[Lnc-business] Proposed Policy Manual addition regarding electronic meetings

[Scott L.]

"here is my proposed draft of a Policy Manual amendment, to be considered at
our upcoming meeting.  Remember, we can always modify our procedures as we
learn from experience.

    Daniel Wiener

Add a new Section 1.02(7) Electronic Meetings:

Pursuant to Article 13 of the LP Bylaws, the LNC and all committees of the
national party may conduct meetings via videoconference or teleconference
("e-conference") according to the following rules:

*	For videoconferences, it is the responsibility of committee member
to provide their own compatible equipment.  In the temporary absence of the
necessary equipment, or in the case of technical difficulties, a committee
member must be allowed to participate by teleconference.  To the extent that
it is technically feasible, meetings shall be open to all Libertarian Party
sustaining members to listen in on, but those members must first identify
themselves and their phone numbers to the person acting as secretary, and
their status must be verified prior to the meeting.  By a majority vote a
committee may allow a non-committee member to participate on a limited
basis.

 

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I appreciate Mr. Wiener's attempt to put lipstick on this pig (the whole
videoconference idea, not Mr. Karlan's contribution to this discussion).

That being said, I still want to comment on Mr. Wiener's proposed motion.

The stuff I made  red   in the bullet point above could become a problem.
We already have spread our staff way too thin.  Now we are going to force
them to verify the membership status of all of our members who choose to
exercise their right 

to listen in on our antics?  And why involve the Secretary in this activity?
If you want to do this, basically you would have staff requiring members to
e-mail their request to LPHQ at least, say, 2 business days before any
videocast, and staff would then relay the approved attendees to the
Secretary for that videoconference.

I understand what Mr. Wiener is trying to accomplish with this bullet point.
Since LNC Sessions are now supposed to be directly broadcast to the RNC and
the DNC on the Internet, why don't we just stream all videoconference
meetings onto the Internet?  That way the members of the RNC and the DNC can
use clips from our videoconferences as comedic relief during their meetings.
Plus, I assume it is relatively easy to take an already existing video
stream and broadcast it on the Internet.

Ladies and gentlemen, the reason the LP has not accomplished very much in
terms of actually changing the laws we live under is because we spend far
too much time on internal stuff like this, rather than on our Mission of
electing Libertarians to public office.

I would much rather have the peanut gallery complaining that Libertarian
State House members are not getting libertarian legislation passed quickly
enough, rather than forcing them to complain about penny-ante stuff like
putting our meetings on the Internet for their dancing and dining pleasure.

  Scott Lieberman

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