[Lnc-business] FW: This Patriot Can Remove Harry Reid

Thu Feb 19 11:09:45 EST 2015

Since this topic is not directly relevant to the State Chairs e-mail list,
but it is relevant to which tactics and strategies we encourage and cajole
our affiliate parties to use to achieve our unofficial Mission Statement, I
am re-posting it here, along with my cogent comments.

First of all, Mr. Executive Director, despite what you wrote below, the
current leadership of the LP of Nevada has never endorsed a Republican for
public office.  They gave letter grades to Republicans in some races, but
they did not endorse any Republicans.

Second of all, the job of the Libertarian Party is not to make our members
feel good about themselves by finally "hitting an all-time high record" for
a vote percentage for US Senate.

Let's pretend the LP of Nevada had a really high-profile person who wanted
to run against Harry Reid.  Do you think the Libertarian Party of Nevada
would be better off if that person managed to keep Harry Reid in office for
yet another term by having exit polls show that the LPN nominee did actually
steal enuf votes from the Republican nominee to keep the Republican from
winning, or would the LPN be better off if that same high-profile person ran
for, and won, a seat on the Clark County Commission?

In the former case, being the "Balance of Power" could very well inspire the
Republicans in Nevada to pass legislation to make ballot access worse, and
the LPN would have nothing to show for that election except a bunch of news
stories that will poison the LP name in Nevada for years to come.  You might
try to counter that by saying that the Democrat Party would love us, but do
you really think that ANY of that love would be demonstrated by showing up
in actual legislation, or by having the Democrats appoint a Libertarian to a
high level position?

In the latter case, you would have a Libertarian on the County Commission in
Las Vegas, which would set that person up to run for State Assembly in 4 to
8 years.

It is easy to feed people's egos by getting them to run for offices that
they know they won't have to serve in.  That is because it is fun to show up
at editorial board meetings or to rallies with 30 Libertarians in the
audience and pontificate.

It is a lot more difficult to get Libertarians to run for offices that they
might actually win, because that means they actually have to spend the next
4 years trying to convince their non-Libertarian colleagues to change their
minds and vote in a libertarian fashion.

I happen to disagree with Mr. Pojunis only to the extent that I think he is
a little overly-optimistic about the ease of winning State Assembly seats.
But - I agree with Brett 100% that  "we are not in a position to win a US
Senate seat nor Congressional seat at this time."  And that doesn't just
apply to Nevada - it is true nationwide.

   Scott Lieberman

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From: Statechairs [mailto:statechairs-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Wes
Benedict
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 7:32 AM
To: statechairs at hq.lp.org
Subject: [Statechairs] Fwd: Re: This Patriot Can Remove Harry Reid

Brett, I'm not sure why you copied me on this. In any case, I do hope you
find a Libertarian to run for U.S. Senate in Nevada, instead of endorsing a
Republican. In 2014, Libertarians in races that were close for U.S. Senate
and Governor got higher percentages on average than Libertarians in races
that were not as close. A Libertarian for U.S. Senate in 2016 in Nevada
could possibly hit an all-time high record. 

Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

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Howard,

Thats great to hear that you are active i the Party I am friends with Rich
Tomasso, we served a term on the LNC together.

Bob Beers happens to be a friend of mine since before i was involved in
politics. We both worked in the financial industry and he was our PCAOB
Auditor. We currently work very well together already and we just stopped a
massive taxpayer funded stadium in Las Vegas!

At our upcoming LPEX, Libertarian Political Expo Bob is one of the confirmed
speakers, www.lpex.org.

My philosophy with statewide and federal offices is very different than most
libertarians. In 2016 I want to run winning campaigns. We will NOTA (select
None of The Above) in all races where we do not have a real candidates. At
our convention we are going to put out a very stringent checklist that ALL
candidates who want to run under the LP banner must achieve to be considered
by us. In my opinion, although I do not speak for the entire membership, we
would have to have someone really special such as Penn Jillette throw their
hat in the ring for us to put a candidate up against Bob. Lastly, we are not
in a position to win a US Senate seat nor Congressional seat at this time.
Any efforts in such a race will take precious resources away from candidates
who stand a chance of winning assembly or state senate.

I hope this is helpful and I answered your question(s). 

Why the interest in Reid?

Brett H. Pojunis

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