[Lnc-business] discussion in favor of motion to fill vacant At-Large position by email

[Ruth Bennett]

Dear LNC members,

In thinking about filling this position and seeing the names of the folks
self-nominating, I realized that there is no logical reason to ask anyone
interested to spend the time and money to fly to D.C. to make their case to
us. I would much rather that we make our selection and then urge the others
to make a donation of the money they've saved to the NLP or the Johnson
campaign.

Realistically, most of us have probably made our decisions or at least
narrowed it down from the list.  I am just proposing that we make the
decision now, let the new member get all the necessary reports and get up
to speed.

Please, also remember, that we have such a limited amount of time together
and it seems like a mis-allocation of those limited hours to make a
decision that most - likely all - of us have already made.  Let's say that
we have just these 8 candidates.  If each is allowed just five minutes to
make her/his case, that is 40 minutes at best.  Plus wrangling over a
voting system and voting and counting ballots.  We will have spent a
minimum of an hour and a half out of our total of 12-14 hours together -
about 10% of our meeting! It just does not seem like a good use of our time
- when we can have a decision in the next couple of weeks.

Currently I have these names - and more are likely coming: (in no
particular order)

Carl Perrson                Paulie Frankel                        Am I
missing anyone?
David Blau                  Mark Hinkle
Bill Still                       Gary Johnson (TX)
Gigi Bowman               Guy McLendon

So please vote AYE on this motions as quickly as possible and we can
proceed to a vote on our new At-Large member.

Thank you for your consideration.

Ruth
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