February 2017 - Lnc-business - Moellman Enterprises Email

Fwd: [Lnc-votes] Letterhead and LP email groups
by Starchild 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Forwarding this message from Gregory Faust as requested... My apologies Greg for the delay in doing so. I'm afraid I'm not always the most organized person, but I try. I appreciate your support for transparency and participation in the LP Radical Caucus, and it was good to meet you in person recently at the Arizona LP convention and Anti-Inaugural Ball! Love & Liberty, ((( starchild ))) At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee (415) 625-FREE @StarchildSF Begin forwarded message: > From: Gregory Faust <gregorysfaust(a)gmail.com> > Date: January 18, 2017 8:38:34 AM PST > To: Starchild <realreform(a)earthlink.net> > Subject: Fwd: [Lnc-votes] [Lnc-business] Letterhead and LP email groups > > Hi Starchild, would you post this in response to wes in the lncvote email chain? > > We had discussed privacy as being a possible issue in sharing the various email group membership lists, but the default should be transparency and any issues if privacy should be noted specifically and a decision rendered either by the chair (an attorney himself) or the board. would it be possible to at least ask Nick so that a possible motion would be rendered moot? > > Live Free, > Greg Faust > gregorysfaust(a)gmail.com > 646.284.7829 > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: lnc-votes(a)hq.lp.org > Date: January 18, 2017 at 11:23:34 EST > To: Libertarian National Committee list <lnc-business(a)hq.lp.org> > Cc: Greg Faust <gregorysfaust(a)fastmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Lnc-votes] [Lnc-business] Letterhead and LP email groups > Reply-To: lncvotes+owners(a)googlegroups.com > > Starchild, my understanding is that you are asking me to make it possible for anyone to see who is subscribed to any email group list run by the national LP. > > Regardless of whether it's easy or difficult to do, I don't feel comfortable disclosing all of that myself. I think that's a decision the LNC should make. If the LNC passes a motion asking staff or whomever is administering our emails lists to make all the participants view-able, or if the chair instructs me to, then I'll make sure staff complies with that. I'm skeptical though that the LNC would decide to do that, and that's why my default position is to not disclose all of the participants. > > I don't monitor who's on those lists myself. I have not logged into our email system perhaps for over a year. I've probably logged in less than 10 times in 6 years but haven't been counting. > > Thanks for joining our call. I think Startchild gave a good synopsis of the call below, which covered those familiar topics of ongoing concern. > > 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 1/17/2017 7:45 PM, Starchild wrote: >> Thanks, Wes, and thanks for participating in the conference call this afternoon. Thanks also to our other caller, Greg Faust of the LP Radical Caucus, for taking the time to participate and ask questions. The three of us had a good chat about the LP's email lists, press releases, making the LP.org website more interactive, and more. >> >> Regarding the email lists Wes, I'd also like to know how people can see who's subscribed. As I noted on the call, it would be nice when talking to LP members, for instance, to know if they are on the LNC reflector list, so if they already are, I don't need to tell them about it, and can assume a greater awareness of what the LNC does than if they are not subscribers. If people want to use an alias when subscribing to a list, for individual privacy, they should be able to do that in my opinion, but some folks would like their participation in the party to be open and visible for purposes of better communication, networking, etc., with other LP members, and those individuals should be able to do that too. >> >> I think Robert Kraus told me there is a way to see this info, but I don't know how to do it and from what you said on the call it sounds like you were saying a special log-in is needed. With Yahoogroups, a service where anyone can start a list for free, it's easy and public to see how many people are subscribed to a list and other basic info about it (see e.g. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CALibs/info ). >> >> Love & Liberty, >> ((( starchild ))) >> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee >> (415) 625-FREE >> @StarchildSF >> >> >> On Jan 17, 2017, at 4:21 PM, Wes Benedict wrote: >> >>> Starchild, per your request, I put 20 sheets of LNC letterhead in an envelope to go out in tomorrow's mail to you. >>> >>> Ken Moellman or Robert Kraus (let us know if you start on this so you don't both spend time on it): >>> >>> Starchild has requested a list of all of the email groups the LNC has, such as this one (lnc-business), aprc, statechairs, convention, etc. If that's a reasonably easy task, please send that list. If it's an involved process that would take more than 30 minutes to compile, then perhaps we should discuss it more. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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Jan Membership Report
by Robert Kraus 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

The latest membership report is attached. Live Free! Robert Robert S. Kraus - Dir of Operations Operations(a)LP.org Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke Street Alexandria, VA 22314 Ph: 202.333.0008 x 231 Join today: https://www.lp.org/membership LP FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/libertarians

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Re: [Lnc-business] LP.org update
by Patrick McKnight 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Does anyone know if inquiries are again being forwarded to affiliates? This had been down and is extremely important. Thanks, Patrick McKnight On Jan 28, 2017 5:36 PM, "Whitney Bilyeu" <whitneycb76(a)gmail.com> wrote: Thank you, Wes. Whitney On Jan 27, 2017 6:45 PM, "Wes Benedict" <wes.benedict(a)lp.org> wrote: You may have seen complaints lately that our LP.org website was intermittently failing to load, instead showing an "error establishing a database connection" message. We believe that problem has been resolved. Although I am of the superstition that nothing is more likely to break a website than to write a note saying it is fixed (on a Friday night before leaving work for the weekend), I guess I feel I need to run it through this extra superstition exercise to verify its robustness or to expose weaknesses that still need addressing. The website was fixed by having our design firm move it and reinstalling it to a new hosting service, as was our plan back in December. Back at the December LNC meeting, we had discussed issues with the website, and part of the resolution of that discussion was that I'd be having our website moved to try to resolve many technical issues with it. Since that meeting, things got even worse with the website, with it failing to even display at all half the time, but now I think we're on the right track. We have not added all of the content that needs to be added, or made lots of other improvements that need to happen. But, now that the website has been moved and installed in its intended new destination, and we think it's stable, that means we are now busy working and making progress addressing the other various issues related to the website. I'm copying Mr. Moulton because he has been especially diligent helping us to realize the shortcomings of our website changes. I did want to let him and others know that we have not uploaded the historical content wanted or resolved dealing with the many historical links that no longer work. We had been in kind of a holding pattern, waiting on the website to be moved and reinstalled before working to add content and improve the design. Now that it's moved, we're free address the other issues. Thanks, -- 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 _______________________________________________ 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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http://lp.org/lnc-leadership
by Trent Somes 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

So, are we eventually going to be able to link the LNC leadership page ( http://lp.org/lnc-leadership) to our social media accounts if we want? I know it what thrown out there earlier. *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

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Credit where credit is due – Request for LP press release on Trump's bold regulatory reforms
by Starchild 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Like most Libertarians, I was dismayed upon hearing of Donald Trump's cruel and unconstitutional executive order issued Friday barring refugees from entering the United States, and singling out people from seven Muslim-majority countries to be denied admittance as well, initially including even green card holders (though embarrassingly for the administration, they later had to backpedal on that). People across the country are protesting the ban, and rightly so: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/29/watch-live-protests-out… Thus I was very glad to see the LP quickly issued a strong press release condemning the action and making it clear that we support the Muslims whose rights are being violated – https://www.lp.org/we_stand_with_you/ . The unequivocal "We stand with you" declaration is exactly the kind of language I think we ought to be using more often when communicating to victims of the State, and I commend Lauren Daugherty or whoever came up with it (her name appears in the byline at https://www.lp.org/we_stand_with_you/ ). Yesterday, however, it turns out that Trump did something equally momentous but really positive – and I'm not being sarcastic! As was alluded to in Thomas Knapp's Rational Review Digest l where I read about it (http://rationalreview.com/archives/245914) Libertarians like writer L. Neil Smith have been advocating such a reform for years. If it is carried out and enforced, this will mean a sea change in the right direction: "President Trump on Monday signed an executive order that would require agencies to revoke two regulations for every new rule they want to issue. The executive order is aimed at dramatically rolling back federal regulations, one of his top campaign promises. … Trump's order does make exceptions for emergencies and national security." http://thehill.com/regulation/overnights/316893-overnight-regulation-trump-… While this doesn't change my view that Donald Trump in the White House remains a disaster waiting to happen, it's nice to see such dramatic proof that the executive pen won't be solely wielded to tighten the screws of the incipient police state. Possibly even more exciting, the article also notes that the Trump administration has already imposed a regulatory freeze: "White House chief of staff Reince Priebus sent a memo to agency heads hours after the inauguration advising them not to issue any more regulations." The president even had something intelligent and nuanced to say on the subject: "This isn't a knock on President Obama; this is a knock on many president[s] preceding me," he said, referring to the burdens on businesses. "Regulation has been horrible for big business, but it's been worse for small business." Further according to the Hill article, Trump also said he isn't done targeting regulations, and reiterated "his campaign promise to try and cut 75 percent of rules." Dare we hope that he actually means it? While I wouldn't want to see us make a habit of praising the ruling establishment, in the spirit of fairness and giving credit where credit is due, I encourage the chair and/or staff to issue a Libertarian Party press release commending the new administration for these actions. Here are a couple factoids from The Hill piece that could be good to cite in a release: "The U.S. isn't the first country to impose such a restriction on regulators. Trump could use similar policies in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom as a model for his order. For every rule issued in the U.K., three existing rules must be eliminated. According to a U.K. government report, that requirement saved businesses £885 million from May 5, 2015 to May 26, 2016, or nearly $1.1 billion based on current conversion rates." Love & Liberty, ((( starchild ))) At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee (415) 625-FREE @StarchildSF

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