June 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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The Libertarian Party only has 2 full-time staffers?!
by Starchild 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Maybe I just haven't been paying attention. That's what LP operations manager Robert Kraus suggested when I spoke with him today and expressed surprise at his statement that he and Wes Benedict are the only paid staff working full time at our office. He said that if I'd read the report Wes presented at the last LNC meeting, I would have been aware of the situation. Robert told me this by way of explaining why he has not yet sent the LNC the details of how much we are paying for hotel meeting space, food and beverage obligations, staff airline flights, shipping costs, etc., in connection with LNC meetings. At the last LNC meeting in Pittsburgh in April, he told me in response to my asking him for this information that he would send it within a week or so. When I spoke with him today, he said that if I wanted him to stop what he was doing and send the information now, he would have to stop working on updating donor information to help us raise money, because he was the only person in the office right now. When I asked whether he could get us the meeting information prior to the next LNC meeting on August 19 (over 2 months from now, and 4 months from when he originally said he'd provide it), his response was "possibly". We have 11 people listed on our staff page (https://www.lp.org/staff/) not even counting individuals like our legal counsel and our FEC consultant who are kind of "on call", and although political director Carla Howell's contract wasn't renewed, the chair recently proposed adding an additional lower-level staffer. With that many folks on the roster, I don't understand why the two highest-paid individuals on staff are the only ones who are being paid full-time salaries and asked to staff the office largely by themselves. If this is true, it means that our highest-paid staffers are likely spending a significant part of their time doing routine office tasks like answering phone calls which could be handled by lower-paid staffers or even by volunteers. Robert did say he agreed with me that staff should not be asked to monitor or be involved in the party's social media outreach, which would potentially take a lot of their time away from other tasks. I also suggested that volunteers, instead of staff, could be the ones to research LNC meeting locations and present options to the LNC. Local activists in the cities where we're considering holding meetings would be the logical people to do this. If we don't have any local activists in a particular area able to help us find free or low-cost meeting venues there and help with details such as coordinating local transportation and folks able to host out-of-town visitors, it would beg the question of why we are meeting in that location instead of somewhere there is an active local Libertarian organization that can support us and which we in turn can support by seeking to arrange to have visiting LNC members make press appearances, attend local campaign events, do fundraising, etc., while in town. But if what Robert says is correct, it seems to me that we are not running our office efficiently. It also seems to me that LNC members being made to wait months and months after an LNC meeting to see what the actual expenses were for that meeting is unreasonable. Actually, we should be seeing such expenses listed before each meeting, since expenses like hotel meeting space fees, food and beverage obligations, staff airline flights, and shipping costs are in most cases known in advance. And we should be seeing estimates of these costs prior to even making a decision on where to meet, since such costs ought to factor into our decisions. Love & Liberty, ((( starchild ))) At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee RealReform(a)earthlink.net (415) 625-FREE

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Another Conflict of Interest--Hyra for Governor in Virginia
by William Redpath 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

I am the Treasurer of the Cliff Hyra for Governor Campaign in Virginia. It was announced yesterday that he is on the ballot. This is the first time that a third party has been on the ballot in successive Governor campaigns in Virginia since the Socialist Party was on the ballot in 1941-1945-1949-1953. And, then, it was only 250 valid sigs to get on the ballot for Governor. We succeeded in our 10,000 valid signature petition drive without taking a loan from the LNC. However, Cliff did loan his campaign $21,500 to accomplish that. And, the Campaign in accepting contributions! Thanks very much, Bill Redpath

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Email Ballot 2017-13: Issues of LPNews
by Alicia Mattson 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

We have an electronic mail ballot. *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by July 1, 2017 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.* *Co-Sponsors:* Hayes, Bilyeu, Goldstein, Redpath, Harlos, Demarest *Motion:* to allow staff the discretion to choose between publishing a total of five or six physical issues of LPNews for the year of 2017, subject to the approval of the Chairman. -Alicia

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Re: [Lnc-business] Seeking Co-Sponsors To Amend the LNC Policy Manual On the Convention Oversight Committee
by goldsteinatlarge 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

I will cosponsor. Sam Goldstein Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Daniel Hayes <danielehayes(a)icloud.com> Date: 6/30/17 4:33 PM (GMT-05:00) To: lnc-business <lnc-business(a)lp.org> Subject: [Lnc-business] Seeking Co-Sponsors To Amend the LNC Policy Manual On the Convention Oversight Committee Fellow Declarers of Your Independence, Here's what I arrived at after kicking it around with some others a bit. There will be another motion to appoint Erin Adams to the COC coming after this one. "Move to amend the LNC policy manual section 1.03 to define the size of the Convention Oversight Committee as, 'Seven members, with a minimum of four LNC Members or Alternates, plus a minimum of two non-LNC members who are recommended by the Convention Oversight Committee.'" Daniel Hayes LNC At Large Member

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Seeking Co-Sponsors To Amend the LNC Policy Manual On the Convention Oversight Committee
by Daniel Hayes 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Fellow Declarers of Your Independence, Here's what I arrived at after kicking it around with some others a bit. There will be another motion to appoint Erin Adams to the COC coming after this one. "Move to amend the LNC policy manual section 1.03 to define the size of the Convention Oversight Committee as, 'Seven members, with a minimum of four LNC Members or Alternates, plus a minimum of two non-LNC members who are recommended by the Convention Oversight Committee.'" Daniel Hayes LNC At Large Member

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