[Lnc-business] Aaron Starr - Oxnard City Council - election results

[Joshua Katz]

I agree entirely with the Vice-Chair.  I would add that we need to do more
than wait for Aaron's next campaign.  We need, as a board, to encourage and
reward candidates who, like Aaron Starr, run serious, professional
campaigns that stay on-message - by which I mean, not reciting the
libertarian catechism correctly, but speaking in a way that relates
directly to the office sought and explains what the candidate will DO in
office, not what they believe.

Another thing that Aaron did that we need to encourage, in addition to
running a professional campaign and participating in the ongoing debate
about current isuses, is establish credibility.  Our candidates need to not
only sound good, (to the public, not just other libertarians) but convince
the voters that they can govern.  While ultimately Aaron did not win, I
don't think any voter doubts that he has the skills necessary to do the
job, and that, had he won, he would have been able to actually move policy
in his preferred direction.  Many of our candidates fail to establish this
sort of credibility.

 I would suggest adopting a goal of having some number of serious, credible
candidates in local, winnable races (if Dr. Lieberman wishes to release his
formula, we could use that, otherwise we would need to come up with some
definition.)  I would suggest that this replace some or another of our
existing goals, and that this goal would play a key role in directing staff
efforts.

I would also like to step forward to suggest setting up regional training
for candidates, covering all aspects of running a serious, credible, local
campaign, for the purpose of winning.  I would volunteer to participate in
designing and offering such training in my region.

Joshua Katz

Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Arvin Vohra <arvin at arvinvohra.com> wrote:

> Aaron ran a well organized, powerful campaign, and is continuing to bring
> to light the waste and mismanagement in Oxnard. I'm looking forward to his
> next campaign! -Arvin
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Look at Aaron Starr’s post for Nov 16:
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>> https://www.facebook.com/AaronStarrforOxnard
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>> The actual vote totals are here:
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>> http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Ventura/53334/149326/en/summary.html
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>> Ms. Ramirez is a Hispanic Latina, and Oxnard is 74% Hispanic.  And she
>> was an incumbent.
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>> Mr. Perello was the other incumbent.
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>> *Mr. Huber was not an incumbent.  But – he had a large amount of name
>> recognition since he was Commanding Officer
>> <https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?title=Commanding+Officer&trk=prof-exp-title>
>> of the nearby Naval Surface Warfare Center
>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/1325?trk=prof-exp-company-name> from *May
>> 2004 – August 2008.  Huber received much of his campaign funding from a
>> PAC that was run by the Oxnard public employees union *   Scott
>> Lieberman*
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