May 2017 - Lnc-business - Moellman Enterprises Email

A short reminder regarding decorum
by Nicholas Sarwark 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

Dear All, I expect that members of the Libertarian National Committee will disagree with each other with respect. I expect that after the Libertarian National Committee comes to a decision on an issue, be it the purchase of an office or the choice to make a goal a certain number of candidates running for public office, that every member of the committee will either support the goal or at least stop trying to publicly fight against it after they've lost. I expect that every member of the Libertarian National Committee will be polite and respectful to the rest of the members and to the national office staff. If anyone is unwilling or unable to meet these expectations, I will happily accept your resignation from the Libertarian National Committee and wish you the best of luck in whatever future endeavors you choose. Yours in liberty, Nicholas J. Sarwark Chair, Libertarian National Committee

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August LNC meeting
by Sam Goldstein 27 Jan '18

27 Jan '18

Dear LNC members, Many of us are in the midst of planning our summers and I think it is time that we take up the issue of where to have our meeting scheduled for August 19-20, 2017. I'm in favor of moving west for this one. Let's get the ball rolling with suggestions of locations and sites so we can narrow it down over the next couple weeks and perhaps have a decision done by our April meeting. Thanks and 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

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Fwd: Proposal for Libertarian Party (from Chairman of Mississippi)
by Arvin Vohra 27 Aug '17

27 Aug '17

Hi all, please consider the following proposal from Aaron Barksdale: Mr. Vohra; Aaron Barksdale, Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, here wanting to offer a proposal that is win-win for the LP and myself. I am writing you using a personal e-mail because this is not connected to the MSLP. In case you are not aware, the Secretary of the MSLP and I wrote a book called *Libertarianism in a Nutshell*. Please review the proposal enclosed and contact me if you have any questions or counter offers or to proceed with the proposal. Thank you, Aaron Barksdale cell: (228)238-7844 -- Arvin Vohra www.VoteVohra.com VoteVohra(a)gmail.com (301) 320-3634

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LNC reports
by James Lark 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Dear colleagues: I hope all is well with you. In a separate message I shall send my Region 5, campus organizing, and International Representative reports. In addition, I shall send the Employment Policy and Compensation Committee report in my capacity as EPCC chair. I hope you find the reports interesting and informative. I apologize for the delay in sending the reports to you. Some information I had hoped to receive did not arrive when expected. As always, thanks for your work for liberty. I look forward to seeing you in the Steel City. Take care, Jim James W. Lark, III Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering Applied Mathematics Program, Dept. of Engineering and Society Affiliated Faculty, Dept. of Statistics University of Virginia Advisor, The Liberty Coalition University of Virginia Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee

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Region 2 Report
by Ed Marsh 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

The Region 2 report is attached. Ed Marsh

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Request for assistance from Mark Wicks
by Caryn Ann Harlos 17 Jun '17

17 Jun '17

On behalf of Montana candidate Mark Wicks running for the vacated seat by the appointment of Zinke, he is requesting the LNC assist his campaign financially. I had let him know specific information we would need, and would like to share that information: I know you asked for a budget for how I will spend the money and with time constraints and getting the word out online media seems to be the way to go. We have ads that are being readied and ready to go anytime. Flathead county is having a Liberty Bash combined with a send the work truck event. We can get a live remote and good online adds for $2500 <https://www.facebook.com/pinkflameofliberty/messages/?threadid=1068158245&t…>. That will cover the valley really well. The east side of the state is taken care of and all the big towns are covered except Great Falls. I can use as much as the LP can send, but I think $5000 <https://www.facebook.com/pinkflameofliberty/messages/?threadid=1068158245&t…> would make a good impact. We have received $3600 <https://www.facebook.com/pinkflameofliberty/messages/?threadid=1068158245&t…>, plus I have put in about $3000 <https://www.facebook.com/pinkflameofliberty/messages/?threadid=1068158245&t…> total. I can't give any measure of impact. People are really searching for a third choice so even minimal presentation will go a long ways. If any LNC member is interested in co-sponsoring a motion to assist in any amount please let me know so we can craft. -- *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> Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee A haiku to the Statement of Principles: *We defend your rights* *And oppose the use of force* *Taxation is theft*

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Seeking Cosponsors - Motion on Military Policy
by Arvin Vohra 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

I am seeking cosponsors for the following draft motion: Whereas The U.S. spends more on military than the next 8 nations combined Whereas, involvement in NATO has caused the U.S. to build a military much larger than what is needed for defense Whereas, current military policy has destabilized regions and lead to blowback and contributed to terrorist recruitment Whereas, trade has been able to stop problematic ideologies when violence could not, as has happened in Vietnam Whereas current military policy has misused many well meaning individuals for purposes other than defense against aggression often as parts of attempts to act as the world’s policeman Resolved, The Libertarian National Committee rejects and repudiates the current U.S. military policy of overreach, world policing, and nation building; demands that the U.S. military immediately shut down all foreign military bases, cease involvement in foreign conflicts, end all current foreign military operations, and bring the troops home; demands that military spending and employment, if any, be reduced to the level necessary only for defense; demands immediate U.S. withdrawal from NATO; and demands an end to all trade sanctions. In Liberty, Arvin Vohra Vice Chair Libertarian Party -- Arvin Vohra www.VoteVohra.com VoteVohra(a)gmail.com (301) 320-3634

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Refer 2404 Arizona - potential request for funding
by Caryn Ann Harlos 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hello all, I am not positive this is even anything we can do but it was requested and I absolutely support, and in any event, I am sure some ideas can be floated here on what we can do to assist or other ideas for this tremendous grassroots project in Arizona. I will get you more information as well as I have it. *If we can* and anyone would be willing to co-sponsor this request, please let me know. Please see attached request from AZLP members Kim Ruff and Mike Shipley (national life member). They have sent me some more information to digest as well and there will be a mention in the next LP News as I understand it. See attached. -- *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> Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee A haiku to the Statement of Principles: *We defend your rights* *And oppose the use of force* *Taxation is theft*

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cosponsors requested to have staff manage social media
by Alicia Mattson 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

I'm asking for co-sponsors for a motion to insert a new Policy Manual Section 2.06.5 Social Media to read as follows: Only LNC employees and contractors shall serve as administrators of, serve as moderators of, or post content to, the Party’s social media accounts. Volunteer content creators may submit content for approval. At the LNC meeting there was majority support for the motion to both do the above and also to create a committee to review our social media processes. I could have supported it, but if we know what we need to do to fix the problem, why spend the time to have a committee study it first? Just fix it. I thought there was majority support for the other motion to simply turn control of our social media back over to staff. Turns out that I was mistaken, and one person was not willing to turn control back over to staff without the creation of the committee, so then the other motion failed. Because I misread the room, an option that actually had majority support didn't pass. Now that we have separately created the committee, I want to go back and re-visit turning control back over to our staff. Please note that the motion welcomes volunteers to submit material. It does not eliminate their opportunity to contribute. I want to add some details to the discussion we had in Pittsburgh, with two Facebook PR blow-ups on our minds at the time. Since Pittsburgh, we have had yet another PR disaster. Granted it was not on our official FB page, but on the personal page it was posted to, the person's party position was touted right there in the sidebar, and we took a lot of damage from it. The Convention Oversight Committee lost two very valuable volunteers over this latest disaster -- volunteers who did a lot of work for us in Orlando and were again helping for New Orleans. Gone. There are no group votes before volunteers post on the party's FB. One person puts it into the schedule, and unless someone else sees it and objects, it goes public. We publish so much material that the APRC doesn't always have time to review everything in advance. Though the group has an informal rule against people posting their own material, people sometimes do it anyway. The comments about the military could easily have been posted on our page. There was a very recent incident in which a new volunteer was driven to quit on the same day she joined for the crime of suggesting that we post more positive material and less negative material. I don't want to hear that the LNC giving final control to staff is somehow disrespecting the work of the volunteers, when that new volunteer's desire to contribute was so summarily disrespected. We have some important policies that I don't believe the volunteers have even been informed about, and volunteers are not really accountable for following policies in the same way that our staff is. Policy Manual Section 2.09.6: Party resources shall not be used to provide information or services for any candidate for party office unless: - such information or services are available and announced on an equal basis to all Libertarians who have declared they are seeking that office, or - such information or services are generally available and announced to all party member Not all party members have access to post on our Facebook page. Not all candidates for internal party office are offered the chance to post on our Facebook page. I think some of our Facebook posts cross the line into personal promotion of people who intend to run for internal party office at the next convention. There was a time in the past when staff established criteria to try to manage application of this policy, with criteria for what constituted "news" or "earned media" that involved a candidate, etc. I don't believe there is any such attention to his policy right now for our social media. Some candidates have already declared. The closer we get to a national convention, the more these posts will be perceived as self-promotion that unfairly isn't available to their opponents. So I'm asking for co-sponsors for this motion, to return final decision power to our staff, who are expected to know and follow our policies, and who are accountable to the LNC. The volunteer groups can continue to generate material just like they do now, but staff would schedule the actual posts. If the Social Media Process Review Committee comes back to us with suggestions for reasonable ways to manage this later, we can amend this policy. -Alicia

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Convention Committee Members - Party Status
by Arvin Vohra 31 May '17

31 May '17

Hi All, I just heard some information that I wanted to verify. Were the two volunteers who left the convention committee in response to my analysis of the current status of the military Alex and Danielle Snitker? If so, it should be noticed that Alex left the LP very publicly last year to join the GOP, and is still registered Republican. Danielle has no party affiliation. -Arvin -- Arvin Vohra www.VoteVohra.com VoteVohra(a)gmail.com (301) 320-3634

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