[Lnc-business] FW: [Lnc-discuss] Introductions and personal goals for the 2014-2016 LNC term

[Norm Olsen]

Forwarding to lnc-business at lp.org


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Norman T Olsen
Regional Representative, Region I
Libertarian National Committee
7931 S Broadway, PMB 102
Littleton, Colorado  80122-2710
303-263-4995
Norman.Olsen at lp.org

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then
you win." -- Gandhi


-----Original Message-----
From: Norm Olsen [mailto:region1rep at doneDad.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:41 PM
To: 'lnc-discuss at hq.lp.org'
Subject: RE: [Lnc-discuss] Introductions and personal goals for the
2014-2016 LNC term

Hello All . . .

I have returned from several weeks of attending family gatherings in remote
portions of Pennsylvania and California. Just now catching up on literally
hundreds of e-mails.  (Please keep all moans and groans down to a minimum.
:>)

I have been active in the Libertarian Party since the days of Harry Browne's
first presidential run (~1996).  My activities include 8+ years on the Bored
of Directors of the Libertarian Party of Colorado, including a 2 year stint
as chair.  I was elected as a Regional Representative to the LNC in 2010,
and am now starting my third term as such for basically the same region
which is currently known as Region 1.

More importantly, I consider myself to be a "pragmatic Libertarian".  I
could go on endlessly as to what I mean by a "pragmatic Libertarian", but
please allow me the leeway of defining it very briefly as an individual who
considers the following phrase the most significant of all that is in our
by-laws:

	"moving public policy in a libertarian direction by building a
political party that elects Libertarians to public office;"

There are three distinct portions this phrase that are essential to my
definition.

First, the words "moving public policy in a libertarian direction".  Small
steps in "a libertarian direction" are fine by me and are all that we can
expect to achieve as a political organization.  Expecting to reverse 200+
years of migration towards collectivism in single giant steps is
unrealistic.

Second, as a political party, success is defined "a political party that
ELECTS Libertarians to public office".  Educational efforts are best left to
Cato, Heartland, Reason, etc.  Success in our niche of the Libertarian
movement requires electoral success.  Electoral success is a very objective
numbers game where the two critical numbers (in most cases) are 50% and +1.

Third, electoral success can only come from "building a political party".
To me that means a lean and mean political organization built from the
bottom up; an organization of several strong local affiliates which have
achieved critical mass sufficient to win partisan political races in their
state. As a goal for the next several years, I'll settle for one such
affiliate.

Hopefully, you now know who I am, and what my objectives are.

Norm
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Norman T Olsen
Regional Representative, Region I
Libertarian National Committee
7931 S Broadway, PMB 102
Littleton, Colorado  80122-2710
303-263-4995
Norman.Olsen at lp.org

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then
you win." -- Gandhi

-----Original Message-----
From: Lnc-discuss [mailto:lnc-discuss-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
Nicholas Sarwark
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 11:21 PM
To: lnc-discuss at hq.lp.org
Subject: [Lnc-discuss] Introductions and personal goals for the 2014-2016
LNC term

All,

I would appreciate it if you could take a couple of minutes and send an
email to this list with a brief introduction of who you are, your history
within the Libertarian Party, and what you would like to accomplish in this
term on the LNC.  I would like to address our goals as a group at the
September meeting, and I thank Dr. Lark for starting that discussion, but I
think it's also important to get to know each other as well.

I'll start:

I'm Nicholas Sarwark, former Chair of the Libertarian Party of Maryland,
former (as of tonight) Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of Colorado,
deputy public defender, former computer guy, husband and father of two kids.
My goals for this term are: (1) to put out a consistent Libertarian message
that will appeal to millennials and unaffiliated voters and contrast the
Libertarian position with people like Rand Paul in a way that will allow us
to pick up voters if/when he is eliminated from the GOP contest and (2) do
whatever I can to assist with the success of state affiliates and
candidates.  My belief is that if I can accomplish those things, revenue and
membership numbers and convention attendance will increase as well.

-Nick

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