense is an inherent human right; WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party opposes all laws at any level of government restricting, registering, or monitoring the ownership, manufacture, or transfer of firearms or ammunition; WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party affirms the right of due process and denies the legitimacy of “victimless crimes”; WHEREAS, the government has steadily encroached upon these rights by illegitimately regulating and restricting access to firearms and ammunition and may further seek to deprive people who have been convicted of no crime of their inherent right to full self-defense by denying their civil and inherent rights to obtain firearms and ammunition; BE IT RESOLVED that the Libertarian National Committee opposes any policy which would deny access to any firearms or ammunition to any person simply for being placed on any government watch or no-fly list and reaffirms its call to repeal and oppose any existing or proposed firearm and ammunition regulations. Daniel Hayes LNC At Large Member On Aug 22, 2016, at 03:49 PM, James Lark <jwl3s(a)eservices.virginia.edu> wrote: Dear colleagues: I hope all is well with you. I am writing in my capacity as Region 5 representative to vote "aye" on the motion. As always, thanks for your work for liberty. Take care, Jim James W. Lark, III Advisor, The Liberty Coalition University of Virginia Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee ----- On 8/12/2016 11:40 PM, Alicia Mattson wrote: We have an electronic mail ballot. Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by August 22, 2016 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time. Co-Sponsors: Harlos, Katz, Hayes, Goldstein, Vohra Motion: WHEREAS, Libertarians affirm that self-defense is an inherent human right; WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party opposes all laws at any level of government restricting, registering, or monitoring the ownership, manufacture, or transfer of firearms or ammunition; WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party affirms the right of due process and deny the legitimacy of “victimless crimes”; WHEREAS, the government has steadily encroached upon these rights by illegitimately regulating and restricting access for firearms and ammunition and may further seek to deprive people who have been convicted of no crime of their inherent right to full self-defense by denying their civil and inherent rights to obtain firearms and ammunition; BE IT RESOLVED that the Libertarian National Committee opposes any policy which would deny access to any firearms or ammunition to any person simply for being placed on any government watch or no-fly list and reaffirms its call to repeal and oppose any existing or proposed firearm and ammunition regulations. -Alicia _______________________________________________ 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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Email Ballot 2016-03: Gun Rights Resolution
by Alicia Mattson 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

We have an electronic mail ballot. *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by August 22, 2016 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Co-Sponsors:* Harlos, Katz, Hayes, Goldstein, Vohra *Motion:* WHEREAS, Libertarians affirm that self-defense is an inherent human right; WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party opposes all laws at any level of government restricting, registering, or monitoring the ownership, manufacture, or transfer of firearms or ammunition; WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party affirms the right of due process and deny the legitimacy of “victimless crimes”; WHEREAS, the government has steadily encroached upon these rights by illegitimately regulating and restricting access for firearms and ammunition and may further seek to deprive people who have been convicted of no crime of their inherent right to full self-defense by denying their civil and inherent rights to obtain firearms and ammunition; BE IT RESOLVED that the Libertarian National Committee opposes any policy which would deny access to any firearms or ammunition to any person simply for being placed on any government watch or no-fly list and reaffirms its call to repeal and oppose any existing or proposed firearm and ammunition regulations. -Alicia

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Reason: GOP Writing Off 30 Percent of American Electorate / A Lesson for Libertarians
by Starchild 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason magazine, here discusses how the Republican Party has in recent decades systematically alienated blacks, Hispanics, and immigrants: http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/23/is-the-gop-writing-off-40-percent-of-the There is an obvious lesson here for Libertarians to pursue a different course, and not follow the failed party of the past. Libertarian values of open borders, defending civil liberties against police abuse, ending the "War on Drugs" and mass incarceration policies that disproportionately harm minorities, and speaking out against government policies that oppress and discriminate against the poor, offer a clear alternative – if we have the vision and courage to embrace it. Love & Liberty, ((( starchild ))) The GOP Is Writing Off 30 Percent of the American Electorate Richard Nixon pulled about one-third of black voters in 1960. Donald Trump is courting 0 percent. And that may not even be Republicans' biggest problem. Nick Gillespie Aug. 23, 2016 11:30 am Todd Krainin, Reason According to some polls, Donald Trump has been pulling as little as 0 percent of the black vote in key battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania. Zero percent! That's mind-boggling and sure, it might pick up after his recent speeches identifying with the plight of African Americans living in urban areas that have been under Democratic control for decades. But if we're being honest, it's not going to change very much. That's not all Trump's fault, either. It represents a decades-long trend that has seen Republicans essentially abandon all hopes of cracking the lowest possible double digits among black voters. In 2012, Mitt Romney got just 6 percent of black votes. (One Republican who has done better is Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who earned 26 percent of the black vote in his 2014 re-election race). It wasn't always this way, of course, and looking at how Republicans went from being the default party of black voters after the Civil War to being a pariah among them is a way of understanding one highly probable future for the GOP as a minor party that represents a smaller and smaller bloc of voters who identify as "white" and "American" in strictly nativist terms. The GOP's declining appeal to black voters—again, approaching zero in the Year of the Donald!—is paralleled by the party's declining appeal to Hispanic voters, too. According to the Census, blacks currently make up about 13 percent of the population while Hispanics account for about 18 percent. In an August 11 Fox News Latino poll, only 20 percent of Latinos support him, lower even than Mitt Romney's dismal 27 percent showing among Latinos in 2012, which was itself lower than John McCain's 31 percent in 2008. Between blacks and Latinos, then, the Republican Party is effectively writing off almost 31 percent of the vote before the first ballot is cast in November. And given broad demographic trends, things can only get worse for the GOP. What's going on here and what it does it say about Republicans and electoral politics in the 21st century? And what does it say about the possibility for a third party such as the Libertarians to drive up their own national numbers? The short answers: Absent a different agenda and outreach to groups they alternately demonize and ignore, the GOP will harden into an awful party of racial and ethnic resentment. For the LP, which embraces tolerance, diversity, and economic mixing and progress, the sky's the limit, especially if the Democrats continue to take minorities for granted. Factcheck.orgAs recently as 1960, the Republican Richard Nixon managed to get about 30 percent of the black vote. From the Civil War on, blacks had favored the "party of Lincoln" for self-evident reasons. Southern Democrats were segregationists and they worked hard not just at disenfranchising blacks at election time but in every way possible. Blacks weren't even allowed to attend Democratic national conventions until 1924. While he was no great friend to African Americans, Franklin Roosevelt began to win a majority of their votes in the 1930s, mostly for the same reasons he won a majority of nearly every group's votes during his four presidential campaigns. Blacks were more likely to be poor than average and they warmed to various FDR programs aimed at ameliorating poverty. Harry Truman, writes Brooks Jackson, won 77 percent of the black vote in 1948, the first year that a majority of blacks identified as Democrats (among other things, Truman integrated the armed forces and took civil rights more seriously than most of his predecessors). While Eisenhower in '56 and Nixon in '60 did relatively well with black voters, Barry Goldwater's refusal to vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964—and his willingness to run a campaign that tolerated (if it didn't actively court) segregationists—effectively ended the Republican Party's relationship with blacks. As former segregationists such as Strom Thurmond crossed the aisle to join the Republicans, the transition was complete and for the past 40-plus years, Republican presidential candidates have struggled to crack double digits with black voters. Running as the "law and order" candidate in 1968 and targeting urban violence (by war demonstrators and race rioters alike), Nixon no longer had much appeal for black voters. The last GOP candidate to crack double digits was George W. Bush in 2004, when he pulled 11 percent. Something similar is happening with Latino voters, although the trend line is less uni-directional. In 2004, George W. Bush won 40 percent of the Latino vote (some reports put it a few points higher), but since then it has declined precipitously, down to Trump's pre-election share of 20 percent. The typical conservative Republican response to this is to invoke a master plan by Democrats and/or moral and ideological failings of Latinos. A few years back, I debated Ann Coulter at an event hosted by the great Independence Institute of Colorado. Among the topics was immigration. Coulter, who has taken credit for Donald Trump's pro-deportation stance in this election, claimed that Ted Kennedy was behind the push to bring in millions of Mexicans and other unmeltable ethnics from Africa, Asia, and especially Latin America, all of whom would inevitably vote for Democrats. "I don't think any time in the history of the world has a country changed its ethnic composition overnight like that," said Coulter, following a line of thought that is popular among many conservatives, right-wingers, and Republicans. "It was done by design. It was done to help the Democrats, and it did help the Democrats." Pew ResearchIn fact, the immigration reform enacted in the mid-1960s, much in the spirit of Civil Rights legislation. Its chief authors were New York Rep. Emanuel Celler and Michigan Sen. Philip Hart, and its explicit goal was partly to route around the patently racist quotas from the 1920s that had been based on "national origins." Disturbed by the rise in immigrants from central and southern Europe, unapologetically racist lawmakers in the '20s laws moved to limit the number of Jews, Italians, Poles, Slavs, Irish, and other undesirable Europeans. New limits were pegged to percentages of the 1890 Census, when there were fewer foreigners from "bad" countries in the United States. The '60s reforms, on the other hand, were specifically designed to let Americans of European descent bring over parents and grandparents who had been stranded in the old country first by the Depression and then by World War II. Even as it put family reunification front and center in deciding who could come here, it also allowed for high-skilled folks to emigrate. It was passed against a backdrop of lower and lower levels of foreign-born people in the United States. By 1970, just 4.7 percent of the country was foreign-born, down from a peak of almost 15 percent in 1910. By the mid-'60s, though, relatively few Europeans were interested in coming to America. Some of them were trapped behind the Iron Curtain and had no easy way West. Throughout free European nations, things were relatively good for most people after a truly grim period that started with World War I. The immigrants that have come to America post-1965 are mostly from Mexico, Latin America, and Asia. In the late 1980s, Ronald Reagan pushed hard to create a pathway to legalization and citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were overwhelmingly of Latino heritage. So you might want blame (or thank) Reagan far more than Ted Kennedy for changing our "ethnic composition overnight." But you can and should blame Republicans for failing to appeal to ethnically diverse Americans in the 21st century. Demograhics are not destiny in politics but ever since the mid-'60s, the GOP has done a masterful, if not always conscious, job of making sure that blacks and Latinos feel unwelcome. In a great piece at Politico, Josh Zeitz writes that "unlike earlier waves, 90 percent of new Americans since 1965 hail from outside Europe—from countries like Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines, Korea, Cuba, Taiwan, India and the Dominican Republic." Where conservatives tend to see an undifferentiated blob of threats to American identity, Zeitz underscores that post-1965 immigrants "include evangelical Christians, traditional Catholics, anti-statist refugees and the kind of upwardly mobile, economic strivers whom the GOP courted assiduously in past decades." Had the GOP worked to engage newer, non-European immigrants, the party wouldn't be in the position it's found itself in, where only rare presidential candidates such as Reagan and Bush II can appeal to one-third or more of a rapidly growing part of the citizenry. About the only time contemporary Republicans view immigrants as individuals is when they are signaling out the precise threat each different sub-group represents to the nation: GXSplinter, Imgur.com It's a party whose presidential nominee uniformly disparaged Mexicans as "rapists" and "killers" and called into question the impartiality of an American-born federal judge of Mexican ancestry. It's a party that casts a big enough tent to include congressional luminaries like Steve King (for every immigrant child "who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert"); Michelle Bachman (who claimed that a top aide to Hillary Clinton had family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood); Peter King (who contends that "80 percent, 85 percent of the mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists"); Louie Gohmert (the GOP's in-House intellectual, who raised concerns that Muslim immigrants might give birth to "terror babies" who "could be raised and coddled as future terrorists"); and Don Young (who apparently didn't receive the memo explaining that "wetback" is no longer a term used in polite company.) "By 2050, non-Hispanic white Americans will comprise less than half of the U.S. population," writes Zeitz. "Had the GOP focused more on ideology and less on skin color, the party could have thrived from the immigrant influx." But it didn't do that, any more than it has reached out to African Americans on a regular basis. There have been well-intentioned and sincere efforts by some Republicans (Jack Kemp comes to mind, and more recently Rand Paul), but the instinct among most conservatives and Republicans is to ignore issues in the African-American community or to reflexively side with the police, drug warriors, and others who are viewed negatively by blacks. When it comes to Latinos and non-European immigrants, the same distancing act dominates, along with calls to establish English as an official language and appeals to protect bankrupt entitlement programs from pilfering by illegal immigrants who are simultaneously supernaturally lazy and so hard-working they take all of our jobs. There is very little reason to believe that the Republican Party will pursue any meaningful interaction with racial and ethnic minorites or economic refugees, even when, as Zeitz underscores, they might have strong ties built on common religious and entrepreneurial interests. The attitudes of so many of the GOP's presidential nominees and boosters in the press have been resolutely hostile to seeing Mexican and Latino immigration as anything other than a scourge upon the land. A few years back, Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio worked on comprehensive immigration refrom legislation until he was shouted down by his own party. By the time he announced for president, he was only interested in talking about cutting off the flow of newcomers. Toward the end of primary season, the Cuban-American Ted Cruz took to attacking Donald Trump as soft on immigration because the billionaire had a "door" in his much-discussed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. National Review, arguably the flagship publication of the conservative right, has been calling for reductions in immigration from Latin America for decades now and attacked Trump for being insufficiently tough on the issue. The Republicans' unwillingness to interact with a more ethnically and religiously diverse America can be the Libertarian Party's gain. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld are the only candidates that are effusively pro-immigration, pro-trade, and socially tolerant. Coming from a border state with a large Latino population, Johnson in particular is in a position to talk about the benefits of immigration and the issues faced by newcomers and their families as well as by longtime residents. His focus on the sharing economy, school choice, and rolling back federal regulations that hamper entrepreneurship also should play well with both blacks and Latinos. But none of this is easily achieved. Gaining support among any constituency is the result of hard work and years of toiling side by side and shoulder to shoulder. The Republican Party—including Donald Trump in his recent outreach to African Americans—isn't wrong to say that racial and ethnic minorities aren't benefitting from Democratic Party policies at the local, state, and federal levels. Social Security retirement benefits ultimately screw over blacks, who have shorter lifespans; protecting union teachers from competition by charters and other forms of school choice hurts low-income minorities most of all; far from welcoming illegals from Latin America, the Obama administration has deported record numbers and split up tens of thousands of families; and on and on. But simply rattling off such talking points isn't going to win new votes. That only comes from concerted actions that start at the neighborhood level and work out and up through levels of power and government policy. The political opportunity is there, but it remains to be seen who, if anyone, will take it. Nick Gillespie is the editor in chief of Reason.com and Reason TV and the co-author, with Matt Welch, of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (2011/2012). He is also a columnist for The Daily Beast.

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Formal request for contract update(s)
by Caryn Ann Harlos 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Joe, thank you so much for writing. You know I take the questions and concerns of my Region very seriously, and I am copying this email to the LNC business list to ask that a response be given. The similar concerns of the Colorado affiliate are very well known via a statement by the LPCO Chair on the State Chair's list. This is a failure in our system.. be it a blame on the LNC, elsewhere, combination, or simply unavoidable this needs to be openly dealt with. I know that other than "none signed yet" we are in the dark. If information cannot be public, I ask that the LNC be updated in Executive Session if need be on what precisely is going on. I know I feel inadequately informed, and that is not serving my representative capacity for my Region to be so. I believe Joe is right to call us out on our fiduciary responsibility to the best interests of the Party which will be here after November while the candidates (unless they win the election--and Trump and Clinton seem very determined to assist us in that endeavor) will not. One correction Joe, the authorization granted to the Chair for negotiations was in *May*. I believe he has strived zealously with the assistance of counsel to get this done. But it is nearly three months now and not the quick, decisive resolution that was certainly in my mind when I voted so. We either admit defeat now and hold ourselves accountable to the membership as to why this wasn't done or take another tactic. But this slow descent of this issue into oblivion will not do. -- *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 <http://www.lpcolorado.org/> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Joseph Buchman <drbuchman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The past LNC meeting, if memory serves, responded to an apparent > (mis)characterization of the contract negotiations with Ron Nielson/the > campaign as being near an end and a contract as "imminent" -- on that basis > Nick was, if I remember, authorized to finalize the deal (with an > expectation that would occur within a day or two). > > As that has not happened my requests are: > > 1) For the full LNC to reengage/remove the authorization for Nick to > finalize. > > 2) For an update of what happened/why the delay. > > 3) If possible, for the campaign to disclose the boilerplate of its > contracts with key staff. Specifically any non-disparagement clauses. > > 4) If such clauses exist, I would call on the LNC (just as I would call on > the US Congress) to open whistle blower hearings (in Executive Session if > necessary) for key staff, and in return for such testimony to the LNC offer > legal counsel for their defense against Ron Nielson/The Campaign for any > actions against them for having told the truth. > > Bottom line, I call on the LNC to be an exemplar in these matters of how > we expect/demand our government act in similar situations. Transparency, > accountability, truth and an honoring of private contracts only to the > point that are not used to cover crimes, waste, fraud, etc. The LNC > deserves to know how this campaign was managed (mismanaged) to better > prepare the party for 2018 and 2020. > > That is your alls prime fiduciary responsibility, IMO. > > So, again . . . > > Why no contract? Hasn't the authorization the committee gave to the Chair > now, clearly, expired? What was the nature of the misrepresentation > (optimism) of the July LNC meeting? Is the campaign actively preventing > those with knowledge of fraud, mismanagement, misreported expenses/revenues > from whistle blowing? Can the LNC act to hear those claims/protect those > folks from such immoral (and likely unenforceable) clauses? > > Feel free to reword the above as you see best for a formal motion to the > LNC. > > Hope the above is helpful to you, and ultimately to the cause of advancing > liberty/ending tyranny (even right here in River City!) > > Joe > _______________________ > Joseph G. Buchman, PhD > 584 Hillside Circle > Alpine UT 84004 > > www.josephbuchman.com > > 435 602 0798 > -- *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 <http://www.lpcolorado.org> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.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 <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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September meeting, prior to asking for co-requestors
by Caryn Ann Harlos 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

I firmly believe we need a September electronic meeting. I would like people to give availibility. Seems to me this is something that can and should be discussed publicly without off-list private discussions. Business? Primarily the goals that were not done the last meeting. And any other outstanding issues, for myself that would be the transparency proposal. -- *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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Re: [Lnc-business] #ReRegister Week
by Daniel Hayes 20 Aug '16

20 Aug '16

This proposal is running short on time for optimal impact. Once again I see us detailing something to death. In general on campus, this sort of a project works best towards the beginning of the semester. I don't think the opportunity will be as great at another time. We have many Liberty leaning Republicans and Democrats that feel that they were Trumped and Burned. If we can use this # maybe we can get it to trend a little I think that this does fall within the purview of the Affiliate Support Committee. This has interest by the NY affiliate to be used by 24 of its local affiliates. It will help existing partisan organizations on campuses to help increase the number of registered Libertarians in their state. I can speak unequivocally from personal experience that it has strengthened the La Affiliate. I keeps the organization growing and quantifies that more people are identifying with libertarianism and the Libertarian Party. I have checked with most of the members of the Affiliate Support Committee on this matter. I have 2 more to speak with. At this point I think that the ASC would be amenable to taking on this project. We have been given $10,000 to assist affiliates. We have a scheduled conference call next Thursday. If we authorized half of the ASC budget to this project that would cover what Mr. Somes has proposed and leave cushion if other States come forward wishing to participate and cover extras if we decided to go that route to help promote it. Authorizing more than we currently need means if we have more affiliates wish to come online with it we don't have to schedule a special call or wait for our next bi monthly meeting. If the LNC votes on it, we will take about 2 days to get the vote up..10 days to get the vote complete and then that leaves little time for printing of any specialized materials such as banners. I think a subcommittee would be a better option We are losing campuses to the Republicans and Democrats and to the nonpartisan organizations. We need to take over the colleges for the Libertarians. This project could be the cornerstone to get that started. Additionally, it can help state affiliates like NY greatly by increasing their Registered L count and moving them closer to full Party status in their state. Unless there is overt objection, the ASC will be evaluating what Mr Somes has put forward here, working on tweaks and voting this next Thursday to get this up and running. As this is a relatively big project with a potentially large scope, we will be open to any outside help we can garner. Daniel Hayes LNC ASC Chairman LNC At Large Member On Aug 18, 2016, at 07:10 PM, Arvin Vohra <votevohra(a)gmail.com> wrote: This looks awesome On Aug 18, 2016 8:50 PM, "Joshua Katz" <planning4liberty(a)gmail.com> wrote: Trent, thanks for this great work. I like that, in this plan, the participating groups have their own investment, so to speak. I think that will generate more commitment from the groups that join in on the plan. The costs appear in-line for us, and this activity would help strengthen our student groups. I'd like to see more involvement from LP groups relative to YJW groups, but if this is the way it is, I guess that's a function of our need for more student groups. So the obvious question is: what's the bang for our buck? I don't mean what do we get from it, I mean how do we quantify what we get from it? Do we just measure registrations per dollar? At least some of the benefit here is going to be less tangible - visibility on campus, getting students active, etc., but I'm not sure how much we'd pay for those things. I think if we're going to calculate what we got, registrations are going to be the metric we use. Before I would be willing to move ahead with this, though, I'd want to see a resolution to the question of who will run it. I don't want to see staff trying to run this unless we explicitly think they should, but if we go ahead with it without an answer, it will fall on them. Personally, I think we can make this happen with only minimal staff involvement, aside from the processing of items which staff already handles. I had assumed that Trent would handle it, but if that is not the case, we need to figure that out. I don't know that the ASC is the right venue - it doesn't strike me as affiliate support in the usual sense, and I'm not convinced that a committee is ideal for this at all, at least not a standing committee. I think what we want is a few people willing and able to see it through, rather than an existing committee whose members didn't join for that purpose. I'm a little confused on the JW groups - some are getting materials, and some aren't? How does that breakdown look? Thanks again for all the work that's gone into this! Joshua A. Katz Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat) On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Trent Somes <tsomes3(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello everyone! Last LNC meeting, you tasked me with figuring out the cost of ReRegister Week. I think that cost, after research, will be around $3,644. Since I am an Alternate, I don't think I can make a motion to authorize this going forward. But attached is the breakdown of cost and provisions. If we are going to do this, we need to authorize action very quickly. I will also suggest that someone, or a committee, for example ASC, takes responsibility for the project going forward, as I start school in 1 week. Thank you, Trent Somes, III Region 5 Alternate, Libertarian National Committee Founder, Westmoreland County Libertarians National Chair, Libertarian Youth Caucus Facebook Twitter Instagram Address Cell: (412) 496 - 8552 Home: (412) 646 - 1872 Student Union Rep. to the School Board - PTHS '17 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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] Example of How Libertarianism works and a call for Attention/Help
by Daniel Hayes 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

And expect goverment to try and use this as an excuse to grow in 3.. oh wait..never mind. It already did.. https://thehayride.com/2016/08/no-we-dont-need-the-louisiana-legislature-to… Daniel Hayes LNC At Large Member On Aug 18, 2016, at 11:57 PM, Starchild <sfdreamer(a)earthlink.net> wrote: Sounds like shades of Hurricane Katrina again! I wonder how much of this was likewise preventable... It reminds me of a book I read (technically an audio book I listened to) by Dave Eggers called Zeitoun. It's the true story of one small business owner and his family, and how they were impacted by government-perpetrated injustice in the wake of Katrina. Contains some good libertarian themes about people helping themselves and each other, as well as about the inefficiency, stupidity, and cruelty of the State. If we let members post on our website, we could have online community forums for natural disasters like this, dedicated to putting Libertarians in touch with other Libertarians and helping each other out. Love & Liberty, ((( starchild ))) At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee (415) 625-FREE On Aug 17, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Wes Benedict wrote: My parent's home in Baton Rouge was spared, but my 86 year-old uncle's apartment took on 4 inches of flood water, and he stubbornly never left of course. Many of my friends and a few of my wife's in-laws flooded as well. One of our primary yard sign vendors just happens to be in Baton Rouge and was surrounded by flood waters but stayed dry (I had my father drive out to see them because they weren't returning calls or emails). We have over 5,000 signs on order with them. Many of their employees were unable to work due to their own homes flooding or road closures so those orders are delayed. I've added more suppliers since then and expect only minor interruptions due to the flood. We were already behind on filling sign orders but I have been ordering heavily and hiring packaging temps rapidly lately and hope to be to the point again where we are able to pack and ship orders within 48 hours of receiving them soon. But it may take 10 days for us to work through our backlog and get to that point. Map of road closures a few days ago around that sign company is below. <clfnpemdmnggaond.png> As usual, the Libertarian Party of Louisiana waited until the last minute to turn in electors to the Secretary of State and just got them in on the very last day. 2012 was turned in on the last day after I made calls to the state chair to personally meet him at the S.O.S. office (that year the delay was blamed on electors not returning calls, gasoline bills, etc. I think in 2008 they missed the deadline due to hurricane (as the excuse that time) and our nominee failed to make the ballot. Too many states are waiting till the last minute to finish petition drives or turn in paperwork. It is very frustrating and burns up critical staff and LNC committee time and adds unneeded stress and cost. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, riots, heart attacks and family emergencies happen routinely and the odds of problems are especially high when you consider 50 states involved. We've got to figure out how to get our affiliates to work ahead. Maybe we can recruit some "preppers" to petition in advance and turn in paperwork or at least to instill the sense of urgency. I have a financial incentive idea for the future. Give my best to all struggling to overcome the natural disasters in Louisiana and a kick in the derriere to my friend Rufus for waiting till the last minute to get the paperwork in. Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 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 On 8/17/2016 11:41 AM, Daniel Hayes wrote: Members, I tried to send this yesterday but apparently our LP Firewall decided to blacklist my mobile IP. Hopefully Mr. Kraus got that fixed for me. I am not sure if everyone is aware of what's going on in Louisiana right now. We have a major disaster on our hands. It's kind of surreal for me because while the NOLA area has gotten some moderately heavy rain, it's not even the hardest rain I have seen in the last 3 months. Yet, only 40 or so miles to the west we have whole towns virtually underwater. I suspect NOLA got spared by a sliver though we have an advanced flood control system that might have mitigated some of it. I don't watch the news hardly ever, so when I see friends of mine talking on Facebook about the water in their homes and businesses, or having to be rescued in a boat, it's kind of stunning. So many of them are so close, but things are so normal over in my direction. I'd like everyone to keep in mind what's going here. If the opportunity arises for some assistance, please lend a hand however you can. In the meantime, I wanted to share this story written by Kevin Boyd. Kevin keeps writing things that surprise me and that tell me his inner libertarian is struggling to break free of his "conservatism". I am not remotely close to him but members expect to meet Kevin in 2018 as I suspect he will be lurking around our convention. This particular story shows the "We can do it, who needs the government" attitude that pervades Louisiana. Most of them are libertarians at their core and Libertarians waiting to happen. Here's Kevin's story about the "Cajun Navy" getting out and saving the lives of people and animals. Don't forget to pay attention and do what you can to help out, we have a lot of Libertarians that lost everything. Some had insurance but others were not in flood zones and got caught by surprise. There have been more than a few libertarians that have asked for Gary Johnson to address what is going on. This is being called a 500 year flood. What is know as a monsoon depression sort of parked over the Baton Rouge area resulting in historic flooding. A monsoon depression is like a hurricane without the wind. It draws the water from the gulf and dumps it in the affected areas. Once again, just letting people know what is going on as I have seen more than one request for attention from the National LP and our nominee. I realize we are a political party in the midst of doing what parties do, and we don't have a ton of resources but anything helps. Here's Kevin's short article. http://thehayride.com/2016/08/meet-the-heroes-of-the-cajun-navy-who-are-sav… Daniel Hayes LNC At Large Member _______________________________________________ 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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Example of How Libertarianism works and a call for Attention/Help
by Daniel Hayes 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Members, I tried to send this yesterday but apparently our LP Firewall decided to blacklist my mobile IP. Hopefully Mr. Kraus got that fixed for me. I am not sure if everyone is aware of what's going on in Louisiana right now. We have a major disaster on our hands. It's kind of surreal for me because while the NOLA area has gotten some moderately heavy rain, it's not even the hardest rain I have seen in the last 3 months. Yet, only 40 or so miles to the west we have whole towns virtually underwater. I suspect NOLA got spared by a sliver though we have an advanced flood control system that might have mitigated some of it. I don't watch the news hardly ever, so when I see friends of mine talking on Facebook about the water in their homes and businesses, or having to be rescued in a boat, it's kind of stunning. So many of them are so close, but things are so normal over in my direction. I'd like everyone to keep in mind what's going here. If the opportunity arises for some assistance, please lend a hand however you can. In the meantime, I wanted to share this story written by Kevin Boyd. Kevin keeps writing things that surprise me and that tell me his inner libertarian is struggling to break free of his "conservatism". I am not remotely close to him but members expect to meet Kevin in 2018 as I suspect he will be lurking around our convention. This particular story shows the "We can do it, who needs the government" attitude that pervades Louisiana. Most of them are libertarians at their core and Libertarians waiting to happen. Here's Kevin's story about the "Cajun Navy" getting out and saving the lives of people and animals. Don't forget to pay attention and do what you can to help out, we have a lot of Libertarians that lost everything. Some had insurance but others were not in flood zones and got caught by surprise. There have been more than a few libertarians that have asked for Gary Johnson to address what is going on. This is being called a 500 year flood. What is know as a monsoon depression sort of parked over the Baton Rouge area resulting in historic flooding. A monsoon depression is like a hurricane without the wind. It draws the water from the gulf and dumps it in the affected areas. Once again, just letting people know what is going on as I have seen more than one request for attention from the National LP and our nominee. I realize we are a political party in the midst of doing what parties do, and we don't have a ton of resources but anything helps. Here's Kevin's short article. http://thehayride.com/2016/08/meet-the-heroes-of-the-cajun-navy-who-are-sav… Daniel Hayes LNC At Large Member

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Re: [Lnc-business] The subject & body of this email are listed below...
by Starchild 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Hi Matthew, Thank you for writing. However, sending this quantity of material on a subject – five long emails – is not very helpful. We need the executive summary! Yes, President Obama and Hillary Clinton should be held accountable for their illegal actions. But to paraphrase you, it is a multi-faceted situation. The Republicans, collectively speaking, are no better. But we can count on the leaders of the establishment parties to go after each other for their ethical and legal violations, while we obviously cannot count on them to uphold freedom – so that latter job has to be our main focus. I am sorry for your loss of your mother. But you can't dump something like this in the lap of an alternative party's elected leadership out of the blue and expect much. We simply do not have the power, the bandwidth or the resources. As your message alludes to, we face serious challenges like just getting our candidates allowed to debate the candidates of the 2-party establishment cartel so that the public can have a chance to hear a pro-freedom alternative to the status quo that will mean less government abuse and better lives for millions of people including in the black community. Love & Liberty, ((( starchild ))) At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee (415) 625-FREE “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning… This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” – Frederick Douglass , 1857 speech at Canandaigua, New York ( http://www.blackpast.org/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there… ) On Aug 15, 2016, at 7:39 PM, mtaylor029(a)gmail.com wrote: > Third-Party candidates on outside as debate criteria released > > http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/presidential-debate-… > > Publicizing the multi-faceted information that I am forwarding to you & demanding accountability for both President Obama's & Mrs. Clinton's illegal actions, will result in both the Green Party & Libertarian Party surpassing the debate criteria. > > I have also simultaneously contacted both you Governor Scott Walker & you Sheriff David Clarke since you Sheriff Clarke want to speak about the 'black community' nationally, my multi-faceted situation is well within your wheel house, per the news article listed below: > > Sheriff Clarke: Progressive policies have hit black community like 'nuclear blast' > > http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/15/sheriff-clarke-progressive-policies-ha… > > Governor Walker & Sheriff Clarke please read & review everything & then public ally demand that my mother's murder finally be adjudicated...as you both know there is no statute of limitations on murder...also simultaneously demand that both President Obama & Mrs. Clinton be held accountable for their multiple illegal actions & that all the illegal actions being presented be addressed. Yes, Mr. Trump is being sent this email as well as you can see, but I have kept him in the loop of my multi-faceted situation for some time now...so he has been fully aware of my multi-faceted situation for quite some time now. > > What is listed below was sent to media outlets, individuals, & entities of consequence around the country...a great deal of individuals & entities around the country have known about what I am forwarding to you for a very long time and they are just sitting on it: > > Please read, review, & publicize the information that I am forwarding to you...it involves the upcoming Presidential election in the United States. I have forwarded these 4 emails to news paper outlets all over the country from Thursday, August 4th of this year (2016) to Saturday, August 6th of this year (2016). Thus far the truth is being suppressed though the major media outlets within the United States that I have contacted are at this point knowledgable about the information that I am forwarding to you & they know it is factual. > > Matthew Taylor > > ...1 of 5 forwarded emails... > > Sent from my iPod > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: mtaylor029(a)gmail.com >> Date: July 23, 2016 at 8:19:30 AM MDT >> To: 17038139322(a)efaxsend.com, Oig <oig(a)sec.gov>, congrel(a)gao.gov, contact(a)gao.gov, "CEO of Change.org Ben Rattray" <ben(a)change.org>, petitions(a)moveon.org, michael_weiss(a)boxer.senate.gov, scheduling(a)boxer.senate.gov, tours(a)feinstein.senate.gov, nc01interns(a)mail.house.gov, gkbtours(a)mail.house.gov, sanders2016campaign(a)gmail.com, press(a)sanders.senate.gov, invites(a)hillaryclinton.com, press(a)hillaryclinton.com, amiller(a)trumporg.com, press(a)trumporg.com, fbullock(a)naacpnet.org, info(a)naacpnet.org, washingtonbureau(a)naacpnet.org, nysnaacp(a)gmail.com, storyidea(a)cnn.com, New York Times Company <news-tips(a)nytimes.com>, washington(a)nytimes.com, "web(a)mcclatchydc.com" <web(a)mcclatchydc.com>, ccarpenter(a)mcclatchydc.com, scheduling(a)warren.senate.gov, casework(a)gillibrand.senate.gov, chuck.eaton(a)mail.house.gov, "AmericanVoices(a)mail.house.gov" <AmericanVoices(a)mail.house.gov>, berkshire(a)berkshirehathaway.com, press(a)wintergreen.com, Randolph Hill <bighill963(a)gmail.com>, flags(a)booker.senate.gov, MD07Scheduling <md07scheduling(a)mail.house.gov>, Oce <oce(a)mail.house.gov>, "Jeanty, Jessica - OASAM Crc" <CRCExternalcomplaints(a)dol.gov> >> Subject: The subject & body of this email are listed below... >> >> My listed subject was in error yesterday, the corrected communication is listed below, it was a cutting & pasting error: >> >> In the profession of Drafting the "Center Line" is defined as a line which defines the center of arcs, circles, or symmetrical parts. Within the U.S. Federal Government, the U.S. Federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the "Center Line", it is lead by Mr. Gene L. Dodaro, the U.S. Comptroller General. Mr. Dodaro has a 15 year term, he began his appointment on Wednesday, December 22nd of 2010 & his term is up & ends on Monday, December 22nd of 2025... >> >> The GAO is objective, fact based, nonpartisan, nonideological, fair, and balanced. Accountability , integrity, and reliability are reflected in all of the work that they do. I am not reiterating any more from their webpage, I list the link to their webpage below so you can read & review it yourself: >> >> http://www.gao.gov/about/index.html >> >> Everyone either involved within my situation, directly or indirectly, or learns of my situation has an opinion about it & I have a very strong opinion about both my situation & what I am currently going through, but to resolve/rectify this situation opinions have to be set aside, undivided attention & focus needs to be applied to the facts. >> >> Both Irrefutable facts & what I believe to be true based on the evidence & knowledge that I have are laid out & presented within my online fax titled: "Truth & Honesty in U.S. National Politics & News Media, Big Business as well". I have posted a link to my online petition below: >> >> https://t.co/pI7erWYluC >> >> If you haven't read & reviewed as of yet, I strongly urge/encourage you to do so. >> >> I have directed some very prominent celebrities & news organizations to read my online petition. The notable celebrities are: Angelina Jolie, Barbra Streisand, Don Cheadle, Harrison Ford, Michael Moore, George Clooney, Spike Lee, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Alicia Keys, & Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Jennifer Hudson...I have many more deck to contact. Understandably, they are very skeptical of what exactly the truth is & I am sure multiple inquires have, are, and will be made in the future. They are now very conscious of what is going on, it isn't going to long before they realize & recognize that I am telling the truth. Many entities & news organizations have received the assortment of verification documents, substantiating what I have stated. >> >> Below is a news clip from Warren Buffett, who is the lead share holder of Coca Cola, titled "Buffett: Guidance could lead to malpractice". >> >> https://www.yahoo.com/finance/video/buffett-guidance-could-lead-malpractice… >> >> Mr. Dodaro, please do the right thing, uphold, & follow the U.S. Constitution, you have had the verifications documents for well over two weeks now. Politicians from President Obama to both Democrats & Republicans in both the U.S. House & the U.S. Senate need to be held accountable for their illegally actions. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) needs to complete & finalize my $1 billion dollar insider trading complaint against Coca Cola, TCR#1423234787228. The lies & deception that President Obama has been pushing for years need to end. >> >> Senator Sanders you took an oath to uphold the law & the U.S. Constitution when you became a U.S. Senator. I ask you to tell the truth as you know it to be, you are coming dangerously close to lying & deceiving as President Obama has been doing. >> >> Mr. Trump & Mrs. Clinton, I call on both of you to tell the truth, both about my mother's murder and Energy by Nature's illegally stolen formulation information, you as well Senator Sanders. >> >> Stop the lies & deceit, & start doing the right thing & be honest & tell the truth. >> >> Matthew Taylor >> > <Initial email that went to GAO.pdf> >> > <grievance letter.doc b.pdf> >> > <Obama's confirmation sheet.pdf> >> > <executive assassination ring.pdf> >> > <SEC Complaint.pdf> >> > <Acknowledgement Letter.pdf> >> > <OIG email exchange.pdf> >> > <NAACP email exchange.pdf> >> >> >> Sent from my iPod

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#ReRegister Week
by Trent Somes 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Hello everyone! Last LNC meeting, you tasked me with figuring out the cost of ReRegister Week. I think that cost, after research, will be around *$3,644. *Since I am an Alternate, I don't think I can make a motion to authorize this going forward. But attached is the breakdown of cost and provisions. If we are going to do this, we need to authorize action very quickly. I will also suggest that someone, or a committee, for example ASC, takes responsibility for the project going forward, as I start school in 1 week. Thank you, *Trent Somes, III* Region 5 Alternate, Libertarian National Committee Founder, Westmoreland County Libertarians <http://fb.com/wclibertarians> National Chair, Libertarian Youth Caucus <http://fb.com/LYCaucus> Facebook <http://fb.com/trentsomes/> Twitter <http://twitter.com/TrentSomes/> Instagram <http://instagram.com/trentsomes/> Address <https://goo.gl/maps/gWqJw21CJZs> Cell: (412) 496 - 8552 Home: (412) 646 - 1872 Student Union Rep. to the School Board - PTHS '17

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