[Lnc-business] A couple things I just noticed

[Vicki Kirkland]

Joshua:
I agree with you concerning Tom Stevens.  In September 2008, I attended the
LNC meeting and brought this issue
up.  I was not on the LNC at the time.  The issue was relevant to Florida.
The attitude seemed to be that I was
harassing the person in question.
VK




On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Joshua Katz <joshua.katz at lp.org> wrote:

> Perhaps I shouldn't have pulled Dr. Tom into my point.  My point was just
> that it seems odd that we are watched over by people who are required to
> have less firm commitments than we are required to have.
>
> Joshua A. Katz
>
> Region 8 (Region of Badassdom) Alternate
> Libertarian National Committee
>
> Chair, Libertarian Party of Connecticut
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Vicki Kirkland <vickilp12 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The Presidential candidate of a rival party who simultaneously served on
>> the JC was also simultaneously an elector for
>> Bob Barr.  Four years later he again was a Presidential candidate for a
>> rival party while serving as Chair of the Libertarian
>> Party of Pennsylvania.  He was on the ballot in two states, Florida and
>> Colorado.
>> Vicki Kirkland
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Joshua Katz <joshua.katz at lp.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 1.  LNC members are prohibited, for good reason, from running as the
>>> candidates of other parties.  JC members clearly are not, as the bylaws
>>> don't say they are, and in fact, the Presidential candidate of a rival
>>> party was on the JC.  It does seem somewhat odd that as regards fealty to
>>> the party, we require more of the LNC than of those who rule on whether our
>>> decisions are appropriate or not.
>>>
>>> 2.  Other than going to war, the most permanent change a President makes
>>> is probably Supreme Court appointments.  The first LP President will likely
>>> have fewer such nominations to make than average, since justices attempt to
>>> retire while their party is in office, and no current justices are
>>> Libertarians (or libertarians, for that matter.)  If she were still on the
>>> bench, it is possible O'Connor would have been willing to give her seat to
>>> a Libertarian, as her general trend, philosophically, was economically
>>> conservative and socially liberal..  This was superseded at times by her
>>> desire for narrow rulings and to write opinions that command as large a
>>> majority as possible.  However, I don't think any current justice would
>>> voluntarily retire with a Libertarian in office.
>>>
>>> Joshua A. Katz
>>>
>>> Region 8 (Region of Badassdom) Alternate
>>> Libertarian National Committee
>>>
>>> Chair, Libertarian Party of Connecticut
>>>
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