[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-02: Approve IALP Charter

[Alicia Mattson]

I've been through this sales pitch before on a previous LNC.  In 2010, Mr.
Neale gave us a presentation, had a grand plan for a project, promised he
would do X and Y, said we wouldn't make mistake A like other groups and
instead would do Z, we'd try to minimize problem B though we couldn't
eliminate it completely, said if we'd just approve the idea then he could
get started and if we later didn't think it was going very well we could
quit.  Almost no risk.  If it doesn't develop as expected, we just pull the
plug.  Let's just try it and see what happens.

So we authorized creation of the building fund, and it became a political
nightmare.  X, Y, and Z never happened.  Instead we did nothing but A and
B, precisely the things that the sales pitch said we shouldn't do.  When
things didn't progress as expected, pressure was applied to forge ahead,
and anyone who wanted to stick to the original plan was politically
attacked.  The idea of pulling the plug was suddenly portrayed as the worst
idea ever, even though we were originally told it wouldn't be a big deal if
we needed to.

I'm not just being a stick in the mud about the creation of the IALP.  I
just want to know what it is that we are joining before we join.

I also think the question of who should be our IALP rep should be taken up
separately from the idea of joining the IALP.  If this motion were offered
at an in-person meeting, I would move to divide the question, but email
ballots don't offer that flexibility.

-Alicia



On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>
>
> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by February 19, 2015 at 11:59:59pm
> Pacific time.*
> *Sponsor:*  Nick Sarwark
>
> *Motion:*  The Libertarian National Committee approves the (attached)
> charter of the International Alliance of Libertarian Parties, seeks
> admission to the the International Alliance of Libertarian Parties as a
> founding member, and designates Geoff Neale as our Representative to it.
>
>
> Alicia Mattson
> LNC Secretary
>
>
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