[Lnc-business] A couple things I just noticed

[Vicki Kirkland]

Ron:
I find it interesting that you see nothing wrong with an active Libertarian
who holds offices in the Libertarian Party,
forming his own political party and running for President in competition
with our Presidential candidate.
VK


On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Ron Windeler <rowindeler at aol.com> wrote:

> I thought libertarians respected a person's freedom of associations.  One
> year, I was a delegate to the Republican and Libertarian state conventions
> and an active member of a liberal union's political action committee.  My
> girlfriend was a radical green tree hugger and whale lover (no, I wasn't
> obese at the time)  Ron Paul got 1,000 times more votes as a libertarian
> leaning Republican than as a republican leaning Libertarian. Fealty to
> party should not be a libertarian concern. I may be endangering my
> relationship with the National Socialist Free Agrarian Party by saying that.
>
> Ron Windeler
> rowindeler at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vicki Kirkland <vickilp12 at gmail.com>
> To: lnc-business <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
> Sent: Fri, Aug 1, 2014 3:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] A couple things I just noticed
>
>  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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