[Lnc-business] Letter to all of the Presidential candidates

[Joshua Katz]

I agree fully as well.  I wish the LNC had chosen to speak with a clear
voice on this.  Unfortunately, we instead said we want a contract
circulated, then declined to pass a motion saying what we want the contract
to do.

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

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will not be in favor of contract terms that require potential
> presidential candidates to hand over their email lists that they
> accumulated prior to receiving our nomination.  I think that attempting to
> use that as a negotiating tactic just to see what we can get from them in
> exchange for eliminating that provision would discourage any celebrity
> candidates and only attract candidates who have no such asset.  Suppose
> John Stossel or Judge Napolitano were interested in our nomination.  Is
> that equitable to demand that we get the benefit of their life's work?
> We're not offering to give them our list.  Their mailings to our list would
> go through a bonded mail house.
>
> Let's not scare off the people who we would most like to court.
>
> I will not consider it a negative against a candidate who balks at such a
> provision.
>
> -Alicia
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Nicholas Sarwark <chair at lp.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Attached is a letter that I have sent to all of the Presidential
>> candidates.  Rather than ask for a commitment to a particular
>> contract, I have asked that they commit to some core provisions we
>> would like to have our nominee agree to.
>>
>> Yours in liberty,
>> Nick
>>
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